10 Ways Marvel Can Dominate Again 

“The one thing they love more than a hero, is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you’ve done for them, eventually they will hate you”

I’m glad John addressed those “losers” at the end of the video. You know who you are..

The problem with the new characters is it is just a stream of new characters. Before a new character would get introduced *and then get used again*. This relates to how they used to sign people to multiple film deals, not one n done.

That was the Super Bowl spot that came out that had 365 million views

33 fucking minutes? The answer is 3 words. Make good movies.

you forgot: "cut down on the silly comedies"

I think you missed a big one. Somewhat related to #8, they NEED to pick a small group of characters, and make us care about them. Iron Man was in 9 of the 21 Infinity Saga projects including 3 standalone movies. There has been nearly the same amount of projects since then and no stand out characters. They’re attempting to make us care about dozens of characters without fleshing out any of them. Shang-Chi was great. We should have seen him in at least another standalone movie and an Avengers movie by now.

-Focus the new phase on X-Men, FF4 and Spiderman. -Make D+ shows just for street characters with netflix quality (and stop having big changes in shows for the whole MCU) -Stop pushing agendas (cringe i know but its true) and alienating audiences. -CHANGE NAME OF “THE BLIP” -More stakes stop bringing everyone back or reversing stuff. -FIND TRUE FILM MAKERS WITH CHARM LIKE GUNN -Give eternals world another chance😢 for my GOT boys and the amazing visuals

I would love to see Moon Knight Season 2 and hopefully Werewolf by night could continue his story in that as well

If they dial back the tv series they can be interconnected like that, but having so many shows makes it impossible. The average person isn’t gonna watch 5 different shows in order to understand a movie.

When John whipped out the Southern accent i died🤣🤣🤣 it reminded me of Foghorn Leghorn "I say I say I say i'm DUSTING"😂

Everything John mentioned was (and is) ALREADY in play. He failed to mention the #1 thing that seems to be sabotaging ALL of it: writing! He loves Shogun, and even though not much happens in it, its so well written, it works, and has become a fantastic and gripping show to watch! Secret Invasion could have been good, if not for the inability to write proper character motivations. Let's be honest... Monarch was boring! 3-Body Problem was boring! Rings of Power was boring! All of which could have been saved in the writing. Without a properly written script, it's difficult for an audience member to root for the unlikeable or un-flawed characters. If we had quality along with the quantity we've had the past few years, we wouldn't be complaining. How did they go from making Samuel L. Jackson a badass in all of the movies to a lying and selfish jerk in his own TV show? Poor writing did it. Love the show you guys do, just thinking out loud.

id also like to add maybe they should go back to some street level stories and work there way up to the big galactic stuff. my favorite part of shang chi was when he was in san Francisco fighting guys on the bus.

Someday somebody needs to explain what was so great about Shang Chi. It seemed mid AF to me as a Marvel movie and especially as a martial arts film.

I also think Covid played a big role bc how are you gonna make the mcu keep going when people weren’t going to the movies post Covid

I trust Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and Shawn Levy

Marvels been on top for 10+ years, honestly I hope 2025 is DC’s year

We had a long enough period of Marvel domination. I hope Deadpool 3 is good. But beyond that, there's I feel no need to see things go back to the way they were 2019. Instead, we coudl be entering an era of auteur-driven blockbusters thanks to Nolan, Villenueve, Gerwig, Peele, and of course Cameron. I'd rather see more studd like theirs dominate in the coming years than have another decade of Superhero Shared Universe Everywhere.

“More mediocre to bad stuff” I’ll check that: 1: X-Men ‘97 (Phenomenal) 2: Loki (Phenomenal) 3: Guardians 3 (Phenomenal) 4: No Way Home (Amazing) 5: WandaVision (Amazing) 6: Wakanda Forever (Awesome) 7: Shang-Chi (Awesome) 8: Hawkeye (Awesome) 9: Black Widow (Great) 10: What If…? (Great) 11: Werewolf By Night (Great) 12: Moon Knight (Rlly Good) 13: Ms. Marvel (Rlly Good) 14: MoM (Good) 15: The Marvels (Good) 16: FATWS (Good) 17: Thor 4 (Okay) 18: GotG Holiday Special (Okay) 19: Eternals (Okay) 20: Quantumania (Meh) 21: Echo (Meh) 22: She-Hulk (Meh) 23: I Am Groot (Why?) 24: Secret Invasion (Why?)

