Marvel Gaming Universe CONFIRMED - What Needs To Happen Next
2. How The Sequel Can Make Everything Bigger
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Spider-Man 2 may not have even been announced yet, but those teasers at the end of the game all point to one saga in particular coming to the MGU: the Alien Costume one.
Together with Miles Morales as another Spider-Man, Norman Osborn inching forward to his Goblin identity and Harry with a symbiote of his own, it's clear that this next game is going to push the story in an even bolder direction. While said direction should obviously focus on Spider-Man's world specifically, going one step further and turning those references and Easter eggs into tangible cameos would be the next logical step; maybe Peter Parker gets into trouble, and Matt Murdock makes good on his promise and defends him in court?
Either way, it's clear that the ante will be upped once more, and while any story broaching the symbiote has to be about Spidey start to finish, integrating the character further into the fabric of this new mythos would go far in establishing it as the perfect counterweight to Marvel's cinematic properties - especially with the emphasis on a distinctly different kind of mythos carrying it forward.
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.
