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You can have too much of a good thing. If Titanic or Gone with the Wind are your romantic movie night picks, then you’d both better have eaten early, pre-planned your toilet breaks, and made some serious investment in the lumber support of your living room furniture. Cuddling up with a loved one to watch […]

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World.

No one would argue that Captain America: Brave New World is a jam-packed movie. It’s stuffed with so many characters and subplots from The Incredible Hulk, Eternals, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier that Sam Wilson doesn’t always feel like the main character in his own movie.

But it could have been featured even more Marvel characters. It’s no secret that Brave New World went through reshoots that radically changed the finished film, including by cutting several characters who originally had scenes in the movie. It’s a testament to the cast and crew that Brave New World ended up a pretty fun, slick action flick.

Still, it’s hard not to wonder what could have been had some of these cut characters made it into the finished cut. So let’s take a look at what almost was, and how these characters could have affected Brave New World.

Rosa Salazar as Diamondback

Rachel Leighton aka Diamondback probably got the furthest into production before the editor’s blade fell upon her. Not only are there photos of the character on set, but Diamondback even made it into some leaked Happy Meal promos before she was cut from the movie.

Played by Rosa Salazar of Alita: Battle Angel and the Short Treks standout “The Trouble With Edward,” Diamondback debuted during writer Mark Gruenwald’s defining run on Captain America. 1985’s Captain America #310, penciled by Paul Neary, introduced Rachel Leighton as a member of the Serpent Society. Although immediately attracted to Captain America, her affections weren’t returned until she and Sidewinder enlisted his help after the villain Viper overtook the Society.

Eventually, Rachel and Steve Rogers became lovers, albeit in a conflicted relationship. While Steve wanted to see the best in her, he couldn’t help but take issue with her connections to unsavory characters, especially the mercenary Crossbones. Rachel, for her part, resented Steve’s mistrust, especially since Crossbones was her abuser. The relationship came to an end after Rachel killed fellow Serpent Society member Snapdragon, and while the two have had brushes ever since, they never fully reconciled.

It’s entirely possible that Diamondback would have been a romantic interest for Sam in the finished film. While she’s most often associated with Rogers, Sam’s counseling background would have made him a natural to help her move from villainy to heroism. However, with Sam’s usual comic love interest Leila Taylor added to the film, played by Xosha Roquemore, and Giancarlo Esposito added as Serpent Society leader Sidewinder, Diamondback was probably deemed redundant and removed late in the process.

Seth Rollins as Serpent Society Member

Speaking of the Serpent Society, perhaps the most high-profile addition and removal from Brave New World was WWE star Seth Rollins, who is featured in the set photo above. Although we knew that he would be playing a member of Serpent (as the team is called in the movie, giving it more of a James Bond Spectre feel), no one has yet released specifics, not even Rollins. Judging by the set photos of Rollins in costume, most assume he played a variation of Cobra or Anaconda.

Neither Cobra nor Anaconda are particularly rich characters, which suggests that Rollins would have just had the role of henchman or heavy, somebody who gives Sam some trouble in a single set-piece, but doesn’t affect much of the plot. However, rumors suggested that Rollins’s character would connect to plot involving the U.S. government stealing adamantium as its own counter to vibranium (more on that later).

That theory is supported by the fact that a Serpent heavy does remain in the finished film. Icelandic strongman Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson appears as Copperhead, and does get to tangle with Sam for a few minutes. Given that Copperhead remains and Cobra/Anaconda does suggest that Rollins got to be more of an evil genius, making his loss a bit more of a substantial plot change.

Logan Kim as Amadeus Cho

Like Kamala Khan and Miles Morales, Amadeus Cho points to Marvel’s future, an exciting young character created within the past 20years. Cho made his first appearance in 2005’s Amazing Fantasy #15 by Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa, where his mighty intellect won him the title of 7th Smartest Person in the World. His smarts also drew the attention of a jealous supergenius, who attacked Cho’s house and left his parents dead. Cho palled around with the Hulk and Hercules for a while, before gaining his own gamma powers and becoming the Totally Awesome Hulk aka Brawn, a key member of the Champions.

According to insider DanielRPK, Logan Kim, best known as Podcast from Ghostbusters: Afterlife, appeared in the an early screening of Brave New World as Cho. Sam encountered Cho working for Stark Industries, and Cho would later help Sam develop a counter to the Red Hulk. Although you should of course take this leak with a grain of salt, the rest of DanielRPK’s descriptions of the film match the finished version, lending some credibility to his claims.

At any rate, Cho doesn’t make it into Brave New World, but that doesn’t mean he’s off the screen. He can currently be seen in the excellent animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, where he works as a junior scientist at Oscorp.

Elijah Richardson as Eli Bradley

The omission of Eli Bradley particularly stands out in the finished version of Brave New World. As portrayed by Elijah Richardson in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Eli lives with his grandfather Isaiah Bradley, the disavowed former Super Soldier. Played wonderfully by Carl Lumbly, Isaiah plays a major role in Brave New World. And yet, Eli neither appears on screen nor even gets a mention.

As producer Nate Moore explained, Eli did appear in early drafts of the script. “[B]ut we started to feel like there were too many characters to track and we want to make sure if a character is in the film, they have something to do,” Moore said. Seemingly getting in the way of Isaiah’s relationship with Sam, Eli got cut.

In the comics, Eli is a founding member of the Young Avengers. Created by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung, Patriot claims to have inherited the same powers as his grandfather and leads the team as Patriot. However, he later admits that he used a Mutant Growth Hormone to simulate the powers. Eli retired from the role of Patriot after the Young Avengers disbanded, but we’re sure to see a version of him as the MCU’s version of the team comes together.

Julia Louis-Dreyfuss as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine

Given how often she’s popped up in recent MCU entries, it’s almost shocking that Valentina Allegra de Fontaine didn’t show up to meddle in Sam Wilson’s first Captain America outing. As reported by the generally reliable insider Jeff Sneider, Val figured in early versions of Brave New World. Frustrated by her failed attempts to get vibranium in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Val saw adamantium as a solution to her problem and worked hard to secure it. Her efforts involved the Serpent Society, which probably involved Seth Rollins’s character.

Adamantium certainly matters in the finished film, and there is a lot of talk about needing a new set of Avengers. However, Thunderbolts* gets set up through a cameo by Bucky, now apparently a U.S. Senator, and not by Val’s machinations.

Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner

Perhaps the most tenuous of Brave New World potential characters, Mark Ruffalo indicated that he would be in the movie during an interview at the 2024 Santa Barbara Film Festival. It didn’t take long for other sources to clarify he wouldn’t be in the movie, but the confusion makes sense. Brave New World operates as a sequel to The Incredible Hulk as much as it does a Captain America movie. Even though Edward Norton and not Ruffalo portrayed Banner in that film, it is a bit odd that Brave New World would spend so much time talking about President Ross’s attempts to kill the Hulk without having the Hulk show up.

