All 4 Ways MCU Phase 5 Is Repeating Phase 2 (The Good & The Bad)
The Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Five is repeating a number of key traits from Phase Two. Following the success of The Avengers as the culmination of Phase One, the MCU moved into Phase Two and achieved even greater popularity and box office fortunes with hits like Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy. By the end of Phase Two, the MCU had achieved such mainstream success as to make even smaller movies with lesser-known characters like Ant-Man into must-see event movies.
More recently, Marvel has finally kicked off Phase Five with the early 2023 release of Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania, with the Phase also to serve as an important building block for the MCU's Multiverse Saga. While Marvel is going in a new direction with many new characters in Phase Five, it is also repeating a number of the standout elements of Phase Two, which is both a strength and a weakness of Phase Five on numerous different levels. Here are the five ways Marvel's Phase Five is repeating Phase Two.