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Let me know what you thought of Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Did it live up to your expectations? And what do you think is going to come out of those two end credit scenes? And how do you think Shang Chi is going to play into the MCU going forward as a character? Will he join an Avengers team?

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There are a lot of questions left to be answered in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Let me know who you think the Power Broker is going to be. And who this mystery cameo that the show runner wanted to see with Thor and is going to be emotional. There are a number of options, but I’d love to hear what you all think. You can let me know in the comments below. Or you can tweet your ideas to me over @TheScando or with #10MinMarvel.

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I’m trying something a little bit different with the news, go through a rundown of the latest and backlog of news that I have, so we might get more news faster at the start of each episode if they keep giving me a lot.

• No More Tigra and Dazzler or Howard The Duck shows
• Falcon and the Winter Soldier moves up
• CMON creating a Marvel board game, coming to kickstarter
• Scott Derrickson out of Doctor Strange 2
• Captain Marvel 2 in preproduction

Plus, I still tackle a main topic where I look at the origins of Mandarin and see how he compares as a character to what we’ve already had hinted at in the MCU in Iron Man.

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Marvel and Disney announced when we’re getting a whole bunch more Marvel movies in 2022 and 2023, there’s some interesting things with that announcement, though, not the titles of the movies.

Plus, Disney+ is out there and I decided the first show that I was going to watch was the 1994 animated Iron Man series. Does the show hold up, is it a good show, is there anything you might be able to get from it for the upcoming Shang-Chi movie? You’ll have to listen to find out.

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But let’s talk about what we do know thus far. The big thing is that we have all of Phase 4 out there, and that takes us up through the end of 2021. We also know that Kevin Feige has hinted at more coming at possibly the Disney Expo (D23).

Let’s start in May of 2020. We are starting with Black Widow, and there was some footage, which I haven’t found yet. But in that footage, I know that it was Budapest, a couple of fight sequences, including one against Taskmaster. Taskmaster is a mysterious sleeper agent character, if you are wondering, and probably one of the bad guys, though he switches sides at times. Also in this movie, we have Rachel Weisz, David Harbour, and Florence Pugh.

Next, on Disney+ streaming, we have The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. No official date for that yet, but it is slated for Fall of 2020. Remember, next year we are only getting two Marvel movies, but then in 2021 we’ll be back to 3. The main characters are back for this, but did didn’t find out a ton of information.

To wrap up 2020, we have The Eternals. A book written by Neil Gaiman, I have to go back and read it again. But we do know a lot of the cast for Eternals. We have Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Salma Hayek, Bryan Tyree Henry, Dong-seok Ma, Lia McHugh, and Lauren Ridloff.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is next on the docket. We have some casting for this with Awkwafina cast and Simu Liu playing the lead Shang-Chi. We also have Tony Leung playing the real Mandarin. What does it mean for Iron Man 3? There was actually a Marvel Short where they talked about and said that there was a real Mandarin, and in Iron Man (the original one), we see the Ten Rings.

The next two I’m going to lump together, we start out with WandaVision. We don’t know much about it except that Monica Rambeau is going to be in it. And we also know that it ties into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. In Doctor Strange, we are going to have the Scarlet Witch, and it’s going to be a Marvel foray into horror, which I think is really interesting. Again, I have some thoughts on this, but they will be on 10 Minute MarveL (#10MinMarvel).

Then we are getting a Loki show on Disney+ later that year. In Avengers: Endgame we see Loki escape from the first Avengers movie. So what does that mean for him, and where is he going, who knows? But there has been rumors it might be him hopping around time.

After that, we get What If…?. The What if comics have generally taken a classic story and written it differently, like what if the bad guy had won in Age of Ultron. We know that Jeffrey Wright is going to voice the Watcher. The Watcher is an extraterrestrial being/race that watches over the universe (and possibly multi-verse) watching what happens. It sounds like we’ll get actors reprising roles for this Disney+ series. This is slated for the summer of 2021.

