13 Huge Mistakes That Are Killing The MCU

8. They've Forgotten How To Do A Sequel

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Wanda
Marvel Studios

Sequels used to be something this franchise was absolutely great at, so this is yet another quality that's been falling to the wayside lately.

There have been five sequels post-Infinity War - Ant-Man and the Wasp, Spider-Man: Far from Home, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (which also follows up WandaVision), and Thor: Love and Thunder - and out of those, only the Spider-Man movies actually worked as sequels.

All three of those other films failed to move the main characters forward (in the case of Love and Thunder, Thor actually regressed as a character), they mostly felt like filler, and they either failed to build on or outright ignored the previous movies.

Perhaps the worst offender in this regard is Multiverse of Madness, since it butchered Wanda Maximoff's (Elizabeth Olsen) arc in WandaVision and, despite the first Doctor Strange directly setting up Karl Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofer) as the villain of the sequel, that version of Mordo literally didn't appear once in the whole film.

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