Disney is finally focused on making good on their promise of focusing on quality over quantity. The House of Mouse has allegedly ‘quietly canceled’ a host of Star Wars and Marvel projects that were announced in the previous years. The company will now be focusing on its bigger franchises. This means that the focus for the coming few years will be on building the various established lucrative characters that it has available when it comes to Marvel.
Avengers 5, previously titled Avengers: Kang Dynasty, is one project that might be better off canceled. Given that the villain being set up over multiple phases might no longer be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it must make sense to remove the film entirely, and instead, uniting the Avengers with Avengers: Secret Wars.
Marvel needs to make Avengers 5 into Secret Wars
The Avengers of the post-Endgame era are yet to be established in the MCU. Secret Wars could serve as the perfect testing field for the new team of heroes, uniting them through the collapse of the multiverse, which is something that can stay in the narrative despite Kang’s exit. This also allows a villain like the Beyonder to make an appearance in the MCU while being set up relatively easily in the remaining films.
Secret Wars could assemble our Avengers and thrust them into Battleworld by the end of it, leading to a cliffhanger similar to Infinity War. This could be followed by Avengers 6, which could be titled Avengers: Forever.
In the comics, Avengers: Forever was a short run where Rick Jones tried to assemble a team from members past, present, and future. Similarly, perhaps in the wake of being sent into Battleworld, Spider-Man or Kamala Khan could assemble a team of heroes made from members past, present, and future, to create a line-up that can take on the might of the Beyonder.
Avengers: Forever would allow Marvel to course-correct
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever introduced us to Prince T’Challa, son of King T’Challa, who would no doubt go on to take the mantle of Black Panther in the future. This would allow Marvel to bring back a Black Panther named T’Challa and make him a member of the Avengers.
Similarly, this is also an opportunity to bring in any of the original Avengers to the team, perhaps Chris Evans‘ Captain America or Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, who could be a part of the team, either in a reduced capacity or as a symbolic gesture to hand off the team to the next iteration.
Further, given that Battleworld could have access to alternate realities, heroes from other realities could also become part of the team. Even the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, members of whom have served on the team, could be brought in to create the team that beats the Beyonder (or even becomes the official team for the next few phases.
This could even help Marvel establish a world with several superhero teams that are working together, setting up the next phases of the MCU, with all its major IPs existing in a shared universe. This would bring heroes, mutants, the Fantastic Four, and other entities into the fold. Perhaps creating an environment that would allow Marvel to reach the levels of hype it enjoyed before Endgame.
