The Beginning After The End: What Happened After The Endgame? (TV Series Edition)

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Filipinos are avid fans of superhero films, we all love the concept of saving the world from the bad guys using super strength, the ability to fly, move objects through our minds, or any other out-of-this-world powers acquire from objects that came from outer space or a human experiment. It shows how we highly appreciate this kind of movie genre when the 2nd highest-grossing film of all time, Avengers: Endgame earns a total of $32,839,486 in our country in 2019.

Avengers Endgame (2019) was part of The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), it is an American media franchise and shared universe centered on a series of superhero films produced by Marvel Studios. There are currently 27 movies, 7 TV series (currently divided into 4 phases), and many more future projects in this franchise.

Last April 24, marked the 3rd year since moviegoers last heard "Avengers Assemble!" the famous line Captain America (Chris Evans), on the big screen. Endgame was the last movie of the infinity saga in phase 3 of the MCU, this movie indeed, ended an era as the Earth-616 loses its two original Avengers, Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Iron

Man (Robert Downey Jr.)

The most anticipated question after the last Avenger movie is "What will happen after the Endgame?". Some fans think that what may come next might not be as good as the former movies, however, the brilliant mind of Marvel's Producer Kevin Feige is invincible. Marvel Studios start to produce TV series featuring the life of the surviving heroes after the Battle of Earth.

Beginning of an Era

(Official WandaVision Series poster )

The first installment in phase 4 of MCU is called Wandavision, it highlights the story of Wanda Maximoff A.K.A Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany). The 9 episode series is set three weeks after the Blip (Hulk's snap). After the Battle of Earth, Wanda goes back to Wakanda to retrieve the body of the vision but Sentient Weapon Observation and Response Division (S.W.O.R.D) already evacuated and dismembered the body of her lover.

A full of grief Wanda retrieved vision from S.W.O.R. D’s headquarters, knocked out some guys, and fly away. Because of too much pain and sadness as she can't detect any life on Visions' body, she accidentally unleashed chaos magic leading the whole town of Westview in New Jersey lies under her reality-warping power. Maximoff creates an alternate reality where she lives a normal life with Vision, has two twin kids, and with her now-alive brother, Pietro Maximoff.

The whole series tackles one of the most controversial issues of the present time—mental health. Wanda suffers from grief and trauma that keeps knocking her down and clouding her decisions. She uses her power to alter reality as a response to her trauma by bringing back all the loved ones she lost. The audiences who suffer from trauma relate to Wanda and the amount of love this series got is insane. Fans also think that this series gets Wanda the closure she deserves from all the passing of her friends and families.

In the end, she chooses to stop and defeat the true evil in the west view, Agatha Harkness who is using dark chaos magic, the one who deceived her to become a villain. With the help of her imaginary family and some people outside the Westview, she shut down the villainess, frees the town she hostages, and fled the scene.

The New Bearer

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Marvel Fans are left in shock after the Endgame, as America's greatest captain Steve Rogers, chooses to travel back in time and spend most of his life with his beloved Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell). The Dilemma now is that he ages and needs to find a new Captain America, the bearer of the shield with stripes and stars. With James " Bucky" Barnes's a.k.a The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) approval, he chooses Sam Wilson a.k.a The Falcon (Anthony Mackie) to take over but this is just the start of a new story.

The Falcon and The Winter Soldier was the second TV series in MCU Phase 4. It features the struggle of Sam Wilson and his journey as the appointee of Steve Rogers together with the former captain's best pal, Bucky.

The series is set a few months after the Blip, Sam decided to surrender the shield to the government since he felt undeserving. Bucky convinces him to respect Steve's last will but then it's too late since the government finds a new Captain America, John Walker. After 50% of humanity was restored, the government reinstated the borderline, resulting in a surge of refugee and homeless people.

Thus, the anti-nationalist group The Flag Smashers was born. Karli Morgenthau founded this group in the quest to give justice to the poor and affected families.

Falcon and Bucky jump on a private mission to gather information about the said group at the same time, Walker, together with his loyalist group also tries to bring down the group. In shock, soldiers discover that Karli's group takes a super-soldier serum making them hard to defeat.

This series got numerous hates since it tackles racism, Sam Wilson can't accept the responsibility of being the new Captain America since black people are poorly treated in their homeland and he doesn't want to taint the reputation of the former by being a black replacement to a perfect white, blonde, blue-eyed Captain America.

