Avengers Secret Wars

2022 - 7 - 24

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The fifth Avengers movie was unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con. Here's how the MCU is changing forever.

The MCU has been hinting at Secret Wars in various ways throughout Phase 4. The franchise’s abundant obsession with the multiverse — which allows Marvel Studios to finally incorporate previously unavailable characters owned by competing studios — has led to the introduction of incursions as a known phenomenon. The 2015 Secret Wars was a little different, however. Inside the epic panel at Hall H on Saturday of Comic-Con, Marvel’s Kevin Feige revealed Avengers: Secret Wars, the next major Marvel crossover movie and fifth Avengers movie. But now, in 2022, Marvel’s fifth Avengers movie has been finally revealed, and baby, it’s the big one. Both titles also gather as many heroes from the Marvel Universe as possible into one event.

'Avengers: Secret Wars' Release Date Set by Marvel (Collider.com)

Marvel revealed that the sixth Avengers movie, Secret Wars will get a November 2025 release date at SDCC.

While we know much about the MCU version of the Secret Wars storyline, it is fair to assume the movie will not feature the Beyonder. Instead, it looks like Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conquerer will be the mastermind behind the crossover event. So, with Kang set to become a major villain in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, it looks like Marvel Studios is building up towards a version of Secrets Wars storyline where we’ll see variants jump at each other’s throats. Marvel Studios’s San Diego Comic-Con panel revealed two brand-new Avengers movies, with Avengers: Secret Wars coming to wrap Phase 6 of the MCU in November 2025.

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After The Infinity Saga, the Secret Wars story felt like a natural next step for Marvel Studios to take. Sure, those dates can move at any given time, but for the moment, Fantastic Four, Kang Dynasty, and Secret Wars are set to hit theaters within 12 months of each other. As a part of the Marvel Studios San Diego Comic-Con Hall H panel, the super-powered giant revealed the names for both Avengers 5 and 6.

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Two new Avengers films will close out the "Multiverse Saga" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

We have no idea what these movies will look like—something we haven’t been able to say about Marvel in a minute. After setting the scope for its next two years of projects—with an ambitious, if still transitional, timeline for Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe—Kevin Feige got a little more ambitious near the end of his presentation today at San Diego Comic-Con, as the company’s plans edged into Phase 6. One big question is whether Joe and Anthony Russo, who directed previous Avengers installments Infinity War and Endgame will return; the pair have spoken more than once about their desire to adapt Secret Wars, but also expressed concern at what a big production it’ll be.

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Avengers: Secret Wars will help close out Phase 6 — and could give the Marvel Cinematic Universe a reboot, if it wanted one.

And when the good guys won, they restored the multiverse, but left the Ultimate Marvel Universe dead. But during Secret Wars, the Ultimate Marvel Universe died. Marvel’s Ultimate line, founded in 2000, was arguably the publisher’s biggest success of the decade, an alternate Marvel universe where modern writers and artists had freedom to take the company’s most famous characters and start all over again.

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So if Kang is defeated and the apocalyptic events of Secret Wars come to pass, maybe Majors won’t be the true villain of that film. Given how the character is even able to go outside of the Multiverse itself, it seems he could double, or even triple, the threat that Thanos was to all of existence. With these two projects being announced so close together, it’s almost a guarantee that they’re intrinsically connected— in the same way that Infinity War is to Endgame. Maybe the MCU’s version of this story will be fairly contained to planet Earth and not on a cosmic or Multiversal threat just yet. Next, he’ll be appearing in Ant-Man: Quantumania as the film’s villain, and it wouldn’t be too shocking if a Variant of the same character played a role in Loki Season 2. While Thanos had bits and pieces of set-up, Jonathan Majors’ villain has already gotten an entire episode of Loki devoted to setting the stage for his threat to take hold of the MCU.

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As with “Secret Wars,” we don’t expect Marvel to adapt this storyline as a 1:1, but the basic plot gives us an idea of where Marvel is going with Phase 5. We don’t know yet, but we do know the major MCU players still on the board. But the series also resulted in She-Hulk replacing The Thing as a member of Fantastic Four, some interpersonal drama among the X-Men, and The Hulk sustaining injuries that restored his uncontrollable rage-version. Nothing you dream of is impossible for me to accomplish,” he says. Of course, eventually The Avengers stop him, but at great cost. It gets its name from 16-part “Avengers” storyline written by the great Kurt Busiek that ran from 2001-2002.