Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by M-A-G Fox had Fantastic Four, not Sony. They got brought back into the fold when Disney bought them out. An MCU Fantastic Four film is in development.

You're right. I fucked that up. I thought Sony had two properties; Spider-Man and something else, and anything Fox was sitting on was mostly cleared up under that "mutants/non-mutants" agreement.

While I understand the argument that a multiverse can get "out of hand", it is also potentially a way to reconcile shit that simultaneously both is and isn't MCU [Schrodinger's MCU], such as the Netflix shows that exist in a perpetual-yet-unspecified time period between Avengers 1 and 2, the first couple of seasons of Agents of Shield that actively crossed over with the movies before canonically going off the rails, and stuff like all the previous non-Ruffalo Hulk events actually having happened, but the movies themselves "not counting".

Just depends of writing and resolutions, really. If it's done right, they don't need to slam the door shut immediately, just let it naturally breathe... but also not just use it for everything forever in the vein of "the whole thing was a dream" type trope as a way to slack in quality and just pump half-assed content out for the sake of more content. Then, we can get on with the Secret Wars and shit.

Basically, should be fine if it's more of a narrative tool and less of a narrative crutch.