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Summary

• An MCU soft-reboot after Avengers: Secret Wars can simplify the franchise and bring all parallel realities together, but it might also split Marvel's record-breaking continuity in two.
• The MCU's potential reboot could involve rewriting past events and erasing storylines, potentially concluding the MCU as fans know it.
• The benefits of a reboot include the return of long-gone characters and the incorporation of all major characters and teams into one single universe.

If Marvel Studios reboots the MCU after Avengers: Secret Wars, it could undermine the franchise's greatest feat. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has become a massive franchise with hundreds of coexisting characters and dozens of parallel storylines. Although some MCU movies have been more popular than others, every title has kept its place within the same universe, and everything that happens in each release adds to the MCU's all-encompassing lore. But just like the comic books it's based on, there may come a point where a new beginning could be necessary to simplify the Marvel Cinematic Universe's timeline.
As the Multiverse Saga heads to a climax, an MCU soft-reboot after Avengers: Secret Wars seems to be taking shape. Marvel's intertwined parallel realities may warrant an overhaul that brings them all together and form a single universe, possibly with the addition of new versions of retired characters. A single MCU reality where a definitive version of the Avengers, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four coexist could be the main appeal of whatever comes after the Multiverse Saga ends. However, a major sacrifice might be necessary.
Your browser does not support the video tag. The MCU’s Eventual Reboot Might Waste Marvel Studios’ Streamlined Continuity Not only did Marvel Studios succeed in creating an extensive cinematic universe that has followed a single overarching storyline for more than a decade, but it also accomplished the unlikely feat of incorporating previous non-MCU Marvel franchises like Fox's X-Men, Sony's Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man, and Netflix's Defenders. While providing a fresh start for the MCU could offer many creative possibilities, a soft-reboot would bring this record-breaking continuity feat to an end. By definition, a reboot — including a more subtle soft-reboot — would require the MCU to rewrite past events and erase entire storylines and characters from existence. Hence, the MCU as fans know it would conclude, only to be replaced by a slightly unfamiliar franchise.
The MCU's single continuity is something other cinematic universes can only wish for. Franchises like the DC Extended Universe, the Harry Potter Wizarding World, and Transformers have attempted a similar expansion, but they have faced the need to reboot or soft-reboot their continuity in order to start a new attempt without baggage. Marvel Studios' soft-reboot would restart the MCU not because of its failure to build a successful continuity, but because it was so successful in doing so that the franchise has become too big. Still, almost 20 years of unprecedented continuous storytelling would have to be altered.