Then we have Hawkeye. We know a couple of things, or can infer them, first the logo is similar to Matt Fractions run in the comics. They have also confirmed that we are getting Kate Bishop who takes over as Hawkeye at times.

Finally, wrapping up the Phase 4 announcements, we have Thor: Love and Thunder. What we know about this is that we are getting Lady Thor from Jason Aaron’s Mighty Thor run. And that Lady Thor is likely going to be Natalie Portman who will be back in her role as Jane Foster.

Woof, that’s a lot of news. But I got through it. They also announced that Blade will be coming up sometime, and we have an actor to play Blade in Mahershala Ali.

And the last thing that came out of Hall H at San Diego Comic Con, was that Kevin Feige commented that they hadn’t even gotten to Black Panther 2 and Captain Marvel 2, as well as Fantastic Four and Mutants.

There is so much to speculate on, expect this to dominate the news on 10 Minute Marvel, and I might do some episodes about speculation, because we now have a lot to speculate on.

So, what do you think of this Marvel Phase 4 announcement? Is there any show or movie that you are interested in more than the others? For me it’s the WandaVision/Doctor Strange combo, I think that could be something very different for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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So let’s talk about this list. Starting at the top and going down.

1. Avengers: Endgame – It’s hard to say that this movie isn’t the best one. it wraps everything up nicely and it’s just amazing action throughout. Clearly I’ve been thinking about it and l am going to see it again. Rarely does a movie feel like it hits all the right notes like Endgame does.
2. Avengers: Infinity War – I like this movie for it’s shock value, I like it for Thanos as a villain, I like it for everything that it does. It also hits it out of the park, and we get to see the first of the team-up of Thor and the Guardians of the Galaxy which should be fun, hopefully, in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol III.
3. Thor: Ragnorak – I can watch this movie whenever. It has a blend of humor and action and is the only Thor movie to use Immigrant Song from Led Zepplin. Chris Hemsworth just plays comedy so well.
4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol I – I think this one is so high because it showed that Marvel could do something that was primarily comedy. Yes, there is action in Guardians of the Galaxy, but really it’s more about the humor. They also were able to get heart into this one.
5. Spider-Man: Homecoming – Peter Parker is one of my favorite, if not my favorite superhero. I grew up watching the early 90’s Spider-Man cartoon, so there’s nostalgia, and the original Spider-Man movies I liked, even kind of liked the mess that the third one was. But this is by far the best Spider-Man movie, and they really nail the feeling of Peter Parker in the MCU.
6. The Avengers – Hard not to put the original team-up movie up high. The battle of New York is just great, and Loki makes such a good villain. We also get to see the good Hulk really show off in this movie. We also get to meet so many characters that are important as well, like Maria Hill, Hawkeye, and really get to know Black Widow for the first time.
7. Iron Man – The original MCU movie. This movie just hit perfectly with Robert Downey Jr. playing a great Tony Stark. It was an origin story that started Marvel’s trend of creating really human and relatable characters as you see Tony from the start, at his weakest. The main villain might be underwhelming, but Robert Downey Jr. makes that not matter.
8. Thor – Way higher than most people will have it, but I love Thor. I think that it actually does a good job being a Thor movie that feels like the comics as well. You get some team-up of Asgardians, and you get to see Thor out of place. Plus Loki is always a good thing. I don’t think Hemsworth had hit his stride with the character yet though.
9. Ant-Man – Probably a lot higher than a lot of people have it. Again, I thought the villain was underwhelming, but the family comedy feel for this movie just works. Scott Lang, played by Paul Rudd, is just great, and you get good sight gags, and action that is done in an interesting way.
10. Doctor Strange – This one is an interesting story, probably where we see the first drop off of movies that I really like to just like quite well. Benedict Cumberbatch does a good job as Strange and you get some interesting action throughout. It also didn’t have a big fight at the end against the final boss which was fun and interesting.
