Marvel Cinematic Universe Phases (HASAMU TENSHI)

Marvel Cinematic Universe is the expanded universe based on Marvel Comics, with president and producer, Kevin Fiege, coming with the creative productions and projects for the cinematic universe. In 2010, Fiege signed a contract with Fox Studios to retain the rights of the X-Men, Deadpool, and Fantastic Four arc characters back and produce those characters into the larger universe beyond the Avengers characters. Fiege has opened his mind to producing more R-rated films for the more adult themed characters such as Wolverine, Deadpool, and more on. He, along with directors James Gunn, James Mangold, and Anthony Russo, confirmed that many series on both Netflix and ABC will take place in the expanded universe. The television shows being produced over the years will be Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Heroes For Hire, The Defenders, Moon Knight, Blade, White Tiger, Deadpool, Agent Venom, Gambit, Ghost Rider, Cable & The X-Force, The Thunderbolts, and The Punisher on Netflix, as ABC will feature Agents Of SHIELD, She-Hulk, Blue Marvel, Nate Grey, Silver Sable, New Warriors, Night Thrasher, and Legion.

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(THIS WILL NOT FOLLOW THE ACTUAL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE OF MARVEL. I'm MAKING UP MY OWN STORIES AND MOVIES. If You Would Like To Edit, Please Get My Approval First From HASAMUTENSHI. Good Day To Y'All. THIS PAGE IS ESSENTIALLY A SCENARIO IF X-MEN AND FANTASTIC FOUR WERE ALWAYS A PART OF THE MARVEL STUDIOS CONTRACT.)

Phase 1
Release Date: 2008
 * Iron Man

Rating: PG-13

Story:

Billionaire industrialist, Tony Stark, conducts weaponry tests overseas, but this backfires quickly after Tony is kidnapped by a terrorist organization known as the Ten Rings. After months of torment, Tony finds an escape plan after being prompted to build the organization a dangerous weapon to attack the United States with, Tony builds a suit of armor to escape his living hell. After returning to the US and reuniting with his secretary, Pepper, and his best friend, James Rhodes, Tony uses his suit of armor to dismantle the Ten Rings, as well as fight other evils that plague the world, quickly being known as the "Iron Man". When his rival company, Stane, suspiciously runs secret operations with the Rings, Tony must protect the world from the Rings' danger as his newfound identity as a superhero...

Protagonists: Tony Stark/Iron Man and Colonel James Rhodes

Antagonists: Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger and Anton Vanko/Crimson Dynamo

After Credits: Tony comes home after having a night out with Rhodes. Tony sees that there is a shadowy figure in his living room, who asks Tony if he thinks he is the only superhero in the world. Tony questions this figure and the figure comes out and reveals himself as Nick Fury, director of SHIELD, a UN affiliated government agency. Fury has come to talk to Tony about the "Avengers Initiative".

Deaths: Ho Yinsen (sacrifices his life to buy Tony time in order to escape from the cave), Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger (suit override kills him and he falls into the giant arc reactor, causing a giant explosion in Malibu), and Anton Vanko/Crimson Dynamo (killed by Stark in a last effort to get the key to the reactor and the Rings' weapons)
 * The Incredible Hulk

Release Date: 2008

Rating: PG-13

Story:

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 US army, including it's 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 worst 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: Bruce Banner/The Hulk and Samuel Stern

Antagonists: Emil Blonsky/Abomination and General Thunderbolt Ross

After Credits: Tony Stark walks into the bar and tells Ross that he is putting together a team...

Deaths: N/A Release Date: 2010
 * Iron Man 2

Rating: PG-13

Story:

After publicly revealing to the entire world that he is Iron Man, Tony Stark spends his days being overloaded with United States government requests to give his weapons and suits to the government, as they present a danger after what happened with Russia and their Crimson Dynamo armor, in which nearly destroyed Malibu. Meanwhile, the son of Anton Vanko, Ivan, rises from the shadows and declares revenge on Stark after his father's death. The Stark family and the Vankos have a long history with Tony's father, Howard, wronging the Vankos in so many ways, including Anton. With this feud between Tony and Ivan and an all-out war ensuing in the process, with Ivan attempting to destroy the Stark legacy, Tony must form new alliances to win this battle; including the likes of Rhodes and a former assassin known as the Black Widow...

Protagonists: Tony Stark/Iron Man, James Rhodes/War Machine, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Director Nick Fury, Agent Phil Coulson, and Happy Hogan

Antagonists: Ivan Vanko/Whiplash and Justin Hammer

After 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 SHIELD has been hunting down for months; Mjolnir. After Coulson calls Fury, the screen cuts to black with a bolt of thunder...

Deaths: N/A Release Date: 2011
 * Thor

Rating: PG-13

Story:

Son of Odin and the God of Thunder; Thor Odinson is soon to inherit the throne of Asgard as the rightful King. However, after a dispute between the Asgardians and the Frost Giants, the Frost Giants attack and Thor makes an extremely arrogant move by attacking Jotunheim. After doing so, Odin decides that Thor's arrogance and selfishness does not prove worthiness of the throne and banishes Thor from his hammer and to planet Earth. There, Thor must rebuild himself and while his mischievous brother Loki uses Thor's absence to his advantage, Thor must return to Asgard to claim the throne and stop his brother...

Protagonists: Thor, Lady Sif, Hogun, Volstagg, Fandral, Heimdall, Odin, Frigga, and Agent Phil Coulson

Antagonists: Loki, Laufey, and The Destroyer

After Credits 1: Erik Selvig is recruited by SHIELD to be the head of the science division. Selvis is shown the Tesseract by Fury, which is an ancient relic that was used by ancient civilizations and could be the key to unlimited sustainable energy. Loki appears in the shadows and smiles...

After Credits 2: After Laufey's death, Hogun and Lady Sif talk about a potential civil war among the Nine Realms, as Laufey had a peace treaty with the Dark Elves. The camera switches to the evil Dark Elves and their ruthless leader, Malekith the Accursed, who is being powered by pure, hateful energy...

Deaths: Laufey (killed by Loki; Loki used him for getting to Thor, but Loki decides to kill him to destroy the reminder that Loki is not truly an Odinson) Release Date: 2011
 * Captain America: The First Avenger

Rating: PG-13

Story:

Small kid from Brooklyn, New York, in a time of trouble with World War 2 at it's 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 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 HYDRA and it's leader who is a dark reflection of Captain America; the Red Skull...

Protagonists: Steve Rogers/Captain America, Sergeant Bucky Barnes, Dum Dum Dugan, and Peggy Carter

Antagonist: Johann Schmidt/Red Skull

After 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 year 2011. Nick Fury comes out of the car and multiple SHIELD 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 Peggy...

Deaths: Dr. Abraham Erskine (killed by a HYDRA spy after Steve is subjected to the serum; Steve chases down this agent to get answers) and Sergeant Bucky Barnes (after him and Steve infiltrate a train carrying HYDRA superweapons and the Red Skull, Barnes sacrifices his life to buy Steve time; falls down the snowy mountain with no body to be recovered) Release Date: 2012
 * The Avengers

Rating: PG-13

Story:

After Loki steals the Tesseract from the SHIELD headquarters, Director Fury initiates his long-awaited plan to assemble the Avengers, which include the incredible likes of Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk, and Thor. Fury assigns the team to fight the battle SHIELD never could. The team work together to dismantle Loki, who uses the Tesseract to send an army known as Chitauri, who are from space, in order to succeed his power-hungry goals. Will the team be able to put their differences aside and fight the Earth and very damn-well avenge it if they have to?

Protagonists: Tony Stark/Iron Man, Steve Rogers/Captain America, Thor, Bruce Banner/The Hulk, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Director Nick Fury, Agent Maria Hill, and Agent Phil Coulson

Antagonists: Loki and The Other

After Credits: The Other returns to space where he bows to his leader to inform him that Loki has failed and the Tesseract is again back in the hands of the humans. The leader angrily stands up and The Other, with fear running through his veins, bows down once more. The leader is the mad titan known as Thanos, one of the most powerful entities in the galaxy...

Deaths: N/A

Phase 2
Release Date: 2013
 * The Incredible Hulk 2

Rating: PG-13

Story:

With an agreement taken up with SHIELD, Bruce is able to reunite with Betty and in the aftermath of the Battle of New York involving the Avengers and Loki, Bruce moves to Arizona. However, just when Bruce is enjoying a quiet life in Arizona, he receives a blackmail from an old friend; Samuel Stern, who returns with blood on his hands. Stern manages to drop a nuke containing gamma radiation, poisoning a desert of Phoenix in gamma. Bruce is forced out of his peaceful life and must stop Stern, who proves to be very unpredictable and intelligent, from causing more mayhem and putting the work of evil on the hands of the Hulk...

Protagonists: Bruce Banner/The Hulk and Rick Jones/A-Bomb

Antagonists: Samuel Stern/The Leader and General Thunderbolt Ross/Red Hulk

After Credits: After the Red Hulk was unleashed to try and stop the Leader, who ended up being stopped by the Hulk, Ross is sitting in a press conference with the United Nations, as nobody suspects that Ross was actually the Red Hulk. All committees from all panels including the likes of England and Wakanda agree to put Ross on the panel and ask him if he has any secrets he would like to share before he officially becomes Secretary of Defense. Ross hesitates, but proceeds to say, "no".