Still, it’s probably good that Banner didn’t drop by, making the movie even less of a Sam Wilson film than it already is.

Captain America: Brave New World is now in theaters.

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World. No one would argue that Captain America: Brave New World is a jam-packed movie. It’s stuffed with so many characters and subplots from The Incredible Hulk, Eternals, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier that Sam Wilson doesn’t always feel like the main character in […]

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World.

No one would argue that Captain America: Brave New World is a jam-packed movie. It’s stuffed with so many characters and subplots from The Incredible Hulk, Eternals, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier that Sam Wilson doesn’t always feel like the main character in his own movie.

But it could have been featured even more Marvel characters. It’s no secret that Brave New World went through reshoots that radically changed the finished film, including by cutting several characters who originally had scenes in the movie. It’s a testament to the cast and crew that Brave New World ended up a pretty fun, slick action flick.

Still, it’s hard not to wonder what could have been had some of these cut characters made it into the finished cut. So let’s take a look at what almost was, and how these characters could have affected Brave New World.

Rosa Salazar as Diamondback

Rachel Leighton aka Diamondback probably got the furthest into production before the editor’s blade fell upon her. Not only are there photos of the character on set, but Diamondback even made it into some leaked Happy Meal promos before she was cut from the movie.

Played by Rosa Salazar of Alita: Battle Angel and the Short Treks standout “The Trouble With Edward,” Diamondback debuted during writer Mark Gruenwald’s defining run on Captain America. 1985’s Captain America #310, penciled by Paul Neary, introduced Rachel Leighton as a member of the Serpent Society. Although immediately attracted to Captain America, her affections weren’t returned until she and Sidewinder enlisted his help after the villain Viper overtook the Society.

Eventually, Rachel and Steve Rogers became lovers, albeit in a conflicted relationship. While Steve wanted to see the best in her, he couldn’t help but take issue with her connections to unsavory characters, especially the mercenary Crossbones. Rachel, for her part, resented Steve’s mistrust, especially since Crossbones was her abuser. The relationship came to an end after Rachel killed fellow Serpent Society member Snapdragon, and while the two have had brushes ever since, they never fully reconciled.

It’s entirely possible that Diamondback would have been a romantic interest for Sam in the finished film. While she’s most often associated with Rogers, Sam’s counseling background would have made him a natural to help her move from villainy to heroism. However, with Sam’s usual comic love interest Leila Taylor added to the film, played by Xosha Roquemore, and Giancarlo Esposito added as Serpent Society leader Sidewinder, Diamondback was probably deemed redundant and removed late in the process.

Seth Rollins as Serpent Society Member

Speaking of the Serpent Society, perhaps the most high-profile addition and removal from Brave New World was WWE star Seth Rollins, who is featured in the set photo above. Although we knew that he would be playing a member of Serpent (as the team is called in the movie, giving it more of a James Bond Spectre feel), no one has yet released specifics, not even Rollins. Judging by the set photos of Rollins in costume, most assume he played a variation of Cobra or Anaconda.

Neither Cobra nor Anaconda are particularly rich characters, which suggests that Rollins would have just had the role of henchman or heavy, somebody who gives Sam some trouble in a single set-piece, but doesn’t affect much of the plot. However, rumors suggested that Rollins’s character would connect to plot involving the U.S. government stealing adamantium as its own counter to vibranium (more on that later).

That theory is supported by the fact that a Serpent heavy does remain in the finished film. Icelandic strongman Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson appears as Copperhead, and does get to tangle with Sam for a few minutes. Given that Copperhead remains and Cobra/Anaconda does suggest that Rollins got to be more of an evil genius, making his loss a bit more of a substantial plot change.

Logan Kim as Amadeus Cho

Like Kamala Khan and Miles Morales, Amadeus Cho points to Marvel’s future, an exciting young character created within the past 20years. Cho made his first appearance in 2005’s Amazing Fantasy #15 by Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa, where his mighty intellect won him the title of 7th Smartest Person in the World. His smarts also drew the attention of a jealous supergenius, who attacked Cho’s house and left his parents dead. Cho palled around with the Hulk and Hercules for a while, before gaining his own gamma powers and becoming the Totally Awesome Hulk aka Brawn, a key member of the Champions.

According to insider DanielRPK, Logan Kim, best known as Podcast from Ghostbusters: Afterlife, appeared in the an early screening of Brave New World as Cho. Sam encountered Cho working for Stark Industries, and Cho would later help Sam develop a counter to the Red Hulk. Although you should of course take this leak with a grain of salt, the rest of DanielRPK’s descriptions of the film match the finished version, lending some credibility to his claims.

At any rate, Cho doesn’t make it into Brave New World, but that doesn’t mean he’s off the screen. He can currently be seen in the excellent animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, where he works as a junior scientist at Oscorp.

Elijah Richardson as Eli Bradley

The omission of Eli Bradley particularly stands out in the finished version of Brave New World. As portrayed by Elijah Richardson in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Eli lives with his grandfather Isaiah Bradley, the disavowed former Super Soldier. Played wonderfully by Carl Lumbly, Isaiah plays a major role in Brave New World. And yet, Eli neither appears on screen nor even gets a mention.

As producer Nate Moore explained, Eli did appear in early drafts of the script. “[B]ut we started to feel like there were too many characters to track and we want to make sure if a character is in the film, they have something to do,” Moore said. Seemingly getting in the way of Isaiah’s relationship with Sam, Eli got cut.

In the comics, Eli is a founding member of the Young Avengers. Created by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung, Patriot claims to have inherited the same powers as his grandfather and leads the team as Patriot. However, he later admits that he used a Mutant Growth Hormone to simulate the powers. Eli retired from the role of Patriot after the Young Avengers disbanded, but we’re sure to see a version of him as the MCU’s version of the team comes together.

Julia Louis-Dreyfuss as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine

Given how often she’s popped up in recent MCU entries, it’s almost shocking that Valentina Allegra de Fontaine didn’t show up to meddle in Sam Wilson’s first Captain America outing. As reported by the generally reliable insider Jeff Sneider, Val figured in early versions of Brave New World. Frustrated by her failed attempts to get vibranium in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Val saw adamantium as a solution to her problem and worked hard to secure it. Her efforts involved the Serpent Society, which probably involved Seth Rollins’s character.

Adamantium certainly matters in the finished film, and there is a lot of talk about needing a new set of Avengers. However, Thunderbolts* gets set up through a cameo by Bucky, now apparently a U.S. Senator, and not by Val’s machinations.

Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner

Perhaps the most tenuous of Brave New World potential characters, Mark Ruffalo indicated that he would be in the movie during an interview at the 2024 Santa Barbara Film Festival. It didn’t take long for other sources to clarify he wouldn’t be in the movie, but the confusion makes sense. Brave New World operates as a sequel to The Incredible Hulk as much as it does a Captain America movie. Even though Edward Norton and not Ruffalo portrayed Banner in that film, it is a bit odd that Brave New World would spend so much time talking about President Ross’s attempts to kill the Hulk without having the Hulk show up.

Still, it’s probably good that Banner didn’t drop by, making the movie even less of a Sam Wilson film than it already is.

Captain America: Brave New World is now in theaters.

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The Prequel and Clone Wars era of the Star Wars universe is experiencing a resurgence. Thanks in large part to the kids who grew up on those films becoming adults, this once maligned pocket of the Star Wars galaxy is now more popular than ever before. And while it took a minute for Disney to […]

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World.

No one would argue that Captain America: Brave New World is a jam-packed movie. It’s stuffed with so many characters and subplots from The Incredible Hulk, Eternals, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier that Sam Wilson doesn’t always feel like the main character in his own movie.

But it could have been featured even more Marvel characters. It’s no secret that Brave New World went through reshoots that radically changed the finished film, including by cutting several characters who originally had scenes in the movie. It’s a testament to the cast and crew that Brave New World ended up a pretty fun, slick action flick.

Still, it’s hard not to wonder what could have been had some of these cut characters made it into the finished cut. So let’s take a look at what almost was, and how these characters could have affected Brave New World.

Rosa Salazar as Diamondback

Rachel Leighton aka Diamondback probably got the furthest into production before the editor’s blade fell upon her. Not only are there photos of the character on set, but Diamondback even made it into some leaked Happy Meal promos before she was cut from the movie.

Played by Rosa Salazar of Alita: Battle Angel and the Short Treks standout “The Trouble With Edward,” Diamondback debuted during writer Mark Gruenwald’s defining run on Captain America. 1985’s Captain America #310, penciled by Paul Neary, introduced Rachel Leighton as a member of the Serpent Society. Although immediately attracted to Captain America, her affections weren’t returned until she and Sidewinder enlisted his help after the villain Viper overtook the Society.

Eventually, Rachel and Steve Rogers became lovers, albeit in a conflicted relationship. While Steve wanted to see the best in her, he couldn’t help but take issue with her connections to unsavory characters, especially the mercenary Crossbones. Rachel, for her part, resented Steve’s mistrust, especially since Crossbones was her abuser. The relationship came to an end after Rachel killed fellow Serpent Society member Snapdragon, and while the two have had brushes ever since, they never fully reconciled.

It’s entirely possible that Diamondback would have been a romantic interest for Sam in the finished film. While she’s most often associated with Rogers, Sam’s counseling background would have made him a natural to help her move from villainy to heroism. However, with Sam’s usual comic love interest Leila Taylor added to the film, played by Xosha Roquemore, and Giancarlo Esposito added as Serpent Society leader Sidewinder, Diamondback was probably deemed redundant and removed late in the process.

Seth Rollins as Serpent Society Member

Speaking of the Serpent Society, perhaps the most high-profile addition and removal from Brave New World was WWE star Seth Rollins, who is featured in the set photo above. Although we knew that he would be playing a member of Serpent (as the team is called in the movie, giving it more of a James Bond Spectre feel), no one has yet released specifics, not even Rollins. Judging by the set photos of Rollins in costume, most assume he played a variation of Cobra or Anaconda.

Neither Cobra nor Anaconda are particularly rich characters, which suggests that Rollins would have just had the role of henchman or heavy, somebody who gives Sam some trouble in a single set-piece, but doesn’t affect much of the plot. However, rumors suggested that Rollins’s character would connect to plot involving the U.S. government stealing adamantium as its own counter to vibranium (more on that later).

That theory is supported by the fact that a Serpent heavy does remain in the finished film. Icelandic strongman Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson appears as Copperhead, and does get to tangle with Sam for a few minutes. Given that Copperhead remains and Cobra/Anaconda does suggest that Rollins got to be more of an evil genius, making his loss a bit more of a substantial plot change.

Logan Kim as Amadeus Cho

Like Kamala Khan and Miles Morales, Amadeus Cho points to Marvel’s future, an exciting young character created within the past 20years. Cho made his first appearance in 2005’s Amazing Fantasy #15 by Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa, where his mighty intellect won him the title of 7th Smartest Person in the World. His smarts also drew the attention of a jealous supergenius, who attacked Cho’s house and left his parents dead. Cho palled around with the Hulk and Hercules for a while, before gaining his own gamma powers and becoming the Totally Awesome Hulk aka Brawn, a key member of the Champions.

According to insider DanielRPK, Logan Kim, best known as Podcast from Ghostbusters: Afterlife, appeared in the an early screening of Brave New World as Cho. Sam encountered Cho working for Stark Industries, and Cho would later help Sam develop a counter to the Red Hulk. Although you should of course take this leak with a grain of salt, the rest of DanielRPK’s descriptions of the film match the finished version, lending some credibility to his claims.

At any rate, Cho doesn’t make it into Brave New World, but that doesn’t mean he’s off the screen. He can currently be seen in the excellent animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, where he works as a junior scientist at Oscorp.

Elijah Richardson as Eli Bradley

The omission of Eli Bradley particularly stands out in the finished version of Brave New World. As portrayed by Elijah Richardson in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Eli lives with his grandfather Isaiah Bradley, the disavowed former Super Soldier. Played wonderfully by Carl Lumbly, Isaiah plays a major role in Brave New World. And yet, Eli neither appears on screen nor even gets a mention.

As producer Nate Moore explained, Eli did appear in early drafts of the script. “[B]ut we started to feel like there were too many characters to track and we want to make sure if a character is in the film, they have something to do,” Moore said. Seemingly getting in the way of Isaiah’s relationship with Sam, Eli got cut.

In the comics, Eli is a founding member of the Young Avengers. Created by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung, Patriot claims to have inherited the same powers as his grandfather and leads the team as Patriot. However, he later admits that he used a Mutant Growth Hormone to simulate the powers. Eli retired from the role of Patriot after the Young Avengers disbanded, but we’re sure to see a version of him as the MCU’s version of the team comes together.

Julia Louis-Dreyfuss as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine

Given how often she’s popped up in recent MCU entries, it’s almost shocking that Valentina Allegra de Fontaine didn’t show up to meddle in Sam Wilson’s first Captain America outing. As reported by the generally reliable insider Jeff Sneider, Val figured in early versions of Brave New World. Frustrated by her failed attempts to get vibranium in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Val saw adamantium as a solution to her problem and worked hard to secure it. Her efforts involved the Serpent Society, which probably involved Seth Rollins’s character.

