Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars will close out Marvel’s Phase 6

Marvel announced today at San Diego Comic-Con a series of exciting announcements. These included the ending of Phase 4, and timelines and dates for Phases 5, and 6. Wakanda forever: Black Panther The MCU will close Phase 4 on November 11, 2022. Quantumania, Ant-Man & the Wasp Officially, Phase 5 is underway

The new plan includes Phase 6 which will be available with the forthcoming Fantastic Four Film, will conclude a year later by a double-header. Avengers: The Kang Dynasty And Secret Wars: Avengers. This is the first part of the two-parter. Kang DynastyWith the release of, May 2, 2025. Secret Wars coming Nov. 7, 2025.

Marvel didn’t announce any of the cast members or other creatives attached to these new Avengers movies, but a good portion of the Ant-Man 3 A panel addressed the threat Kang, played by Jonathan Majors, poses to wider MCU. “There will be conquering,” Majors told the audience at Hall H on Saturday, and there’s plenty of comics backstory to back him up.

Kang looks to be an even more formidable foe than Thanos, but there’s an even more cataclysmic inspiration for the final chapter in Phase 6. As comics editor Susana Polo wrote, Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars “evokes the granddaddy of all event comics, DC Comics’ Crisis on Infinite Earths, with a promise of universal armageddon and the mashing up of different parallel earths.” Hickman also played a significant role in reshaping the first family of Marvel, the Fantastic Four, so it looks like Phase 6 will see even more of his work brought to screen.

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