Deaths: N/A Release Date: 2013
 * Iron Man 3

Rating: PG-13 (R on Extended Cut)

Story:

Due to the trauma caused in the Battle of New York, Tony comes home to Pepper as a different person. Tony spends most of his days building more than a dozen of Iron Man suits and his alcohol addiction worsens, as his nightmares of New York become more violent. When Tony realizes that the Ten Rings have revealed their leader, the Mandarin, a dangerous man with both earthly and extraterrestrial technology at his disposal. When the Mandarin destroys Tony's legacy with his suits, Tony is forced to travel to China, where the Mandarin resides in his Valley of Spirits, where the origins of the Ten Rings lies and where Tony's worst nightmares and demons resides. Will Tony be able to regain his legacy and fight his way through the Mandarin and through the darkness within?

Protagonists: Tony Stark/Iron Man, James Rhodes/War Machine, Pepper Potts/Rescue, and Happy Hogan

Antagonist: The Mandarin

After Credits 1: The Reality Stone, which was found in one of the Mandarin's Ten Rings, is collected by a figure (presumably Kree), who uses it to spot a point of interest someone gave him. The Reality Stone then shows mutants across the world...

After Credits 2: Tony feels at peace after arresting the Mandarin and stripping him of his powers. Tony is in the mech room again and Pepper asks him what he is doing down here again. Tony assures Pepper that he is fine now, but Tony announces that he is starting a project that could change everything; the "Ultron Project", a peacemaking program. Tony begins writing down ideas for this project, but has not begun any production yet. Pepper looks concerned, but Tony assures her that everything will be fine...

Deaths: N/A Release Date: 2013
 * Guardians Of The Galaxy

Rating: PG-13

Story:

After his dying mother's time passed, Peter Quill was abducted by the savaging intergalactic beings known as the Ravagers. Years later, Peter is now a gun-slinging bounty hunter known as Star-Lord. Peter sets his eyes on the powerful Orb, which is highly valued in the intergalactic black markets. Because of this and potential competition, Peter is jailed by the Nova Corps on Xandar along with six other intergalactic misfits such as Rocket Raccoon, Gamora, Charlie-27, and more. Peter escapes the prison with these six criminals and the main goal changes from selling the Orb to protecting the Orb, as a dangerous Kree overlord known as Ronan is planning on using the Orb for destructive means. Will these misfits be able to band together and save the galaxy from Ronan?

Protagonists: Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax The Destroyer, Rocket Raccoon, Yondu, Groot, Charlie-27, and The Collector

Antagonists: Ronan The Accuser and Nebula

After Credits 1: 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.

After Credits 2: Stan Lee, who is Utau the Watcher, tells his other Watchers of the Universe stories of his adventures, but they do not seem to care. Stan tries his best to get their attention, but they seriously do not care.

Deaths: Ronan The Accuser (after not being powerful enough for the Orb, the Guardians band together with the power of the Orb and shatter Ronan to pieces) Release Date: 2014
 * Thor: The Dark World

Rating: PG-13

Story:

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 finds out of an ancient relic known as the Aether, a powerful object in which the Dark Elves use to awaken their ruthless leader, Malekith the Accursed. Malekith invades the Nine Realms and brings war to every single realm, forcing Thor to travel to every single realm and fight this violent war with the Dark Elves and all of Midgard...

Protagonists: Thor, Lady Sif, Valkyrie, Odin, Volstagg, Hogun, Fandral, Heimdall, Frigga, and Loki

Antagonists: Malekith the Accursed, Amora/The Enchantress, and Skurge/The Executioner

After Credits 1: Earth dwellers are enjoying their day in England and then the Midgard Serpent almost enters through a wormhole, but Thor quickly chops the Serpent apart and apologizes to the Earth dwellers.

After Credits 2: After managing to sustain the Aether, Lady Sif and the Warriors Three bring the Aether to the Collector.

Deaths: Frigga (killed by Malekith when defending Asgard; results in Thor and Odin mourning for her death, as well as Loki, who intends to kill Malekith after this tragedy) and Malekith the Accursed (killed by Thor and Odin's powers combined) Release Date: 2014
 * The Uncanny X-Men

Rating: PG-13

Story:

In the 1980s, mutant Charles Xavier meets fellow mutant Erik Lehnsherr. Despite being from vastly different backgrounds; Charles growing up in a wealthy background and Erik losing his parents in Auschwitz. The two become close friends and begin recruiting fellow mutants across the world to protect humanity, even if humanity is not in favor of mutants. However, Charles and Erik find themselves in the eyes of a dangerous man known as Sebastian Shaw, who runs the Hellfire Club, a group run by social elite mutants who consider themselves superior to other mutants. The Hellfire Club starts a war with Charles and his group of mutants. The Hellfire Club is a mirror image of Charles and the X-Men must stop the Club before they start a world war.

Protagonists: Charles Xavier/Professor X, Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto, Scott Summers/Cyclops, Jean Grey/Marvel Girl, Hank McCoy/Beast, Warren Worthington III/Angel, and Bobby Drake/Iceman

Antagonists: Sebastian Shaw, Emma Frost, Azazel, and Donald Pierce

After Credits 1: In present day, Charles is now a man in his late 50s and calls upon Scott, who is now in his late 30s (as well as Jean, Hank, Warren, and Bobby). Charles and Scott talk about a new home he has found in Westchester, New York. A place where Charles can build a school for mutants...

After Credits 2: Hank is visiting a cage bar in Canada where a mutant is fighting. The camera shows the hands of the mutant, who has an animal-like nature and can utilize claws which come out of his fists. The mutant is very violent and almost kills his opponent until the referee stops him. During the mutant's break, Hank confronts the mutant and asks him to join the X-Men, but the mutant is not interested and tells Hank to "fuck off". Hank does that and the mutant then says, "You're going down, bub!"

Deaths: Sebastian Shaw (when the X-Men lose to him, Magneto decides that Charles cannot take risks, so Magneto goes to confront Shaw, after finding out Shaw's family killed his parents in Auschwitz, and makes Shaw absorb too much of his energy and blow up; this causes Magneto to go on the run and run away from Charles and the X-Men) Release Date: 2014
 * Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Rating: PG-13 (R on Extended Cut)

Story:

After the cataclysmic events that transpired in New York with his fellow Avengers, Steve Rogers moves to the nation's capital as he struggles to adjust to modern times. Steve works with SHIELD and fellow Avenger, Black Widow, to dismantle oceanic cartels entering the United States. However, Black Widow compromises one of the missions and Nick Fury presents to Steve Project Insight, a project that projects multiple carriers to the skies and can detect threats before they even come; a project that has been bestowed upon the events of New York. When Fury is gunned down, Steve finds himself on the run with Black Widow and newfound ally, Sam Wilson. Steve finds out an enemy from World War 2 has arisen from the ashes and is seeking world domination. Steve cannot trust the government, which is what his values from World War 2 were built upon. Struggling to expose this ever-widening conspiracy, Steve comes face-to-face with someone he thought long dead...

Protagonists: Steve Rogers/Captain America, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Sam Wilson/Falcon, Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Agent Maria Hill, Director Nick Fury, and Sharon Carter/Agent 13

Antagonists: Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier, Alexander Pierce, and Brock Rumlow

After Credits 1: Baron Von Strucker has taken up the mantle as leader of HYDRA after the fall of SHIELD agent, Alexander Pierce. Von Strucker has obtained the Scepter (the weapon Loki used in New York) and has used the Mind Stone to capture two mutants known as Wanda Maximoff and Pietro Maximoff. Strucker plans on using them as weapons..

After Credits 2: The shot shows the museum Steve was at previous and shows the many memorials of Steve with Bucky and his allies in World War 2. The camera zooms into Bucky, who is in disguise and remembers his past...

Deaths: Alexander Pierce (when Pierce is having a conference with the World Council during the commencement of Project Insight, Nick Fury goes out of disguise and shoots Pierce for betraying Fury, who has been Pierce's friend for decades, and for betraying SHIELD) Release Date: 2015
 * Avengers: Age Of Ultron

Rating: PG-13 (R on Extended Cut)

Story:

The Avengers team up once more to take down Baron Von Strucker upon HYDRA revealing themselves to the world post-Project Insight. Tony comes back with the Scepter and uses the Mind Stone and JARVIS to jumpstart his long-awaited Ultron AI, a peacemaking AI intended to help the Avengers in future battles. However, Ultron quickly turns on Tony and becomes a murderous and cold and calculating AI who intends to destroy humanity. As the blame is put on Tony and the Avengers go after Ultron, who continuously gets stronger every day, the Avengers begin breaking apart, with Ultron as the string-tier. Will the Avengers be able to fight their internal battles and stop Ultron from causing human extinction?

Protagonists: Tony Stark/Iron Man, Steve Rogers/Captain America, Thor, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Bruce Banner/The Hulk, Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, The Vision, Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver, James Rhodes/War Machine, Sam Wilson/Falcon, Rick Jones/A-Bomb, and Nick Fury

Antagonists: Ultron, Baron Von Strucker, Amora/The Enchantress, Skurge/The Executioner, Emil Blonsky/Abomination, and Justin Hammer/Crimson Dynamo II

After Credits 1: The Hulk is in space, fleeing from the world who hates him. However, the Hulk's ship then crashes in the midst of space and the Hulk falls into the planet of Sakaar...

After Credits 2: Thanos picks up the Infinity Gauntlet after many have failed with many of the Infinity Stones (including the likes of Loki, Ronan the Accuser, and the Mandarin) and tells himself that he will do it all himself now...

