Marvel movies are meant to be an escape. A few hours of light relief; a chance to lose yours🃏elf in a universe where the good guys win and the villains (almost) always lose. Plant yoursel🦂f in a comfy seat and tune out. Just enjoy Captain America punching a man with a red skull.
Of course, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has moved beyond that simple narrative thanks to various Avengers event movies. However, since 2019’s Endgame, things have become more complicated. Gone are the days of a few cinema trips being enough to understand the larger story – now, you need to sink hours into various Disney+ series too.
澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Doctor Strange in the ♔Mu𓃲ltiverse of Madness, for example, makes more sense after watching WandaVision, and even more sense after watching Loki and What If…?. To fully appreciate 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Spider-Man: No Way Home, you need to have seen everything from the MCU, two sets of Spider-Man movies, and have working knowledge of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Venom: Let There Be Carnage post-credits scene. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which the critics agree is a slog, has already been mad๊e required viewing♚ for multiple future Marvel projects.
Sadly, Endgame’s blockbusting triumph has led to other studios expecting the same commitment to their franchises. DC is launching 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Flash this June, bringing back Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck’s Batmen, Michael Shannon’s General Zod and potentially Temuera Morrison’s Aquaman character. If you didn’t watch the SnyderVerse saga and Tim Burton’s Bat-films, good luck. And even if you invest, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:James Gunn is restarting the whole DC thing soon anyway.
The same is happening beyond superheroes. The terrific 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dungeons & Drago🌱ns𓆏: Honour Among Thieves has a spin-off TV show confirmed. Scream 6 requires watching, well, five other Scream movies (not least the fourth one, if you want to make sense of Hayd🐎en Panettiere’s appearance). And sure, that’s the nature of franchises. But as these series become bigger and more reliant on viewers being au fait with everything 𝐆that came before, it’s starting to feel like you have to do homework before you set foot in the multiplex… Or is it just me?
Jack Shepherd is the for𝔉mer Senior Entertainment Editor of GamesRadar. Jack used to work at The Independent as a general culture writer before specializing in TV and film for the likes of GR+, Total Film, SFX, and others. You can now find Jack working as a freelance journalist and editor.
