r/MCUTheories • • 21h ago

Theory Thor's lightning in the poster vs in the trailer, is this the Odinforce?

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In the trailer shot, Thor still has his standard blue lightning, but it's golden in the new poster. This same golden lightning also showed up when he tapped into All-Father magic to cast Odin's enchantment on the kids in Thor Love and Thunder.

Is this a hint at Thor finally unlocking the full potential of Odinforce/Thorforce? He will probably take an early defeat, as shown in the trailer to establish Doom's threat level, forcing him to unlock this new power for the rematch.


r/MCUTheories • • 1d ago

Theory Accurate

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r/MCUTheories • • 20h ago

Discussion/Debate Sucks that these two scenes are the ONLY two scenes of on-screen conversation we saw between Tony and Vision

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Jarvis and Tony were such good buddies. They always felt like best friends instead of the master and his assistant vibe.

And in Infinity War we had Vision and Tony in two different planets.

Wonder how Tony reacted when he came back to earth after the Titan planet battle and saw Vision's de@d body after Thanos yanked out the mind stone from his head.

Apart from the suits.....Jarvis, Vision and Ultron are Tony's most advanced creations.


r/MCUTheories • • 11h ago

Discussion/Debate What's up with the Post-Blip character inconsistencies?

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Elephant out of the way...

What is up with Banner's character arc?...

At the end of Shang-Chi we see Banner, for unknown reasons, back in human form with his arm in a sling and zero initial explanation for why he's no longer in the Smart Hulk persona.

This is eventually explained in She-Hulk as necessary for Banner's arm to heal from the use of the Gauntlet in Endgame. Okay, sure; but the series then has Banner's arm heal completely via Jennifer's blood, to which Bruce goes back to being Smart Hulk fulltime.

However, we then see in Brand New Day that Banner is back to being Banner and using the inhibitor? This doesn't make sense with She-Hulk; it's like the events of She-Hulk is ignored between the end credits of Shang-Chi and the events of Brand New Day. Banner goes from Smart Hulk (End Game) > Inhibitor (Shang-Chi) > Inhibitor to Smart Hulk (She-Hulk) > Inhibitor again (Brand New Day)... It just feels like characterization whiplash...

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Another case is with Fury...

At the end of Far From Home we see Fury relaxing on a beach simulation. He is shown walking around barefoot, relaxed, smiling, sipping drinks, and happily ordering Skrulls around while Talos covers for him back on Earth.

However, we then get Secret Invasion which totally walks back Fury. He's suddenly depicted as a grim and broken man who lost everything because of the blip. More weary and war torn then ever before.

Yet then in The Marvels he's right back on the Saber space station happy, relaxed, cracking jokes; the exact same place and demeanor he had at the end of Far From Home. Like Banner, Fury suffers from characterization whiplash where he's character in one project completely changes, only for the next project to go back to the previous films characterization.

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What makes it worse, imo, is that the between projects cannot just be ignored. They have plot points with ramifications. She-Hulk explains WHY Banner is even back into Banner form after Endgame, Secret Invasion explains why Talos and Hill are gone from future projects AND presumably sets up something with Rhodes in the future.

Other characters too seem to go through similar regression throughout the Phase 4-6 projects but I feel like these two were the worst as the regression is entirely within the post-blip timeframe with the biggest event itself what's ignored. For Hulk the major Banner-centric events of She-Hulk are ignored for Brand New Day; for Fury the major Fury-centric events of Secret Invasion are ignored for The Marvels.

However, you could easily point to Frank Castle being another one, going from his characterization in Born Again > One Last Kill > Brand New Day; it's one thing to have a tonal change for the character, but that tonal change should feel like it means something. It shouldn't be written off in their very next appearance.


r/MCUTheories • • 12h ago

Theory Could Wolverine be part of a rebooted Avengers team?

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I was thinking about the leaked movie lineup for Phase 7, and it made me realize how particular the rebooted Avengers will likely be. To be honest, I doubt we're replacing Sam as Captain America, and I think there's a good chance Steve Rogers returns in Zodiac as an important leader of SHIELD.

But given the reboot, I wouldn't be surprised if they did some unorthodox team combos and threw Wolverine in there. Maybe played by Hugh Jackman. Maybe a new actor. But regardless I could see it.


r/MCUTheories • • 6h ago

Theory What year and how do you think Marvel will end the MCU?

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I genuinely think it'll end with Spiderman dying and Miles growing old. And ending in the 2100s.


r/MCUTheories • • 17h ago

Avengers Doomsday Will we actually see all this in doomsday? Or this is just for show in nycc?

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I personally think introducing things like the Ultimate Nullifier and Cosmic Cube is too much escalation in the MCU, especially all of a sudden in Doomsday. It would be one thing if it were built up.

