Phase 5 of the MCU officially ends; 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' starts phase 6

The Phase 5 Marvel Studios Marvel's cinematographic universe has officially concluded.

The completion of phase 5 occurred this week With the end of the season of the series Ironheart Disney Plus. Spoiler Alert In case you have not seen the last episode, this included Mephisto's debut in the MCU, played by Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Disclaimer, The Trial of the Chicago 7). FIN De SPOILERS.

Phase 5, which covers Marvel Studios productions released from 2023 to mid -2025, began with the launch in February of that year of that year of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumaniathe third installment of Ant-Man that it had disappointing results with critics and box office, and an out -of -screen scandal with the Jonathan Majors domestic violence incident, which marked the goodbye of the Kang villain.

Then it would come Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3presenting a farewell of the team and James Gunn of the MCU, to later have another failure with The Marvels. Then it was the blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine – the only premiere of the universe of 2024– and the premieres of the first half of 2025, Captain America: Brave New Worldwhich was a disappointment of epic proportions, and finally Thunderbolts*who achieved a good criticism, but failed to attract the audience to see it in movie theaters, and became one of the worst collections of the MCU with $ 381 million.

All films in this phase have a global combined box office of $ 3.200 million.

As for television series that make up the Phase 5we started in June 2023 with Secret Invasionwhich was strongly criticized by fans, who cross it out of being a very bad adaptation of a comic of great importance. Subsequently the Second Season of Lokiwho marked a needy triumph for the study, to again fall as a belly with the second and third season of the animated series What If…? And the forgettable Echo.

In September 2024, Agatha All Alongstarring Kathryn Hahn, he won the applause and approval of both critics and audience, becoming one of the best Disney+ and Marvel series, while this year other successes were achieved in the television front with the first season Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manand the first season of Daredevil: Born Againwith the return of Charlie Cox. Finally we arrive at the last premiere of Marvel Television, Ironheartthat waited for its premiere since 2022. The show is decent and acceptable, without reaching a remarkable level.

Only one of the projects designed to be part of phase 5 that did not debut was Blade. The film has been postponed several times, changing its release date of 2022, to 2023, to 2024, until it is left without a defined date.

The film premieres run by Walt Disney Studios, while television are released in Disney+. Kevin Feige is the producer of each of the films, and executive producer of each series.

Phase 4, phase 5, and phase 6 make up the call The Multiverse saga.

The Phase 6 will start With the premiere of The Fantastic Four: First Steps on July 25, and will conclude with the launch of Avengers: Secret Wars In December 2027. And apparently, according to information that is available, this last film could be marking the end of the Multiverse saga.

Something that many seem to agree, is that Marvel used to have a better defined structure for both phases, and for their conclusion and the next step. We will see what the beginning of a new phase holds.

How would you qualify phase 5?