Avengers: Infinity War - 9 Reasons It's The Most Important Marvel Movie Yet
6. It's Cosmic Marvel Fully Realised
Marvel Studios
The cosmic corners of the Marvel Universe have been well broached by the MCU since Guardians of the Galaxy premiered in 2014, but the high-concept and high-stakes nature didn't seem to follow through with it. Guardians certainly managed to fill a sci-fi niche, particularly in its initial exploration of the Kree and Thanos' daughters Gamora and Nebula, but it just wasn't the full thing.
With Infinity War, all of the high-concept action, drama and theory of Marvel's cosmic self are fully explored. Doctor Strange once again leads the way with a series of grandiose spells, culminating in his one-on-one encounter with the Mad Titan, and Thanos himself steals the show with his use of the Infinity Gauntlet, first to bend reality, and then - in the film's most devastating twist - to alter time.
It's Marvel at its boldest, and the results are suitably destructive. How the MCU recovers from it all remains to be seen, but what's important is that the film lays bare just how horrifying these stories can be, especially with a villain as convincing as the Mad Titan.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
