Would you expect the avengers (minus Black Panther obviously) from Infinity/End Game will be in Secret Wars as well as the Tobey Maguire's etc?
Im reasonably well versed in comic book shenanigans with this stuff being a nerd from way back but youve nailed it with the last bit. How they make it accessible, digestable and entertaining to a wide mass appeal audience is the key. To me it feels like they bottled lightning with everything through to Endgame and wrapping that up so nicely has hamstrung them.
Opportunity exists here and im alot more forgiving of most of Phase 5 (or whatever were up to post Endgame) but no one could say its being done well so far.
I think some and not others. Widow i cant see it. Some others like Hawkeye, Thor and even Cap seem unlikely to me.
BP was supposed to be taken over (if youve seen Wakanda Forever you know). Even Ironman seemed like that was to become Ironheart.
Theres also some introductions that dont seem to have gone anywhere (Ms.Marvel and Monica Rambeau).
Plus were clearly now gonna be introducing at least some of the X-Men and F4 so... it gets REAL bloated.
I’d love King Chadwick back, in anything really. Such a loss he was.
The roster now is so full that Feige himself said recently during the press tour that they are not going to be able to incorporate every character introduced since Endgame. Which is wise.
I’d imagine they will lean into Xmen and F4 to feature prominently. Secret Wars should be an Endgame level event, 3 hours long.
To get there though I’m predicting some kind of Avengers vs Xmen prior. To then unite by the time of Secret Wars. Maybe it’s incorporated into Doomsday, perhaps Doom pits them against each other.
As for Secret Wars itself, I’ve got no doubt they’re trying behind the scenes to have a sequence of the likes of Jackman, Toby Maguire, RDJ, Evans etc on one team along with cherry picking between the familiar (Hemsworth, some Guardians etc) and the new (F4, Shang Chi etc).