This movie - in particular, OPENING NIGHT - will be fantastic. It will bring back that feeling of Infinity War and Endgame.

One of the things that made Marvel work was the constant state of anticipation. Each movie built up toward the bigger story and the expansion of the MCU. Now Marvel has lost that. Even a good movie like Spider-Man 3 or Guardians 3 or Shang Chi didn't create a sense of anticipation for what's next. I fear the same thing will happen with Deadpool. Part if the problem with the MCU movies and shows is that their interconnected nature is a selling point while pushing away potential audiences. One way to solve the problem is to release 2 weeks before every movie or show a short "last time on Marvel" video narrated by a beloved supporting character. So people will be able to catch up in a fun way without following every output.

Marvel Studios made possibly their biggest ever mistake by doing the multiverse saga now. They should have done a cosmic saga, then the mutant saga, THEN the multiverse saga. It’s too soon. For the cosmic saga Galactus should have been the main villain and fantastic 4 should have been brought in very early to be the main characters like iron man was and they should have had AT LEAST 2 movies before the next avengers movie so we get to know them just like Tony. Then they could have had all the stuff going on on earth during this saga aswell with Spider-Man, Black Panther, Sam Wilson etc. Wasted potential

1-Play ball with Sony to help produce the best product(loan out some of the characters). 2-More stand alone movies and shows. 3-Elseworld movies for the characters that are no longer part of the canon(e.g. grittier R rated Ironman, animated Captain America movie, Black Widow/Hawkeye video game). 4-Keep The Defenders serperate from The Avengers. Keep the same team that brought us the awesome shows from 10 years ago. With the same vision and feel. 5-Take a break from Multiverse stuff for atleast 8-10 years. 6-Introduce a Big Bad that would be the glue for the next phase. MEPHISTO and the accursed(Evil Doctor Strange, Hela, Dr Doom,Scarlett Witch and Agatha Harkness). Which would lead to the big bad of the next phase. Dr Doom, who claims The Heart of The Universe at the end of the next phase. Resulting all the heroes and villains banding together to try to stop Dr Doom from ending all of existence.

Totally agree!

Re: character deaths, in x-men: days of future past, it was poignant when Mystique saw the file of all the mutants' autopsies because it made clear the stakes that the government was doing everything to combat the "mutant threat."

But even Kevin Feige said his former boss forced him to push out as many Marvel movies as he could

22:55 | Get over yourself 25:38 | Spike Lee's next movie😂

Thanks John for this. I love these “Top 10” videos.

I agree with all your points john campea

22:15 is when John gives his rant about Transformers: The Movie. Ohhhhhhh how I cherished the classics. Thanks John 🤣

All great points.

This gushing of Deadpool 3 is setting up expectations way too high.

John been saying no one dies in the MCU but all the damn villians are dead. Stop it 🤣

As an avid Marvel fan that has read thousands of their comics, the problem Marvel is facing now is that it has burned through 90% of good storylines. With the extreme rare exception, anytime a comic book movie has distanced itself from proven material, it failed.

@JohnCampea 😂when you said…”I do declare ..!! It reminds me of loveless from Will Smith’s Wild Wild West

21:22 I agree John but the trick is to do that without a bunch of cameos in each movie. Cameos aren’t as fun anymore because there’s too many of them and not done well. Here’s an example you could connect movies maybe talk about the giant arm on the planet since The Eternals that it seems with every movie no one talks about.

It all comes down to: write good stories and make them look spectacular. I haven't lost faith and yeah I haven't been as excited but I try to remember they are movies and to have fun. Make them epic movies again and people will come back. Keep Disney+ shows for street level characters with less VFX as well.

