What If the MCU had full rights to their characters?

The Avengers
Release Date: June 14, 2013

Director: Jon Favreau

Plot: When Thor's evil brother, Loki, gains access to the unlimited power of the energy cube called the Tesseract, Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D., initiates a superhero recruitment effort to defeat the unprecedented threat to Earth. Joining Fury's "dream team" are Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk, Thor, the Black Widow and Hawkeye.

Protagonists:


 * Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
 * Chris Hemsworth as Thor
 * Jeremy Renner as Dr. Hank Pym/Ant-Man
 * Scarlett Johansson as Janet van Dyne/The Wasp
 * Mark Ruffalo as Dr. Bruce Banner/The Hulk

Antagonists: Tom Hiddleston as Loki & The Chitauri

Deaths:

Avengers
Release Date: March 25, 2016

Director: Jon Favreau

Plot:

Protagonists:


 * Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
 * Chris Hemsworth as Thor
 * Jeremy Renner as Dr. Hank Pym/Ant-Man
 * Scarlett Johansson as Janet van Dyne/The Wasp
 * Mark Ruffalo as Dr. Bruce Banner/The Hulk

Antagonists: The Masters of Evil


 * Daniel Bruhl as Baron Helmut Zemo
 * Naomi Scott as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
 * Dev Patel as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver
 * Jennifer Lawrence as Amora The Enchantress
 * Karl Urban as Skurge/The Executioner
 * Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaw

Deaths:

X-Men
Release Date: August 5, 2016

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Plot:

Protagonists:


 * Tye Sheridan as Scott Summers/Cyclops
 * Sophie Turner as Jean Grey
 * Scott Eastwood as Logan Howlett/Wolverine
 * Mark Strong as Charles Xavier/Professor X
 * Alexandra Shipp as Ororo Munroe/Storm
 * Kodi Smit-McPhee as Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler
 * Kaya Scodelario as Annmarie D'Ancanto/Rogue
 * Brenton Thwaites as Ramy LeBeau/Gambit

Antagonists: Iain Glen as Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto

Deaths:

Thor
Release Date: June 2, 2017

Director: Patty Jenkins

Plot: Thor returns to Asgard to claim his place as king and imprisons his brother Loki for his destructive actions on Earth. Thor has managed to bring peace to the Nine Realms, with Jotunheim completely annihilated off the face of the Nine Realms, but Thor learns of an ancient relic known as the Aether, a powerful object in which the Chitauri use to free their cunning leader, Loki. Loki invades the Nine Realms and brings war to every single realm, forcing Thor to travel across the galaxy to fight this violent war with the Chitauri and all of Midgard.

Protagonists:


 * Chris Hemsworth as Thor
 * Tom Hiddleston as Loki
 * Jaime Alexander as Sif
 * Idris Elba as Heimdall
 * Anthony Hopkins as Odin
 * Ray Stevenson as Volstagg
 * Tadanobu Asano as Hogun
 * Josh Dallas as Fandral

Antagonists: Christopher Eccelston as Malekith the Accursed & Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Algrim/Kurse

Mid-Credits: On Asgard, Odin sits atop the Asgardian throne, only to reveal that it's Loki is impersonating him...

Post-Credits: After managing to sustain the Aether, Sif brings the Aether to the Collector.

Deaths:

The Incredible Hulk
Release Date: November 17, 2017

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Plot: Turning into a green monster every time his anger is tempered with, renowned scientist Bruce Banner finds himself on the run from the government and the U.S. army, including its determined leader, Thunderbolt Ross, who strives to put Banner under. Banner, haunted by his past, is forced to come out of the shadows when the army releases a monster even worse than Banner in order to bring Banner in; little did they know that this monster would become an atrocity that will cause chaos to the world. Banner must use his instincts and his powers to stop this monster.

Protagonists:


 * Mark Ruffalo as Dr. Bruce Banner/The Hulk
 * Liv Tyler as Betty Ross
 * Martin Starr as Rick Jones

Antagonists:


 * Tim Blake Nelson as Samuel Stern/The Leader
 * William Hurt as General Thunderbolt Ross
 * Ty Burrell as Leonard Samson

Post-Credits: Hank Pym walks into the bar and tells Ross that he is putting together a team...

