10 Harsh Truths About The MCU Fans Won't Admit
9. The Multiverse Has Already Peaked
Long before Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield webbed themselves onto the screen in Spiderman: No Way Home and gave aged fans a nostalgic brain blast, the expectation that older incantations of Marvel heroes stepping into the MCU had existed.
Growing fan theories genuinely believed that Hugh Jackman was going to rear his mutton chops one last time in Endgame; despite the actor vehemently stating he had retired from the Wolverine role. So when whispers of the Multiverse surfaced, the cameo of Evan Peters in WandaVision solidified the idea that anything is possible in the MCU now.
The problem with Maguire, Garfield, Peters and now Sir Patrick Stewart making an appearance in Multiverse of Madness, is that it sets a standard for MCU films going forward that Disney just cannot promise to deliver on all the time. If it can be done once perfectly, it can be done a hundred times again right? Unfortunately not, and sects of fandom won't accept that.
There's entitled expectations that Nicholas Cage, Ben Affleck, Wesley Snipes and the rest of the Singer-verse cast might show up at some point in the franchise through the power of a Doctor Strange wormhole. While it would be earth-shatteringly amazing to see Jon Bernthal, Thomas Jane, Ray Stevenson and Dolph Lundgren share screen time together as four different versions of Frank Castle, we know that ultimately the multiverse is just going to be riddled with a multitude of could-have-beens and what ifs.