The Marvelous Marvel Rewatch (Now Playing: Avengers: Infinity War)

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Angelus said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Of the "big 4", only Iron Man and Cap had really noteworthy movies (well until Thor 3).  On the other hand, I think they are going to continue making Guardians, Spider Man, Dr. Strange, and Ant Man.  Both Guardians and Spider Man have huge fan bases, and Dr. Strange has a smaller but still very passionate fan base.  I don't think Marvel will have any problem with continuing their movies. 

Agreed. There's really only the big 2, Cap and Iron Man. Chris Evans I do believe is going to be stepping away, so that will be a big loss for them, as Captain America has certainly won over more and more people over time. I believe that they will try to replace his role in the MCU with either Captain Marvel, or Black Panther, with one of them becoming the de facto leader of the Avengers, or possibly splitting them between moral, and tactical leads. Downey could go either way. For enough money, I have no doubt he'll happily continue to be present in one way or another. Question is whether Marvel thinks it's necessary to pony up for that. My guess would be that they do, just to maintain some sort of consistency factor, or comfort blanket if you will, as they rotate in the new players. 

Chris Hemsworth I think is likely to stick around as well. Not just because he wants to, but because Ragnarok was huge, and I'm willing to bet that Disney/Marvel will be thinking that they've only just begun to really get the most out of that character. I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if they make 2 more Thor movies, forget the first two existed, and just pretend that the latter 3 represent the real Thor trilogy. If not that, they'll surely find other movies to throw him into as a support role. We're quickly seeing these true solo movies disappear anyway, at least outside of origin style movies. Marvel have realized that not only are the movies more fun when you have several of these heroes playing off each other, but also, when you do true solo movies after all these team ups, everybody leaves the movie asking "why didn't X just ask Y for help.....? Where is such and such during all this....?" So Thor will be back. We'll probably see the Hulk every now and again as well, albeit more sparingly.

In any case, things aren't dying down any time soon. In fact, I'd argue that they're really only just beginning to really ramp up. They can do a lot of cool things with the characters they got stepping up to prime time after Infinity War, and we'll probably see them transition into Secret Invasion for the next big overarching story line. Then during that, they can lay the foundation for all the characters they'll add to their war chest when the Fox deal goes through, which should be all kinds of fun (live action Incredibles aka Fantastic Four anyone?). 

Honestly, I'm of the mind set that after this Infinity War shake up happens, the next phase of Marvel movies should actually be a lot more interesting. 

Yeah, I wasn't even thinking about that Fox deal.  They are probably rewriting their Phase 4, because of it.  I would guess at the very least they want to put a Fantastic Four movie in the works relatively soon.  And then they might do some other subtle or gradual things in place to bring all the X-Men stuff into the MCU.