Marvel: The MCU Needs To Stop Dragging It's Feet

When it comes to movies, not many have been able to accomplish what the MCU has done. The franchise has led the box office time and time again and Avengers: Endgame was at one point the highest-grossing film of all time. Now, with the purchase of Fox, they have their rights back to more of their characters including the X-men. We all know they’re coming but it seems like Disney and the MCU are dragging their feet leading fans to slowly lose interest.

Fans know that the Fantastic 4 are coming as well as the X-men, but unlike the Infinity Saga, none of the movies tie in other than theoretically for now. So much time has been spent on building the multiverse that it seems like fans are waiting forever to see these characters. Are we really 5-7 years out before these franchises establish their core characters? Even with the announcement of the Fantastic 4 in 2025, that will just kick off their other properties. Two more years to be the Iron Man of the new MCU. No teases, not many Easter eggs, nothing. They can try to circle back around and act like they’ve had it planned all along but if they don’t start sprinkling in those major hints, how long before fans tune out?

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Superhero fatigue may or may not have set in, but there are not many movies making a splash in theaters these days. There’s no excitement and nothing that is getting people to hurry to theaters. The MCU used to have that with the Infinity Saga but that was built over 10 years. Avengers was released 4 years after Iron Man, but that was well before expectations. They had time, right now they don’t.

Fans aren’t really connecting with the characters the way they did with Steve Rodgers and Tony Stark. The patience is wearing off and they need a taste of what’s to come. Everyone started to buy in with Stan Lee’s cameos but the real work was eagle-eyed fans pointing out Captain America’s shield in the first Iron Man movies. They started hinting at things to come early on. It wasn’t like it is now where everything is locked away in some deep dark tower where only a privileged few knew what was to come. They’ve announced a bunch of projects, but none of them seem to make any sense together. Right now fans are just left to speculate and without concrete evidence of what’s to come, they’re quickly losing interest. If Marvel wants to continue to push the MCU to live up to the name, they have to let fans in on the secret, even at least a little.