Deaths: Emil Blonsky/Abomination (during the final battle in Sokovia, the Hulk manages to gain the upper hand and kills Blonsky, in horror of the Avengers, with Ultron happy that the Hulk has finally killed his worst enemy) and Rick Jones/A-Bomb (is ultimately caught in the crossfire of Ultron when Ultron attempts to murder a Sokovian family of four; the Hulk is enraged and fails to defeat Ultron; the Hulk leaves Earth after the battle and cuts contact with the Avengers) Release Date: 2015
 * Ant-Man

Rating: PG-13

Story:

Ex-con Scott Lang is paroled out of jail and reunites with his daughter, Cassie, who has been met with a terminal cancer. Scott goes back into the criminal life and breaks into the Pym household to collect valuables for in hopes to find something to cure his daughter, who means the world to him. Scott only ends up finding the iconic Ant-Man battle suit in which Hank Pym used during the Cold War. Instead of calling the police, Hank takes Scott under his wing and gives him a shot to turn his life around; become the Ant-Man and fight evil. As Hank takes Scott under his wing, Scott infiltrates Darren Cross, a former prodigy of Hank, who is planning on replicating the Pym Particles to create his own powerful army to strike against Pym. Scott finds that Cross has the ultimate cure to his daughter's disease; will Scott be able to redeem himself as his newfound identity as a hero?

Protagonists: Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Hank Pym, Hope Van Dyne, Officer Blake Burdick, and Luis Garcia

Antagonist: Darren Cross/Yellowjacket

After Credits 1: Hank shows Hope that Wasp prototype suit he never gave to Janet before she died. Hope is happy and remarks, "It's about damn time..."

After Credits 2: Steve and Sam have captured Bucky and put him on restraint. Sam goes up to Steve and says he does not like this. Steve then suggests that they call Tony, but Sam knows that Tony will not believe them. Steve then reminds Sam that they are seriously outnumbered, but Sam insists to Steve that he knows a guy (implying Scott Lang)...

Deaths: Mitch Carson (a board member within Cross Technologies who Cross uses to experiment the Particles on; Carson shrinks and is wiped out of existence) and Darren Cross/Yellowjacket (after Scott enters the Quantum Realm and destroys his suit, Cross enters the Quantum Realm and forever shrinks)

Phase 3
Release Date: 2016
 * Captain America: Civil War

Rating: PG-13 (R on Extended Cut)

Story:

After Steve and the Avengers go to Africa to stop a chem-weapon from releasing from the hands of one of Steve'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. The Secretary of State introduces the Superhuman Accords, a signed paper that would regulate the activities of the Avengers, who would only act under government wishes. This status quo divides Steve and Tony; Steve does not trust the government after Project Insight and HYDRA 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 his mistakes 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. Is this the end of the Avengers?

Anti-Accords: Steve Rogers/Captain America, Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier, Sam Wilson/Falcon, Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver, Sharon Carter/Agent 13, and Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (later on)

Pro-Accords: Tony Stark/Iron Man, James Rhodes/War Machine, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (at first), The Vision, T'Challa/Black Panther, and Peter Parker/Spider-Man

Antagonists: Baron Zemo and Brock Rumlow/Crossbones

After Credits 1: Steve, T'Challa, and Bucky all come to a mutual agreement; the Wakandan scientists put Bucky in a frozen sleep to erase all of his memories with HYDRA to start a clean slate. Steve looks out to the skyline of the beautiful kingdom of Wakanda. Steve truthfully thanks T'Challa for helping out. T'Challa said that both Bucky and his father, T'Chaka, was played by Baron Zemo and that revenge has corrupt him. Steve warns T'Challa that the US government will strike Wakanda if they find Bucky here. T'Challa remarks, "Let them try". The camera zooms into the statue of the Black Panther, which ponders over Wakanda...

After Credits 2: Pietro is running across the world alone and gets a message in his head from Charles Xavier; Charles tells Pietro that he can find a home in Westchester, as Charles offers Pietro a helping hand...

Deaths: Peggy Carter (dies in her sleep; a funeral is held, where Steve realizes that Bucky is the only person from his World War 2 days left alive) and King T'Chaka (dies in the explosion during the press conference at the United Nations to ratify the Accords; T'Challa mistaken the killer as Bucky, who was revealed later to have been framed by Zemo; T'Challa spends most of the film going after Bucky, seeking blood) Release Date: 2016
 * Doctor Strange

Rating: PG-13

Story:

Arrogant and self-absorbed surgeon, Stephen Strange, gets involved in a brutal car accident that results in broken hands and broken limbs. This destroys Strange's career and his relationship with his significant other. With his career lost, Strange travels to the hidden village of Kamar-Taj to take a visit to the Ancient One, the Sorcerer Supreme who can allegedly heal his hands and give him his life back. However, things take a turn and Strange enters the world of magic and mystical entities like Agamotto. As the Ancient One trains Strange to become the Sorcerer Supreme and completely turn his life around, Strange's dark mirror, Mordo, attacks Strange and everything he holds dear. Will Strange embrace his newfound powers and fight for the better good?

Protagonists: Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange, Wong, The Ancient One, and Sara Wolfe

Antagonist: Baron Mordo

After Credits 1: Mordo's dark master is revealed; it is Dormammu of the Dark Dimension; one of the most powerful beings in the universe...

After Credits 2: Thor has taken a visit to the Sanctum Sanctorum in New York and asks Strange for a favor; helping Thor find Odin. Strange is intrigued with Thor's power level and agrees to help him find his father.

Deaths: Aged Genghis (when Mordo attacks one of the Sactums, he kills the dying Genghis with a blow of the dark magic) Release Date: 2016
 * The Incredible Hulk 3

Rating: PG-13 (R on Extended Cut)

Story:

After the Hulk crash lands on the war-torn and conflicted planet of Sakaar, he is quickly captured and held prisoner by the ruthless Red King, the emperor of Sakaar in which the people look up to. The Hulk quickly befriends some of the few sane individuals on the planet such as Skaar and Caiera the Oldstrong. Little do the people of Sakaar know, the emperor is a ruthless dictator who wants to tear the planet apart, piece-by-piece. The Hulk rounds up his newfound allies and must fight for the greater good. As the Red King plays on the Hulk's past on Earth and his inner demons, the Hulk must fight to end the war that he has been waging his entire life...

Protagonists: Bruce Banner/The Hulk, Skaar, Caiera the Oldstrong, Korg, and Miek

Antagonists: Angmo-Asan II/Red King and The Grandmaster

After Credits: After the Red King's death, the Grandmaster looks out onto Sakaar and announces his new position as ruler of the planet...

Deaths: Angmo-Asan II/Red King (after a brutal final fight with the Hulk, Asan grows weak and the Hulk finishes him off and tells him that Asan is the monster that ruined Sakaar and must be ended) Release Date: 2017
 * Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2

Rating: PG-13

Story:

The Guardians of the Galaxy work as protectors of the galaxy, forming an ever-so stronger bond than before as a family of misfits. After the Guardians take a contract with the Shi'ar Empire and Rocket decides to play the Shi'ar like a fiddle for their money, the Guardians then find themselves on the run and Peter uses this time to find out more about his parentage. The team ends up in Spartax, a loyal setting where his true father, J'son, lives. Peter takes his time to connect with his father, but the rest of the team know something is up; they have just entered a war involving Spartax, the Shi'ar, and the Kree Empire. As J'son's true colors are revealed and Peter is blinded by the fact that he has finally met his father, the Guardians must band together and stop this war from getting bigger...

Protagonists: Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax The Destroyer, Nebula, Charlie-27, Rocket Raccoon, Yondu, Groot, Mantis, and Kraglin

Antagonists: J'son, Gabriel Summers/Vulcan, and Ael-Dan

After Credits 1: The Kree have managed to snatch the Cocoon off the Collector's hands; Ael-Dan worships the Cocoon and calls it "Adam"...

After Credits 2: Vulcan finds out his brothers are living on Earth. Who are his brothers? Scott Summers and Alex Summers...

Deaths: J'son (Star-Lord kills his father before his father activates the Codex to destroy the Shi'ar Empire forever; Peter does not have any remorse after finding out J'son was the one who put the tumor in Peter's mother) and Yondu (is weak before Spartax blows to pieces; Yondu tells Peter to follow his heart and that Yondu was the only true father figure Peter has ever had; the team buries Yondu and the entire galaxy is in honor of his death, including the Ravagers) Release Date: 2017
 * The Giant-Size X-Men

Rating: PG-13 (R on Extended Cut)

Story:

With a newfound home in Westchester, New York, Charles Xavier, over the years, has built a new foundation and home for mutants alike. Xavier spends his spare time trying to find where Erik has gone, while Scott and Jean both lead the X-Men in their battles to protect humanity, who still shuns mutants. Erik returns from the shadows and has formed the Brotherhood of Mutants, a group of mutants looking to tear humanity apart, as Erik believes that human beings do not deserve to live, as mutants have been shunned for too long. Charles and his X-Men fight the Brotherhood, as Charles believes that love and unity need to co-exist and even if the humans are not in favor of mutants, that does not mean humanity does not need protection...

Protagonists: Charles Xavier/Professor X, Jean Grey/Marvel Girl, Scott Summers/Cyclops, Bobby Drake/Iceman, Logan Howlett/The Wolverine, Warren Worthington III/Angel, Hank McCoy/Beast, Anna Marie/Rogue, Peter Rasputin/Colossus, Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver, and Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat

Antagonists: Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto, Exodus, Raven Darkholme/Mystique, Cain Marko/Juggernaut, and John Allerdyce/Pyro

After Credits 1: During the X-Men and Brotherhood's battle in the Weapon X lab, several blood samples of the mutants have been dropped. Essex Corporation comes in to take the samples and walks out...

After Credits 2: Emma Frost appears in a vision of Charles and comes in open hands. Charles invites Frost over; Frost is a changed woman after the Hellfire Club...