Either you die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

14:53 the fact you have to ask is not a good sign 😂

The new home studio looks real nice

I do agree with John, and what the MCU should do to succeed in future film and series projects

I'm reminded of A.O. Scott's closing lines of his review for Revenge of the Sith, which I think applies to marvel as a well right now, "Movies end. Life goes on".

Ant-Man should've died in Quantumania.

The interesting thing about the MCU from my perspective, is they really have been producing good/great content at pretty much the same pace they have been since day one. The problem is that they doubled their output and far too many of those excess projects failed to hit the mark. I think it also really sticks in people’s minds when several of the more recent projects like Thor 4, She Hulk, Marvels and Secret Invasion are all in the conversation for the worst MCU project. I do think people are a bit too quick to forget that we’ve had some top tier MCU content like No Way Home, Guardians 3, and Wandavision, though. I also quite enjoyed Dr Strange 2, Shang Chi, Moon Knight, Loki, and Eternals, although I know opinions are more split on some of those. End of the day, I think the death of Marvel has been exaggerated to a certain degree, and they can definitely get back to their glory days if they just do a better job trimming the fat.

Give the Avengers a break and go full X-Men.

For me I think they need to bring back mentions of the old characters like bucky telling yela about Steve and thor explaining hawkeye about the guardians, plus Carol talking to strange about the multiverse and hulk and spider man talking about the incursions, and that etc, they really explain the story with daredevil and moon Knight

I completely agree with John, marvel hasn’t been the same. A movie hasn’t felt this hyped since end game. Knowing we are going to see Deadpool and Wolverine on screen makes heads turn on its own

I'm happy I'm one of the few who didn't jump on the bandwagon that Marvel was finished. They had a hiccup...big deal. I never had a doubt that both Marvel and DC will come back stronger with their movies. People forget that COVID did a number on everyone.

World War Hulk! That movie would crack a billion.

I think after endgame, we should’ve gotten a wind down of movies showing the aftermath and then dealing with Iron Man‘s death. And we should’ve in 2021 or 2022 gotten the first movie in the soft reboot featuring one of the X-Men as its main character followed by several other movies featuring X-Men sprinkled with other Marvel movies in between eventually leading to collaboration of X-Men by this point recasted or other world members of the avengers joined the 10 year plan ending with another endgame event. I feel like Marvel wants to re-create the success it had with endgame and infinity war, but they want to skip the build up. They forget it was pretty much a 10 year hype machine.

Completely agree with all of this. Especially the first two more obvious points. If they really slow down their frequency of movie releases and make each one a high quality film, they’ll get their reputation back. Maybe not to the levels of pre-endgame but I think they can get close.

Please tel me you guys will post the show even though it wasn’t live

As a black man i think the MCU should make every character a 40 year old white man 😂😂😂

A lot of the MCU's issues the last few years stemmed from Chapek's "quantity over quality" bs. Hopefully, the quality returns.

Idk what it is but this format feels much better than what you were doing

John I disagree about your take on Disney +. You do shows that culminate into a movie. Depends on the stories and execution. And you could also do a movie and then add depth and tell side stories (spin off) on Disney + based on the story laid out from the movie. It could work either way.

Hulk vs wolverine movie / spider man 4 being good / replace avengers with good new characters mixed with already known good characters/ make movies on what fans want to see

2, 4 and 8 !

Enough said John campea I 💯agree with everything you have said in this video including diversity because I have grown up let’s hope Kevin figie and bob iger see this video of yours

"Once you are at the top, the haters come out and try to bring you down". See, this is what happens with a lot of things that are popular. When you're the best, everyone else will hate you for it. The MCU had been one of the most popular franchises for a long time and it’s got to the point where people desperately what to see this franchise crumble.

Why do people act like Marvel is not still dominating? What movie studio right now is doing better than Marvel? Or even rivals it

Deadpool 3 looks like a lot of fun, but I’m not exactly shooting my lo*d over here. Marvel isn’t going to make a 180 anytime soon. They will be on decline for another 5-10 years.

Lets be real, Kang has never been a cool villian and was a pathetic replacement for Thanos. Trying to build a franchise around a lame villian with boring powers that old man cap can beat with a single punch was a bad idea.