In the end, Sam finds himself training to be the next Captain America. Embodying the characteristic of the captain, he finally understands what the Flag Smashers fighting for. In the end, he stands for the people and not for the government by giving justice to Karli's death and voicing out what his people needs.

Unending Mischief

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After Tony and Scot (Paul Rudd) failed their mission on the Endgame, a captive Loki (Tom Hiddleston), brother of Thor (Chris Hemsworth) gets a chance to escape with the tesseract. Playing with the timeline gets an enormous punishment and this is what Loki gets because of his mischievousness.

Loki was the third TV series in Phase 4 of the MCU, it was set in an unknown timeline since the time in Time Variance Authority (TVA) headquarters has unspecified time. Loki was again caught after he disturb the sacred timeline as he uses the tesseract to escape the Avengers.

While being captive, he gets a chance to work with the TVA as they need to help to capture a dangerous variant named Sylvie (Sophia Di Martini) a woman variant of Loki. Throughout the series, Loki faces unending mischief tasting his antics.

Depression and Self-love were greatly tackled in the series earning its spot as the most-

watched TV series and won numerous awards. The audience reception was great that

the producer decided on a season 2. In the end, this series opens new possibilities for bigger enemies. The mischief Loki and Sylvie commits results in a multiversal disturbance endangering the safety of the whole multiverse.

Retirement plan went wrong

(Official Hawkeye Series Poster)

Hawkeye was the fourth TV series in Phase 4 of MCU, it features the journey to retirement

of Clint Barton (Jeremy Rener) as he suffers from survivor's guilt and permanent damage

hearing.

Devastated from Natasha's death, Clint has a simple mission, spend his Christmas with his family. Yet, everything went wrong as Barton's past starts to haunt him as his alter personality, the Ronin starts to resurface again. Clint was worried about who was wearing his vigilante suit, amidst the forthcoming disaster, he sends his family away and miss the whole Christmas week with them.

As he starts to track down the culprit, he encounters the Tracksuit Mafia who is also hunting the fake Ronin. Hawkeye soon discovers that his avid fan, Kate Bishop (Hailey Stanfield) was the one who was wearing the suit. He keeps Kate safe from the people he did wrong but their fate starts to collide as Natasha's sister, Yelena is in full-revenge mode as her employer dictated that it was Clint who killed his sister. It turns out that it was Kate's mother who hire Yelena to kill Barton, who also is working for the Kingpin.

The series gives justice to Clint’s character as fans start to appreciate him now more

than before. In the end, Clint gives Yelena closure to her sister's death and as a bonus,

they bring down the Kingpin, the king of all the crimes in New York-in their knowledge, but it opens a new story for the upcoming show, Echo.

A New Light

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Moon Knight recently ended perfectly as MCU fans love the new characters introduced by this series. The story revolves around Marc Spector ( Oscar Isaac) who has dissociative identity disorder or DID, he has two alter, one name Steven Grant who works at the museum and thinks that he owns the body and the other one is Jake Lockley a hired killer. They are drawn into a mystery involving Egyptian Gods, Specifically Khonsu the Egyptian God of the moon.

Together with his wife Layla El-Faouly, Marc uncovers the mind-wrenching truth about Arthur Harrow's ( Ethan Hawkeye) plan to summon Ammit the Egyptian Deity with Evildoings. To stop this, Marc should trust his alters and walk down his memory lane to fully understand the root cause of his DID in order to be one.

This series did not only introduce new heroes but also showcase a fresh perspective on Egyptian culture. A new light indeed.

The Future Plans

Currently, Marvel Studios is preparing for more action-packed and fresh from the comics

movies, and TV series. Ms. Marvel who's currently on the run was greatly appreciated by the fans as it introduces Muslim myth and culture. In the half of 2022, they will release, She-Hulk, I am Groot, Secret Invasion, Iron Heart, and Armor Wars while Echo, Agatha: House of Harkness, Spider-Man: Freshman year and Marvel Zombies are set to release in 2023.

Marvel is not dead and it is clear as the fans continue to consume this superhero movie. Despite the death of our favorite superheroes they give us new characters that we can look up to. Marvel continues to create movies and series with a lesson we can actually relate to as they dive into more diverse characters, cultures, and societal issues. Less the powers and fictional aspects, this movie is now more realistic and relatable.