This year, Marvel introduces its first family to the MCU in the studio’s biggest film of the year, The Fantastic Four: First Steps. But as well as adding a flurry of new characters to the extended universe and setting up Avengers: Doomsday, the upcoming movie also has the chance to gain the studio a whole new audience by wiping the slate clean, and perhaps alleviating some of that superhero fatigue felt by many an old Marvel head.
Let’s face it, keeping up with the MCU feels a lot like homework nowadays. If you want to see a new Marvel movie heading to theaters, or a show coming to Disney Plus, there’s a good chance you’ll need to have watched multiple different projects beforehand to understand references, or recognise characters and cameos. But in the real world, some people just don’t have the time to keep up with everything.
