10 Ways Marvel Can Stop The MCU From DYING
1. If All Else Fails, Take A Break
Perhaps even less likely than the MCU throwing the multiverse in the bin after Secret Wars is the possibility of just... taking a break.
Avengers: Endgame felt like such an epochal end-point for the franchise that it might've actually been smart for the MCU to take a few (voluntary) years off and make audiences truly miss what it has to offer.
Instead, Kevin Feige went full steam ahead with producing new movies and TV shows, with a break between phases only being enforced by a global pandemic.
While there's absolutely zero chance the MCU takes a sudden break in full-stride of the Multiverse Saga, it's worth considering whether it might be worthwhile long-term for the franchise to sit a few years out after Secret Wars.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder - just look at how much Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the brand as a whole benefitted from not putting out new big-screen content for so long. Even the most casual of audiences missed Star Wars and consequently turned up to see it.
The less said about what followed, though, the better.
All the same, a constant battery of new content makes it easy for even the most die-hard fans to get burned out eventually and lose interest. As rumours indicate that Secret Wars could serve as a soft reboot for the IP, that'd be the perfect opportunity to take a breath for, say, five years.
But no, corporations being what they are, don't ever expect that to happen in the current climate.