the marvel cinematic universe is now in its fourth phase and it's already a mess loaded with so many disparate storylines there's the power broker and contessa von long name no way home and multiverse of madness have added incursions there's kang and the tva plus the celestials and skrull imposters we are only halfway through this phase at best and it's all starting to get a little confusing what the hell is going on let's get to the bottom of it all and find out how all these seemingly disparate plot lines connect phase four of the marvel cinematic
universe is currently represented by five released films and six series both limited and ongoing hit monkey and modoc can take a hike mcu doesn't care about hulu and neither do i the current films are black widow shang shi the eternals no way home and dr strange 2. each has elements that tie into the major storylines of phase 4 as does the series one division falcon in the winter soldier loki what if and moon knight there is also the upcoming miss marvel thor love and thunder black panther wakanda forever ant-man and the wasp quantomania guardians of
the galaxy vol 3 and the marvels also announced with no set release is the series and films she-hulk secret invasion armor wars ironheart blade agatha house of harkness guardians of the galaxy holiday special fantastic four and several as yet untitled films and series including one focusing on wakanda oh my god stop kevin stop yeah so it's a lot let's get in and break down these ongoing storylines and figure out what phase four is truly about so where do we start unraveling this thread black widow and falcon in the winter soldier introduced us to contessa valentina
allegra de fontaine played by veep star julia louis-dreyfus the contessa is recruiting superhero adjacent individuals like the us agent and elena she is forming an alternate team of her own heroes i'm doing that air quotes thing heroes contessa is forming what will likely be the thunderbolts or the dark avengers both are a team of less than moral air quotes heroes that serve a singular leader most commonly norman osborne since the green goblin does not exist in the mcu-616 then it stands to reason another person would fill that void what is the end goal of this
group of nerdwells the thunderbolts will position themselves as a more controllable superhero team just around the time the actual avengers once again demonstrate a lack of care for international law and collateral damage the after effects of the snap have already set up precarious situations amongst world powers there is also the growing micronation of asgard which looks to be expanding every day this could easily lead to a situation like the marvel event siege where the dark avengers attack an earthbound asgard for threatening u.s territory the contessa isn't just going to sit around waiting for this to
happen she is going to engineer this situation with the help of the power broker sharon carter who now has access to prototype weaponry armor wars has been announced which involves the theft of tony stark's tech and its distribution amongst various despots and arms dealers north korea or hydra with a fleet of iron man suits invading asgard sounds like the perfect situation to throw some blame on the avengers goodbye old team hello dark avengers and the best part all of this will be happening just in time for a full-blown cosmic war a conflict in the galaxy
that will shift the very balance of power i see a holy war spreading across the universe like unquenchable fire this is being set up throughout the more space-based films and series the first hint of this came in the reveal of nick fury's replacement shenanigans he has his own team of scrolls running around on the planet posing as himself and other shield agents fury is also assembling his own team with a newly powered monika rambo being the first obvious recruit monik has more superhero names than necessary at various times known as spectrum photon pulsar and other
things that sound like cable providers however she is also one of the people to carry the name captain marvel so it stands to reason that she will be bringing along danvers and the about to be introduced miss marvel the marvels will involve the three joining forces because of the cree skrull war yes the war was going on in the 1990s during the events of captain marvel but it's been in a state of armstast since however an outside influence could lead to a sudden end to this ceasefire enter the eternals and their new buddy star fox
the ancient weirdos who were once servants of the celestial irishm have now taken to space aboard their ship the domo along the way they pick up a remy the rat voiced goblin and his master eros brother to thanos in typical sequel bait fashion he tells them he has a mission for them and then rudely cuts to black this mission will involve aiding the new skrull homeworld in some way the cree are sitting around and they have seen drastic power shifts with the destruction of xandar by thanos so they are getting a little antsy about establishing
their own power in the galaxy the supreme intelligence sees the nova corp decimated and the squirrels gaining power by allying with people like the marvels and the eternals now it's time to act and they do so with the sudden appearance of another potential ally yes it's the coming of the one who remains and there are a lot more of them now loki you broke the sacred timeline and created a temporal multiverse now there's an infinite amount of kangs on their way to duke it out kang the conqueror will be the worst amongst them while there
may not necessarily be an army of gangs on the way we know at least one of them has something to guide him to the mcu-616 shangshi and his newly acquired ten rings are last seen being pondered over by wang banner and carol the rings are not like anything any of them have seen before and since the son of the mandarin put them on they have been broadcasting an ominous signal as shang xi's aunt so helpfully explained the secret village tallow was built by the refugees of another universe they entered the mcu-616 while escaping the mega
soul sucker and his minions hey do you know has a history of weaponizing inter-dimensional god monsters yes the dweller in darkness may have been sent to the tallow universe by a kang variant who weaponized it since it destroyed that world it's been trying to punch a hole into the 616 for centuries what if this is the whole reason for weaponizing the dweller in darkness because it was one of the few living beings capable of breaching through the multiverse yes the portal was created by that dragon but the dweller breached into tallow's universe in the first
place it makes sense though as this is essentially wanda's plan for america chavez so kang has a way into the 616 now several even when he gets there he will need to establish himself after all what is a conqueror without an army and the cree are an army waiting for a leader it's unclear if he will manipulate the supreme intelligence or just replace it but he is fully capable of both so you have a full-scale cosmic war between the cree and the skrulls that pulls in heroes like the marvels and the eternals both have the
