The One Mistake That Ruined Marvel’s Multiverse Saga

Marvel’s cinematic universe was never perfect, but the company’s track record throughout all the various phases of the “Infinity Saga” was genuinely impressive. They made all the right decisions when it came to casting, and to building an epic, multi-franchise story. They knew how to seed upcoming stories, when to build to mini crescendos that could then lead to the next big climax, and they kept the Avengers movies coming every few years.

Oh, what a difference a multiverse makes. Marvel’s “Multiverse Saga” has been a much rockier ride. It’s been overstuffed with well over 100 hours of films and television series, the Avengers have been missing in action for almost all of it, and the original villain planned as the center of the story got fired and replaced. But beyond all of this, one mistake that Marvel made — in, of all films, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — was ultimately the single decision that squandered all of this saga’s potential.

What was that mistake? Watch our latest Marvel video below to find out, and to see why this one error had catastrophic consequences for the MCU:

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