Adamantium certainly matters in the finished film, and there is a lot of talk about needing a new set of Avengers. However, Thunderbolts* gets set up through a cameo by Bucky, now apparently a U.S. Senator, and not by Val’s machinations.

Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner

Perhaps the most tenuous of Brave New World potential characters, Mark Ruffalo indicated that he would be in the movie during an interview at the 2024 Santa Barbara Film Festival. It didn’t take long for other sources to clarify he wouldn’t be in the movie, but the confusion makes sense. Brave New World operates as a sequel to The Incredible Hulk as much as it does a Captain America movie. Even though Edward Norton and not Ruffalo portrayed Banner in that film, it is a bit odd that Brave New World would spend so much time talking about President Ross’s attempts to kill the Hulk without having the Hulk show up.

Still, it’s probably good that Banner didn’t drop by, making the movie even less of a Sam Wilson film than it already is.

Captain America: Brave New World is now in theaters.

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It’s not very often that a TV remake surpasses the quality of the original series it’s based upon. But then again, the American remake of The Office made a habit of making the unpredictable a normal occurrence, be it in the form of random lip-sync music videos, botched safety training lectures, or terrifyingly realistic fire […]

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World.

Doomsday is coming. You know it. I know it. And now, thanks to the Leader, Captain America knows it too.

In the lone post-credit scene for Captain America: Brave New World, villain Samuel Sterns offers a warning to Sam Wilson, one that points to the next Avengers movie and, potentially, the end of the MCU as we know it.

Captain America 4’s Post-Credit Scene Explained

As the marketing for Captain America: Brave New World loves to remind us, Sam Wilson is not Steve Rogers. And that’s a good thing. Brave New World uses Sam’s history as a counselor to make him into a Captain America who would rather talk things out with baddies than punch them in the face.

So it’s no surprise when Brave New World ends with Sam visiting Thaddeus Ross, no longer in Red Hulk form, in prison on the Raft. Nor is it a surprise when he also drops by the cell of Samuel Sterns, the movie’s big bad, a gamma-radiated supergenius called the Leader.

Even though he’s been defeated, Sterns cannot help but gloat, getting a one-up over Sam by showing off his intelligence. Sterns congratulates Sam and his fellow heroes for the work they’ve done to save the world. But then he reveals the findings of his calculations. “Do you think this is the only world?” Sterns asks. “We’ll see what happens when you have to protect this place… from the others.”

On one hand, Sterns’s reveal is a bit of a let down. We’ve known that there are other worlds. Pop culture is choking on multiverses. Heck, this current phase of the MCU is part of the Multiverse Saga, a storyline that includes Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Deadpool & Wolverine. The Leader’s reveal seems obvious and Sam seems slow on the uptake here, even if there’s no reason for most people on the prime reality Earth-616 to know about these worlds.

On the other, Stern’s warning isn’t just that there are other worlds. It’s also that these other worlds are a threat, and that there are heroes on those worlds who would defend them. That’s a more specific reference to the Secret Wars storyline that Marvel Comics published in 2015, the storyline that will inspire the next two Avengers films, Doomsday and Secret Wars.

Unveiling the Secret Wars

Written by Jonathan Hickman, Secret Wars actually begins in his Fantastic Four run in 2009, continued through his run on Avengers and New Avengers in 2013, and culminates with Secret Wars in 2015. The storyline involves a crisis in which Earths from two realities start to phase into the same space, resulting in what Reed Richards dubs an “Incursion,” in which the two Earths interact with one another. Each incursion lasts eight hours, after which the Earths and their respective universes are destroyed.

The New Avengers sections of the Secret Wars storyline deals with attempts by the Illuminati of Earth-616—a secret group of powerful people that includes Richards, Iron Man, Namor, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt of the Inhumans, and Beast/Professor X of the X-Men—to save their planet. Along the way, the group meets heroes and villains from other realities, who want to destroy our Earth to save their own. Although initially repulsed by the idea, the desperate Illuminati eventually follows suit, launching attacks on other realities to save Earth-616.

New Avengers is a bleak story, one filled with a creeping dread that’s more upsetting than anything the MCU has done before. But we’ve already heard reference to incursions before, in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Not only do the Illuminati of Earth-838 featured in that film refer to incursions, but the post credit scene finds Clea (Charlize Theron) arriving to recruit Strange in a battle against the Incursions.

Furthermore, the title of the next Avengers movie suggests that the MCU heroes will deal with the incursions in a manner similar to that of the Marvel Comics’ heroes. In the final issues of Avengers and New Avengers, most of the heroes either make peace with their inevitable end or die trying to fight it. Only one hero and one villain sees the solution. With the help of the all-powerful Molecule Man, Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom take the fight to the Beyonders, the god-like architects of the multiverse.

The trio battles the Beyonders to the point of breaking loose their incredible abilities. While Strange hesitates to take on such awesome power, Doom does not. He takes the power and saves our universe by recreating it, making himself into God.

The final Secret Wars series tells the story of Doom’s reign as God Emperor of a newly designed Marvel Universe, and how Reed Richards and other heroes fight to restore things as they were.

Preparing for Doomsday

Given the Leader’s warning, it sounds like Avengers: Doomsday will show Marvel’s heroes fighting with those of other realities, all trying to protect their Earth from the incursions. And like the comics, Doctor Doom (played by Robert Downey Jr.) will make an audacious decision that saves his universe, but recreates it in his image.

If that’s the case, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will face their greatest battle yet in Avengers: Secret Wars. It’s a good thing the Leader gave Sam the warning now, so he can start assembling his Avengers and possibly set things right.

Captain America: Brave New World is now in theaters.

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This article contains major spoilers for Cobra Kai season 6 part 3. The final scene of the last episode of Cobra Kai takes place in a sushi restaurant. Throughout the series, this show has earned its black belt in hiding Easter eggs, so we can only assume that the restaurant is Kitada Sushi. Kitada is […]

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World.

Doomsday is coming. You know it. I know it. And now, thanks to the Leader, Captain America knows it too.

In the lone post-credit scene for Captain America: Brave New World, villain Samuel Sterns offers a warning to Sam Wilson, one that points to the next Avengers movie and, potentially, the end of the MCU as we know it.

Captain America 4’s Post-Credit Scene Explained

As the marketing for Captain America: Brave New World loves to remind us, Sam Wilson is not Steve Rogers. And that’s a good thing. Brave New World uses Sam’s history as a counselor to make him into a Captain America who would rather talk things out with baddies than punch them in the face.

So it’s no surprise when Brave New World ends with Sam visiting Thaddeus Ross, no longer in Red Hulk form, in prison on the Raft. Nor is it a surprise when he also drops by the cell of Samuel Sterns, the movie’s big bad, a gamma-radiated supergenius called the Leader.

