Empire Australasia – July 2019

MARVEL/DISNEY

Infinite possibilities

for the MCU —

clear your infinity-

diary!

loves/BFFs, the multiverse

opens the door. This is a power

to use very sparingly: nothing

diminishes the power of a death,

and with it the emotional weight

of a franchise, than endlessly

resurrecting people who are gone, or

permanently importing replacements

for them. Just, please, close it again and

let the dead lie. HELEN O’HARA

Miles Morales joins the MCU!

The multiverse opens the door for

a tantalising possibility: bringing Miles

Morales into the MCU. The alt-Spidey

already exists in a separate Marvel

franchise, of course, for Sony’s Spider-

Man: Into The Spider-Verse; here, Miles

could be live-action — and who better

to play him than Shameik Moore, the

actor who voiced him? Or you could

have Tom Holland’s Peter Parker

sucked into the animated world, and

be the only live-action component in

a fully CG world. CHRIS HEWITT

An interdimensional baddie!

How can you possibly get any bigger

than Endgame, a movie featuring

almost every major MCU character

(Trevor Slattery notwithstanding) and the

fate of the universe at stake? There’s an

argument that Marvel shouldn’t

even try. But if it is to tackle something

of the scale of Endgame again, they

could do a lot worse than adapt Secret

Wars, the legendary 1980s miniseries

which saw an interdimensional being

called The Beyonder scoop up dozens

of Marvel heroes and villains, relocate

them to a patchwork planet called

Battleworld, and had them fight.

Is the Beyonder the next Thanos?

CHRIS HEWITT

Zombie superheroes!

If Marvel wanted to go the horror

route, one detour could be a version

of Marvel Zombies, a 2005 limited

series set in Earth-2149, in

which a virus transforms the

world’s superheroes into the

undead. It’s a concept far

too weird to ever make

it into the ‘prime’ MCU

continuity — but the

multiverse could be the

perfect loophole.

Zombie Spidey?

Would watch.

AMON WARMANN

sense. In any case, expect Deadpool

to have a thing or three to say

about it. AMON WARMANN

A resurrected

Black Widow!

Natasha Romanoff definitely

died in Endgame. But if you

wanted to emotionally

devastate your existing

characters by briefly

reuniting them with

their mentors/true

The arrival of X-Men

AND Fantastic Four!

With the Disney/Fox merger now

a done deal, the multiverse clears the path

for the X-Men, Fantastic Four and

Deadpool to join the MCU. Hailing from

an alternate dimension is an easy way to

explain where the hell mutants have been

all this time; plus, the Fantastic Four are

explorers as well as superheroes, so an

alternate Reed Richards — one of the

smartest men in Marvel comics — at the

forefront of dimensional discovery makes