10:25 plus secret Invasion bc that 💩 doesn't make sense to canon at all

I think make movies about your main characters but in between movies use your TV shows to tell fans what's going on between movies, it would increase intreat in shows and get people I terested in Dusney Plus ...but carefully orcastrate it to make it interesting story wise & build on the characters + their adventures 😅idk if it would work but if Enid people were involved and there was clear communication, and we didn't tie the hands of creatives making them add things they don't want to just to inter-connect things by have an overarching theme/ story points that get sowed into the idea of the shows/ films so it doesn't feel like a quick add on

😂😂 11:20 Ray dropping gems then surprised

It shouldn't feel like homework if it is good. If all the content was amazing people will want to watch it.

Point 8. Black Widow, No Way Home, Multiverse of Madness, Love and Thunder, Wakanda Forever, WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, Hawkeye, Quantumania, GOTG3, The Marvels, Secret Invasion all contained OG characters. Shang Chi, Eternals, Ms Marvel, She-Hulk, Echo contain new characters. Quite clearly there is more OG and new.

Regarding deaths in MCU, I only considered a fake death when the movie finishes with a character dead and in the next they come up with an excuse to ressurect them. That being said apart from the Snap, only Loki and Coulson come to mind, but Coulson it's kinda not canon.

I don’t think the Disney plus shows were a bad idea. They’ve just been ok or a straight up miss. And their run times make them feel cheap, and leaves the audience cheated. There’s no meat on the bones of the shows. And they go by so quick. Tv is bigger now than it’s ever been. It’s not a bad medium to extend the mcu in. But Disney has been trying to half ass it an expect fans to flock to it solely out of brand loyalty to marvel. Now I say if you’re gonna have 30 minute episodes then scrap that shit completely. The majority of the marvel Disney plus shows felt like movies split into 6 parts. I feel like they’re trying to do the shows and make them as cheap to produce as possible.

Multiverse Saga should have been about a multiversal team called the illuminati led by Dr. Doom who is going around destroying universes in the background of the movies until we get the movie universe and have a showsown

The difference is all the movies used to be made like a monster of the week TV show. They all had their own big bad and they all ended with a bow with a little bit of bigger avenger type stuff sprinkled in now every movie has to be this huge crossover event with multiple characters ,fan service And endgame like expectations . Endgame was a culmination of over 20 movies and dozens of individual stories.

Here’s a couple things I think they should do Stop introducing so many new characters- I like that the MCU wants to give us some new characters but they’ve just been doing way too much of it lately, it feels ever since Endgame we’ve gotten like 14 new characters and it’s only been 5 years since that movie, like John said, I think the smarter approach is by having a mix of the newcomers and the veterans to slowly usher us into the new age, but they’ve just been throwing us headfirst into the new age lately, introduce the Fantastic Four but keep Spider-Man around for a while, give us Blade but let us be with Ant Man for a bit longer, because it helps make the transition easier, I’m excited to see some of these new characters but I don’t want it to feel like the ones I’m familiar with are just going to immediately disappear once they’re introduced Don’t make the Disney+ shows essential to understanding the MCU- While I’ve enjoyed some of the ones they’ve put out I ultimately think that Marvel making the Disney+ shows was a mistake, partly because it felt like with a few exceptions like Wandavision or She Hulk most of the Disney+ shows just felt like MCU movies that they cut up and disguised as tv shows because they wanted to make a bunch of exclusive content for Disney+ when it was first starting out, but also because they’ve chosen to make the shows essential watches for understanding the story of the MCU, even though other than us movie fans most average moviegoers don’t watch these shows and thus they don’t understand some of the things they see in later MCU movies like who Ms Marvel is and things like that, I feel like the approach they should be taking is having the Disney+ shows be like side missions in a video game, where you have the option to do them if you want to, you can get a little more lore out of them as a result but they aren’t *ESSENTIAL* to the main story and you can still understand the whole story without doing them, that way the hardcore fans have some extra content if they want and at the same time none of the causal audience will be lost by not seeing it

Quicksilver's death doesn't even count, since they introduced him in that same movie and didn't really give us a chance to get attached.

