There are too many reasons why Phase 4 was a dud to list off the top of my head:
Exhaustion of known comics characters - we're down to the likes of Shang-Chi. (Honestly, even I would argue this one - nearly no one had heard of the Guardians of the Galaxy, and those made a bajillion dollars.)
Too much focus on multiverse - when the universe next door is still fine, what are the stakes?
Phase 4 had a lot of issues but it also has some quality stuff. The flaws were built on a shitty vision and bad writing. Hawkeye was great. MoonKnight was really good. Loki and Falcon/WS had flashes of great potential but failed due to SJW decisions. I could have taken the bones they had in F/WS and turned out something really good. Bucky, Zemo, US Agent and Madame Hydra were great tools to work with.
Eternals blew. Shang Chi failed to connect. Wanda Vision spent too much time on Darcy and Rambeau.
Keep Falcon as a sidekick to Bucky and give WS Cap's shield. Mix in a redemption arc involving Zemo and US Agent. Remove all the trash "poor pepo" shit and instead use Hydra resurgent as the main story villain.Not sure if you know how many comic characters there are, but we're nowhere near exhausting them. Shang-Chi was just them checking the Asian diversity box. And obviously Kang being the next big bad is why there's so much multiverse focus. Agree with pretty much everything else
Falcon and Winter Soldier would still have been shit even without the SJW nonsense. It was just so boring, meaningless, and forgettable
its too late, you cant take away a title like Cap from a black man again. even if Falcon were to willingly hand over the shield to Bucky, it would still be looked at as some kind of uncle tom gesture. Falcon's only choices are to die and then Buck takes the shield off his corpse or another black dude takes the shield. or Bucky makes his own shield as well as finds a way to keep his arm from being deactivated by Wakanda.Keep Falcon as a sidekick to Bucky and give WS Cap's shield. Mix in a redemption arc involving Zemo and US Agent. Remove all the trash "poor pepo" shit and instead use Hydra resurgent as the main story villain.
Money.
Keep Falcon as a sidekick to Bucky and give WS Cap's shield. Mix in a redemption arc involving Zemo and US Agent. Remove all the trash "poor pepo" shit and instead use Hydra resurgent as the main story villain.
Money.
MCU Bucky is not fit to carry the shield. There's nothing wrong with Falcon as the new Cap, they just chose to go in an incredible cringeworthy race-pimping direction for a big chunk of the story and then wrote it poorly on top of that.
There should just not be a Captain America if they're going to be such a massive downgrade as Rogers -> Wilson
But America needs its symbol!100% agreed, no reason to change him from Falcon to Captain America, other than to virtue signal.
America can already has a black Capt America...But America needs its symbol!
Looks like we have Wonder Man coming to Disney+View attachment 417587
We could only be so lucky that Fillion gets cast as Simon.
wait phase 4 is ending? I literally can't think of anything important that has happened across half a dozen boring D+ shows and a few movies that didn't really matter at all
I was going to say that it seems like they too heavily relied on television shows for phase 4, but I went back through what the other phases consisted of, and I was kind of underwhelmed. It kind of makes me think I was overrating the previous films just because they culminated into something awesome.
I've kind of checked out of the MCU though so I don't know that I even care about continuing.
Phase 4 just seems...boring? Directionless?
I don't want Ragnarok turned up to 11 though. Ragnarok had a very delicate mix of comedy and seriousness and it wouldn't have taken much to ruin the movie."if you like Ragnarok, then you'll probably like this this is Ragnarok turned up to 11"