Deaths: Exodus (Charles and Jean both destroy the Exodus with both their telekinetic powers) and Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (after an emotional standoff between Charles and Erik, Erik realizes mutants will never be loved and humanity will never understand what their kind has to go through; Erik takes a grenade, throws it at himself, killing himself; Charles mourns his death) Release Date: 2017
 * Spider-Man: Homecoming

Rating: PG-13

Story:

After aiding Stark in his attempt to take down Captain America and the outlawed superheroes of the Avengers, Peter returns home to New York, back to his routine; he is a 15-year-old freshman and with his Uncle Ben's death still fresh in his mind; carries a lot of weight on his shoulders. Peter continues on struggling to balance his life at school, constantly hesitant on whether or not he should ask Liz Allen out, and his life as the Wall-Crawler. Meanwhile, a dangerous flight-based villain known as the Vulture arises in New York and begins a gun and illegal tech operation that puts the neighborhoods of the dear city in danger. When the Vulture has closer ties to Peter, this puts Peter's family and friends in danger. Will Peter be able to accept his responsibility and become the hero he is meant to be?

Protagonist: Peter Parker/Spider-Man

Antagonists: Adrian Toomes/The Vulture, Herman Schultz/Shocker, Daniel Brito/Fancy Dan, and Raymond Bloch/The Ox

After Credits 1: Mac Gargan, one of Toomes's buyers for the failed Ultron II Project, runs into Toomes in Ryker's Island. Gargan looks angrily at Toomes, saying that he knows that Toomes knows who Spider-Man is behind the mask. Toomes, remembering how Peter saved Liz from dying on the Empire State Building, keeps his identity a secret and says, "If I had known, he'd already be dead". Toomes walks away from Gargan, as Gargan looks on...

After Credits 2: An old World War 2 clip showing Captain America giving a lecture about patience.

Deaths: Raymond Bloch/The Ox (after Spider-Man catches their first client and disables the transportation vehicle, Toomes lectures Bloch on how it could have went better; Bloch, being arrogant and ignorant, tells Toomes to shut up; Toomes gives Bloch another chance, but Bloch takes it too far by telling Toomes that he does not deserve his beautiful family; Toomes uses one of the disintegration tech to completely wipe out Bloch, scaring the rest of the Enforcers to get to work) Release Date: 2017
 * Thor: Ragnarok

Rating: PG-13 (R on Extended Cut)

Story:

Thor returns to Asgard after witnessing several visions of the Ragnarok prophecy. Upon escaping Surtur and believing he has prevented Ragnarok from destroying Asgard, Thor witnesses the death of his father. Odin, before dying, warns both Thor and Loki of another evil that will fulfill the prophecy of Ragnarok; Hela, the Goddess of Death. Thor ends up trapped on Sakaar, which is on the other side of the universe; Thor reunites with fellow avenger, the Hulk, here and is on the limited race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok from happening in the hands of Hela, who he finds out has dark familial ties to the Odin heritage. As Thor's greatest weapon has been stripped from himself, will he be able to embrace his true powers as God of Thunder and fight for his home?

Protagonists: Thor, Loki, Heimdall, Valkyrie, Bruce Banner/The Hulk, Skaar, Korg, Miek, Caiera the Oldstrong, Lady Sif, Amora/The Enchantress, Volstagg, Hogun, Fandral, Odin, and Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange

Antagonists: Hela, Surtur, The Grandmaster, and Skurge/The Executioner

After Credits 1: The Grandmaster, after failing to prevent Thor, Valkyrie, Bruce, Korg, Miek, Skaar, Caiera, and Loki from escaping Sakaar. The Grandmaster is met with the cannibals within the depths of Sakaar and is eaten alive; Sakaar now has no leader...

After Credits 2: On their way to Earth to build a new Asgard in Norway, Loki asks Thor if it is a good idea to bring them back to Earth. Thor assures Loki that everything will be fine since the people of Earth adore Thor since he was once part of the Avengers. Loki rephrases his question as to ask if it is a good idea to bring Loki himself back to Earth (especially after his actions in New York, which he regrets and feels remorseful for). Thor says, "Probably not, but I would not worry, brother". Thor and Loki look hopeful as they travel to Earth until a giant shadow covers both their faces. It is revealed to be a Kree ship that is ten times bigger than the Asgardian Statesman. The screen cuts to black...

Deaths: Odin (dies of old age after remarking his love for both Thor and Loki; warns them of Hela fulfilling Ragnarok), Fandral (killed when Hela bypasses Heimdall and the Bifrost; stabbed in the throat), Volstagg (killed when Hela bypasses Heimdall and the Bifrost), Hogun (killed when leading the Asgardian army against Hela and her soul minions; Thor mourns his friend's death), Lady Sif (killed by Hela; this is one of the main motivators to unleash Odinforce on Hela), Skurge/The Executioner (sacrifices himself to buy time for Thor, Valkyrie, the Hulk and Sakaar company, Loki, Heimdall, and Amora to escape on the Statesman; dies a noble death from a sinful life of destruction), Hela (once Thor and company escape on the Statesman, Loki has successfully unleashed Surtur, who destroys Asgard along with Hela), and The Grandmaster (eaten alive by Sakaaran cannibals) Release Date: 2018
 * Wolverine

Rating: R

Story:

Logan, whose memories of Weapon X and his terrible, violent past is finally sparked back in his mind, returns to Canada where his violent and depressing journey began. Logan feels his humanity lost when he entered that cage ring in Canada and it was not until he joined the X-Men when he found a piece of humanity he used to have. Logan faces a dangerous mutant known as the Sabretooth, who was once his brother. Logan finds himself in a war with past demons and the very ones who made him the animal he is. Is Logan no better than Weapon X made him to be? Is he the animal that everyone fears?

Protagonist: Logan Howlett/The Wolverine

Antagonists: Victor Creed/Sabretooth and William Stryker

After Credits: During Stryker's experiments to enhance Sabretooth's powers, Stryker was planning on making a clone of the Wolverine, but scrapped the project. Instead, he took notes on Sabretooth's physique and old notes from when the Weapon X program subjected Logan to his adamantium claws. Stryker was sending his notes to somebody in a different country. Who was he sending notes to? The Red Room in Russia...

Deaths: William Stryker (killed by Logan when Creed snaps out of his insanity and flees, nowhere to be seen; Stryker has won; he has proved that Logan is nothing more than an animal, but Stryker was always evil. Logan has also won) Release Date: 2018
 * Black Panther

Rating: PG-13

Story:

The warrior behind the mantle of the Black Panther, T'Challa, returns home after fighting the civil war between the Avengers, a battle he was not meant to fight until his father got involved and died. T'Challa returns to Wakanda to claim his rightful position as King, honoring his father and living on the legacy of the Black Panther. However, events become heated when T'Challa and his people are faced with the very evil that has terrorized Wakanda for years; Ulysses Klaw. Klaw does not stop and acts ruthlessly in his goal to torture Wakanda and strip them of their technological powers...

Protagonists: T'Challa/Black Panther, Shuri, Okoye, Nakia, W'Kabi, Zuri, and Ororo Monroe/Storm

Antagonists: Ulysses Klaw/Klaw and M'Baku/Man'Ape

After Credits 1: After Klaw has made a fair point that Wakanda is selfish and does not share it's technology with the world, T'Challa is at the United Nations panel in Paris; he hesitates before announcing that Wakanda will now open it's borders to the world...

After Credits 2: Wakandan children are gathering around an unknown individual and playing with his arm. Shuri demands the children leave him alone. The individual is revealed as Bucky, who has been sleeping frozen ever since the events that broke the Avengers apart. Shuri asks how Bucky is feeling and Bucky says, "At peace of mind". Bucky looks out onto a lake and the screen cuts to black...

Deaths: Ulysses Klaw/Klaw (killed by the Black Panther after Klaw takes several Wakandans hostage) Release Date: 2018
 * Avengers: Infinity War

Rating: PG-13 (R on Extended Cut)

Story:

The time has come... the mad titan, Thanos, has begun his quest to collect all six Infinity Stones in the universe. The Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and more must band together and prevent Thanos from getting all six Infinity Stones to wipe out half of the universe's population for a twisted ideology. Will they be able to stop this mad titan? Or will they fail?

Team fighting on Titan (to try and get the Infinity Gauntlet off of Thanos): Tony Stark/Iron Man, Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange, Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Charlie-27, Mantis, Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Drax The Destroyer, and Nebula

Team fighting in Wakanda (to try and hold the Black Order and their army of Outriders off from reaching The Vision and stripping him of the Mind Stone): Steve Rogers/Captain America, Thor, T'Challa/Black Panther, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Shuri, The Vision, Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Bucky Barnes, James Rhodes/War Machine, Bruce Banner/The Hulk, Rocket Raccoon, Sam Wilson/Falcon, Groot, M'Baku/Man'Ape, Ororo Monroe/Storm, and Okoye

Other Protagonists: Gamora, Eitri, Wong, The Ancient One, The Collector, Loki, Amora/The Enchantress, Skaar, Caiera the Oldstrong, Korg, Miek, and Heimdall

Antagonists: Thanos, Corvus Glaive, Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, and Johann Schmidt/Red Skull

After Credits 1: Nick Fury and Maria Hill are driving in Chicago to visit Coulson and the rest of the SHIELD agents for a mission debrief. Maria Hill mentions that there are very heavy energy signatures above Wakanda. Nick asks Maria how high the signatures exactly are and Maria responds by saying that the energy signatures are ten times bigger than that of the Battle of New York in 2012. Nick looks very concerned and tells Maria to call Clint Barton. However, Nick crashes into a car. Nick goes out to check that car and finds nobody in it... Nick and Maria look around, as civilians begin disappearing and a helicopter crashes into a building. Maria disappears herself, then Nick 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 Nick was calling; a red-and-blue insignia pops up...