It all starts with good writing...oh and Kevin. I'm actually really worried for the MCU, If "Special K" departs.....I don't see things going well for marvel. I personally hope Kevin stays and oversees the MCU for the foreseeable future. And then trains is successor.

You said you didn’t want stuff to connect then 5 minutes later you said you want them to connect 🤔😂 in my opinion, they need to be more picky about who gets D+ shows

Well here's the thing with D+. U first ought to have a grand overarching story of plan fr the next couple of yrs. Then, every project u release whether it's a movie or show ( although i really wouldn't call them shows. They really are just 4 hr movies) shld either be part of that storyline or seperate from it. In the sense they will still be inside the MCU but won't really play a role in this overarching story. They'll have their seperate adventures in self contained series.

What if you want to incorporate heroes from Disney + shows to movies? Let say Daredevil. What if you want him to be in the movies and interact with the other characters?

Werewolf By Night was Cool, they should do Disney Plus shows like that.

One other thing I think should’ve happened is , two different worlds when it comes to movies and shows. I would’ve loved if None of the shows on Disney+ existed . And instead, the first show we got from marvel was The Avengers 813 or whatever number they please, and for the show to be about the avengers from another universe recast everybody for tv . And then an X-Men also casted separately from the MCU with its own stories , We are grown up to enough to understand that the TV shows and the movies would be different universes and are no way connected, except they could’ve eventually led to secret wars, where we get characters from the TV shows and characters from the movies to fight each other lol

🤔 since we’re doing a multiverse saga they should’ve thought ahead and actually made the Disney plus shows in other universes with different actors. They own the IP so they can use the names and same costumes and save money while introducing the fans to the multiverse. I think that would’ve been cool.

The number is skewed. It's taking the Superbowl commercial viewership number. I believe the movie will hit the Billion dollar club. Excited for the movie but remember the trailer viewership number is skewed

He should do 10 ways The Leafs can dominate again 😆

New great John quote. “Ultra fuck you!!”

Actually 2 have stayed dead. Obadiah Stain/Iron Monger from IRON MAN has stayed dead and then yes, Quick Sliver for #2.

The transformers: the movie is a classic and the fans learned to love it.

26:15 Pietro, Gamora, Loki, Black Widow, Maria Hill, Aunt May, Yondu, Phil Coulson, Heimdall, Ajak, Ikiris, and Iron Man

black lawyer is HILARIOUS!!!

Now with avengers 5 and secret wars movies near the counter this the time to have incursions Deadpool and Wolverine will have a lot of incursions cause many heroes and villains are on the void and incursions will make people cry again like endgame or turning into spaghetti like Loki season 2 episode 6

Marvel said they bringing Wesley Snipes back as Blade in the Multiverse💥 that's a huge step going into the right direction..make more R rated comic book movies✔️ make great PG-13 movies again too!

Lol you? A Disney hater? Now thats hilarious 😂

I hope Kevin see this video 😅

Black Lawyer

It’s not that difficult. When you have all those comic book series and you KNOW what comic series sold more than others. You have the data on the characters and story lines marvel comic fans would want to see in live action. The big problem is not the amount of content coming out it’s the choice of character and story. Who cares about ms marvel? Or those fake new characters you created from Disney +? Go back to the source material and you’ll find stories and characters comic fans loved and would want to see on the big screen OR Disney +.

Just going back to making great movies would solve every problem.

John....if I superchat $100 can ypu make a video just on the 1986 Transformers movie?

I agree the streaming interlocking with the movies could make the causal movie blockbuster goer confused and what didn’t help was the roll out of the multiverse I still don’t get the ending of Loki or wtf happened his a tree 🌲 whoa ok huh ? And quantamania Kang confused people because they didn’t watch LOKI so there’s the problem interlocking with the shows just make movies and great script quality leave the streaming for special event movies or shows

Split the universes!!!! MCU and MTU!!!

Could Paradox be Doctor Doom?

22:56 That "Ultra-Fuck-You" got me🤣🤣🤣