(The first paragraph is a preface of my point and can be skipped) To start, like most people on this subreddit, I've been following the MCU since the start of the release of the film series. The series of films majoritively has numerous strengths considering the ever-changing writers' styles and directors. (Most forgettably) also considering the circumstances of the characters the original writers put them in, along with the time period they were made. Not forgetting the period of economic position Marvel comics had at the time of the creation of the MCU, along with the REAL, active, and profoundly diverse world we live in where these LARGE groups of creatives try to sell a product all over the world for all ages. Though I think there are intensive problems these series of films have with its overall structure and status quo moving throughout these stories that we see

To be more current to the state of the "multiverse" (I will get into that later) saga, quite literally, what most of the saga feels like is about, and, yes, I will be talking about it later in this post. The supposed "lack of structure" unless you have been under a rock that part of the backlash of this saga seems to do with its very inherent lack of structure. Combining the lack of cohesive feel and structure that somewhat starkly contrasts the majority of the birthing of the universe's main players and the bottom of the house of cards that was the search for the MacGuffin, the infinity gauntlet, and its important pieces, the stones. Now to get into my main points amongst the search for the MacGuffin and intro of characters through cameos and the development of their brand of comedy that tries hard to reach all ages, the status quo of Marvel that runs INSANELY deep I'm the source material was ignored and now we have our current problem that is the "multiverse" saga. (Having 2 to 3 stories out of the current rum kinda connect the multiverse does not make that a need for a whole name)

Not talking about the very short stint that was 90% majority of villains from Ultron to Quicksilver, gorr, Yellow Jacket, dorrmomu, and, in some regard, Thanos. Marvel seems to reject the idea of connecting the films simply by establishing the hierarchy of their villains and their place within the pantheon. Along with the villain, Marvel seems to reject the cinematic potential that was the bastardized child, THE INHUMANS. Most readers must be shocked at the fact that I even mentioned this botched attempt at storytelling, but I must say this project should have been the full turning point of the Marvel cinematic universe. Throughout all my years of seeing all the critiques and theories and fan-proposed script changes, I have never seen any talk about the project in a way that argues how it should have been the foundation of our modern MCU. Now for the meat and potatoes: the MCU's main major problems all stem from its insecure attachment to its timelines.

Let me explain further for those in the back, from its period pieces to its time travel and its time jumps; this universe is made only by a few points, not particularly foundations. My argument is that Marvel's faith in this timeline and not the landscape of the universe are its major failures. For those uninitiated, the Inhumans are a group of people created by the Kree after the Celestials created the mutants, the Eternals, and the deviants. The Inhumans were then abandoned and created a flying city called Attilan. The most popular location this city was in was the dark side of the moon, and like the Eternals, they chose not to interfere with humanity and stuck to themselves. Now, at the current point in the MCU, when the Inhumans television series was made, not a lot of the Marvel cosmic mythos were established along with the Eternals or the mutants. My first argument for the Inhumans is to fully establish the Kree; they are connected with them, and in comics were made for the Kree and skull war. Secondly, in the show Secret Invasion, the Inhumans could be involved in the idea of all the superheroes on earth and other members of S.H.I.E.l.D. and maybe even S.W.O.R.D. (also could've been seen or introduced in the Inhumans also should've been all human not skulls but tomayto tomahto) Being skulls replacing people all over the community giving more cameos and making the inhumans more of a protector of earth and part of the overall community of heroes and maybe exposing terrigan mist to some people on earth who may or may not need it be an important part of their origin like the comic book cough cough

Thirdly, the Inhumans show very much should have been a very cosmic-heavy TV show to establish the foundation of the other half that is the Marvel 616 universe from its street-level side to its earth bond problems, the universe's vast number of races, empires, villains, and threats' that in the 616 universe are involved like every week. Most of the Earth's threats aren't really from the inside but from large celestial entities or villains that wish ill on Earth or its people. This brings in villains,Allies, different super teams, a different connection to space besides the guardians, plus a first defense against the invasion of Thanos (which, btw Thanos vs. black bolt, is never uncool to see). The cameo potential is vast and also introduces the idea of a people who have a vast variety of powers emerging out of no where that Marvel would be a testing for an idea Marvel has to tackle at this point and time, and this version doesn't have to interact or be on earth YET at all. Not to mention some of the inhumans' most notable earth connections is Marvel's first family, the Fantastic Four, again an team Marvel will, at the point of this post, is planning to introduce through the idea of the multiverse.