After Credits 2: Xavier is in Cerebro and when Colossus is teaching a class, Colossus looks up to the television and sees reports of Tony Stark missing and people mysteriously disappearing out of nowhere, with a reporter from the Daily Bugle disappearing herself. Colossus ends class early and runs to Cerebro to warn Charles. Before he is able to warn Charles, Colossus disappears in ash. Charles looks confused, as Scott and Jean rush over to see what is going on. The two witness as several young mutants around them disappear and Jean and Scott hold hands before disappearing. The camera switches around the X-Mansion, as Warren, Bobby, Kitty, Pietro, Anna, and Logan all disintegrate into ash. Hank and Charles are the only ones left and Hank holds Charles, who is overwhelmed with distress. Hank tells Charles to stay with him, but Charles ends up disappearing. Hank is left all alone in the X-Mansion, confused and distressed...

Deaths: Amora/The Enchantress (slaughtered with Corvus Glaive's spear when Thanos attacks the Statesman in the first minute of the film), Korg (slaughtered with Corvus Glaive's spear when Thanos attacks the Statesman in the first minute of the film), Miek (Cull Obsidian throws him off the Statesman, leaving Miek to die in space), Skaar (attempts to fight Thanos, but gets butchered and dies, angering the Hulk, who is chains by the Black Order), Caiera the Oldstrong (stands up to Thanos, but is crushed by Ebony Maw, angering the Hulk), Heimdall (after the Hulk attempts to kill Thanos, a weak Heimdall uses the last of his dark magic to use the Bifrost to send the Hulk to Earth to warn the others of Thanos; Thanos does not like this and stabs Heimdall through the heart, with Thor swearing to kill Thanos after Thanos did this), Loki (after attempting to trick Thanos that he is on Thanos's side, Loki attempts to stab Thanos with his knife, but Thanos catches onto this and chokes Loki lifeless, with a caged Thor in distress; Thor has lost everyone), The Collector (when Thanos goes to Knowhere to collect the Reality Stone, he chokes The Collector and throws him in a bin and incinerates him to death), Gamora (when Gamora takes Thanos to Vormir to obtain the Soul Stone, the Red Skull, the stone watcher, tells Thanos that he must sacrifices something he loves to obtain the stone. Thanos sacrifices Gamora, showing that he did truly love his daughter), and The Vision (when the team on Wakanda fail to hold a five-stone stricken Thanos off from obtaining the Mind Stone from The Vision, Wanda ends up killing The Vision, only for Thanos to use the Time Stone to rewind time and rip the stone off Vision, leaving his lifeless body in the dirt)

Release Date: 2018
 * Ant-Man & The Wasp

Rating: PG-13

Story:

Now on house arrest due to aiding Captain America during the Superhuman Accords, Scott must don the suit once more when he reunites with Hank and Hope, who is now the woman behind the mantle as the Wasp, living on the legacy of her mother before her. Hope and Hank have brought Scott along their mission for a reason; Scott has been into the Quantum Realm and he may be the key to rescuing Janet from the Realm. While the trio work on bringing back Hank's beloved wife and Hope's loving mother, a madman with Quantum abilities come with a twisted goal to try and scrap the trio's plan to rescue Janet, as the madman is stuck with his powers and wants out...

Protagonists: Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Hope Van Dyne/The Wasp, Hank Pym, Detective Blake Burdick, Luis Garcia, Abe Jenkins, Bill Foster/Goliath, and Janet Van Dyne

Antagonists: David Cannon/Whirlwind and Ghost

After Credits 1: Hope, Hank, Janet, and Bill are on a roof in the suburbs of San Francisco's wealthiest neighborhood, where Hank has purchased a home to live with Janet in. The four are running a project for Scott to enter the miniaturized Quantum Realm to collect quantum parts to heal Cannon, who is in custody at the Raft supermax prison. Scott enters the realm and quickly collects quantum parts. Hope counts down (from 4) to get Scott out of the Quantum Realm. However, Hope's mic cuts off and no one is talking. Scott plays this as a joke and then tells them to seriously get him back out from the realm, as it is very dangerous to stay down there that long. The camera zooms to the four and all four of them have disintegrated into dust. Scott is left confused, but scared when he realizes that he is trapped in the Quantum Realm...

After Credits 2: The camera shows a skyline of San Francisco. The streets are empty and everything is quiet. The camera then zooms in the inside of Scott's house. There is an emergency broadcast on the television saying that people have been disappearing out of nowhere. The camera then zooms into Scott's ant, who is still in the bathtub due to Scott's routine mechanism he put on the ant during his "house arrest".

Deaths: N/A Release Date: 2019
 * Captain Marvel

Rating: PG-13

Story:

In the early 1990s, Carol Danvers was a brave, motivated, and determined airforce pilot. Cut to the late 1990s, Carol is now in the Kree Empire, following orders from the Kree commander, Yon-Rogg. When Carol fights the Kree-Nova Corps war with the Kree, Carol notices something conspicuous; the Kree have stripped her of her past memories. Carol returns to Earth, where she meets the director of SHIELD, Nick Fury, and when the Kree-Nova Corps war comes close to Earth and she finds out disturbing secrets within the Kree, realizing who the true enemy is, Carol must embrace her powers and become the ultimate hero...

Protagonists: Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, Director Nick Fury, Agent Phil Coulson, SWORD Director Abigail Brand, and Monica Rambeau

Antagonists: Yon-Rogg and Minn-Erva

After Credits 1: Fury is looking through files regarding his journey with Carol, who is now two galaxies away aiding the Nova Corps in their fight against the Kree Empire. Fury is talking to Coulson about his "initiative", as since Carol is gone, Earth will need protecting. Fury knows there is more than one super-powered being out there besides Carol. Fury then hesitates on what to call his initiative. Fury decides to call it the "Avengers Initiative", as the iconic Avengers theme song plays. The screen cuts to black...

After Credits 2: Minn-Erva gets similar powers to Carol and desires revenge...

Deaths: Yon-Rogg (when Carol and Rogg crash land in a desert in the Sahara desert, Carol has a battle with Rogg and ends up killing Rogg with her blasts, overwhelming him) Release Date: 2019
 * Avengers: Endgame

Rating: PG-13 (R on Extended Cut)

Story:

Half of all life in the universe has been snapped out of existence. The likes of Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Thor, and Bruce Banner are all left hopeless and out of options. However, after the Avengers find Thanos and kill him, five years pass and the Earth is not the same. Steve 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, make their own Gauntlet, and bring back all those who fell...

Protagonists: Tony Stark/Iron Man, Steve Rogers/Captain America, Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Thor, Clint Barton/Ronin, Bruce Banner/The Hulk, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Rocket Raccoon, Nebula, Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, and James Rhodes/War Machine

Other Protagonists (smaller roles): Okoye and Pepper Potts/Rescue

Other Protagonists (from the past when time travelling): 2012 The Ancient One, 2013 Frigga, and 2014 Gamora

Protagonists (Ones who are snapped back from Soul Stone; none aging a day since 2018): T'Challa/Black Panther, Ororo Monroe/Storm, Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange, Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Mantis, Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver, Charles Xavier/Professor X, Drax The Destroyer, Groot, Charlie-27, Kraglin, Shuri, Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson/Falcon, M'Baku/Man'Ape, Wong, Peter Rasputin/Colossus, Scott Summers/Cyclops, Jean Grey/Marvel Girl, Warren Worthington III/Angel, Bobby Drake/Iceman, Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat, Logan Howlett/Wolverine, Anna Marie/Rogue, Hope Van Dyne/The Wasp, and Bill Foster/Goliath, W'Kabi, Zuri, and Nakia

Antagonists: Thanos, 2014 Gamora, and 2014 Nebula

After Credits: A very quiet sound of a hammer slamming against iron, referencing to the time Tony Stark escaped that cave in 2008...

Deaths: Present Thanos (when Captain America and company go to the farm Thanos has inhabited shortly after the snap, Thor loses his cool and beheads Thanos), Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (when Natasha and Clint go to Vormir and sees the Red Skull, the two argue and end up physically fighting on who should sacrifices themselves for the Sol Stone; Clint jumps, but Natasha catches him and ends up being the one who is about to fall; Clint cannot accept this, but Natasha tells Clint to let her go; Natasha lets herself go and kills herself for the Soul Stone, leaving the Avengers, especially Clint, Steve, and Bruce, in mourning), 2014 Nebula (when Clint is escaping the cave after 2014 Thanos attacks, Nebula holds a gun to his head and Clint finds out it was 2014 Nebula who came back from the Quantum Realm with them when they all returned with the stones; present Nebula comes in and absolutely slaughters her old self), 2014 Thanos (Tony gathers all six Infinity Stones just before Thanos does, forming the Iron Gauntlet, and snaps his fingers; Thanos sits in silence after this, watching his whole army collapse into dust, as he collapses into dust himself, accepting his defeat), and Tony Stark/Iron Man (assembles the Iron Gauntlet and snaps his fingers, killing Thanos and his army; the overwhelming power of the Stones ends up killing Tony, as he is surrounded by all those he cares about in his last moments; Pepper, Rhodes, Steve, Bruce, Thor, Clint, and Spider-Man. Tony's arc reactor shuts off, as he dies; a massive funeral is held for Tony and every hero is indebted to his sacrifice...)

