10 Harsh Realities Of Rewatching The MCU’s 2025 Movies On Disney+

All Marvel Cinematic Universe motion pictures launched in 2025 are presently streaming on Disney+, and rewatching the films will deliver you a harsh actuality. Unbelievable 4: First Steps not too long ago arrived on Disney+ on November fifth. Contemplating this was the final of the 2025 MCU motion pictures to be launched each in theaters and on streamers, now you can watch all of them once more.

A lot of the 2025 Marvel motion pictures are among the many greatest MCU motion pictures for me. Nonetheless, that does not imply rewatching MCU motion pictures on Disney+ will not deliver some harsh recognition. Minor or main modifications could have been made to the pacing, story, motion, or different parts of the movie. As such, Marvel’s upcoming movies might be able to be taught some classes on how you can enhance.

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The Unbelievable 4 do not use their powers a lot.

Unbelievable 4: First Steps is ideal in adapting the Nineteen Sixties period right into a visually distinct and hopeful superhero movie. I cherished the forged of Unbelievable 4 and the content material of the Galactus and Silver Surfer motion pictures. Nonetheless, as a superhero film, his look in Unbelievable 4 was underwhelming.

I imagine which may be the harshest actuality of rewatching Unbelievable 4: First Steps. In comparison with the 2000s movie Unbelievable 4, Reed Richards was not often seen utilizing his stretching skills. Apart from the pursuit of the Silver Surfer and the battle with Galactus, their powers and motion scenes had been largely absent from the movie.

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Taskmaster ought to have been used for greater than shock worth

Thunderbolts* seeks to show by the demise of Olga Kurylenko’s Taskmaster that anybody can die early. However for those who rewatch the MCU motion pictures, you will see that not one of the characters are actually at risk of demise after that time. As such, Taskmaster was killed off nearly in useless, losing any potential the character nonetheless had.

In Black Widow, Taskmaster primarily seems as a mission-focused murderer. The ending of the MCU film arrange a future the place she might discover what she needs out of life past being a killing machine. Nonetheless, Thunderbolts* returns to killing folks, this time for Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, and divulges that he died doing so. Her demise had little impact on the Thunderbolts.

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The chief was a disappointing villain.

Samuel Sterns, performed by Tim Blake Nelson, was teased to be the chief all alongside in 2008’s The Unbelievable Hulk. His return as the primary villain in Captain America: Courageous New World was due to this fact stuffed with anticipation. Sadly, Reeder barely appeared within the MCU motion pictures and his potential was by no means fulfilled.

His design was so underwhelming that Marvel shied away from a comic-accurate interpretation, with the chief forged as one more shadowy villain in a superhero film. Chief, who hasn’t appeared within the MCU since 2008, would have been a way more outstanding presence upon his return, however a rewatch of the fourth Captain America film makes it clear what a disappointment he was.

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Purple Hulk has appeared in additional advertising than Captain America: Courageous New World

“Captain America: Courageous New World” will embrace many Hulk parts. Chief amongst them was Thunderbolt Ross, performed by Harrison Ford, who reworked into Purple Hulk close to the tip of the movie. Though his transformation was thrilling and his combat with Sam Wilson was the climax of the Captain America motion pictures, Purple Hulk barely appeared within the motion pictures.

The trailer for Captain America: Courageous New World gave an enormous push to Purple Hulk. Nonetheless, he solely seems within the movie through the closing battle with Sam. All of us knew Ross would rework into Purple Hulk, so it wasn’t all that stunning in the event that they left it for that to occur on the finish. As an alternative, the MCU motion pictures might have tied Purple Hulk and the Chief extra carefully collectively by previous experiments.

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We nonetheless do not know who the MCU’s new Avengers are

The MCU has launched two new Avengers groups within the 2025 Marvel motion pictures. We noticed considered one of them in Thunderbolts*, but it surely’s unlikely the New Avengers will maintain that identify as a consequence of Captain America’s authorized battle with the Avengers staff. Due to this fact, Sam’s superhero staff must be the primary staff in Avengers: Doomsday.

