The Three Crumbling Pillars Of The MCU: What’s Going On?

The post The Three Crumbling Pillars Of The MCU: What’s Going On? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Thunderbolts: Not bad Marvel It has not been a great year for Marvel, with three films ranging from “not great” to “pretty decent” at the box office in the space of Thunderbolts, Captain America: Brave New World and now Fantastic Four. Add onto that a couple shows that were lobbed out without much fanfare (Ironheart, Eyes of Wakanda) and a supposed fan-favorite that was underwatched (Daredevil: Born Again), and 2025 was not ideal. But of course, the general sense is that post-Endgame, the MCU has been lost at sea to some extent, and has not and likely will not reach the peak of Endgame and everything that came before. Why? You can say the ever-cited “superhero fatigue” or the fact that movie tickets cost too much, but in the context of Marvel, it’s more than that. In my view, there are three main pillars of the MCU that have had cracks shooting through them for years now. Too Many Releases, And Too Many Disconnected Releases Even Marvel realized eventually that dumping out something like three shows and three movies a year was overkill, and will allegedly tone that down from here, but it took more than a half decade to figure it out. It was overwhelming and many fans would just throw up their hands and be content to miss one film or another. Marvel has previously said that their movies felt too much like “homework,” where’d you have to watch X other movie or show to know what’s happening in the next movie. While that was true to some extent, The Marvels had three characters that required viewing of a first film, and two separate TV shows to know all the leads, that didn’t happen all that often. Rather, it was that the stories were mostly disconnected, not leading…

Aug 4, 2025 - 02:00
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The Three Crumbling Pillars Of The MCU: What’s Going On?

The post The Three Crumbling Pillars Of The MCU: What’s Going On? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Thunderbolts: Not bad Marvel It has not been a great year for Marvel, with three films ranging from “not great” to “pretty decent” at the box office in the space of Thunderbolts, Captain America: Brave New World and now Fantastic Four. Add onto that a couple shows that were lobbed out without much fanfare (Ironheart, Eyes of Wakanda) and a supposed fan-favorite that was underwatched (Daredevil: Born Again), and 2025 was not ideal. But of course, the general sense is that post-Endgame, the MCU has been lost at sea to some extent, and has not and likely will not reach the peak of Endgame and everything that came before. Why? You can say the ever-cited “superhero fatigue” or the fact that movie tickets cost too much, but in the context of Marvel, it’s more than that. In my view, there are three main pillars of the MCU that have had cracks shooting through them for years now. Too Many Releases, And Too Many Disconnected Releases Even Marvel realized eventually that dumping out something like three shows and three movies a year was overkill, and will allegedly tone that down from here, but it took more than a half decade to figure it out. It was overwhelming and many fans would just throw up their hands and be content to miss one film or another. Marvel has previously said that their movies felt too much like “homework,” where’d you have to watch X other movie or show to know what’s happening in the next movie. While that was true to some extent, The Marvels had three characters that required viewing of a first film, and two separate TV shows to know all the leads, that didn’t happen all that often. Rather, it was that the stories were mostly disconnected, not leading…

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