Deaths: N/A

Fantastic Four
Release Date: June 10, 2018

Director:

Plot:

Protagonists:


 * Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic
 * Sue Storm/Invisible Woman
 * Johnny Storm/Human Torch
 * Ben Grimm/The Thing

Antagonists: Annihilus & Owen Reece/Molecule Man

Deaths:

Avengers: Dawn of Ultron
Release Date: December 21, 2018

Director: Jon Favreau

Plot:

Protagonists:


 * Jeremy Renner as Dr. Hank Pym/Ant-Man
 * Scarlett Johansson as Janet van Dyne/The Wasp
 * Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
 * Chris Hemsworth as Thor
 * Mark Ruffalo as Dr. Bruce Banner/The Hulk
 * Naomi Scott as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
 * Dev Patel as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver

Antagonists: James Spader as Ultron & Paul Bettany as Vision

Deaths:

Spider-Man
Release Date: April 5, 2019

Director: McG

Plot:

Protagonists:


 * Judah Lewis as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
 * Emily Alyn Lind as Gwen Stacy
 * Thomas Barbusca as Harry Osborn
 * Lisa Kudrow as May Parker
 * Jenna Ortega as Liz Allan

Antagonists: Michael Keaton as Adrian Toomes/The Vulture

Deaths:

Wolverine
Release Date: October 5, 2019

Director: James Mangold

Plot:

Protagonists: Scott Eastwood as Logan Howlett/Wolverine

Antagonists:

Deaths:

Thor: Ragnarok
Release Date: December 25, 2020

Director: Patty Jenkins

Plot:

Protagonists:


 * Chris Hemsworth as Thor
 * Tom Hiddleston as Loki
 * Michael Dorn as Beta Ray Bill
 * Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie
 * Taika Waititi as Korg

Antagonists: Cate Blanchett as Hela & Jeff Goldblum as The Grandmaster

Deaths:

Avengers: Civil War
Release Date: March 18, 2021

Director: Jon Favreau

Plot: After the Avengers go to Africa to stop a chem-weapon from releasing from the hands of one of Captain America's old enemies and an entire village ends up blowing up, that is the final straw; political pressure mounts upon the Avengers after all the turmoil and casualties they have inflicted in the past years. This status quo divides Captain America and Iron Man; Steve does not trust the government after Project Insight and Leviathan and believes the Accords would strip the freedom of the rest of the Avengers, who he believes is fighting for a right cause; they cannot save everybody. Tony disagrees and after their experience with Ultron, supports oversight. As the debate escalates into an all-out feud and the other Avengers are forced to pick a side, two former friends battle it out.

Protagonists: Anti-Accords


 * Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
 * Chadwick Boseman as King T'Challa/Black Panther
 * Jeremy Renner as Dr. Hank Pym/Ant-Man
 * Scarlett Johansson as Janet van Dyne/The Wasp
 * Naomi Scott as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
 * Dev Patel as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver
 * Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
 * Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter

Antagonists: Pro-Accords


 * Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine
 * Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic
 * Sue Storm/Invisible Woman
 * Johnny Storm/Human Torch
 * Ben Grimm/The Thing
 * Cobie Smulders as Secretary Maria Hill

Mid-Credits: Bucky, granted asylum in Wakanda, chooses to return to cryogenic sleep until a cure for his brainwashing is found.

Post-Credits: Peter Parker explores the features of the suit built for him by Stark.

Deaths: Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine

The Uncanny X-Men
Release Date: August 6, 2021

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Plot:

Protagonists:

Antagonists: The Sentinels

Deaths:

Iron Man
Release Date: March 4, 2022

Director:

Plot: A billionaire industrialist and genius inventor, Tony Stark, is conducting weapons tests overseas, but terrorists kidnap him to force him to build a devastating weapon. Instead, he builds an armored suit and upends his captors. Returning to America, Stark refines the suit and uses it to combat crime and terrorism.

Protagonists:


 * Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Shaun Toub as Ho Yinsen
 * Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
 * Don Cheadle as Colonel James Rhodes
 * Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan
 * Paul Bettany as J.A.R.V.I.S.

Antagonists: Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger

Post-Credits: N/A

Deaths: Shaun Toub as Ho Yinsen

Captain America: The First Avenger
Release Date: October 21, 2022

Director: Joe Johnston

Plot: Small kid from Brooklyn, New York, in a time of trouble with World War II at its peak of destruction, Steve Rogers enlists to join the United States Army, but due to his small stature, he is quickly rejected. Desperate to make a difference in the world and fight for his country, Rogers accepts a role in the Super Soldier experiment; this experiment enhances Rogers greatly, making him physically larger, as well as peak superhuman strength, agility, and endurance. Rogers keeps the heart of the good man he was before the experiment and becomes the leader of the army, Captain America. Rogers and his company work on dismantling the evil Nazi-affiliated organization known as H.Y.D.R.A. and it's a leader who is a dark reflection of Captain America; the Red Skull...