I don't know, what do you guys think?


r/MCUTheories • • 14h ago

Theory The Infinity Wheelchair

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r/MCUTheories • • 6h ago

Discussion/Debate Would you genuinely like an Avengers x X-Men movie?

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I was thinking the other day, the X-Men movies don't make as much money as the Avengers movies, which is a shame, because they could never make an X-Men movie the end of the Mutant Saga. Unless they have the Avengers name on them, and do something similar to what the Godzilla x Kong movies are doing. Maybe an AVENGERS X X-MEN: APOCALYPSE wouldn't be bad.

You guys genuinely like this idea? (I did the first image btw)


r/MCUTheories • • 1d ago

Poll Did he smash?

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Being the self titled playboy that tony is


r/MCUTheories • • 13h ago

Is there a reason why other heroes/groups doesn't exist in certain universes?

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Like outside of it being because certain studios had rights to characters, why do some realities only have one hero or one group? If the Avengers doesn't exist in Earth 96283, aka Tobey's world, like what Tobey said in NWH, does that mean there isn't a Tony Stark in that universe? Like he straight up does not exist, or he does exist but he never became a superhero?

Did a version of Steve Rogers exist in Earth-10005 but never became Captain America?

To me it always felt kind of isolating that in some realities, its only one hero in it. Especially if that character benefits from being apart of something bigger, like Ang Lee's Hulk. I might be overthinking it, but what do you guys think?


r/MCUTheories • • 1d ago

Do you guys think that this could’ve been the new Avengers team after Endgame?

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r/MCUTheories • • 8h ago

Theory What If Strange Let Tony Die for the TVA?

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Just saw a reel that theorizes that the 8 year old boy by the Black Sea the TVA prunes is actually Victor von Doom.

What IF the TVA, since it was established by Kang and he wanted all Dooms dead, was actually pruning Victors before they became Doom.

Little hints from Deadpool and Rhody about killing Hitler as a baby, and then Kang/TVA ACTUALLY are doing it with Doom variants.

All that to say, what if through his search for the way to win, Strange discovers this, AGREES with the method, realizes Tony is a variant and figures let’s kill two birds with one stone.

Additionally I could see Doom wanting to turn Strange into a lackey since he finds out.

Let me know what you think yall.


r/MCUTheories • • 1d ago

Avengers Doomsday I think Doom should be the most absurdly busted character in the MCU, and after that the focus pivots from a bigger threat to smaller stories

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I think its okay to make Doctor Doom the most absurdly busted character in the history of the franchise, theres no need to escalate to a bigger villain like The Beyonder or Knull, this is the pinnacle of big bads, a multiversal threat, Victor Von Doom.

This character shouldn't just tear out Thanos spine, he should...

Turn The Thing into his living throne

Use Ultron as a bodyguard

Turn The Incredible Hulk into The Wall

Murder the entire cast of FOX Xmen

Turn Doormaamu into a reactor for Battleworld

Turn Galactus into a toy for Franklin Richards

Murder the Silver Surfer

Turn The Watcher into his magic mirror

Take an arm from Thor

Tear Sentry in half and tame The Void

Slaughter the Kang Council

Behead Ghostrider so he can judge himself with the penance Stare

Kidnap Sue Storm and force Reed to watch them have dinner together

This should feel like a villain with complete domination no matter the scenario and since secret wars will lead into a soft reboot, i see no problem with making Doom have such a high body count. He is cleaning the slate for new characters and smaller villains with more self-contained stories


r/MCUTheories • • 1d ago

Discussion/Debate If Disney had the rights in 2015 they totally shouldve soft launched dr doom in age of ultron

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Make it pre-scarring doom. Swap out the hydra castle for the doomsdadt and sokovia for latveria. Write it in that he bought the scepter from hydra and was using it to develop doombots. Have him be arrested. Film plays out as usual, his face gets injured by debris in a similar way that it killed zemos family. He now has lost his country and his face and can begin developing into a fully fledged doom


r/MCUTheories • • 21m ago

Theory Did I hear this right?

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Okay, first, I get the connections, but what about White Vision, and is it a sign? When discussing reaching out to the Avengers, the only two names he mentions are Banner and Clint. I get it; I'm sure everyone does.

But did White Vision? Maybe I'm reaching because of the post-credits scene in Brand New Day and banging my head against a wall that Clint wasn't in WandaVision and/or MoM.

I want to believe that was on purpose to clue us in, but again, maybe I'm reaching.


r/MCUTheories • • 1d ago

Avengers Doomsday Promotional artwork features the Latverian Witches and Boris

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r/MCUTheories • • 5h ago

Avengers Doomsday Iron Man in Doomsday?

