Currently, the MCU has about 2-3 more movies left before going into a two-part Avengers story featuring Doctor Doom (played by Robert Downey Jr) as the primary villain. I've been rewatching a large chunk of the MCU, mostly Phases 1-3 so far, but I watched the TV shows as well for the first time, and watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D for the first time got me to realize a few things that I didn't before.
The main thing being that the more grounded characters like Hawkeye, Black Widow, Falcon, etc help normies and the people who aren't into comics stay interested because the more high powered characters are inherently somewhat offputting for whatever reason. Even for example, Bruce Banner and the Hulk help because of how they contrast with one another.
What I think has gone wrong with the post-Endgame MCU is that they messed up by making Tony not want to revert everything back because of his child, and that sole decision has also messed up everything afterwards, because of not just storylines, but simply the setting of a universe where 50% of its population was dead for five years.
And since Disney now has the rights to the X-Men and Fantastic Four back after 10 years, I think that throwing the X-Men and Fantastic Four into the MCU isn't going to be the slam dunk originally thought when Disney first bought 21st Century Fox to begin with.
making Tony not want to revert everything back because of his child
This was the absolute end of the MCU imo. It was an inherently selfish and logically moronic position. (Who says the same daughter would not have been born in the timeline where thanos had been stopped? Did anyone offer proof of that?)
Instead, 'I'll just let five years of utter disaster remain, leave untold families in complete shambles (how many people came back to find their loved ones had died during the chaos following the 'blip' ?), and refuse to fully save the world because I successfully hid in the mountains and got busy with Pepper. Can we just, half ass it and keep my daughter living a sheltered life in the woods?'
And nothing after that has been of any value whatsoever.
Who says the same daughter would not have been born in the timeline where thanos had been stopped?
Tony. The Ancient One. Banner. Leopold Fitz. Gemma Simmons.
Did anyone offer proof of that
Yes, multiple characters in the Endgame movie, that's why returning the Infinity Stones to their correct time is so important, it's explicitly spelled out in the conversation between The Ancient One and Banner. Changing/removing one of the stones would change how reality moved forward. Only by returning it to roughly when it was taken would this be prevented. Technically something removed only needs returned before it affects something else, so the Tesseract being removed from Area 51 only needed returned before someone did the next test on it for something. If months passed between tests then in theory anyone taking the Tesseract out of the timeline could return it from any point it was taken to before the test because it wouldn't change anything that happened, barring cosmic events which just add on other stipulations because of how all the stones are tied to reality. Something more mundane would have far more leeway just how long it could be missing.
What they could have done is simply taken Morgan, and anyone else, into such a timeline where Thanos was stopped since that's how the Quantum Realm worked. Yes it allowed time-travel, but it also allowed time-bridging. That was the entire point of Tony making the time-travel GPS, so they could accurately return to their original starting point. It could have easily been used to plot out a course from the Snapped 616 universe to one in a different time and space, be that 5 years prior or whatever. But that would have meant a far shorter film that basically turned into a house moving.
Currently, the MCU has about 2-3 more movies left before going into a two-part Avengers story featuring Doctor Doom (played by Robert Downey Jr) as the primary villain. I've been rewatching a large chunk of the MCU, mostly Phases 1-3 so far, but I watched the TV shows as well for the first time, and watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D for the first time got me to realize a few things that I didn't before.
The main thing being that the more grounded characters like Hawkeye, Black Widow, Falcon, etc help normies and the people who aren't into comics stay interested because the more high powered characters are inherently somewhat offputting for whatever reason. Even for example, Bruce Banner and the Hulk help because of how they contrast with one another.
What I think has gone wrong with the post-Endgame MCU is that they messed up by making Tony not want to revert everything back because of his child, and that sole decision has also messed up everything afterwards, because of not just storylines, but simply the setting of a universe where 50% of its population was dead for five years.
And since Disney now has the rights to the X-Men and Fantastic Four back after 10 years, I think that throwing the X-Men and Fantastic Four into the MCU isn't going to be the slam dunk originally thought when Disney first bought 21st Century Fox to begin with.
This was the absolute end of the MCU imo. It was an inherently selfish and logically moronic position. (Who says the same daughter would not have been born in the timeline where thanos had been stopped? Did anyone offer proof of that?)
Instead, 'I'll just let five years of utter disaster remain, leave untold families in complete shambles (how many people came back to find their loved ones had died during the chaos following the 'blip' ?), and refuse to fully save the world because I successfully hid in the mountains and got busy with Pepper. Can we just, half ass it and keep my daughter living a sheltered life in the woods?'
And nothing after that has been of any value whatsoever.
Tony. The Ancient One. Banner. Leopold Fitz. Gemma Simmons.
Yes, multiple characters in the Endgame movie, that's why returning the Infinity Stones to their correct time is so important, it's explicitly spelled out in the conversation between The Ancient One and Banner. Changing/removing one of the stones would change how reality moved forward. Only by returning it to roughly when it was taken would this be prevented. Technically something removed only needs returned before it affects something else, so the Tesseract being removed from Area 51 only needed returned before someone did the next test on it for something. If months passed between tests then in theory anyone taking the Tesseract out of the timeline could return it from any point it was taken to before the test because it wouldn't change anything that happened, barring cosmic events which just add on other stipulations because of how all the stones are tied to reality. Something more mundane would have far more leeway just how long it could be missing.
What they could have done is simply taken Morgan, and anyone else, into such a timeline where Thanos was stopped since that's how the Quantum Realm worked. Yes it allowed time-travel, but it also allowed time-bridging. That was the entire point of Tony making the time-travel GPS, so they could accurately return to their original starting point. It could have easily been used to plot out a course from the Snapped 616 universe to one in a different time and space, be that 5 years prior or whatever. But that would have meant a far shorter film that basically turned into a house moving.