To explore my point once more, Marvel had the chance to possibly tease the idea of the celestials making genetic modifications to humanity before the Kree did, hinting at mutants and the future introduction of the Eternals. They even could have introduced an eternal or two. Play tested the introduction of the mutant population or mutant groups, hinted at the Fantastic Four, and from the evidence of X-Men 97 added element of the shi'ar, it seems modern Marvel studios don't mind sending people into space shenanigans. To throw extra sauce, they could have introduced the moon of Titan. where Thanos comes from, An eternal outpost that really should still be there and not destroyed in Thanos's trial period of testing "balance". Marvel seems to reject the idea entirely and loves to stick to its sacred timeline, almost quite literally. Rejecting new characters and new potentials for growth and for future projects or story's endings or projects to be major connecting pieces for other projects or arcs. A massive problem, arguably bigger but the same as this one, is Marvel's ignorance of the idea of street level.

Marvel comics for years and years have had heroes who have been at the front of its conflicts from the Fantastic 4 or Avengers and their mightiest and strongest heroes but the MCU has seemingly forgotten the motif of street level and the intelligence hierarchy that affects heroes and villains trading sides and doing things based on the "smart move" or interest based on knowledge. A lot of the 616 Characters are vastly intelligent, making the plans and devices that stop the villains. Marvel not only takes away this broader characterization from characters who typically are extraordinarily intelligent in comics but only gives this attribute to 2 MCU characters. Tony Stark and Bruce Banner majorly make the intelligence type they possess in the comics slightly accurate, but it leaves out a lot more than is on the table like most of the MCU does. Marvel rejects Spider-Man's intelligence alongside tchallas leadership and extraordinary tactical and technological intelligence. I love the character of Shuri, but you don't need to give her the traits Tchalla should have. I don't really wanna rant too much on what I PERSONALLY believe is the slight misinterpretation that is the character of Peter Parker and the ethos that is Spider-Man from his kindness and his connection to almost literally every major Marvel character (not Ironman throughout all his connections with heroes and VILLIANS TOO) to his sacrifices and his strength, skill, and overall his innovations, intelligence, and originality that come with his Witter nature, but I digress he is unequivocally the poster boy of marvel comics street level branded heroes.

The MCU so far hasn't done a bad job with street heroes, but the only element that is missing is its major banding together to fix the overall problem that happens at the top of all major problems in the world of Marvel. alongside the abundant but average bank robber or crime syndicate or assassins messing with major governments or the overall missing aspect in the MCU of corporations messing with the aspects of the superheroes' society to make a buck. Marvel does introduce Hammer in Iron Man 2 and the idea of people wanting to copy or steal Tony's tech. which is great on behalf of Marvel, but truly, we should have gotten A.I.M alongside Hammer as well. Marvel would introduce damage control as an antagonist,t and the corrupt government side of Marvel that street-level heroes deal with and band together to stop the plans of all the time in comics. This leads to X-Men stories where all those things are the main antagonist of their stories, the government and corruption going against super-powered beings. This also has been done pretty much well in all of the X-Men films, so it works. Marvel just again ignores the overall landscape of their world and just drops characters where and almost whenever.

To me, with these things probably done, Marvel would be able to extend and explore more of the universe and its villains and heroes alongside introducing untapped elements Marvel is now and very much is introducing. Even if they couldn't introduce these elements in some alternate present they really wouldn't have to change anything. I know this was long, and I skipped over major ideas of Marvel not being in full control of the Inhumans show, plus maybe not knowing how the Fox merger would go, but they still obviously were planning this and had a deal with Sony with Spider-Man. I have a lot of ideas of how Marvel should have handled villains, as I know a lot of people do, and how they should've just written better stories or just straight-copied the homework that they straight up own. Not a lot of comic stuff is translateable to large audiences, but most of my points have been done already in larger media like movies and easily could've been done in Marvel but just straight-up ignored throughout the years. Just one extra thing I also have some ideas on how Marvel just fully took a poopy on their magic side, but that truly js forgotten about besides Agatha. Anyway, I know this was Hella long. I don't know who will read this or if anyone ever did but thank you. I appreciate it. I hope people have some cool and fun discussion in the comments. thank you.