10 Biggest Missed Opportunities In MCU History

The MCU is going all-in on the multiverse right now, or so they want us to believe.

The MCU's two major multiverse movies to date have been Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and while they've undeniably moved the needle in terms of storytelling potential, don't they both feel a bit, well, ordinary?

No Way Home was absolutely a fun and rewarding exercise, but feels weirdly tidy and safe overall, utilising the expansive multiverse concept to tell a shockingly contained fan service exercise. It's not nearly weird enough.

And the same is true of the Doctor Strange sequel, which only fleetingly traverses a number of truly off-the-wall parallel universes, while situating most of the story in universes not particularly dissimilar to our own (beyond, you know, overgrown vegetation and opposite traffic lights).

America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez) even mentions that she's visited more than 70 universes, and yet the film feels so comparatively unadventurous in giving such little impression of the diversity among the wider multiverse.

Compared to the recent multiverse movie Everything Everywhere All At Once - produced on a mere fraction of any MCU movie's budget, no less - these films don't feel like they've got anywhere close to indulging the literally endless possibilities presented by multiversal exploration.