Not everyone is a kid though? The thought that a 30/40/50/whatever year old with a busy career, kids, a commute, other commitments, other hobbies, etc. would have somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 hours of free time in a compressed period of time to start at Iron Man and work your way through all the movies and shows is equally laughable.
People will make the effort to catch up. Especially in a day and age that people will binge hours of content through a night.
Also, you also don't need to watch
everything to understand the current multiversal plot. The only things you'd need to watch currently (that we know of) would be Loki, Multiverse of Madness, and then Quantum-mania. And even then, Loki wouldn't be considered all that important outside of
telegraphing Kang.
Same thing with IW/Endgame, movies that were "required viewing" were Civil War, Ragnarok, and Ant-Man and the Wasp if you wanted to beeline into the most-talked about films.
Sure, you might not have full context behind who a character is or what their background is, but a majority of the movies provide audiences an idea of what's going on. It's the same thing with the event comics that these are based off of. While you may not have a greater appreciation or understanding of nods/references of events dating back to 2008, a large chunk of it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. You can basically get a viewing order or just watch what dovetails into the next big thing.
That would be dope and I really hope Marvel does this. There's still a lot of spots in Phase 6 to fill after all.
My thoughts exactly. They'll likely use Secret Wars to do a soft reboot of the MCU. A bunch of characters will be retired or put on the bench for the time being to clear the schedule for the mutants, as they can carry an entire cinematic universe on their own.
I could see it being focused purely on X-Men and the F4, maybe Spidey too if Holland/Sony wants to keep playing ball. I wouldn't be surprised if it also resets the timeline somewhat, where they can slot in younger actors for Stark, Widow, and Cap further down the line. Essentially making it to where they have a "complete" Marvel universe to play with everyone in the toybox.
