Spider-Man: Far From Home - Everything You Need To Know About Marvel's Multiverse
2. Why Marvel Could Be Introducing The Multiverse NOW
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As has been previously mentioned, the multiverse is something of a staple of the superhero genre. It's never been broached in live action though, but now - in the wake of Endgame - Marvel have the perfect time to deliver on the premise.
It's a natural progression for the franchise, which has gradually ratcheted up the stakes with each phase, and with the MCU now at its most cosmic, the only place to go after Thanos (at least in terms of escalation) is the Marvel multiverse.
Endgame laid the groundwork with time-travelling and the use of the Quantum Realm, but it also teased another character whose existence is pretty much synonymous with alternate realities - Captain Britain.
Brian Braddock was name dropped by Peggy Carter when Steve Rogers and Tony Stark travel back to the 1970s, and he's actually a part of the Captain Britain Corps, a force created to protect the multiverse itself from cross-dimensional threats. Other heroes have interacted with alternate worlds all the time, but for Captain Britain, the existence of a multiverse is pretty important.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