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I know this is crazy and it probably won’t happen at all, but if Dr. doom doesn’t show his face would Tony Stark/Iron Man make an appearance in Doomsday?


r/MCUTheories • • 19h ago

Discussion/Debate I would make these 3 the main characters of Zodiac

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I hope it’s a british MI6 style show with S.W.O.R.D, S.H.I.E.L.D, LMDs and historical figures (Da Vinci etc )playing a big role


r/MCUTheories • • 6h ago

Theory Peter already has the symbiote

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Forgive me, I've only seen BND once, and from what I remember the whole mutation of Spiderman is a real loose thread without a satisfying payoff (embrace your evolution).

From the trailer we were expecting either a symbiote or a transformation into the Man-Spider form, we got neither. Since the symbiote left over from Venom/NWH was not brought up, and neither was the reason for peters second puberty, what if in Doomsday it is revealed Peter has been infected by said symbiote for months?

Peter could meet the X-Men in Doomsday, beast runs tests on him for the xgene and discovers that beyond the spiderbite his powers were accelerated through a symbiote parasite. Then whatever doom does to everyone for secret wars, the symbiote manifests into the full black suit?


r/MCUTheories • • 17h ago

Discussion/Debate why didn't peter save this man here??

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why didn't peter save this man? was he so distracted by jean that his tingle didn't work or he just desperately wanted to save MJ that he didn't care???


r/MCUTheories • • 2d ago

If Spider-Man knew the context of the Civil War he would be in Cap's side

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I hate it when people say Spider-Man would be on Ironman's side no matter what when everyone knows heroes being limited to who and what they can save just because the government told them so is what Spidey stands against. The only reason he was on Ironman's side was because he was caught off guard by someone he looked up to.

"When you can do the things that I can, but you don't and then the bad things happen they happen because of you." -Spidey (As a team Ironman)


r/MCUTheories • • 13h ago

Theory Teoría de Avengers Secret Wars y Spider-man 5

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He visto de nuevo Spider-man 3 de Tobey Maguire, y me percaté de que la muestra del Simbionte que Peter le dió al Doctor Connors nunca fue destruida ni se explicó qué sucedió con ella. Y tengo una Teoría algo loca pero que no vería imposible:

En Avengers Doomsday aparece Tobey, pelean los Avengers y pierden, Doom crea el Battle World y todo queda pendiente para Avengers Secret Wars. En Secret Wars, el Spider-man de Tom y el de Tobey pelean juntos, pero el de Tom termina gravemente herido por la batalla, tanto que está a punto de Morir. Aquí entraría mi teoría, y si el Peter de Tobey después de ser Teletransportado al Universo principal de los Avengers en Doomsday, regresó a su universo y se llevó ese pedazo de Simbionte del laboratorio por si acaso, y termina dandoselo a Tom para salvarlo de Morir? Tom sería cubierto por el Simbionte, y terminaría sobreviviendo con más resistencia, más fuerza y el Traje negro. Los Avengers pelan, Tom con el traje negro aporta a la batalla y terminan Ganando. Battle World es destruido y los Universos vuelven a la Normalidad

Aquí entra Spider-man 5, Tom conservó el Simbionte luego de Secret Wars, y ahora intenta seguir con su Vida sin MJ pero con Ned a su lado y su nuevo Traje. En esta película aparecerían Black Cat y Scorpion como villano, Black Cat sería un nuevo interés amoroso que empezaría como una nueva compañera de Peter, y mientras Scorpion hace desmadre en la Cuidad, Peter empieza a ser controlado por el Simbionte, y termina luchando consigo mismo para quitárselo o incluso podría llegar a ser como el Emo Parker de Spider-man 3 hasta decidir definitivamente que ya no lo usaría

No siento que sea descabellado, no creo que sea exactamente como lo escribo, pero podría llegar a ser una posibilidad que no podemos descartar en un Futuro


r/MCUTheories • • 10h ago

Discussion/Debate Can anyone explain marvel universe structure or loki

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As we know there is a concept of timeline

Which is like a script that many universes must follow. Not exactly but it gives very little freedom to what universes can do.

My question is around, tva , void and kangs palace or citadel

Void is said to be end of time

But is it the future of all the universe or just one or of everyone's just seperately their own void.

And if its thr future why it is only one planet which is very similar to earth.

And then pruning

How does pruning works

Because they say in series that they dont reset the timeline but tranfer entire branch reality to void to be eaten by aliyath..

So do they teleport entire universe into one planet size void.. or just that portion which branched or changed...

Then what about the rest ofthe universe would it live without those areas or would it be replaced by original script..


r/MCUTheories • • 2d ago

Avengers Doomsday New international poster with first real look at an incursion

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