Top 5 Marvel Phase 4 FAILURES 

The fact that she thinks making a garbage show like She-Hulk and then predicting we would all call it garbage is somehow clever is really emblematic of the absolute state of Marvel writing.

She-hulk writers were so smart they outsmarted themselves out of a second season. Genius stuff

I like how the actor for Carter came out and said she was mad and annoyed they would bring her back just to kill her off immediately in a dumb way.

Can we just pretend that phase 4 was just a dream that Thanos had as he was dying?

What they’ve done to Taskmaster is still one of the most sinful acts ever committed

Amazing how we went from, "which MCU film is the best?" for the earlier phases to, "which of these are the most terrible?" now with Phase 4 and on.

Can't help but feel Feige should take a decent chunk of the blame for this. After all he's the one that hires everyone, especially the ones who've never read a comic

What just baffled me about this entire mess that was Phase 4 was the writers and directors (to a one, NOT comic book fans) who seemed to actually TAKE PRIDE in blaming the fans for their failures. Incredible.

Gary you had me laughing out loud you said "A film we were told would save lives, and it did fewer people risked getting into their cars to go see it." Well done sir..🤣

You have just highlighted all the reasons why I haven't watched anything Marvel since Infinity War. Well done sir.

I'm a casual comic book nerd. I will never forgive Disney for what they did to my childhood heroes

Hearing about the scientist lady in Black Widow INSTANTLY brought to mind comparisons to Doctor Halsey from the Halo franchise. Like that character, Halsey was a scientist who conducted insanely unethical experiments on countless kidnapped children, ruined their lives, and eventually got them killed. And yes, the main character pretty much forgives her for it. The difference is, the entire rest of the galaxy doesn’t - she’s considered the biggest war criminal on the human side and constantly goes back and forth between ranting about how her actions were necessary, and being utterly broken by what a monster she realizes she is. And while John does forgive her, it’s made very very clear that he’s not exactly in the best mental state to be doing so and can’t weigh the situation objectively. Same basic setup, but man is one done better than the other.

Natasha severing a nerve IN HER BRAIN by smashing her head into a desk is a good analogy for Disney Marvel. Loki getting kicked in the groin, over and over, by female Loki, is one for fans.

This was more entertaining than actually watching all of those ‘movies’. The phase five dive is alive.

The best video I ever see about the real destruction of a franchise and the toxic and destructive woke agenda from those crazy activists controlling Disney. Bravo nerdrotic and his production team!!

10:46 “A film we were told would save lives, and It did. Fewer people risked getting into their cars to go see it.” Had me rollin 💀

It's alarming that Jessica knew she hulk would suck 3 years ago And did absolutely nothing to fix her mess But I'm sure she couldn't even do that if she tried😂

Not saying you're lazy Gary.. but lets face it, this could be a 10 part series.

As a latina female.....this is 100% accurate. The formula was right before. A place where characters like gamora & blackwidow stood out, and where equals to their male counter parts..im so tired of disneys, and marvels agenda. I loved sci fi to tune out all the bs and escape..now we cant even do that.

Best thing to come out of She-Hulk was Nerdrotic using the title theme from "No One Lives Forever" in the background of this roast-piece. LOVE that game!

“Saved lives by having fewer people drive to the movies.” 😂 A masterful video.

In Loki there was a scene where he fought numerous guards with the boss-guard being a woman. I knew at that point that he will lose. And he did. Then the female Loki entered the room. And I knew, she will one-punch all the remaining men. And she did. Great movie-design, when the result of any action scene can be determined by gender and skin color alone.

This was amazing and a million times more entertaining than anything Disney puts out

Why would you hire a director, that doesn't read comic books, to direct a comic book movie?? That's like hiring a director that doesn't like contact sports to direct a football movie.

I was really hoping that Sylvie would reveal herself to be the Enchantress who just pretended to be female Loki because she thought the only person Loki would fall for would be himself.

I was very annoyed how Taskmaster in black widow was done. In the comics he's a jive talking, fun merc and henchman trainer that can copy your moves just by watching you. He knows almost every martial art, and had the potential of fighting black widow with all the styles of the avengers... and they did to him what they did to Deadpool in Wolverine. Completely removed his defining features and made him a blank slate genderswap. I'll rattle through the others: Loki felt like Marvel Rick and Morty so I never saw it, and it proved to be a good idea. When She-Hulk rolled around I'd seen the pattern emerging from super hero content and had long ago parachuted to safety, it was worse beyond my initial preconceptions and it confirmed to me that Rick and Morty style californian cynicism masquerading as comedy and 2016 ghostbusters style attacks on the audience were going to be the standard going forward. I didn't even know the Eternals movie existed until it was tanking in its 2nd week. And Dr. Strange MOM is only worthy of dissection for film students like how a med student needs to cut into cadavers to learn what not to do.