11. Avengers: Age of Ultron – James Spader as Ultron works great. Getting to see Vision, Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver is amazing, I love adding them in. This also really doubles down on the infinity stones. I also like it, because this movie is key to Tony Stark’s character arc and sets up Thor: Ragnorak by giving us some great Hulk and Black Widow scenes.
12. Ant-Man and the Wasp – I really like Ghost, but I thought that overall this movie wasn’t quite as fun as the first Ant-Man. Michael Pena is amazing in this movie, as well as the first Ant-Man movie. I suspect I’ll like this movie more on a second viewing, only watched it once thus far.
13. Iron Man 3 – Do they do the Mandarin wrong? Yes, in some ways. Mainly I say yes, because it could have been some other random bad guy, not someone as big as Mandarin, in terms of the comics. However, I think it works for the movie, and the end fight is great and exciting.
14. Captain America: Winter Soldier – First Captain America movie on the list, and definitely the best one in my opinion. I really like the twist the SHIELD is Hydra, and I think it would be fun to see some sort of Secret War angle for Nick Fury to lead a covert SHIELD and be battle Hydra still behind the scenes. Also, we get to see Cap conflicted about Bucky and deal with that.
15. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol II. – Probably another one that I need to see again, but it feel a bit flat for me. The biggest thing was Ego that part of the story just felt weird and off to me. I don’t know how they’d have been able to pull it off differently, but it felt like there should have been a better way.
16. Black Panther – Probably a lot higher for a lot of people, but I have a major issue with this film. The writing for Black Panther, himself, was bad. It wasn’t acted very well and it just didn’t work. Then you have Michael B. Jordan stealing the show. The look and tone were great for a Black Panther movie, but when the main character and his love interest are both the most boring characters in the movie, it’s going to fall very flat.
17. Captain America: The First Avengers – I’m not a huge fan of this movie. I think out of all of the origin story movies, it feels most like an origin story. However, Red Skull is a villain that I like, and I like that they’ve been able to kind of bring him back. Captain America just doesn’t have much character development as compared to say Iron Man.
18. Captain Marvel – Probably another one that surprised a lot of people. I got one issue, and I talked about it in my spoiler review of Endgame, but Captain Marvel is too powerful for the MCU. She isn’t a character that you can use often because you have to have an Infinity Stone to slow her down I guess? Maybe they can save her character by nerfing her powers now that the infinity stones are destroyed and it would make sense? Also, Brie Larson, I like you as an actress, but you didn’t feel like a super hero in this movie.
19. Captain America: Civil War – Aka. Captain America and Iron Man fight over Bucky. Sokovia Accords, what are those? This is about Bucky, with a side of Bucky, and a little bit more Bucky after that. That is why this movie falls so flat for me, while others like it. Sure there is a bit about the Accords in there, but when you really get down to it, Captain America spends more of his time fighting Iron Man because of Bucky than the Accords.
20. Iron Man 2 – I don’t think this is a horrible movie, but it just falls flat. Whiplash as a villain isn’t all that compelling, but like the rest of the Iron Man movies, it is often more about Tony fighting himself than it is about Iron Man fighting a bad guy. Just wish the bad guy had been a bit more compelling.
21. Thor: The Dark World – Chris Hemsworth did fine in this movie that really didn’t know where it wanted to go. However, Natalie Portman who had been okay in the first movie clearly is phoning it in on this one. I also don’t think they did a great job with the Dark Elves. Loki was entertaining, but not in it enough.
22. The Incredible Hulk – Haven’t seen it. That will change this summer, but sorry Edward Norton, you don’t interest me as the Hulk. There are only two hulks, Lou Ferrigno and Mark Ruffalo.

Now, what do you think of this list? I’m sure that there are some, mainly Civil War that people will have much higher on there lists, but you’re wrong. Wait, this is a list of what I like, so you can put them where ever you want in your list and enjoy them. Let me know what your rankings are in the comments below.

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