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Avengers 5 Will Never Happen (And 5 Why It Definitely Will).
It’ll never happen: The Avengers have disbanded
At the end of their greatest battle yet. With Tony Stark dead and Steve Rogers in his twilight years, the Avengers disbanded.
There are still plenty of teams in the MCU keeping people safe – the Wakandan Army, the Masters of the Mystic Arts, the New Asgardians, the Guardians of the Galaxy etc. – and Avengers movie if there are no Avengers anymore?
It definitely will: It would make a ton of money
The first and second not one, not two, but four sequels to follow it.
To break that record – and with the fourth installment of a franchise that has seen steady growth at the box office with each movie, no less – and not follow it up with a sequel seems like an unwise business decision.
It’ll never happen: Nothing could top the double-whammy of Infinity War and Endgame
The reason why each Age of Ultron, which was the lowest-grossing installment in the franchise) is that each one has been bigger and better than its predecessor. This is why Age of Ultron failed to top the 2012 original – it didn’t have a suitably bigger scale.
But Avengers 5 could top that.
It definitely will: Everyone loves the Avengers movies
The even reach the screen in the first place – have been fighting alongside each other in spectacular battle sequences and it’s been a phenomenal cinematic ride.
There’s more hype surrounding an Avengers movie.
It’ll never happen: The Avengers will be replaced by another team
Maybe the Avengers as we know them are well and truly dead. The team is finished and all the characters are moving on. But that doesn’t mean the end of ensemble team-up movies in the MCU. There are plenty of teams in the Marvel universe outside the Avengers that could lead a big Avengers-style team-up movie.
Fans have been due to the franchise in the coming years. Plus, with the likes of Kate Bishop and Riri Williams reportedly making their MCU debuts soon, the Young Avengers seem like a prime candidate as the successor to the Avengers.
It definitely will: New characters will need to be integrated into the wider universe
With Marvel Studios Avengers 5 just to integrate them all into the franchise’s wider universe.
This can happen in other characters’ solo movies, like introducing Namor in a Avengers movies in the MCU.
It’ll never happen: The Avengers ‘trilogy’ is complete
Kevin Feige, the producer and mastermind behind the MCU, is a big advocate for trilogies as a cinematic storytelling technique. He stopped after three gave the Hulk a trilogy hidden in three non-Hulk movies.
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It definitely will: There are some threats that no one can handle alone
The whole point of the could be handled by Spider-Man alone.
But a villain like Thanos couldn’t be defeated by just one of the Avengers. All of them were needed to defeat him (and even then, they failed the first time). There are some Marvel villains – e.g. Galactus, Doctor Doom, Kang the Conqueror – that would require all of Earth’s mightiest heroes to take them down.
It’ll never happen: Endgame was the perfect ending for the Avengers saga
While all the installments of the MCU tie into one grand narrative, the Avengers movies stand on their own as a four-part saga. These movies started in 2012 with Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye, and those six characters have been at the heart of each movie, no matter how huge or crowded they were, ever since.
All six of those characters Avengers saga. To pile more installments on top of it now would feel disingenuous and ruin that.
It definitely will: The Avengers movies are the glue holding the MCU together
Ever since the heroes introduced in loosely connected origin stories Avengers films are the ones that pull them all together and give us disparate characters like Ant-Man, Black Panther, and Nebula all in the same movie.
Tony Stark and Steve Rogers might be out of the picture, but we still need team up characters from different worlds that we still want to see on-screen together.
