The MCU"s 4 Biggest Problems Phase 5 Needs to Fix After Quantumania
After the impressive success of the 23 movies in Phase 1-3, the MCU finally hit a few major stumbles following Avengers: Endgame, culminating in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania getting a "Rotten" score in Rotten Tomatoes and crashing at the box office, resulting in four big issue the Marvel Cinematic Universe needs to fix in Phase 5. The MCU is still one of the most successful franchise of all time, and some of its biggest hits have even come after Avengers: Endgame, but there's still some concerning trends the franchise needs to correct moving into Phase 5 and beyond.
Starting with the strong reception of Iron Man and overall positivity towards the rest of Phase 1, nobody could have predicted just how popular the franchise would get following The Avengers. The MCU's success snowballed from there, with average box office earnings increasing with almost every movie along with a rising average Rotten Tomatoes score as the interconnected narrative built to the eventual defeat of Thanos (Josh Brolin) in Avengers: Endgame. Unfortunately, the movies since that high-point haven't seen the same near-universal acclaim, which Phase 5 will need to fix.