Even though he’s been defeated, Sterns cannot help but gloat, getting a one-up over Sam by showing off his intelligence. Sterns congratulates Sam and his fellow heroes for the work they’ve done to save the world. But then he reveals the findings of his calculations. “Do you think this is the only world?” Sterns asks. “We’ll see what happens when you have to protect this place… from the others.”

On one hand, Sterns’s reveal is a bit of a let down. We’ve known that there are other worlds. Pop culture is choking on multiverses. Heck, this current phase of the MCU is part of the Multiverse Saga, a storyline that includes Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Deadpool & Wolverine. The Leader’s reveal seems obvious and Sam seems slow on the uptake here, even if there’s no reason for most people on the prime reality Earth-616 to know about these worlds.

On the other, Stern’s warning isn’t just that there are other worlds. It’s also that these other worlds are a threat, and that there are heroes on those worlds who would defend them. That’s a more specific reference to the Secret Wars storyline that Marvel Comics published in 2015, the storyline that will inspire the next two Avengers films, Doomsday and Secret Wars.

Unveiling the Secret Wars

Written by Jonathan Hickman, Secret Wars actually begins in his Fantastic Four run in 2009, continued through his run on Avengers and New Avengers in 2013, and culminates with Secret Wars in 2015. The storyline involves a crisis in which Earths from two realities start to phase into the same space, resulting in what Reed Richards dubs an “Incursion,” in which the two Earths interact with one another. Each incursion lasts eight hours, after which the Earths and their respective universes are destroyed.

The New Avengers sections of the Secret Wars storyline deals with attempts by the Illuminati of Earth-616—a secret group of powerful people that includes Richards, Iron Man, Namor, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt of the Inhumans, and Beast/Professor X of the X-Men—to save their planet. Along the way, the group meets heroes and villains from other realities, who want to destroy our Earth to save their own. Although initially repulsed by the idea, the desperate Illuminati eventually follows suit, launching attacks on other realities to save Earth-616.

New Avengers is a bleak story, one filled with a creeping dread that’s more upsetting than anything the MCU has done before. But we’ve already heard reference to incursions before, in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Not only do the Illuminati of Earth-838 featured in that film refer to incursions, but the post credit scene finds Clea (Charlize Theron) arriving to recruit Strange in a battle against the Incursions.

Furthermore, the title of the next Avengers movie suggests that the MCU heroes will deal with the incursions in a manner similar to that of the Marvel Comics’ heroes. In the final issues of Avengers and New Avengers, most of the heroes either make peace with their inevitable end or die trying to fight it. Only one hero and one villain sees the solution. With the help of the all-powerful Molecule Man, Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom take the fight to the Beyonders, the god-like architects of the multiverse.

The trio battles the Beyonders to the point of breaking loose their incredible abilities. While Strange hesitates to take on such awesome power, Doom does not. He takes the power and saves our universe by recreating it, making himself into God.

The final Secret Wars series tells the story of Doom’s reign as God Emperor of a newly designed Marvel Universe, and how Reed Richards and other heroes fight to restore things as they were.

Preparing for Doomsday

Given the Leader’s warning, it sounds like Avengers: Doomsday will show Marvel’s heroes fighting with those of other realities, all trying to protect their Earth from the incursions. And like the comics, Doctor Doom (played by Robert Downey Jr.) will make an audacious decision that saves his universe, but recreates it in his image.

If that’s the case, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will face their greatest battle yet in Avengers: Secret Wars. It’s a good thing the Leader gave Sam the warning now, so he can start assembling his Avengers and possibly set things right.

Captain America: Brave New World is now in theaters.

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When I previewed an earlier version of Avowed in November, I became obsessed with figuring out what kind of game Obsidian Entertainment was trying to make. On paper, Avowed has all the hallmarks that helped make Obsidian one of the greatest RPG developers ever. It’s even set in their Pillars of Eternity universe, the setting […]

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World.

Doomsday is coming. You know it. I know it. And now, thanks to the Leader, Captain America knows it too.

In the lone post-credit scene for Captain America: Brave New World, villain Samuel Sterns offers a warning to Sam Wilson, one that points to the next Avengers movie and, potentially, the end of the MCU as we know it.

Captain America 4’s Post-Credit Scene Explained

As the marketing for Captain America: Brave New World loves to remind us, Sam Wilson is not Steve Rogers. And that’s a good thing. Brave New World uses Sam’s history as a counselor to make him into a Captain America who would rather talk things out with baddies than punch them in the face.

So it’s no surprise when Brave New World ends with Sam visiting Thaddeus Ross, no longer in Red Hulk form, in prison on the Raft. Nor is it a surprise when he also drops by the cell of Samuel Sterns, the movie’s big bad, a gamma-radiated supergenius called the Leader.

Even though he’s been defeated, Sterns cannot help but gloat, getting a one-up over Sam by showing off his intelligence. Sterns congratulates Sam and his fellow heroes for the work they’ve done to save the world. But then he reveals the findings of his calculations. “Do you think this is the only world?” Sterns asks. “We’ll see what happens when you have to protect this place… from the others.”

On one hand, Sterns’s reveal is a bit of a let down. We’ve known that there are other worlds. Pop culture is choking on multiverses. Heck, this current phase of the MCU is part of the Multiverse Saga, a storyline that includes Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Deadpool & Wolverine. The Leader’s reveal seems obvious and Sam seems slow on the uptake here, even if there’s no reason for most people on the prime reality Earth-616 to know about these worlds.

On the other, Stern’s warning isn’t just that there are other worlds. It’s also that these other worlds are a threat, and that there are heroes on those worlds who would defend them. That’s a more specific reference to the Secret Wars storyline that Marvel Comics published in 2015, the storyline that will inspire the next two Avengers films, Doomsday and Secret Wars.

Unveiling the Secret Wars

Written by Jonathan Hickman, Secret Wars actually begins in his Fantastic Four run in 2009, continued through his run on Avengers and New Avengers in 2013, and culminates with Secret Wars in 2015. The storyline involves a crisis in which Earths from two realities start to phase into the same space, resulting in what Reed Richards dubs an “Incursion,” in which the two Earths interact with one another. Each incursion lasts eight hours, after which the Earths and their respective universes are destroyed.

The New Avengers sections of the Secret Wars storyline deals with attempts by the Illuminati of Earth-616—a secret group of powerful people that includes Richards, Iron Man, Namor, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt of the Inhumans, and Beast/Professor X of the X-Men—to save their planet. Along the way, the group meets heroes and villains from other realities, who want to destroy our Earth to save their own. Although initially repulsed by the idea, the desperate Illuminati eventually follows suit, launching attacks on other realities to save Earth-616.

