9 Major Marvel Movie Events That Could Follow Avengers: Infinity War

9. Secret Wars

Several Secret Wars have been waged at Marvel over the years, but in this instance, we're talking about the original crossover event which ran between 1984 and '85.

The cynics will tell you the comic giant only brought all of its characters together to sell toys, and while that's party true, the results were fangasmic nonetheless.

The story sees an all-powerful cosmic being called The Beyonder visit Earth and develop a fascination with its heroes and villains.

Wishing to observe their eternal battle between good and evil more closely, the entity whisks virtually every character from Marvel canon off to the planet Battleworld, where they're forced duke it out with their enemies for a prize beyond their wildest dreams.

Marvel's top brass may have had one eye of the company's overheads when they launched this series, but it has epic cinematic adaptation stamped all over it.

It could theoretically serve as the sequel to Infinity Wars, with The Beyonder Introduced in the movie's post-credits sequence, having watched the battle with Thanos from afar.

There's even a fan conspiracy theory doing the rounds that Stan Lee is actually The Beyonder, appearing in every Marvel movie to observe it heroes and villains before bringing them together for the cosmic smackdown.

It's a load of nonsense, of course, but 10 out of 10 for creativity on that one.