#After More Than 20 Movies, The MCU is Ready For The Multiverse

Marvel’s Kevin Feige is well known for always having a plan, and it looks like that plan was always leading to the Marvel multiverse.

The prospect of a Marvel multiverse is something fans have been theorizing about for years. As we head deeper into Phase 4 of the MCU, it is clear that we are not just getting a multiverse story but a whole series of films and TV shows that will see the full effects of numerous universes colliding, all seemingly thanks to Doctor Strange and his spell to make the world forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Marvel boss Kevin Feige recently commented on how now is the right time for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to branch out in new directions.

For long-term fans of the MCU, the multiverse has been mentioned many times as a very real concept by The Ancient One and as a “ridiculous” fabrication in Spider-Man: Far From Home, which managed to pull the rug from under fans who believed Mysterio’s multiverse origins in that movie were true and not, as it turned out, just a lie. Since then, we have had Disney+ series Loki building a world of alternate timelines and variants, and now we really are on the verge of it all kicking off in style. Feige said in a new interview with Collider, that it is the right time to bring the multiverse to life, with 20 plus movies behind them and a whole host of characters to play with. Feige said:

“The Ancient One mentions it in Doctor Strange, when she’s taking Stephen Strange through that sort of mind warping journey. It was always one of the most powerful storytelling tools in the comics. One you have to wield carefully, because it can get overwhelming. But one that now with, obviously the 60 to 80 year history of the comics, now we have a 20 plus history of the movies and there are enough characters that we can start playing with it that way.”

Of course there has been a lot of speculation over whether the multiverse will play a part in bringing the X-Men to the MCU, and Feige responded to a question of whether the timeline of introducing the multiverse had been changed because of the Fox acquisition that led to the X-Men coming back under the Marvel Studios banner. He commented, “”I don’t think it was. I think the toys that were added to the toy box increased with that Fox acquisition, but it didn’t change the time table on when we were introducing the idea of the Multiverse.”

While we are now pretty certain, unless Marvel and Sony have really pulled out all the misdirection stops in the trailers, that Spider-Man: No Way Home will fully open up the multiverse before we head into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which at the moment is pretty much an unknown entity. While there are over 30 Marvel projects already in various stages of production, and many of them touching on the multiverse in one way or another, it is clear that this is Marvel’s new Infinity Saga and it is not about to come to an end any time soon.

See the multiverse break open for yourself on December 17th, when Spider-Man: No Way Home arrives in theaters.

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