Release Date: 2019
 * Spider-Man: Far From Home

Rating: PG-13

Story:

Just a day after half of the universe is snapped back into existence, including Peter Parker himself, Peter mourns the grand sacrifice in which Tony made to save the universe; Peter has that burden on his shoulders and feels like he is responsible for Tony's death; so much has happened to Peter in the past few years, but after finishing his Sophomore year, Peter goes on a vacation to Europe with Ned, Mary Jane, Flash Thompson, Betty Brant, and his other classmates; Peter decides he needs a small break from Spider-Man, but still packs his suit anyways. During his crusade in Europe, dangerous elemental-based heroes begin wreaking havoc all throughout the continent, as Peter witnesses a world-renowned hero known as Mysterio, aka Quentin Beck, stop these elemental beings. Spider-Man, with the help of SHIELD, teams up with Mysterio at first to stop these beings, but a revelation is soon revealed; Beck is not who he portrays himself as; Beck is a dark figure who wants to be a hero and because of this, Peter must put everything he has on the table and stop Beck before he destroys all of Europe for fame and reputation...

Protagonists: Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Director Maria Hill, and Nick Fury

Antagonists: Quentin Beck/Mysterio, Morris Bench/Hydro-Man, Mark Raxton/Molten Man, Flint Marko/Sandman, and Max Dillon/Electro

After Credits 1: After Spider-Man finishes swinging Mary Jane all throughout Manhattan, Mary Jane laughs and the two agree to never do that again. Spider-Man drops Mary Jane off at her new summer job and swings onto a street lamp. A loud BREAKING NEWS outline plays through a giant television screen, showing the Daily Bugle chief and editor, J. Jonah Jameson, calling Mysterio a hero for stopping all the Elemental beings (unaware that Marko and Dillon actually survived). Jameson shows a clip of Mysterio on the London Bridge panicking, telling his audience that Spider-Man was launching drones and trying to execute all of the citizens of Europe, essentially framing him. Jameson titles the video, "Spider-Man: Threat or Menace?" All of New York is shocked to hear this, but Jameson plays another clip of Mysterio revealing Spider-Man's identity as Peter Parker. Peter looks in horror and the screen cuts to black...

After Credits 2: Nick and Maria are driving to Washington DC and on the way, it is revealed that Maria is a robot and Nick is actually the Chameleon, aka Dmitri Smerdyakov. Smerdyakov calls the Benefactor (Cannon's employer in the second Ant-Man film) and reveals that his motivation for all of this was to find out who Spider-Man was; Mysterio already succeeded at that and the Benefactor says, "Good; our plan is almost in place. The bug will get what's coming to him". The screen then cuts to black...

After Credits 3: After the two manage to escape Beck, Flint and Max are both in the sewers and with Beck dead, all they want now is Spider-Man; Flint reveals he has a few friends back in New York who would love to "play with the Spider". Flint and Max begin their crusade to New York.

Deaths: Morris Bench/Hydro-Man (after the revelation is revealed that Beck kidnapped social worker, Morris Bench, to be his test subject for Hydro-Man, Bench threatens to reveal Beck as an evil instead of a hero; Beck uses an illusion to mess with Bench's mind and gives him a massive heart attack, killing him), Mark Raxton/Molten Man (when Beck and Raxton were secretly communicating their plan to trick France and Spider-Man, Beck tells Spider-Man he will kill Molten Man and possibly sacrifice himself; Raxton ends up being killed by Beck just to make Beck look like a hero, unbeknownst to Spider-Man, until later in the movie, that there was a man behind Molten Man), and Quentin Beck/Mysterio (after Spider-Man confronts Beck and yells at him, telling Beck that he lied to Spider-Man, Beck uses an illusion and tries to shoot Peter in the head, but Peter blocks him. Beck dies of cardiac arrest, right after telling Peter that the public will believe "anything")

Phase 4

 * Doctor Strange: Enter The Dark Dimension

Release Date: 2021

Rating: PG-13

Story:

Strange struggles to return to his routine of defending all of reality, but has a heavy weight on his shoulders weeks after the events that unfolded with Thanos's defeat; he feels indebted to Tony and uses his death as motivation for building his morality and honorary code. Strange continues on searching for Mordo's dark master, leading him to the terrifying Dark Dimension, home of Dormammu. Dormammu is hellbent on tearing apart all of reality; Dormammu captures the Ancient One and believes that with his powers combined with the Ancient One's powers, they have the chance to rule out all other dimensions and universes. Strange finds himself on the race against time to stop Dormammu before it is too late...

Protagonists: Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange, The Ancient One, Sara Wolfe, Wong, Jericho Drumm/Brother Voodoo, and Rintrah

Antagonists: Dormammu and Nightmare

After Credits 1: After Drumm uses the Staff of the Living Tribunal to defeat Nightmare and almost gets killed in the process, Wong gives Drumm a stern talking to; that Staff can awaken the Living Tribunal, the most powerful cosmic being in all of the Multiverse if they are not careful. Drumm takes Wong's word of advice and puts a spell on it. The two walk away and the staff begins rumbling...

After Credits 2: Strange is looking onward with the universe and sees that all of the time travelling that the Avengers did may have awaken a dangerous being. Strange keeps a tab on this just to be sure...

Deaths: Nightmare (Drumm uses the Staff of the Living Tribunal to destroy Nightmare just before Nightmare inhabits the Earth with his Fear Lords; Drumm is almost killed in the process) and Dormammu (destroyed by the combined powers of Strange, the Ancient One, Wong, Drumm, and Rintrah)


 * The Astonishing X-Men

Release Date: 2021

Rating: PG-13 (R on Extended Cut)

Story:

Tony Stark's unforgotten sacrifice for the universe ultimately effects even Charles and the X-Men, even though they have never met him prior to the events of Thanos's snap; Charles takes Wanda Maximoff under his wings, as Wanda reunites with her brother, Pietro. Meanwhile, Hank receives a tip on an underground mutant society lurking under Los Angeles. Charles believes he can take these troubled mutants under his wing, but just when Charles is about to, the underground society is slaughtered by the Marauders led by a sinister mutant known as Mr. Sinister. Angry and grieving, the X-Men are determined to find this Mr. Sinister and put an end to his army for massacring so many young, innocent mutants. The X-Men are tested psychologically and mentally as Mr. Sinister is hellbent on tearing them apart one-by-one...

Protagonists: Charles Xavier/Professor X, Logan Howlett/Wolverine, Jean Grey/Marvel Girl, Scott Summers/Cyclops, Hank McCoy/Beast, Warren Worthington III/Angel, Anna Marie/Rogue, Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat, Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Bobby Drake/Iceman, Peter Rasputin/Colossus, Ororo Monroe/Storm, Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver, Emma Frost, and Alex Summers/Havok

Antagonists: Nathaniel Essex/Mr. Sinister, Coda, Joanna Cargill/Frenzy, Michael Baer/Blockbuster, Remy LeBeau/Gambit, and Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler

After Credits: When the X-Men attacked EssexCorp leading to Warren's tragic fall, Logan found out that Essex had a Plan B to fall on in case he did not achieve his goal in enslaving all mutants. Coda, one of the Marauders who survived the X-Men, calls Bolivar Trask, who was Essex's Plan B...

Deaths: Alex Thompson (member of the Morlocks in whom Hank meets at a bar in Los Angeles; Thompson is the first one to be brutally murdered by Gambit and the Marauders), Ape (the "grandma" figure of the Morlocks who is brutally mauled to death by Blockbuster, forcing a weakened Alex Summers to watch), Bliss (member of Morlocks who tries to kill Gambit only to be killed herself by his powerful potential energy via his iconic card move), Angel Dust (the only Morlock who escapes Gambit and the Marauders; she flees to the X-Mansion, only to be killed by Essex, just before Essex attacks the X-Mansion), Joanna Cargill/Frenzy (when her and Storm battle it off at EssexCorp, Joanna overpowers Storm at first until Storm becomes stronger and defeats her using an overwhelming amount of weather manipulation), Michael Baer/Blockbuster (him and Wolverine duel off in a bloody fight; Wolverine beheads him, saying that is what he gets for killing Ape), Nathaniel Essex/Mr. Sinister (after Essex manages to turn Warren into Archangel and against the X-Men, Warren reverts back to the light, but uses his Archangel abilities to hold time off for Charles and the X-Men to escape Essex's trap and free the other enslaved mutants), and Warren Worthington III/Angel (after holding time off for his family, Warren dies; a funeral is held for him the following week, with mutants around the world snapped out of the enslavement of Essex, who has died; those closest to Warren, including the likes of Charles, Jean, Hank, and Bobby, mourn his death, as well as the rest of the X-Men)
 * Nova

Release Date: 2021

Rating: PG-13

Story:

Now one of the few survivors remaining after Thanos completely decimated Xandar for the Power Stone, Richard Rider, the prodigy of Nova Prime, takes on the mantle of his late mentor. Rider embraces his newfound identity as the Nova Prime and leads the few of his people to a new home. Rider takes his people to Earth to possibly find a new home, but is instead bombarded by crime master known as Archibald Dyker, calling himself the notorious Diamondhead. Little does Rider know, Dyker was an old Champion of Xandar who had a falling-out after Thanos decimated their planet. Dyker is ambitious for these crystal-like objects, the ones that turned him into the Diamondhead when he arrived on Earth, which may bring Xandar back... at the cost of the innocent lives on Earth. Rider must take on his old comrade and manage to find a new home for his people...