The problem with the MCU and female characters is that they don’t introduce them as flawed but still likeable people who by the end of their film/show have matured and grown, but instead it introduces them already knowing how “cool” and “amazing” they are and expect you to just accept it. Why should I get invested in a character in a piece of media when they don’t have any struggles to overcome or lessons to learn. I want the MCU to have likeable female protagonists who have to be humbled and matured through experience and trials. Not “female character who is already great and everyone around them has to learn how great they are”

On Loki they tried so hard to make the lady Loki be the best, but ended up making kid loki and classic loki better.

Gao called her haters "boring and predictable" skipping over the fact they were apparently important enough for her to make the effort to predict them in the first place.

You put more work into making sure these videos have a clear, easy to follow assessment of the MCU than the MCU puts into the writing of their movies

Tbf, "DS in MoM" should be titled "America Chavez and madness of Scarlet Witch"

I stopped complaining and getting upset about any property that blames the consumer when the property fails. Misread I just don’t spend my money on any of them and occasionally watch RU-vid videos that make fun of them. It’s working out pretty well so far.

The only thing I've seen after End Game has been the Spiderman movie. You guys are saving a lot of us, not only from wasting our time but from having our memories of previous Marvel movies tarnished. I've actually gotten back into collecting old comics. Even the dumbest of the episodic stories were better written than this claptrap and you can pick up a lot of the old comics for less than the street price of current comics!

A fun, and oddly applicable fact, that I learned this week. During the shooting of the Count Dooku fight scene against Yoda, Christopher Lee's legs physically couldn't keep up with some of the shots. So Lucasfilms superimposed Christopher Lee's face over the stunt doubles in some shots. And those super-imposed edits back in 2002 looks better than the superimposition in Black Widow - in 2020.

I was expecting the big bad of Black Widow to be Madame B, after all in AoU in Natasha's visions we saw Madame B not Dreykov. So disappointing.

Thank you very much for editing and making youre vids man. Love them❤

Dr. Strange was my favorite character, loved his arc and his first movie can stand all by itself. After seeing Dr. Strange 2 and how they completely gutted his character, powers, emotional maturity, and abandoned any sense of logic I have no desire to watch any more superhero movies ever.

"It saved lives because fewer people risked getting in their cars to go see it" awesome line!

"We started writing She Hulk 3 years ago." 3 years for that? How embarrassing, though that irony is lost on her I imagine.

Since when are Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America B-List characters?? They, and the Hulk, are the A-listers The Eternals, Kang, Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers), Madame Webb, and Monica Rambeau are C-List characters.

What they did to Loki is criminal. Just like they did with Chris Hemsworth and Thor, the writers took Tom Hiddleston's natural charisma and easy humor and turned Loki into the butt of every joke. Loki: a character with a dark history full of trauma and pathos, played by a genuinely good actor who OWNED the role. It's Love and Thunder-level failure for the small screen

Congrats Disney, a decade of building the MCU and it only took you 2 years to break it.

I don’t need to say “M-She-U”. I can just say “a few of these projects suck” like an adult.

This makes me so glad I checked out after Endgame. I imagine this feeling is like selling all your shares of a company at the highest possible stock price right before the company tanks, while watching all the naysayers ride the stock into the ground as they shame you for getting out at the right time. 😊 P. S. I did the same with Dr. Who after Matt Smith left. 😂

The fact you managed to whittle it down to only 5 was impressive 😂

The fact they had Rick and Morty writers for a significant amount of these shows and movies actually explains a lot.

"...filled with butt puckering cringe only to be interupted by eyewatering boredom..." maybe the most hilarious sentence I've heard in a long long while :D

The MCU died after Endgame. "Spider-Man: No Way Home" and "Shang-Chi" were good, but I didn't even watch "The Marvels" and "Secret Invasion," and I only watched about an episode each of "Moon Knight," "Ms. Marvel," and "She-Hulk." I even cancelled my Disney+ membership a month or so ago.

Love how Gary can make a more entertaining show in 20 minutes than anything on disney m she u . I'm looking at you mpower.