Protagonists:


 * Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
 * Tommy Lee Jones as Chester Phillips
 * Hayley Atwell as Cynthia Glass
 * Sebastian Stan as Sergeant Bucky Barnes
 * Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark
 * Neal McDonogh as Dum Dum Dugan
 * Derek Luke as Gabe Jones
 * Stanley Tucci as Dr. Abraham Erskine

Antagonists: Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt/Red Skull

Post-Credits: Steve wakes up, but he is in an ominous setting playing the baseball game he went to before the experiment, during the beginning of the film. Steve is greeted by a hotel worker, but quickly realizes he is being played when he remembers the baseball game. Steve is surrounded by multiple agents and attacks them, running out and seeing modern-day Manhattan; it is the year 2012. Nick Fury comes out of the car and multiple S.H.I.E.L.D. agents surround Steve; Fury reveals to Steve that he has been asleep for 70 years. Steve looks lost and Fury tries to settle him, but Steve replies with, "I had a date", referring to Cynthia...

Deaths: Stanley Tucci as Dr. Abraham Erskine

Spider-Man 2
Release Date: March 17, 2023

Director: McG

Plot:

Protagonists:


 * Judah Lewis as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
 * Emily Alyn Lind as Gwen Stacy
 * Thomas Barbusca as Harry Osborn
 * Lisa Kudrow as May Parker
 * Jenna Ortega as Liz Allan

Antagonists:

Deaths:

Ant-Man
Release Date: August 18, 2023

Director: Edgar Wright

Plot: Since her husband's disappearance, Janet van Dyne has been forced out of PymTech by former ally Bill Foster, and Janet recruits the talents of Scott Lang, a master thief just released from prison. Lang becomes Ant-Man, trained by Janet and armed with a suit that allows him to shrink in size, possess superhuman strength and control an army of ants. The miniature hero must use his new skills to prevent Foster, also known as Goliath, from perfecting the same technology and using it as a weapon for evil.

Protagonists:


 * Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man
 * Evangeline Lilly as Janet van Dyne
 * Bobby Cannavale as Jim Paxton
 * Michael Peña as Luis
 * Tip "T.I." Harris as Dave
 * Abby Ryder Fortson as Cassie Lang
 * Judy Greer as Maggie

Antagonists: Morris Chestnut as Bill Foster/Goliath

Post-Credits:

Deaths: N/A

Guardians of the Galaxy
Release Date: June 17, 2024

Director: James Gunn

Plot: Brash space adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the quarry of relentless bounty hunters after he steals an orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with five disparate misfits: gun-toting Rocket, treelike-humanoid Groot, enigmatic Gamora, and vengeance-driven Drax. But when he discovers the orb's true power and the cosmic threat it poses, Quill must rally his ragtag group to save the universe.

Protagonists:


 * Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord
 * Zoe Saldana as Gamora
 * Bradley Cooper as Rocket
 * Vin Diesel as Groot
 * Dave Bautista as Drax
 * Michael Rooker as Yondu Udonta
 * Djimon Hounsou as Korath
 * John C. Reilly as Rhomann Dey
 * Glenn Close as Irani Rael

Antagonists:


 * Lee Pace as Ronan the Accuser
 * Karen Gillan as Nebula
 * Benicio del Toro as Taneleer Tivan/The Collector

Post-Credits: With the destruction caused by the Power Stone in the Collector's collection, Howard the Duck mocks a sad Collector by throwing a cup at him.

Deaths: Lee Pace as Ronan the Accuser

The Incredible Hulk
Release Date: December 28, 2024

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Plot:

Protagonists:


 * Mark Ruffalo as Dr. Bruce Banner/The Hulk
 * Liv Tyler as Betty Ross
 * Martin Starr as Rick Jones

Antagonists: Harrison Ford as General Thunderbolt Ross/Red Hulk

Post-Credits:

Deaths: N/A

Avengers: Infinity War
Release Date: July 11, 2025

Director: Jon Favreau

Plot: The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Defenders, and more unite to battle their most powerful enemy yet -- the evil Thanos. On a mission to collect all six Infinity Stones, Thanos plans to use the artifacts to inflict his twisted will on reality. The fate of the planet and existence itself has never been more uncertain as everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment.