Protagonists: Richard Rider/Nova, Adomox, Adora, Garthan Saal, Grot, and Sam Alexander

Antagonist: Archibald Dyker/Diamondhead

After Credits: Rider is back in space on an unknown ship and is talking to somebody about joining a team "part-time" to help with intergalactic threats. He is talking to Thor and Star-Lord, who agree to let him into the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Deaths: Archibald Dyker/Diamondhead (in a climatic battle between Rider and Dyker, Dyker loses and surrenders; Dyker looks out onto the beautiful sunset in New Orleans and says this is what he wants back; his old life on Xandar. He cannot get that now; Rider offers him a hand at redeeming himself and joining the new home Rider found for the Corps and the rest of the survivors; Dyker, instead, kills himself with an anti-crystal gem)


 * Spider-Man: Homesick

Release Date: 2022

Rating: PG-13 (R on Extended Cut)

Story:

A month has passed since Peter's identity has been revealed to the world; this past month has been hell for Peter, as Peter becomes a public punching bag for what he allegedly did in Europe when the actions in Europe were really performed by Mysterio. To avoid danger coming to his loved ones like May, MJ, and Ned, Peter skips school constantly and stays at his lawyer's apartment; his lawyer being none other than Matt Murdock, who is also the vigilante known as Daredevil. Peter's only known supporters are Murdock and Captain Jean DeWolffe, the only NYPD officer who still believes in Spider-Man and does not buy anything that Mysterio claimed in the video. Meanwhile, the Benefactor has hired Sergei Kravinoff, the world's greatest and most fearless hunter, to go and hunt Spider-Man down; the Benefactor's identity stays hidden, but he is very determined to take down Peter at all costs. Kravinoff brings in his militia to terrorize New York to try and get Peter to come out of the shadows, even going as far as bringing out his half-brother, who disguises as Spider-Man to beat on Spider-Man's reputation even further and Mac Gargan, who now holds a deadly Scorpion prototype. As this war continues on for almost a year; a hell of a year for Peter Parker; Peter must determine whether or not he is going to become the hunter or the hunted. And how far will Kraven and the Benefactor go to achieve their ultimate goal of ruining Peter's life?

Protagonists: Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Captain Jean DeWolffe, and Matt Murdock/Daredevil

Antagonists: Sergei Kravinoff/Kraven The Hunter, Dmitri Smerdyakov/Chameleon, Mac Gargan/Scorpion, and The Benefactor

After Credits 1: Two months have passed and college at Empire State University is starting soon; Aunt May and Peter are driving in Manhattan, as May is driving Peter to his first day of college. Peter is still somewhat depressed and shaken up by Ned's death, but May encourages him and tells him that Ned would never want him to grieve like this and to move on and enjoy college, but keep his fond memories of Ned forever within his heart. Peter tries to take May's advice, as May pulls up to the campus; May is still not fond of the idea of Peter being Spider-Man, but is supportive nonetheless. A student at the campus yells at Peter, "I knew you weren't Spider-Man! It just didn't seem true!" Peter quietly chuckles and May hugs Peter and tells her to stay in touch with him. Peter hugs her for longer, not wanting to lose her. As May drives away, Peter enters the campus and meets his roommate; his roommate is 21-year-old Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four, who is just now starting college. Peter greets him and Johnny says, "You're not really Spider-Man". Peter shakes his head and Johnny says, "Yeah, it's definitely someone else. Mysterio was wack". The screen cuts to black...

After Credits 2: The election votes are in for Mayor of New York; the Mayor title goes to Norman Osborn, the CEO of Oscorp Industries, the company for chemistry and electrical engineering; Oscorp Tower is now standing at the late Avengers/Stark Tower. Osborn says he will do everything to make this city a better place; New York is his home. And he will fight to keep it that way. After Osborn's grand speech and a lot of supporters gaining in on his speech, Osborn talks to someone behind the comms; the comms speaker calls Osborn "the Benefactor", revealing Osborn as the Benefactor all this time...

Deaths: Ned Leeds (once Spider-Man finally comes out to Manhattan, Kraven has kept MJ and Ned hostage; Spider-Man has taken out most of Kraven's militia and out of anger, Kraven shoots Ned with a poisonous dart, ultimately killing him, which files Spider-Man in a fit of rage; Spider-Man almost kills Kraven until DeWolffe stops him)


 * Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3

Release Date: 2022

Rating: PG-13

Story:

Just right after Quill recruits Thor to join the Guardians, Quill realizes that his family is now a mess; Drax, Mantis, Charlie, Groot, Rocket, and Nebula are all mourning Tony's death and Gamora is truly dead; this is why Quill goes on a mission to find past Gamora to possibly bring back the old Gamora. Meanwhile, human scientists, having inhabited a rundown planet in the galaxy, contact the Guardians for mission; finding the Infinity Gauntlet and the six stones. The team, already witnessing the powers of the stones and the gauntlet and losing Tony in the midst of this, is hesitant at first, but the scientists promise Quill and the team that they can help the team bring back old Gamora. As the team find the gauntlet and the stones by using a time machine, some of the team realizes that the scientists, who call themselves the Enclave, have something sinister behind the mix. Before they know it, the team finds themselves fighting a soulless being known as Adam Warlock, who can wield the power of the Infinity Stones and proves to be a grave threat. The Enclave is looking to produce more of these beings to out-rule the universe and create the perfect man and the Guardians are on the race against time to stop them...

Protagonists: Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Thor, Drax The Destroyer, Richard Rider/Nova, Mantis, Groot, Rocket Raccoon, Nebula, Charlie-27, and Wendell Vaughn/Quasar

Antagonists: Adam Warlock/The Magus, 2014 Gamora, Jerome Hamilton, Paragon, and Crucible

After Credits 1: Thor, Drax, and Nebula go to the Watchers of the Universe to give them the stones and the Infinity Gauntlet; the Guardians are not meant to be the Infinity Watch. Uatu the Watcher tells Thor that he will keep the Gauntlet until another team can prove that they can be the Infinity Watch. The screen cuts to black...

After Credits 2: Throughout the movie, Vaughn bonds with both Rider and Quill since all three are Earth beings unlike the rest of the Guardians. Vaughn reveals that he has another friend from Earth and calls him up; his name is Vance Astro. Just when the phone is on its third ring, Vance Astro appears and is holding the legendary Captain America shield. The screen cuts to black...

Deaths: Jerome Hamilton (after Rocket finds out Hamilton is the one who pieced Rocket together all those years ago, Rocket is filed with rage throughout the movie; during the final battle, he absolutely slaughters Hamilton)
 * Ant-Man & The Wasp & The Ant-Man

Release Date: 2022

Rating: PG-13

Story:

Two years after the blip that brought half of the universe back, Scott's life has drastically changed since then; his now older daughter is going to be graduating high school and he has started dating Hope, as the two continue their fight against evil as Ant-Man and the Wasp. With HYDRA no longer existing, AIM takes this time to rise up as the most powerful organization and begins committing crimes across the globe. Scott, Hope, Hank, and even Bill all work on putting an end to AIM. However, a dangerously talented AIM agent who calls himself the Black Ant is beginning to commit crimes across the globe to frame Lang. While this is happening and Lang becomes a target of AIM, a loathsome AIM scientist, after being caught smuggling Pym Particles to the black market, targets the Pyms and Lang. Scott and Hope are on the race against time as the Particles must not be put in the wrong hands and the Black Ant will not frame Lang any further; will Lang be able to help the Black Ant into justice?

Protagonists: Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Hope Van Dyne/The Wasp, Bill Foster/Goliath, Detective Blake Burdick, Hank Pym, Janet Van Dyne, Luis Garcia, and Cassie Lang

Antagonists: Elias Starr/Egghead, Eric O'Grady/Black Ant, George Tarleton/MODOK, and Abe Jenkins/Beetle

After Credits 1: Wanda Maximoff is visiting the Pym house, where Hank is contentiously working on trying to bring Vision back to life (without the presence of the Mind Stone). Hank finishes the Vision up and walks with Wanda out to the diner room to explain his further steps in completing the project. As Hank closes the door to the lab, Vision opens his eyes, but it is not Vision... Vision's voice is that of Ultron's. Ultron says that he is not done with humanity and that "there will be strings on everyone". The screen cuts to black...

After Credits 2: Cassie tries on the suit in which Scott (with the helping hands of Bill and Hank) designed for her. Cassie ensures Scott that she will focus on college first (she is going to college in San Francisco so she will continue living with Scott) and "superhero-ing" second. Scott, being the overprotective father, is still not fully up for the idea for Cassie becoming a superhero, but Cassie tells Scott that in the two years since the blip, Hope has been training her in combat. Scott asks Cassie what her superhero name is going to be and Cassie replies with, "Stature". The screen cuts to black...

Deaths: Elias Starr/Egghead (after Scott helps Eric see the light and stop committing crimes to try and save his son, Scott, Eric, Hope, and Bill all team up and disables Egghead's Particle armor. Scott decides that Starr is way too dangerous, reckless, and evil to be kept alive, so they trap Starr in the Quantum Realm forever)
 * Wolverine: Red Room

Release Date: 2022

Rating: R

Story:

Right after the tragic fall of Warren and the fight against the sinister Nathaniel Essex, Logan travels to Russia to tie up a loose end; Stryker was sending Weapon X notes and research to an anonymous user in Russia; Logan does not want any innocent people turning into a monster just like him, so he travels there to prevent any monsters from being created. During his travel, Logan notices a regime rising in Russia; a violent man has been executed after raping several young girls, which Logan applauds. Little does Logan know, the regime has taken the violent man in to resurrect him and turn him into a deadly weapon known as Omega Red; the regime is who Logan is looking for. With Omega Red posing a massive threat, as Omega Red is pure evil and ruthless, Logan must come face-to-face with his worst enemy yet, whilst stopping the regime and all the innocent lives they have holed up in their facility. Logan will not let anyone else suffer what he has suffered...

Protagonists: Logan Howlett/Wolverine, David North/Maverick, and Caliban

Antagonists: Arkady Rossovich/Omega Red, Wendigo, and Romulus

After Credits: The Asian woman who kept bothering Logan throughout the movie is now back in Japan and is in a temple, where she encounters her son, Daken, who is filed with rage. Daken is revealed to be the son of Logan himself. The screen cuts to black...