Nonetheless, we obtained to see the Thunderbolts make nice development to grow to be a cohesive superhero staff. Sam’s Avengers presently embrace Sam and Falcon, that means the staff must debut and bond in Doomsday, which is filled with different MCU and multiverse characters. We nonetheless do not know who Sam’s Avengers are, and it is not like Marvel has made any connections with audiences.

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The reader’s post-credits scene is simply too obscure.

After being defeated by Sam Wilson, who averted his plan to trigger a world struggle, the chief was imprisoned within the Raft. He returned within the post-credits scene of Captain America: Courageous New World. When Sam visits him in jail, the chief warns him in regards to the looming risk of the multiverse, however it’s obscure and makes little sense.

Primarily based on what the MCU has proven us, whereas The Chief is considered one of Marvel’s brightest minds, he has no ties to the multiverse. So how might he know in regards to the impending invasion and secret struggle? This obscure teasing confused many, with director Julius Ona claiming he was referring to the Illuminati. Watching the film once more, it makes even much less sense.

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Sentry could also be too highly effective

When it was first reported that the Sentry can be showing in Thunderbolts, it turned abundantly clear that the staff did not have anybody robust sufficient to face as much as the MCU character. Not solely did this film show that to be true, however if you rewatch Thunderbolts* and see how simply the Sentry dispatches Marvel heroes, and his work as The Void, he appears approach too highly effective.

And I do not simply imply the Thunderbolts* as we knew them, I imply your complete MCU. Because the Sentry, he’s primarily DC’s Superman with extra powers akin to telekinesis, warmth manipulation, and matter manipulation. As The Void, he can flip anybody right into a shadow on the sidewalk, forcing them to relive their darkest fears. Will anybody throughout the MCU have the ability to cease him?

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2025 MCU motion pictures typically do properly, however field workplace returns make sequels troublesome

Rewatching the MCU’s 2025 motion pictures on Disney+ made me understand how a lot I really like each Thunderbolts* and Unbelievable 4 First Steps , and that Sam Wilson may lead a greater film than Captain America: Courageous New World if Marvel determined to make a film centered on Sam Wilson. Nonetheless, sequels are a troublesome idea.

All three MCU movies underperformed on the field workplace, with Unbelievable 4: First Steps being the highest-grossing film with $521.9 million. Contemplating this staff simply debuted within the MCU and the Unbelievable 4 are the primary heroes, I imagine a sequel can be within the works. Nonetheless, Sam Wilson’s Captain America and Thunderbolts could not accomplish that contemplating their field workplace success.

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Hulk ought to have appeared in Captain America: Courageous New World

I might have preferred to have seen Sam Wilson firmly on the middle of Captain America: A Courageous New World, but when Marvel Studios was critical about filling the film with Hulk parts and characters, it will have made sense for Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner to look within the film. Because it seems, Hulk standalone film rights are difficult.

The Captain America film is the closest factor to an Unbelievable Hulk sequel we’ll ever get, and we missed the possibility for Hulk to work together with Purple Hulk, Liv Tyler’s Betty Ross, and Tim Blake Nelson’s Chief. Contemplating Ruffalo will return because the Hulk in Spider-Man: Model New Day subsequent 12 months, his absence makes much more sense on rewatches.

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‘Physician Doom’ wanted extra display time earlier than ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

Lastly, Physician Doom is surprisingly absent, a 12 months earlier than Robert Downey Jr.’s Victor Von Doom turns into the MCU’s important villain in Avengers: Doomsday. All 2025 MCU motion pictures arrange the following Avengers film in a roundabout way, however Doom solely seems within the post-credits scene of Unbelievable 4: First Steps, and we do not see Downey’s face.

Provided that the sequence had beforehand established Kang the Conqueror as the primary villain of the multiverse saga, it appears like Avengers: Doomsday ended up doing a number of the heavy lifting for Physician Doom in a film that includes Marvel characters. The 2025 MCU film might have completed a greater job establishing Doom, which turns into extra noticeable upon rewatching it on Disney+.