Spider-Man: Far From Home - Everything You Need To Know About Marvel's Multiverse

by Ewan Paterson

1. Secret Wars Could Be The Next Big Event

Marvel Secret Wars
Marvel Comics

Endgame writers Christopher Marcus and Stephen McFeely caused a bit of a commotion last month when they mentioned their interest in adapting Secret Wars to the MCU. The Russo Brothers had already indicated they were fans of the arc beforehand, and given the whole event revolves around the concept of a multiverse - the 2015 version specifically - the steps made in both Endgame and Far From Home brings a Secret Wars film closer to reality.

But what else, apart from Marcus, McFeely and the Russo Brothers' comments, is there to indicate that Secret Wars will be the next Endgame? Well quite a bit, actually. The MCU has taken inspiration from a wide variety of different sources, but particularly from Jonathan Hickman's stint on Avengers, which featured the multiverse front and centre up until its finale, which just so happened to be Secret Wars.

Hickman's books revolved around the idea of 'incursions', a temporal event where alternate realities encroached on Earth-616 and threatened the destruction of both realities. Secret Wars saw Doctor Doom wield the power of the Beyonder to create one, sole reality within the omniverse, which he ruled over with an iron grip.

Whatever the future holds, it's unlikely that Marvel will do a direct adaptation of Secret Wars. The multiverse does, however, open the door for much of the story's elements to make its way into a future Avengers film, one that could introduce both the X-Men and the Fantastic Four.

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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.