Deaths: Wendigo (when Logan is in his cabin in Canada and encounters the deadly Wendigo, Wendigo overpowers Logan at first, but Logan manages to absolutely gut Wendigo alive) and Romulus (after Logan finds out Romulus was behind the Weapon X project, Logan, out of rage, kills Romulus in a bloody one-on-one fight that had Romulus gaining the upper hand at first until Logan activated his berserker rage and cut Romulus's head off)
 * Fantastic Four

Release Date: 2022

Rating: PG-13

Story:

Reed Richards, an extremely brilliant scientist in his early thirties, spends every waking moment trying to convince NASA to fund his project to go to outer space and collect cosmic particles in the aftermath of Thanos's snap. Reed gets turned down constantly, but that does not stop him. He gathers up the likes of his closest friend, Sue Storm, her younger brother, Johnny Storm, and Reed's best friend from college, Ben Grimm. The four travel to space and collect the dangerous cosmic particles, but ends up in a dangerous cosmic blast; each blast almost kills the four. The four return to Earth only to find out they have all inhibited special abilities; Reed can now stretch his body to supernatural lengths, Sue can turn invisible, Ben is now a rock-like monster with super strength, and Johnny can flame up his body. The four are confused by their powers and none of them want this life; the four travel to the Negative Zone, where they hope to find anti-particles to revert themselves back to their normal selves. However, on their crusade, they encounter the nihilist known as Annihilus, ruler of the Negative Zone. Annihilus attempts to put Earth onto the Negative Zone to increase his power and show Earth what his "people" went through. The four heroes must embrace their powers and defeat Annihilus.

Protagonists: Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm/Human Torch, Ben Grimm/The Thing, and General Franklin Storm

Antagonist: Annihilus

After Credits 1: After Alice Walker, Johnny Storm's girlfriend, exits the Baxter Building, she is revealed to be a Skrull, part of a shapeshifting society in the universe. Walker was the Skrull known as Chrell all along and tells her "boss" to get ready for the Secret Invasion...

After Credits 2: Reed builds a robot helper for the Baxter Building known as HERBIE.

Deaths: N/A


 * Black Panther II

Release Date: 2023

Rating: PG-13

Story:

T'Challa struggles to return to his regular life as King of Wakanda, but is fallen back from his normal routine when he realizes he must continue to intervene with national affairs and keep Wakanda on the headlines; the world is praising Wakanda for their efforts in keeping Thanos's army in line in 2018. As T'Challa's love, Ororo, becomes Queen of Wakanda, T'Challa begins investigating on a tremor that has occurred not only below Wakanda, but below all of Africa and the world. T'Challa finds none other than the Kingdom of Atlantis and their isolate king, Namor the Sub-Mariner. T'Challa and Namor clash off instantly, as they do not get along and Namor has stolen Vibranium from Wakanda. Atlantis wants to wage war against Wakanda for this Vibranium, but little does he know, T'Challa gets caught up in a wider conspiracy; there is a tribe within his own people looking to strip the kingdom of all its Vibranium to use for themselves; they could be working with Atlantis. In this battle of not only kings, but morals, who will win? Will T'Challa have to fight his own people?

Protagonists: T'Challa/Black Panther, Ororo Monroe/Storm, Shuri, Okoye, and Zuri

Antagonists: Namor McKenzie/Namor The Sub-Mariner, Hunter/White Wolf, W'Kabi, and Nakia/Malice

After Credits: T'Challa and Namor both travel to upstate New York, where there is an extremely hidden compound (the compound can turn invisible); T'Challa and Namor are escorted by SHIELD agents and the two encounter Doctor Strange and Charles Xavier; Strange and Xavier both propose a government of superhuman beings to keep the world a safer place, even after the Infinity Stones and Thanos have been eliminated. Namor jokes and tells both Strange and Xavier that this is the reason the Avengers exist; to safeguard humanity. Namor admits he wants to keep Atlantis out of this, but Strange manages to convince him when he tells them of a new enemy coming; the secret government they form will be known as the Illuminati. The screen cuts to black...

Deaths: Nakia/Malice (T'Challa is forced to kill his former lover when her Q'Noma Valley tribe tries to exterminate all of Wakanda and Atlantis using the power of the Beso de la Arana; before Nakia dies, she tries to convince T'Challa that the outer world is evil and Vibranium will help destroy it; T'Challa tells her that she is wrong and that Wakanda can no longer be isolated; it needs to move forward in time, not backwards in history; Nakia dies in T'Challa's arms)
 * Captain Marvel 2

Release Date: 2023

Rating: PG-13

Story:

Just a year after helping Tony and the Avengers defeat Thanos, Carol Danvers wins a Nobel Prize for Bravest Woman in the World; the name, Captain Marvel, becomes an inspiration for many around the world. With her disturbing past with Kree erased and out of her mind, Carol begins protecting not only Earth, but the galaxy as well. Meanwhile, a Los Angeles psychiatrist known as Karla Sofen, calls upon Carol for a helping hand; Carol leads this poor soul out of her depression by guiding her to the light, as Sofen is dissatisfied with her life, especially her financial situation. As Carol begins helping Sofen, Sofen secretly uses an ancient relic known as the Moonstone to power herself, giving her unlimited, but dangerous powers. Sofen believes the way out of depression is thirst for power. Sofen begins proclaiming herself as the new Captain Marvel and as Sofen is essentially Carol's dark reflection, Carol must put an end to Sofen and pave the way for a new generation of superheroes...

Protagonists: Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, SWORD Director Abigail Brand, and Monica Rambeau

Antagonists: Karla Sofen/Moonstone, Agent 17, Andreas Von Strucker, and The Benefactor

After Credits: Throughout the movie, Carol has no idea where Nick Fury has went (Carol even heard about the fake Nick Fury, aka Chameleon, tricking Spider-Man in Europe); Brand is with her SWORD crew and is talking to a figure about a "mission report"; that report revolves around how Sofen was stopped and is now in the Raft, but the Benefactor is still out there somewhere. Brand is actually talking to Fury, who is on another sublevel in the SWORD ship on bed. Fury crawls out of bed and yells at the other SWORD agents to get back to work.

Deaths: N/A
 * The Illuminati: Secret Invasion

Release Date: 2023

Rating: PG-13

Story:

The likes of Doctor Strange, Charles Xavier, King T'Challa, and King Namor group together to form the Illuminati, a secret government made up of superhuman beings to help with supernatural and otherworldly threats, as well as worldly threats. The Illuminati meet the Fantastic Four, after Johnny Storm finds out his girlfriend is missing; Strange and Xavier try to convince Reed to join them, as his brilliance could come very handy for this secret group, but Reed is reluctant on joining. The Illuminati work with SWORD and SHIELD to investigate not only the disappearance of Johnny's girlfriend, but multiple people around the globe. This eventually traces the Illuminati to a large group of shapeshifting beings known as the Skrulls. The Illuminati realize the Skrulls have lost their home and the group finds many Skrulls as humans there; the group barely escapes the hands of the Skrulls, as their leader, Admiral Votan, is extremely ruthless and powerful. When the group arrives back on Earth, something is not right; certain people are not acting the same and after a secret revelation of one of their members being a Skrull is revealed, the group, along with other heroes such as the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and the Defenders, must be careful; any of them can be a Skrull; the Skrulls are slowly replacing human beings and are trying to overthrow the Illuminati to create their own government. As the Skrulls crawl into the leadership roles of many leaders around the world, the group must stop this secret invasion from expanding.

Protagonists: Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange, T'Challa/Black Panther, Charles Xavier/Professor X, Namor McKenzie/Namor The Sub-Mariner, and Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic

Other Protagonists: Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Ben Grimm/The Thing, Johnny Storm/Human Torch, Director Maria Hill, SWORD Director Abigail Brand, Nick Fury, Talos, Soren, Peter Parker/Spider-Man, General Franklin Storm, HERBIE, Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, Luke Cage, Danny Rand/Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, and Matt Murdock/Daredevil

Antagonists: Admiral Votan, Super Skrull, Apox, Bryson, Chrell, and Dalx

After Credits 1: A troubled black man in his late 20s is looking at a news report of Wakanda's approval rate in the United Nations bouncing up in numbers. The man destroys the television with his bare hands...

After Credits 2: Hill, Fury, and Brand are all talking to the Council and the Council asks Fury about the status on the Avengers; Stark and Romanoff honorably died, Rogers has passed of old age, Thor is no longer associating himself with Earth, Banner is permanently injured, and Barton is retired. Fury gives the Council a collection of files of heroes that may be suitable for the "New Avengers"; these files contain pictures and surveillance footage of the likes of Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Luke Cage, and Spider-Man...

Deaths: Bryson (after Strange and T'Challa find out that Xavier was a Skrull and that the real Xavier is holed up somewhere in Japan, Strange and T'Challa encounter the Skrull brute known as Bryson, who was disguising himself as a monk; Strange and T'Challa take him down together), Chrell (shot in the back by Soren), Apox (the giant Skrull monster in which Admiral Votan releases to conquer the planet and take control; Votan desperately wants his old planet back and by conquering Earth, he thinks he will achieve; with the likes of the Illuminati, the Fantastic Four, SHIELD, SWORD, Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, and the Defenders, they all take Apox down), and Admiral Votan (Votan, who was disguised as Thunderbolt Ross, is taken down and killed by T'Challa, who says that Earth will not suffer from the same fate as the Skrulls' planet; with the help of Talos and Soren, they can find the Skrulls a new home)