New Avengers is a bleak story, one filled with a creeping dread that’s more upsetting than anything the MCU has done before. But we’ve already heard reference to incursions before, in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Not only do the Illuminati of Earth-838 featured in that film refer to incursions, but the post credit scene finds Clea (Charlize Theron) arriving to recruit Strange in a battle against the Incursions.

Furthermore, the title of the next Avengers movie suggests that the MCU heroes will deal with the incursions in a manner similar to that of the Marvel Comics’ heroes. In the final issues of Avengers and New Avengers, most of the heroes either make peace with their inevitable end or die trying to fight it. Only one hero and one villain sees the solution. With the help of the all-powerful Molecule Man, Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom take the fight to the Beyonders, the god-like architects of the multiverse.

The trio battles the Beyonders to the point of breaking loose their incredible abilities. While Strange hesitates to take on such awesome power, Doom does not. He takes the power and saves our universe by recreating it, making himself into God.

The final Secret Wars series tells the story of Doom’s reign as God Emperor of a newly designed Marvel Universe, and how Reed Richards and other heroes fight to restore things as they were.

Preparing for Doomsday

Given the Leader’s warning, it sounds like Avengers: Doomsday will show Marvel’s heroes fighting with those of other realities, all trying to protect their Earth from the incursions. And like the comics, Doctor Doom (played by Robert Downey Jr.) will make an audacious decision that saves his universe, but recreates it in his image.

If that’s the case, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will face their greatest battle yet in Avengers: Secret Wars. It’s a good thing the Leader gave Sam the warning now, so he can start assembling his Avengers and possibly set things right.

Captain America: Brave New World is now in theaters.

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The closing minutes of House of the Dragon‘s second season couldn’t possibly set a more epic scene. Old childhood friends-turned-enemies Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and Queen Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) stand together atop Dragonstone, having just reached the ultimate Faustian bargain to trade a son for a son and a kingdom for a daughter. The armies […]

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World.

Doomsday is coming. You know it. I know it. And now, thanks to the Leader, Captain America knows it too.

In the lone post-credit scene for Captain America: Brave New World, villain Samuel Sterns offers a warning to Sam Wilson, one that points to the next Avengers movie and, potentially, the end of the MCU as we know it.

Captain America 4’s Post-Credit Scene Explained

As the marketing for Captain America: Brave New World loves to remind us, Sam Wilson is not Steve Rogers. And that’s a good thing. Brave New World uses Sam’s history as a counselor to make him into a Captain America who would rather talk things out with baddies than punch them in the face.

So it’s no surprise when Brave New World ends with Sam visiting Thaddeus Ross, no longer in Red Hulk form, in prison on the Raft. Nor is it a surprise when he also drops by the cell of Samuel Sterns, the movie’s big bad, a gamma-radiated supergenius called the Leader.

Even though he’s been defeated, Sterns cannot help but gloat, getting a one-up over Sam by showing off his intelligence. Sterns congratulates Sam and his fellow heroes for the work they’ve done to save the world. But then he reveals the findings of his calculations. “Do you think this is the only world?” Sterns asks. “We’ll see what happens when you have to protect this place… from the others.”

On one hand, Sterns’s reveal is a bit of a let down. We’ve known that there are other worlds. Pop culture is choking on multiverses. Heck, this current phase of the MCU is part of the Multiverse Saga, a storyline that includes Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Deadpool & Wolverine. The Leader’s reveal seems obvious and Sam seems slow on the uptake here, even if there’s no reason for most people on the prime reality Earth-616 to know about these worlds.

On the other, Stern’s warning isn’t just that there are other worlds. It’s also that these other worlds are a threat, and that there are heroes on those worlds who would defend them. That’s a more specific reference to the Secret Wars storyline that Marvel Comics published in 2015, the storyline that will inspire the next two Avengers films, Doomsday and Secret Wars.

Unveiling the Secret Wars

Written by Jonathan Hickman, Secret Wars actually begins in his Fantastic Four run in 2009, continued through his run on Avengers and New Avengers in 2013, and culminates with Secret Wars in 2015. The storyline involves a crisis in which Earths from two realities start to phase into the same space, resulting in what Reed Richards dubs an “Incursion,” in which the two Earths interact with one another. Each incursion lasts eight hours, after which the Earths and their respective universes are destroyed.

The New Avengers sections of the Secret Wars storyline deals with attempts by the Illuminati of Earth-616—a secret group of powerful people that includes Richards, Iron Man, Namor, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt of the Inhumans, and Beast/Professor X of the X-Men—to save their planet. Along the way, the group meets heroes and villains from other realities, who want to destroy our Earth to save their own. Although initially repulsed by the idea, the desperate Illuminati eventually follows suit, launching attacks on other realities to save Earth-616.

New Avengers is a bleak story, one filled with a creeping dread that’s more upsetting than anything the MCU has done before. But we’ve already heard reference to incursions before, in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Not only do the Illuminati of Earth-838 featured in that film refer to incursions, but the post credit scene finds Clea (Charlize Theron) arriving to recruit Strange in a battle against the Incursions.

Furthermore, the title of the next Avengers movie suggests that the MCU heroes will deal with the incursions in a manner similar to that of the Marvel Comics’ heroes. In the final issues of Avengers and New Avengers, most of the heroes either make peace with their inevitable end or die trying to fight it. Only one hero and one villain sees the solution. With the help of the all-powerful Molecule Man, Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom take the fight to the Beyonders, the god-like architects of the multiverse.

The trio battles the Beyonders to the point of breaking loose their incredible abilities. While Strange hesitates to take on such awesome power, Doom does not. He takes the power and saves our universe by recreating it, making himself into God.

The final Secret Wars series tells the story of Doom’s reign as God Emperor of a newly designed Marvel Universe, and how Reed Richards and other heroes fight to restore things as they were.

Preparing for Doomsday

Given the Leader’s warning, it sounds like Avengers: Doomsday will show Marvel’s heroes fighting with those of other realities, all trying to protect their Earth from the incursions. And like the comics, Doctor Doom (played by Robert Downey Jr.) will make an audacious decision that saves his universe, but recreates it in his image.

If that’s the case, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will face their greatest battle yet in Avengers: Secret Wars. It’s a good thing the Leader gave Sam the warning now, so he can start assembling his Avengers and possibly set things right.

Captain America: Brave New World is now in theaters.

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Perhaps lost in the shuffle of…all the…everything…going on in the world in the past few weeks…is the potential end of an era for comics. For 20 years, the only way for comic shops to get their comics was through Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc., the Baltimore-based company that once served as the sole warehouse and supplier […]

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World.

Doomsday is coming. You know it. I know it. And now, thanks to the Leader, Captain America knows it too.

In the lone post-credit scene for Captain America: Brave New World, villain Samuel Sterns offers a warning to Sam Wilson, one that points to the next Avengers movie and, potentially, the end of the MCU as we know it.