As someone who worked at Marvel Studios from Spider-Man : Homecoming through Spider-Man : Far From Home, I can honestly say that my departure was one of the most fortunate events in my life. I would be embarrassed to see my name in the credits of the mess they called Phase 4. I really feel bad for the people working there and while I did have several light conversations with Kevin Feige and believe that he really is a nice fellow, one of the issues people are not aware of is that when Disney decided to spin-up Disney+, they put an amazing level of stress on the 150 people who make up the business side of Marvel Studios. When they shifted from two to three movies a year, it was tough. Adding in three to five TV shows a year for additional content to make Disney+ a potential success really broke the environment. One of the last things I did in very early pre-production was set up the file storage environment for "Blue Bayou" which became Black Widow. This was late 2018 and was well before Covid derailed Hollywood. It really is sad but when you need someone to truly blame, look no further than Disney. They are poison and have managed to destroy Marvel, Pixar and Lucasfilm.

She-Hulk is so bad and they're still trying to get it nominated for 19 Emmy Awards. Bad thing is, it'll probably win some. Why? Because our world has gone stupid.

The John Malkovich edits in the dishonorable mentions segment (12:48) had me in stitches 😂

The sad thing about the she hulk production is that not only do they conflate the normal fan with the toxic ones, the failure of the show will follow them when they look for more writing gigs. And they’ll never realize why

The Loki part made me think of drinkers use of “really accommodating stunt men”

#5 is a total recipe for failure, disaster, and zero ticket sales. Who thought of this team of dummies?

Loki and Multiverse of Madness were probably the worst of Phase Four due to how much damage they did to the universe of the MCU, both of which were caused by people who worked on Rick & Morty. Though subjectively, She-Hulk, Falcon & Winter Soldier, Eternals, Black Widow and Thor: Love & Thunder are so bad that I’d never wish my worst enemy to watch them all back to back in one sitting.

Remember when people were excited that Disney was buying up everything. 🤣 Keep up the good work Gary. Never stop letting them know how badly they messed up. Anything with a Disney logo on it is dead to me. They won't get a red cent out of me and they haven't since the last jedi.

You know what, I'm still of the opinion that the MCU Phases should have ended with Endgame. It was the perfect closing act and wrapped all of our favourite heroes' stories up. After they wrapped it up, they could have then started fresh and done standalone audience-pleasers like continuing Tom Holland's Spider-man within the Sony universe, and then they could have had the freedom to do stuff like Golden Age Iron Man with a totally different actor as Tony Stark.

The GTA music for Captain Falcon 😂😂😂 14:22

I laughed way more in this video than I have watching actual TV show comedies or movie comedies from the past 6 months at least. This video is hilarious from it's sound editing to its sideways digs. Well done Gary.

The fact that Wanda killed Xavier while he's doing the thing he's more powerful than anyone else besides maybe Jean Grey, being in someone else's mind, made me mad. Wanda is powerful, but in the mind scape, Xavier owns her. He'd know she was there and end her.

to be fair apparently since Loki is a shape shifter he is bi in the comics too (so we can't really blame the M-she-u for that one)

Black Widow seemed to forget that she has been subjected to a knock-off of Captain America's enhancements. Her fights should be, well, super. Not James Bond or something. They're good, but completely waste what the character is capable of.

I think it says a lot when one thinks about how much money these shows missed by being the way they are.

I used to be so excited for Marvel films. Going to see one used to be an event that I'd look forward to. There was nothing like leaving the theater at 2 am and buzzing on the drive back.

This channel is absolute genius. Thank you

All worth it for Nerdrotic compilations.

It hurt so much to see Dr. Strange done dirty like he was in MoM.

The beginning of the M-SHE-U was in phase 3 with Captain Marvel, which was the first flat-out bad one too, and boy did they follow it up quickly with a lot more!

One can happily skip phase 4 without missing much

This video is the perfect chef’s kiss to the death of the M-SHE-U, kudos to Gary, I just can’t get enough of his video, I look forward to it every time a new one comes out, keep up the amazing work, and RIP to the MCU, you will be missed, and goodbye to the M-SHE-U, it should never have existed!

The best part of the M-She-U is watching you guys mock them for their immensely mockable material .

Disney diminish the male superhero to the female hero but why not do it to the villain instead. Female and male should not have to compete with each other in the same movie or show.

I personally hated BP2, It was too damn long and didn't start Black Panthering till like the last 30 minutes. I wanted to like Moon Knight but it felt too drawn out.

The use of the Candy Man clip is possibly the best gag/edit in a video of legendary gags/edits. Kudos, Gary & everyone who contributed.

I will never forget what Midnight’s Edge said about the writer’s room scene during the “legendary” ending of She-Hulk: The man that was in that room was not a writer, he was a scapegoat. And for me, it is the epitome of Marvel going forward. They try will try and blame anything but themselves and are so bad at lying that everyone can see right through them immediately.

Your video editing deserves an award.

