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How Flashbacks Helped Set Up The Future In ‘The Book of Boba Fett’

Ever since his first appearance in 1980, Star Wars fans of old and new alike have clung to the legend of Boba Fett. Just by standing in the background and saying maybe a single line of dialogue and then dying in his second film appearance, fans have always been dying to know more about the character, and have even been advocating

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What I Heard: About May Calamawy’s Character in ‘Moon Knight’

When we think about Moon Knight, we often get this idea of him being the Marvel equivalent to DC’s Batman. The key difference (besides the drastic color contrast in costume) is that this complex vigilante is set in a more mystical ambiance focused on the Egyptian mythos. Not only that, but Marc Spector also has a cognitive condition known as Dissociative Identity

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‘Multiverse of Madness’ Synopsis Teases “Unprecedented Visual Experience”

Over a week ago, Marvel Studios debuted the teaser trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as the post-credit scene for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Since then, fans have analyzed the trailer frame by frame, looking for clues as to what the highly anticipated Doctor Strange sequel may reveal regarding its plot, including this site. While theories and speculation relating

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The Mystery of Laura Barton and her MCU future

It’s been a banner month for Marvel. Not only did fans *finally” get the awesomeness that was Spiderman: No Way Home, but we also got the long-awaited season 1 finale (“So This is Christmas?”) of the D+ Hawkeye series. Be warned, there are spoilers ahead for Hawkeye’s finale! In one of the last scenes of the finale, where Clint Barton (Jeremy

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Secret Wars, Venom, and The Next Spider-Man Saga

It’s officially been one week since the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home in theaters, and it’s safe to say that this installment in the MCU Spider-Man’s origin story is perhaps the favorite amongst fans of the web-slinger’s story so far. It’s been an emotional week for everyone who grew up with the character. Regardless of the iteration and after such

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Secret Macro Marvel: ‘Secret Wars’ May Be The Next Step

As Anthony Flagg and I wrote the previous articles of the Macro Marvel series, it began to feel that there was a missing piece to a gigantic puzzle. We had a fairly good structure for each individual level, but the colliding event that brought our heroes together was lacking from our theory. However, after some investigation, it seems as if there

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Phase 4: The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Deep Dive into Grief

Phase 3 ended with large losses for our characters, including the death of Tony Stark, Natasha Romanoff, and the disappearance of Steve Rogers to the rest of the world. This world is in pieces and disarray, our characters have lost everything, and we the viewers have lost something too. Phase 4 now has the opportunity to explore the themes of grief,

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Pitch: Ways To Move ‘Daredevil’ Forward in the MCU

For a long time, I’ve considered Netflix’s Daredevil series to be one of my favorite TV series of all time, so hearing that Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio would be back in their respective roles was exciting news. In the time since I’ve been occupied by wondering just how these characters and this world could come back into the MCU and

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Speculating On ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ and Talking Trailers

With only a few more weeks until The Book of Boba Fett premiers on Disney+ and very few looks at the new Star Wars story, I wanted to provide a review of the recent trailers and share some predictions for what we might see in the series. Watch out for possible spoilers for The Book Of Boba Fett below! From the

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