Captain America 4’s Post-Credit Scene Explained

As the marketing for Captain America: Brave New World loves to remind us, Sam Wilson is not Steve Rogers. And that’s a good thing. Brave New World uses Sam’s history as a counselor to make him into a Captain America who would rather talk things out with baddies than punch them in the face.

So it’s no surprise when Brave New World ends with Sam visiting Thaddeus Ross, no longer in Red Hulk form, in prison on the Raft. Nor is it a surprise when he also drops by the cell of Samuel Sterns, the movie’s big bad, a gamma-radiated supergenius called the Leader.

Even though he’s been defeated, Sterns cannot help but gloat, getting a one-up over Sam by showing off his intelligence. Sterns congratulates Sam and his fellow heroes for the work they’ve done to save the world. But then he reveals the findings of his calculations. “Do you think this is the only world?” Sterns asks. “We’ll see what happens when you have to protect this place… from the others.”

On one hand, Sterns’s reveal is a bit of a let down. We’ve known that there are other worlds. Pop culture is choking on multiverses. Heck, this current phase of the MCU is part of the Multiverse Saga, a storyline that includes Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Deadpool & Wolverine. The Leader’s reveal seems obvious and Sam seems slow on the uptake here, even if there’s no reason for most people on the prime reality Earth-616 to know about these worlds.

On the other, Stern’s warning isn’t just that there are other worlds. It’s also that these other worlds are a threat, and that there are heroes on those worlds who would defend them. That’s a more specific reference to the Secret Wars storyline that Marvel Comics published in 2015, the storyline that will inspire the next two Avengers films, Doomsday and Secret Wars.

Unveiling the Secret Wars

Written by Jonathan Hickman, Secret Wars actually begins in his Fantastic Four run in 2009, continued through his run on Avengers and New Avengers in 2013, and culminates with Secret Wars in 2015. The storyline involves a crisis in which Earths from two realities start to phase into the same space, resulting in what Reed Richards dubs an “Incursion,” in which the two Earths interact with one another. Each incursion lasts eight hours, after which the Earths and their respective universes are destroyed.

The New Avengers sections of the Secret Wars storyline deals with attempts by the Illuminati of Earth-616—a secret group of powerful people that includes Richards, Iron Man, Namor, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt of the Inhumans, and Beast/Professor X of the X-Men—to save their planet. Along the way, the group meets heroes and villains from other realities, who want to destroy our Earth to save their own. Although initially repulsed by the idea, the desperate Illuminati eventually follows suit, launching attacks on other realities to save Earth-616.

New Avengers is a bleak story, one filled with a creeping dread that’s more upsetting than anything the MCU has done before. But we’ve already heard reference to incursions before, in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Not only do the Illuminati of Earth-838 featured in that film refer to incursions, but the post credit scene finds Clea (Charlize Theron) arriving to recruit Strange in a battle against the Incursions.

Furthermore, the title of the next Avengers movie suggests that the MCU heroes will deal with the incursions in a manner similar to that of the Marvel Comics’ heroes. In the final issues of Avengers and New Avengers, most of the heroes either make peace with their inevitable end or die trying to fight it. Only one hero and one villain sees the solution. With the help of the all-powerful Molecule Man, Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom take the fight to the Beyonders, the god-like architects of the multiverse.

The trio battles the Beyonders to the point of breaking loose their incredible abilities. While Strange hesitates to take on such awesome power, Doom does not. He takes the power and saves our universe by recreating it, making himself into God.

The final Secret Wars series tells the story of Doom’s reign as God Emperor of a newly designed Marvel Universe, and how Reed Richards and other heroes fight to restore things as they were.

Preparing for Doomsday

Given the Leader’s warning, it sounds like Avengers: Doomsday will show Marvel’s heroes fighting with those of other realities, all trying to protect their Earth from the incursions. And like the comics, Doctor Doom (played by Robert Downey Jr.) will make an audacious decision that saves his universe, but recreates it in his image.

If that’s the case, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will face their greatest battle yet in Avengers: Secret Wars. It’s a good thing the Leader gave Sam the warning now, so he can start assembling his Avengers and possibly set things right.

Captain America: Brave New World is now in theaters.

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This Lord of the Rings article contains spoilers for The Rings of Power. Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is officially returning for a third season on Prime Video, Amazon confirmed in an announcement. The renewal of the blockbuster epic fantasy series doesn’t come as a huge surprise, as season 3 has been […]

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World.

Doomsday is coming. You know it. I know it. And now, thanks to the Leader, Captain America knows it too.

In the lone post-credit scene for Captain America: Brave New World, villain Samuel Sterns offers a warning to Sam Wilson, one that points to the next Avengers movie and, potentially, the end of the MCU as we know it.

Captain America 4’s Post-Credit Scene Explained

As the marketing for Captain America: Brave New World loves to remind us, Sam Wilson is not Steve Rogers. And that’s a good thing. Brave New World uses Sam’s history as a counselor to make him into a Captain America who would rather talk things out with baddies than punch them in the face.

So it’s no surprise when Brave New World ends with Sam visiting Thaddeus Ross, no longer in Red Hulk form, in prison on the Raft. Nor is it a surprise when he also drops by the cell of Samuel Sterns, the movie’s big bad, a gamma-radiated supergenius called the Leader.

Even though he’s been defeated, Sterns cannot help but gloat, getting a one-up over Sam by showing off his intelligence. Sterns congratulates Sam and his fellow heroes for the work they’ve done to save the world. But then he reveals the findings of his calculations. “Do you think this is the only world?” Sterns asks. “We’ll see what happens when you have to protect this place… from the others.”

On one hand, Sterns’s reveal is a bit of a let down. We’ve known that there are other worlds. Pop culture is choking on multiverses. Heck, this current phase of the MCU is part of the Multiverse Saga, a storyline that includes Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Deadpool & Wolverine. The Leader’s reveal seems obvious and Sam seems slow on the uptake here, even if there’s no reason for most people on the prime reality Earth-616 to know about these worlds.

On the other, Stern’s warning isn’t just that there are other worlds. It’s also that these other worlds are a threat, and that there are heroes on those worlds who would defend them. That’s a more specific reference to the Secret Wars storyline that Marvel Comics published in 2015, the storyline that will inspire the next two Avengers films, Doomsday and Secret Wars.

Unveiling the Secret Wars

Written by Jonathan Hickman, Secret Wars actually begins in his Fantastic Four run in 2009, continued through his run on Avengers and New Avengers in 2013, and culminates with Secret Wars in 2015. The storyline involves a crisis in which Earths from two realities start to phase into the same space, resulting in what Reed Richards dubs an “Incursion,” in which the two Earths interact with one another. Each incursion lasts eight hours, after which the Earths and their respective universes are destroyed.

