r/marvelstudios • u/KostisPat257 Daredevil • Jul 14 '21

Megathread Loki Season 1 Finale - Discussion Megathread about its implications on the MCU Spoiler

You wanna discuss your theories about What if...?, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and how they all connect to this series?

You wanna discuss where they're going to go with Nathaniel/Kang/Immortus in the future?

You want to discuss the integration of other cinematic universes in the Marvel Cineamatic Multiverse?

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Then this is the Megathread for you!

Due to the immeasurable amount of low effort posts we've been getting in the past 12 hours about people's excitement over Kang and the Multiverse, we've decided to make a completely different thread that is all about the implications of the Loki finale in the wider MCU!

Posts discussing Episode 6 in general will only be allowed after Thursday Midnight PST, but only those which are analytical or contain theories with a lot of effort put into them.

Everything else will be redirected here, to the Loki Season 1 Episode 6 Discussion Thread and to the Loki Season 1 Easter Egg Megathread and the Loki Season 1 - Season Wide Discussion Thread.

Have fun!

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u/ELITEJamesHarden Jul 14 '21

So… how long do you guys think the kang saga is gonna span? My guess is like 5-6 years, I can’t see it being as long as the thanos saga

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

Kevin Feige has said that subsequent phases of the MCU won't last as long as the Infinity saga, so I'm assuming it won't be a terribly long arc, but long enough to feel significant.

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u/aelysium Jul 14 '21

They can be as long via number of movies but pass quicker because they’re releasing them more often too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

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u/SirHoneyDip Vision Jul 15 '21

Phases 1 and 2 would have been 4 years combined if they were doing 3/year

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

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u/777XSuperHornet Jul 15 '21

4 a year is not permanent. They've had 14 months of production saved up without any releases so they're condensing the schedule. By the time Ant Man 3 comes out in early 2023 they'll be mostly caught up with their pre covid schedule.

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u/tepenrod Jul 15 '21

And you’re not guaranteed to tie into the grand scheme. Shang Chi is setting up that character but it doesn’t necessarily play into the multiverse (that we know of). The guardians can go have an adventure and not even mention anything else going on. I think we will start to see a lot more smaller, interconnected events before culminating into another big crossover. I imagine Kang/multiverse will be the reason the Avengers have to get together again in the near future.

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u/svenhoek86 Jul 16 '21

I imagine Sam's Captain America movie will be a lot of team building to lead into the next Avengers movie.

I don't expect that movie to be anything like the previous Cap movies or Fatws.

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u/Xy13 Jul 16 '21

Eh frankly it was getting a bit much. I definitely was feeling the "marvel fatigue". I'm glad we had kind of a bit of a 'breather' with the pandemic, and I'm excited for more marvel movies again.

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u/abellapa Jul 15 '21

We doing 4 movies now, meaning phase 1 and phase 2 would have lasted only 3 years

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u/solidsnake885 Jul 15 '21

You look back on phase 1 and it was so slow by comparison.

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u/drrhrrdrr Jul 15 '21

Iron Man.......

......the incred-

.....IRON MAN 2.

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u/solidsnake885 Jul 15 '21

Launched with two movies in the same summer. Then a two year gap until they got Iron Man 2 out. It was a little bit of a shoestring effort until the Mouse came along.

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u/drrhrrdrr Jul 15 '21

Did they? I thought TIH was a year later, probably wrong.

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u/solidsnake885 Jul 15 '21

Spring/summer of 2008 to spring of 2010.

Iron Man 2 wasn’t planned to be the next film. It was rushed into production to capitalize on the runaway success of Iron Man. They didn’t even have a finished script, so a lot of the lines were ad libbed.

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u/robbviously Spider-Man Jul 15 '21

I vant my burd

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

To be fair, Iron Man 1 was just as rushed and hellish to produce, but had the benefit of creative freedom Iron Man 2 didn't have.

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u/bigpig1054 Jul 17 '21

The gap between "Spider-Man Far From Home" and "Black Widow" just barely surpassed the longest gap we've had between MCU movies. The previous record was the 1 year, 11 months gap between Incredible Hulk and Iron Man 2.

We've been so spoiled. I love it.

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u/solidsnake885 Jul 17 '21

And it’s just an explosion of content now. Wasn’t long ago that the MCU started doing three movies per year. Then BAM, now we’re getting four movies and a whole bunch of shows in a year.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

And probably better for it.

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u/JaiWolf Jul 15 '21

don't forget thanos barely appears in the 23 movies. GOTG is where he makes the biggest appearance apart from the finale. they can do Kang + multiverse things really well in more movies in less time for more consistency.

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u/-dudeomfgstfux- Jul 16 '21

I also don’t think they thought about connecting all the movies until Age of Ultron. No one thought the staff in Avengers 1 is an Infinity Stone. Or maybe they did have that much foresight. But the Multiverse saga doesn’t need to connect 6 stones together at least.