Avengers: Endgame - 9 Huge MCU Problems It's Created

6. Alternate Realities Keeps The Stakes Low (And Confusing)

By introducing branching timelines into the MCU, Endgame truly is the franchise's most comic book-y movie to date. Yet while comic book fans are used to alternate realities and multiple iterations of their beloved heroes within a compressed time-frame, movie and TV viewers not quite so much.

As such it's probable that the MCU is about to get decidedly messier than the fairly straight-forward track it's been kept on so far.

It seems likely that the planned Loki (Tom Hiddleston) TV series on Disney+ will revolve around the 2012 Loki who escaped with the Tesseract. As for the WandaVision show starring Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany), it's clearly going to require some time-fudging given that it at least partially takes place in the 1950s (and, uh, Vision is dead).

Marvel Studios have stated that they want to make these shows more inextricably linked to the mainline MCU than the rather at-a-distance Marvel Netflix and ABC series we've seen so far, but doing so feels like a recipe for headaches all-around.

Given that these shows need to appeal to the casual mainstream to be viable and profitable, confusing them probably isn't the smartest idea.

And above all that, dredging up alternate versions of dead characters just further compounds the notion that death doesn't really matter in the MCU, even if these parallel versions are effectively different people to the ones fans know and love.