MCU Phase 4: 8 Reasons Why It Must Look To The Past

5. Nostalgia Is SO HOT Right Now

You don't have to look far to see that the eighties and nineties are dominating pop-culture right now. James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy borrows heavily from classic eighties sci-fi space operas, and even Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok sported a similar vibe. It's not just Marvel who are using our collective fondness for those two decades though - pretty much everyone's getting in on the act now.

Stranger Things, IT, and even Fox's X-Men films are all rooting themselves heavily in classic eighties tropes, with the former two especially taking heavy influence from classic Spielberg and turning in a pop-culture phenomenon in the process. It's pretty spectacular, and while the trend is sure to die-off sooner or later, Marvel would be daft not to attempt at least one film set during that decade.

Captain Marvel will be on nineties duties come 2019, but apart from the odd flashback in Ant-Man, we've yet to see a Marvel film set itself squarely in the decade prior. Whether it be Ant-Man, Nick Fury or otherwise, it's a period Marvel have to get in on, more-so than they have already.