potential to drag earth into the conflict and the galactic disorder may even catch the attention of the celestials who are feeling more vulnerable than ever thanks to one of their newborns being turned to stone meanwhile the governments of earth are turning to the newly formed dark avengers who as you would expect make a big mess of it further and while all of this is going on galactic wars and armor wars and dark avengers and angry celestials nick fury is going about his true goal of preparing for the biggest threat yet multiversal incursion and the destruction
of the omniverse so multiverse of madness came out made everyone who watched loki very confused at the end of the first season loki's female variant sylvie killed the kang who was maintaining the sacred timeline thus allowing branches that would produce infinite multiverses so this is the start of the multiverse right well you're very wrong and you should be ashamed for thinking this is what papa marvel would have to say because when doctor strange meets multiverse traveler america chavez he passes through various already existing universes featuring drastic changes like being in black and white or everything
is made of paint clearly these worlds feature variation far beyond changes in a timeline when he meets the illuminati of 838 he is told that they have stood guard against multiversal incursions these are events where one universe affects another so much that they collide and eventually one or both are destroyed this is a bad thing it also breeds animosity and hostility between multiverses it's like if every time you had a guest there was a chance one or both of your apartments would explode you would be picky about who you invite over and you would especially
hate drop-ins no you can't come in todd because you're not worth exploding over we were co-workers at best how do you resolve these revelations about the ending of loki it's easy and you explain it by a single number 616. the 616 universe has long been established as the prime universe of the marvel comics from the 1940s adventures of captain america to the modern issues but thanks to dr selvig mysterio and the illuminati we know that the prime mcu universe is also 616. can both exist at the same time yes they are part of separate multiverses
that exist together in the omniverse it's like a pomegranate and each seed is a multiverse full of delicious red juicy superhero drama incursion will be the metaphorical juicer popping each world into the spritzer of oblivion the destruction of the multiverse is both temporal and cosmic will mean the destruction of the omniverse the omniverse the omniverse the risk is amplified by the existence of both america chavez and a literal dragon that can move between universes so how does this all really fit together though is it all random and messy or is it actually an intricately laid
plan by one lone individual it's time to reveal the true mastermind behind it all yes from contessa valentina to kang's cree army and even the destruction of the multiverse there stands one genius mind none other than marvel's greatest villain arcade um not dr doom ha no he could never live up to the pure intellect of the master of death traps and what is phase 4 but one giant death trap for our heroes as i've demonstrated every move they make will lead to war and destruction it's perfect there are various hints that he is the true
villain firstly there is the repeated motif of the maze black widow's secret agent mom molina is training pigs to navigate a wooden maze and the entrance to tallow is a maze in a moving forest mazes are the kind of attraction that arcade has used in his deadly theme parks it's indisputable yes arcade who is so good no one even knows his real name is setting up the ultimate death trap for the mcu why because of his insatiable drive to build the perfect theme park based traps what's a common complaint critics have made about the mcu
as of late that the movies are bland attractions filled with meaningless noise just like a roller coaster it all connects people arcade hired the contestant to destabilize global politics just in time for him to aid kang's entrance into the 616 universe by using the 10 rings to broadcast a signal the 10 rings are big gold rings much like the rings that are collected by the blue speedster sonic sonic is a video game and video games are found in arcades it's so simple people after kang restarts the crease crawl war which destabilizes the galaxy just in
time for a full-blown multiverse conflict that results in the destruction of not just the mcu but the entire omniverse no more mcu no more marvel comics or animated series or even branded serial no more marvel the mcu is a giant theme park that only leads to a fatal trap and who is the mastermind the pure genius who will bring an end to all of marvel kevin feige that's why he doesn't have a real name to hide that his plan was to consolidate all marvel media into one multiverse and then destroy it in one perfect stroke
my god if this is all true then that means there's no more marvel ever what will i do with my life if i can't make youtube videos dissecting the minutia of a cinematic franchise i need some time to process this i feel so empty hi i've had some time to search my feelings and process all this information and i've come to a realization needless to say i may be drawing some drastic conclusions based on admittedly flimsy connections i was forced to ask myself why i needed to see all these connections and the random chaos of
both the universe and the multi-platform global franchise that is marvel things have never been part of some perfect plan just the chaos of life and cross-promotional storytelling this is the heart of phase four the blip and the events leading up to it were a galactic trauma every single film or series in phase four has dealt with the fallout of this trauma wanda lost vision and then was snapped when she returned she hadn't had the five years to process this pain it caused her to lash out take over a small town and then hunt an innocent
girl across the multiverse nick fury lost five years of intelligence and is now over compensating by leading a scroll infiltration team that's if that secret was even snapped in the first place i could go on and on in preparation for this video i watched all the phase 4 releases in under a week i gained a few things from this research including a deep resentment for cgi-based climaxes most of all though i gained a new appreciation for the kind of work it takes to move past immense trauma and loss personal or galactic whether it's attending therapy
like bucky spending time with family like hawkeye working to make the world better like sam or growing as a person like loki there are steps to recover and it's important to take them life is a lot like the mcu it keeps going on and on whether we're ready or not tomorrow is another day and it'll probably bring an announcement about an alpha flight movie or something
