Excelsior True Believers! Any decent video game forum needs an offical discussion topic for the current pop culture zeitgiest: The Marvel Cinematic Universe!
Currently, we are the start(ish) of Phase 4 of the MCU.
Phase 4:
Wandvision:
Format: Limited TV Series
Where to Watch: Disney +
All Episodes Now Available.
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Synopsis: After the events of Endgame, Wanda and Vision find themselves in the small town of Westview, New Jersey living out the perfect sitcom life. But nothing is as it seems in this mind-bending first installment of Phase 4.
Ties Into: Spider-Man: Far From Home, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Format: Limited TV Series
Where to Watch: Disney +
All Episodes Now Available.
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Synopsis: After the events of Endgame, Sam “The Falcon” Wilson and Bucky “The Winter Soldier” Barnes find themselves in a world turned upside down as a group of Super Solders threaten to escalate a difficult humanitarian situation into a full scale global crisis. With no Captain America, the world is left wondering… Who will carry the Shield?
Ties Into: Captain America 4, Black Widow
Loki
Format: Limited TV Series
Where to Watch: Disney +
Episodes All Episodes now streaming.
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Synopsis: Picking up where a plot thread in Endgame left off, an alternate version of Loki escapes from Avengers custody in 2012. This branch in the timeline causes this “variant” Loki to be arrested by the TVA and tasked with an nearly impossible task: Capture a far superior and smarter version variant of himself. While burdened with this glorious purpose, Loki will uncover a conspiracy that spans to the end of time itself.
Ties into: Avengers Endgame, Ant-Man The Wasp: Quantumania, Doctor Strange & The Multiverse of Madness, Marvel What If?
Black Widow
Format: Theatrical Film.
Where to Watch: Theaters, Disney + Premier Access (29.99 Rental_
Now Playing.
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Synopsis: Set between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, the first Phase 4 theatrical film tells the untold backstory of Black Widow, the Budapest incident, and introduces us to Black Widow’s adopted younger sister: Yelena, as she struggles to stop a sinister plot from the shadows involving the Red Room, where the Widow program was created. Pursued by the Taskmasker, Natasha and Yelena will need to team-up with their adoptive parents, Soviet Super Soldier Red Guardian and former Black Widow Melina.
Ties into: Captain America: Civil War, Avengers Infinity War, Avengers Endgame, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Hawkeye
What If?
Format: Limited TV Series
Where to Watch: Disney +
Episodes 1-5 now available. New Episodes every Wednesday.
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Synopsis: Based on the famous “What If?” comic book line, Marvel’s first animated entry into the MCU features new twists and takes on beloved stories and characters in the MCU, such as T’Challa as Starlord, Peggy Carter as Super Solder Captain Carter, and more, as The Watcher explores the multiverse and answers the question: What If?
Features the vocal talents of many MCU stars, including the last performance of Chadwick Bosman as Black Panther/Starlord.
Up Next:
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Format: Theatrical Film.
Where to Watch: Theaters. No plans for Disney+ Premier Access at this time.
Opens September 3rd.
Synopsis: Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
Further Out And OT will be updated as we draw closer:
2021 Disney+ Series:
Ms. Marvel (Late 2021)
Hawkeye (November 24th)
2021 Theatrical Films:
Eternals (November 5th 2021)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (December 17th, 2021)