A: IW - May 1

Where to begin?

Firstly, because real life is sometimes sucky, sometimes crazy, and sometimes – stupid, I made a mistake regarding Thanos, Loki and co. the last time we talked. Thanos did kill Loki in public, perhaps to make a point within the MCU, perhaps to make a point without, but kill Loki he did, blatantly and in public too. Poor Loki, but – the point still stands. MCU, in general, has experienced the biggest loss of characters ever, and while they can be brought back, actors – from the real life’s side of things – are something else. ‘Thor’ franchise is especially notorious of that, as Sif, Jane Foster, Dr. Selvig, to a lesser extent Odin, the Warriors 3, and now – Heimdall too – have all vanished from the MCU, leaving ‘Thor’ with, well, just Thor, and maybe not even that. It is certainly a potent way of changing the landscape of a cinematic universe, but will the actors be willing to come back, ever? Given the case of Hawkeye, maybe not.

No, seriously, Hawkeye appears very rarely in MCU, if ever. He appeared in the first ‘Avengers’ movie, in ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ movie, and in ‘CA: CW’ film…and this is it, I believe. If he’d actually died back in ‘Ultron’ it would make more sense and less disrespectful/dismissive to the MCU fans, but here is what we have; in A: IW1, we get no Hawkeye, again. Ditto for the Ant-Man, of course, but he and the Wasp are coming forth with their own film now, fighting the Ghost, and this is important, because the Quantum Zone is mentioned in that trailer, and this may be where all the missing people have ended up at…or not. Maybe Thanos succeeded completely and everyone died instead. Either way, we will get more clarification about this in the future Marvel movies…hopefully.

Speaking of trailers… the ‘Venom’ trailer has appeared in April 2018 too, and it is going to be an origin movie on one hand, and does not have any Venom-Spidey interactions on the other, which is strange, since Venom is one of Spider-Man’s worst rivals. Yet, if Spider-Man is stuck in the Quantum Zone, then he cannot interact with Venom, (let us presume so, anyhow), so no Spider-Man in this Venom movie, anyhow. Bully for him!

Anything else? Again, it is unknown just how AoS and its S5 plot fits into the greater MCU, in the current case – into the Infinity War plotline. Right now, General Talbot has become a Graviton-like figure and is going to save the world by killing the alien ninjas, because this is who the current aliens are – ninjas of some sort, and not even Kree, because none of them are blue…and some people still wonder as to why AoS’ numbers are so low. AoS just does not fit into MCU anymore, not since the second half of its second season, most likely, and where does it leave them?

Well, so far it seems that the S5 finale is the season’s finale, not the series’, so there’s probably some sort of a S6 somewhere in the works…eventually. Considering that Coulson (and his actor) are appearing in the upcoming ‘Captain Marvel’ movie too, that theoretical season will be Coulson-light, because of split priorities, you know?

…Anything else? No, not at this time. For the moment, real life has stabilized itself, so let us enjoy it. Until the next time – see you then.