Nerdrotic, I agree with like.. 99% of what you're saying about the MCU, but to claim that every scene which involves a man shedding tears is a way to encourage the emasculation of men is a tad extreme, don't you think? While men certainly need to reclaim a bit of macho, there is healthy macho and there is toxic macho, and to believe that men can not now and then burst as the challenges of life heaps up both within and without, at times to crippling pressure, then you're just reintroducing a tenet that view crying men as pathetic rather than just humans who actually need that release. It can feel good to shout and punch, and it can also feel good to cry, because you are literally expelling what's bothering you, like it's muddied water you just have to get rid of, to then move on to face the same difficulties but with increased strength and a renewed mind. The scene with Bucky overcoming his demons deeply ingrained within and put there by external evils is a great and touching scene which did justice to the tale of essentially having been a slave much of his life. Or Hawkeye weeping due to losing his entire family? And weeping out of happiness when they were snapped back? I trust you are probably making a jab at these scenes because of the woke forces behind them, making the intention behind it all sketchy, which I understand, but eh.. maybe calm down a bit with this ancient notion of machism. Remember that the word macho means exaggerated masculinity, and nothing exaggerated, or made too extreme rather, is good for anybody. This does not pertain only to feminism, it goes both ways.

She-Hulk was a fun, spunky, confident woman in the comics. The fact that the writers didn't realized that stripping her of all those traits was far more sexist that whatever the "trolls" would say about the show, is hilarious to me.

I almost forgot about "body positivity time cop" 🤣 damnit I was so close to forgetting

That Pinisher clip with Wanda's kids was fking BRILLIANT!

A writer who says "like" 3 times a sentence

The Actual She-Hulk could have been introduced in Netflix's Jessica Jones as a Foil for Jessica, as a rival lawyer and one who would Humble her both Physiclly and Mentally. Missed chance.

This was an amazing summation of exactly what was wrong with phase 4, quick and straight to the point in 20 minutes, Great job Gary and piery Chan 👍

Whats super annoying is introducing popular comic characters, killing them off in the same movie, but keeping the characters that are a niche interest

Female Captain America doesn't really bother me cause it's from another Universe. She's not replacing him, she just exists in another plane, which is fine.

Your comment about She-Hulk not being a feminist comedy puts me in mind of a New Yorker comic from the 90’s. The panel is a picture of a man in front of a counter in a retail store. Behind the counter is a woman staring daggers at him. The caption at the bottom read “This is a feminist book store. There IS no humor section”. 😅

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier pissed me off so much, I actually wrote an 87-page dissertation about how Bucky's character was destroyed. If Nerdrotic or anybody else would like to see it, please reply to this comment and tell me where I should post it.

18:44 Small correction. She was looking for her mom and her mother's lesbian lover.

You are 100% correct Disney ruins, everything they touch

ngl seeing Jessica Gao makes me realize that the fanfic energy of She-Hulk makes 110% sense

"A film that would save lives, and it did. Fewer people got into their cars to go see it." xD This absolutely killed me. And, 100% facts xD

It's not just Marvel.. all of Disney+ sucks! 30min to navigate their menus, it's sooooo slow!

Amazing Vídeo. Thanks so much.

I agree with this. After Endgame, things went south quickly to the point I didn't even see a number of these shows because I was so disappointed. Seems like I was not alone.

Fun fact. I COMPLETLY forgot the eternals existed until recently. Thank you, nerdrotic!

When all you have to say about your movie or show is that it has diversity and nothing about the actual story, you know its gonna be a turd.

11:11 God that is disgusting, just vomit inducing.........

She Hulk Writers: "Your all so predictable! We made the ending of our show entirely to spite the trolls!!" Said trolls who don't pay for Disney plus and don't watch anyrhing on Disney plus. We have no idea what Disney is doing because we don't watch Disney products outside of RU-vidrs making fun of them "I dont even know who you are"

I would have personally put Wanda vision on the list at least somewhere. I mean she literally enslaves an entire town of people and they want you to feel sorry for her and sympathize thinking "well she's suffering from trauma she's allowed to do this". Why is it that if this was put in the perspective of a man it would be looked at as evil. Best example I could think of in all out honesty phantom of the Opera. The only ounce of love he ever felt was from Madame Giri when she helped him escape the traveling circus as a child, after having been abandoned by his mother for being so deformed, though in some iterations his mom's the one that did scar him by pushing his face on a furnace as a child, and the moment he falls in love as an adult he begins to commit horrendous acts of violence. Why is it that Wanda is leviated of all that vilification And yet if a man was doing this he'd be a villain? Marvel and Disney suck ass.