10 Harsh Truths About The MCU Fans Won't Admit
7. How Can You Top The Snap?
While the MCU has never failed to surprise or blow audience' minds away with visual spectacle and game-changing storytelling, the conclusion of Avengers: Infinity War saw an evil, benevolent force commit universal genocide by wiping out half the population of the galaxy. Audiences love a happy ending, so the heroes returned in the next film and reversed such a terrible event, and the world was put right again.
Moving forward, what can the MCU do to reach those kinds of stakes again? If they do, will audiences be invested in the next big danger? Chances are, they won't be.
The problem the MCU faces now is the same problem the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings properties face with their prequels and sequels; once you've shown heroes face their ultimate threat, everything else pales in comparison.
With a new saga of Marvel movies well underway, the unnamed and unestablished new threat has still yet to make their debut; however there is strong evidence to suggest Celestials might be the new big baddies. Not that it matters, because audiences have witnessed the end of the world and come back from it. Giants as big as planets is just desserts.
No matter what comes next, the threat won't top Thanos' bisection of the universe' population. So if Celestials, or Doctor Doom, or Galactus, or He Who Remains' multiverse counterparts do have a massive evil plan up their sleeve, it's got to be more than cataclysmic.
Your writer's guess? It's wiping out 75% of the galaxy's population.