Protagonists: Titan


 * Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange
 * Judah Lewis as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
 * Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord
 * Dave Bautista as Drax
 * Pom Klementieff as Mantis
 * Karen Gillan as Nebula

Protagonists: Wakanda


 * Chadwick Boseman as King T'Challa/Black Panther
 * Chris Hemsworth as Thor Odinson
 * Mark Ruffalo as Dr. Bruce Banner
 * Dominique Thorne as Shuri
 * Naomi Scott as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
 * Paul Bettany as The Vision
 * Dev Patel as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver
 * Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Nomad
 * Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon
 * Elizabeth Olsen as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
 * Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes
 * Bradley Cooper as Rocket
 * Vin Diesel as Groot
 * Winston Duke as M'Baku
 * Danai Gurira as Okoye

Antagonists:


 * Josh Brolin as Thanos
 * Michael James Shaw as Corvus Glaive
 * Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Ebony Maw
 * Terry Notary as Cull Obsidian
 * Carrie Coon as Proxima Midnight

Post-Credits: Nick Fury and Maria Hill are driving in Chicago when Hill mentions that there are very heavy energy signatures above Wakanda. Fury asks her how high the signatures exactly are and she responds by saying that the energy signatures are ten times bigger than that of the Battle of New York in 2012. He looks very concerned and tells her to call every contact they can find. However, he crashes into a car. He goes out to check that car and finds nobody in it. Fury and Hill look around, as civilians begin disappearing and a helicopter crashes into a building. Hill disappears herself, then Fury rushes over to the back of his van to get a decade-old pager. He phones somebody, then disintegrates shortly after. The camera zooms into the pager to reveal who he was calling; a red, yellow, and blue insignia pops up...

Deaths: Zoe Saldana as Gamora & Brenton Thwaites as Adam Warlock

Iron Man 2
Release Date: October 2, 2025

Director: Jon Favreau

Plot: After publicly revealing to the entire world that he is Iron Man, Tony Stark faces pressure from all sides to share his technology with the military. He is reluctant to divulge the secrets of his armored suit, fearing the information will fall into the wrong hands. This paranoia is heightened when the leader of the Ten Rings emerges from the darkness, the Mandarin, who vows to shatter the legacy of the Stark family and claim all of the power as his own. Tony, overwhelmed by the might of this organization asks for the help of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Protagonists:


 * Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine
 * Evangeline Lilly as Janet van Dyne/The Wasp
 * Samuel L. Jackson as Director Nick Fury
 * Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
 * Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan
 * Paul Bettany as J.A.R.V.I.S.

Antagonists: Hiroyuki Sanada as Tem Borjigin/The Mandarin

Post-Credits: After debriefing Tony's new Mark 6, Coulson has driven to Mexico to investigate a disturbance under Fury's orders. When he gets there, he sees a large crowd of people gathering around an object S.H.I.E.L.D. has been hunting down for months; Mjolnir. After Coulson calls Fury, the screen cuts to black with a bolt of thunder...

Deaths: N/A

Captain Marvel
Release Date: March 9, 2026

Director: Nia DaCosta Plot: When hotshot fighter pilot Monica Rambeau is sent to the air force once again, her reckless attitude and cocky demeanor put her at odds with the other pilots, especially the cool and collected Walter Lawson. But Monica isn't only competing to be the top fighter pilot, she's also fighting for the approval of her flight instructor, her mother Maria Rambeau. Protagonists:


 * Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau/Captain Marvel
 * Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
 * John Krasinski as Walter Lawson
 * Yvonne Strahovski as Carol Danvers
 * Jenifer Lewis as Maria Rambeau
 * Ron Cephas-Jones as Frank Rambeau
 * Ben Mendelsohn as Talos
 * Jack Messina as Dorrek VIII

Antagonists:


 * Jude Law as Yon-Rogg
 * Annette Bening as The Supreme Intelligence
 * Constance Wu as Minn-Erva

Post-Credits: Veranke mourns her father and desires revenge against humanity...

Deaths:


 * John Krasinski as Walter Lawson
 * Ben Mendelsohn as Talos
 * Jude Law as Yon-Rogg

Avengers: Endgame
Release Date: June 1, 2026

Director: Jon Favreau

Plot: Half of all life in the universe has been snapped out of existence. The likes of Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Thor, and Natasha Romanoff are all left hopeless and out of options. Five years pass and the Earth is not the same. Reed Richards and the rest of the surviving heroes gather among themselves to create a time machine using the Quantum Realm to retrieve all six Infinity Stones and bring back all those who fell...

Protagonists:


 * Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Nomad
 * Mark Ruffalo as Dr. Bruce Banner
 * Chris Hemsworth as Thor Odinson
 * Jeremy Renner as Dr. Hank Pym/Yellowjacket
 * Evangelline Lilly as Janet van Dyne/The Wasp
 * Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau/Captain Marvel
 * Bradley Cooper as Rocket
 * Karen Gillan as Nebula

Antagonists: Josh Brolin as Thanos 1710 & Thanos Prime

Post-Credits: N/A

Deaths: