10 HUGE Problems Facing The Future Of The MCU

One of the chief complaints about the MCU since Endgame is the generally disconnected nature of the movies, which don't feel like they're part of a contiguous fabric, but rather separate, standalone stories.

And while the Infinity Saga took its time building up to The Avengers, it was absolutely necessary to ensure that audiences had an appetite for the heroes on their own before pairing them together.

In the very least, the various credits scenes made it clear that Marvel Studios was slowly assembling a superhero team, and within four years of Iron Man's release, we saw them come together for The Avengers.

But the Multiverse Saga has felt so disparate and lacking in a concise direction by comparison - it's tough to appreciate how the likes of Shang-Chi and the Eternals are going to be integrated into the wider Kang story, especially given that neither of these films have any announced follow-ups.

The more moving parts you introduce to a franchise, the tougher it is to keep them all in the same orbit, and even the Phase 4 sequels have felt relatively divorced from one another.

We've seen numerous characters semi-randomly introduced in credits scenes who could very well never appear again - Charlize Theron's Clea, for one - ensuring the Multiverse Saga feels slapdash and slung together rather than intricately planned out.

The next two Avengers movies will need to work extremely hard to corral all the expected heroes together, hugely dwarfing the already gigantic roster from the last two Avengers films.

While standalone entries aren't inherently bad by any means, the lack of substantial connective tissue after eight movies in the new era has understandably frustrated many fans.

Without a clear thread winding its way towards the Kang-centric Avengers films, it feels like the Multiverse Saga won't be nearly as rewatchable as the Infinity Saga.