Marvel announced Phase 4 at SDCC

[sholio]

Here's the list!

My unpopular(?) Marvel opinion is that I'm kinda hitting superhero burnout. I'm not that enthused about anything upcoming, and I think it's mainly because I just kind of want it to stop for awhile. They built up for ten years to their ~big finale~ and then put out the next movie in the franchise two months later! Let it breathe, guys.

That being said, the handful of things I'm looking forward to ...


Shang-Chi (Feb. 2021) - I think this might be the thing I'm looking forward to most! From what vanishingly little I know about it so far, it looks super fun, and also refreshingly disconnected from most of the rest of the franchise and unlikely to be huge and bombastic, which I gotta tell you is mostly what I want at this point. Except then there's also ...

Doctor Strange 2 (May 2021) - I didn't actually realize I was looking forward to this but apparently I am?! It may be terrible, but it will probably be entertaining and pretty. MULTIVERSE!

Thor 4: Love and Thunder (Nov 2021) - Lady Thor! Moar Valkyrie! Taika Waititi is back to direct! I am THERE.

Unfortunately that's about it, as far as personal excitement is concerned. I may check out the Falcon & Winter Soldier and Scarlet Witch shows, I'm sort of tentatively curious about the Loki one but still too annoyed that it's pre-character-development 2012 Loki to really have feelings about it, and apparently there's also something called "What If?" that will involve a number of established characters and I really hope is what it sounds like, an Elseworlds kind of thing.

No dates yet for Black Panther 2 (which I'm looking forward to, and I think it's weird they're pushing it back for a bunch of new stuff given how well the first movie did) or GotG 3 (which I wish I was more excited about, but the Gamora thing killed most of my interest). And I still miss my Netflix shows.

What are you looking forward to? My normal spoilerphobe policy is on hold for this; feel free to talk about anything that's been revealed about the upcoming, unreleased shows/movies so far, since there isn't much yet.

Comments

[gwyn]

Oh man, +1 times eleventy. That's exactly how I feel about all of it. I have never even heard of some of these titles.

And I really agree with upthread where they talked about nurturing the characters they do have instead of throwing in tons more--I'm glad that the representation is being explanded, but...I'd have preferred maybe some cool adventures with existing characters who were never done right by before.

I confess, I stupidly, stupidly got my hopes up after they announced the Thor thing a couple days ago--I thought maybe they could lure Chris Evans back with some sweet cashish and we could get one actual real Cap 3.

[trobadora]

Yeah, I wouldn't mind the new characters if they'd made any effort to do right by the ones they already have. But now I really don't want to get invested in any new characters because I can't trust that they won't end up like that, too. Endgame really broke the MCU for me.

[kore]

I really don't want to get invested in any new characters because I can't trust that they won't end up like that, too. Endgame really broke the MCU for me.

It really feels that way, yeah. And even if they're not going to justify it as being "for the story," they made it really clear with the Netflix and other shows that money is what matters to them, not much of anything else. (Like with that ridiculous attempt to "break" the Avatar record.)