Avengers: Endgame SPOILERY AF Review Thread. Don't read if you haven't seen the film!

[KahnyaGnorc]

I'd say Sam should be the new leader of a team. T'Challa's first responsibility is to his nation and people and shouldn't have to also shoulder the burden of leading a team that's at best a secondary responsibility to him. Peter's too young and inexperienced, Strange and Carol both have responsibilities, like T'Challa, that would take precedence over the team. Bucky's too broken. Rhodey would be another good choice to lead.

[Thomas Seitz]

If it's me, I'm having T'Challa just handle the funding aspect and maybe even do a support team (like they are doing in the comics)

But yeah Sam should be the one in charge of the field team.

[MMCJawa]

I think they should hold off on the "Avengers" and use the recent Ultimates run, since that had Black Panther, Capt Marvil, and Monica Rambeau (and you could easily draft in Strange there) face off against Galactus.

It makes sense that some folks, after seeing how dangerous the cosmos are, might want to get more proactive about going out and dealing with things before they reach Earth.

[Damon Griffin]

Set wrote:

That would be neat, particularly if they riffed off of one of the arcs where Morgana (or Kulan Garth)...

Kang's World! Kang's World! Party time! Excellent!

Party on, Kang.

Party on, Kulan Garth.

[Thomas Seitz]

MMC,

I would too...but then they've had to introduce Monica again as an adult. Plus honestly the Ultimates need America Chavez to REALLY make it work. At least in my opinion.

[Aberzombie]

Yeah, I think either Sam or Rhodey would make great team leaders. Although I think it would be interesting to have Smart Hulk as another option.

[thejeff]

Did they even have an official leader? Even when Steve and Tony weren't feuding.

I'm not really sure who would be good. Sam or Rhodes would be competent, but I'm not sure anyone left has the stature to pull it off dramatically.

It's mostly second stringers (in the movieverse) and headliners who've got other things to do (T'Challa, Danvers and Strange). Spidey's too young and not confident enough. Ant-Man's had movies, but isn't leadership material.

Now I am wondering where they're going to go with this.

[Thomas Seitz]

thejeff,

Honestly I think once Thor figures out to harness the God Storm of the MCU, use that to reforge Mjolnir AND have to lose an arm, he might come back.

Leadership wise, I think it was kind of a dual role, with Cap running the missions while Tony did the strategic stuff.

[Aberzombie]

I'm also curious who they'll get to direct any new Avengers movies. I hope they could get the Russo brothers back, but we'll see. I wouldn't mind seeing Whedon come back, but I'm sure there are those who would rather not. And who knows if he'd want to.

Thena gain, maybe they'll be content with just doing some solo movies, and save the team films for FF and X-men.

[Thomas Seitz]

I think the next iteration of the Avengers will happen. Just not sure when. As for who would direct it, I'm kind of partial to Gareth Edwards or else Jordan Vogt-Roberts.

I like kaiju. :p

[thejeff]

I think they'll definitely want to build up another meta-plot and use that to drive big team up movies. It's a staple of the genre and it's worked well for them.
But they might well back off for a bit and use solo movies to set the stage for awhile. Or team movies like Guardians/FF/X-Men that are self-contained teams, not teams made up of heroes from their own movies.

OTOH, it might be interesting to see the more second-string Avengers on their own handling not quite so grand threats, without pulling in Marvel or Strange or the Panther.

I don't know if it would be too anti-climatic to have an Avengers movie be less than a mega-spectacle at this point.

It's one kind of fun thing about classic comic book story-telling: There's always a next issue. You've got to have a story the next month after the epic climax of the year long story arc. Often that got used as a way to ground the characters again.

[Thomas Seitz]

All I know is I want to see a movie version of the Annihilation Wave. :p

[Aberzombie]

I never collected any of the comic Annihilation story, but I've read up on it. That would be an excellent path for them to go down.

[thejeff]

We'll see what they set up when they do the FF story. Would be the obvious place to introduce the Negative Zone and Annihilus.
Then build that up to a major event.

The problem I see with using him as the next metaplot is that Annihilus isn't really the long term plotter Thanos is. We had ~10 years of movies building up to Thanos getting the stones and finally being beaten. It's not clear how that would work with an Annihilation Wave arc. How to connect the individual movies building up to it.

[Thomas Seitz]

thejeff,

Well planning might not be Annihilus strong suit...but at the same time the slow build MIGHT happen if for example, the Negative Zone got impacted by the effects of the Infinity Gems and thus caused it to become unstable...

[Vidmaster7]

I have been constantly talking to my brother that Annihlus would make a great final villain for the next phase.

[Charles Scholz]

I haven't had time, and probably won't, to see the extended/special edition of Endgame.
Could someone who saw it, please put it in a spoiler tag and tell us what was so special about it?