The New Avengers sections of the Secret Wars storyline deals with attempts by the Illuminati of Earth-616—a secret group of powerful people that includes Richards, Iron Man, Namor, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt of the Inhumans, and Beast/Professor X of the X-Men—to save their planet. Along the way, the group meets heroes and villains from other realities, who want to destroy our Earth to save their own. Although initially repulsed by the idea, the desperate Illuminati eventually follows suit, launching attacks on other realities to save Earth-616.

New Avengers is a bleak story, one filled with a creeping dread that’s more upsetting than anything the MCU has done before. But we’ve already heard reference to incursions before, in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Not only do the Illuminati of Earth-838 featured in that film refer to incursions, but the post credit scene finds Clea (Charlize Theron) arriving to recruit Strange in a battle against the Incursions.

Furthermore, the title of the next Avengers movie suggests that the MCU heroes will deal with the incursions in a manner similar to that of the Marvel Comics’ heroes. In the final issues of Avengers and New Avengers, most of the heroes either make peace with their inevitable end or die trying to fight it. Only one hero and one villain sees the solution. With the help of the all-powerful Molecule Man, Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom take the fight to the Beyonders, the god-like architects of the multiverse.

The trio battles the Beyonders to the point of breaking loose their incredible abilities. While Strange hesitates to take on such awesome power, Doom does not. He takes the power and saves our universe by recreating it, making himself into God.

The final Secret Wars series tells the story of Doom’s reign as God Emperor of a newly designed Marvel Universe, and how Reed Richards and other heroes fight to restore things as they were.

Preparing for Doomsday

Given the Leader’s warning, it sounds like Avengers: Doomsday will show Marvel’s heroes fighting with those of other realities, all trying to protect their Earth from the incursions. And like the comics, Doctor Doom (played by Robert Downey Jr.) will make an audacious decision that saves his universe, but recreates it in his image.

If that’s the case, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will face their greatest battle yet in Avengers: Secret Wars. It’s a good thing the Leader gave Sam the warning now, so he can start assembling his Avengers and possibly set things right.

Captain America: Brave New World is now in theaters.

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World. Doomsday is coming. You know it. I know it. And now, thanks to the Leader, Captain America knows it too. In the lone post-credit scene for Captain America: Brave New World, villain Samuel Sterns offers a warning to Sam Wilson, one that points to the […]

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World.

Doomsday is coming. You know it. I know it. And now, thanks to the Leader, Captain America knows it too.

In the lone post-credit scene for Captain America: Brave New World, villain Samuel Sterns offers a warning to Sam Wilson, one that points to the next Avengers movie and, potentially, the end of the MCU as we know it.

Captain America 4’s Post-Credit Scene Explained

As the marketing for Captain America: Brave New World loves to remind us, Sam Wilson is not Steve Rogers. And that’s a good thing. Brave New World uses Sam’s history as a counselor to make him into a Captain America who would rather talk things out with baddies than punch them in the face.

So it’s no surprise when Brave New World ends with Sam visiting Thaddeus Ross, no longer in Red Hulk form, in prison on the Raft. Nor is it a surprise when he also drops by the cell of Samuel Sterns, the movie’s big bad, a gamma-radiated supergenius called the Leader.

Even though he’s been defeated, Sterns cannot help but gloat, getting a one-up over Sam by showing off his intelligence. Sterns congratulates Sam and his fellow heroes for the work they’ve done to save the world. But then he reveals the findings of his calculations. “Do you think this is the only world?” Sterns asks. “We’ll see what happens when you have to protect this place… from the others.”

On one hand, Sterns’s reveal is a bit of a let down. We’ve known that there are other worlds. Pop culture is choking on multiverses. Heck, this current phase of the MCU is part of the Multiverse Saga, a storyline that includes Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Deadpool & Wolverine. The Leader’s reveal seems obvious and Sam seems slow on the uptake here, even if there’s no reason for most people on the prime reality Earth-616 to know about these worlds.

On the other, Stern’s warning isn’t just that there are other worlds. It’s also that these other worlds are a threat, and that there are heroes on those worlds who would defend them. That’s a more specific reference to the Secret Wars storyline that Marvel Comics published in 2015, the storyline that will inspire the next two Avengers films, Doomsday and Secret Wars.

Unveiling the Secret Wars

Written by Jonathan Hickman, Secret Wars actually begins in his Fantastic Four run in 2009, continued through his run on Avengers and New Avengers in 2013, and culminates with Secret Wars in 2015. The storyline involves a crisis in which Earths from two realities start to phase into the same space, resulting in what Reed Richards dubs an “Incursion,” in which the two Earths interact with one another. Each incursion lasts eight hours, after which the Earths and their respective universes are destroyed.

The New Avengers sections of the Secret Wars storyline deals with attempts by the Illuminati of Earth-616—a secret group of powerful people that includes Richards, Iron Man, Namor, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt of the Inhumans, and Beast/Professor X of the X-Men—to save their planet. Along the way, the group meets heroes and villains from other realities, who want to destroy our Earth to save their own. Although initially repulsed by the idea, the desperate Illuminati eventually follows suit, launching attacks on other realities to save Earth-616.

New Avengers is a bleak story, one filled with a creeping dread that’s more upsetting than anything the MCU has done before. But we’ve already heard reference to incursions before, in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Not only do the Illuminati of Earth-838 featured in that film refer to incursions, but the post credit scene finds Clea (Charlize Theron) arriving to recruit Strange in a battle against the Incursions.

Furthermore, the title of the next Avengers movie suggests that the MCU heroes will deal with the incursions in a manner similar to that of the Marvel Comics’ heroes. In the final issues of Avengers and New Avengers, most of the heroes either make peace with their inevitable end or die trying to fight it. Only one hero and one villain sees the solution. With the help of the all-powerful Molecule Man, Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom take the fight to the Beyonders, the god-like architects of the multiverse.

The trio battles the Beyonders to the point of breaking loose their incredible abilities. While Strange hesitates to take on such awesome power, Doom does not. He takes the power and saves our universe by recreating it, making himself into God.

The final Secret Wars series tells the story of Doom’s reign as God Emperor of a newly designed Marvel Universe, and how Reed Richards and other heroes fight to restore things as they were.

Preparing for Doomsday

Given the Leader’s warning, it sounds like Avengers: Doomsday will show Marvel’s heroes fighting with those of other realities, all trying to protect their Earth from the incursions. And like the comics, Doctor Doom (played by Robert Downey Jr.) will make an audacious decision that saves his universe, but recreates it in his image.

If that’s the case, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will face their greatest battle yet in Avengers: Secret Wars. It’s a good thing the Leader gave Sam the warning now, so he can start assembling his Avengers and possibly set things right.

Captain America: Brave New World is now in theaters.

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