‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ Disney Plus release is already succeeding where ‘Secret Invasion’ failed

Happy Disney Plus release day, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 fans! Coming one week after the Secret Invasion finale disappointed the entire MCU fandom, Marvel has supplied us with a much-needed pick-me-up with the streaming premiere of James Gunn’s recent cosmic threequel, which rounded out the epic arc of the galaxy’s defenders in style. While Guardians 3 opened to lukewarm reviews, leading it to be the lowest-rated of the trilogy on Rotten Tomatoes, its stature has only grown and grown since.

At this point, you’ll hardly find a fan speaking out against it online as Guardians 3 seems destined to go down as perhaps the most universally popular of any Multiverse Saga entry to date… and potentially ever, depending on how the next few years go. A glance at a Reddit discussion of the movie following its Disney Plus date shows how much love there is for the film out there, which comes in sharp contrast to the reception Secret Invasion‘s sixth episode received from the same community just days ago.

New viewers are finding themselves just as blown away by those who caught it on the big screen.

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The weakest of the trilogy? It’s the best!

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Actually, screw that, it may just be the best MCU movie, period.

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The movie hits just as hard on Disney Plus for those who’ve already seen it too.

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Clearly, the fact Gunn was allowed full creative control on this one is a real plus. Whereas Secret Invasion director Ali Selim has admitted he was given specific instructions about the finale by Kevin Feige.

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Now Gunn’s hopped over to DC, do we have to wait until Black Panther 3 for another film of this caliber?

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Oh, and fair warning, folks, if you cried the first time around, you will cry again.

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While it would obviously have been unfair to have expected Secret Invasion to hit the same kind of dramatic heights as the closer to a trilogy we’d been following for almost a decade, just how much this movie engaged fans on an emotional level speaks volumes about the recent show’s total failure in drumming up a strong investment from the audience.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3‘s continued success presents a couple of lessons for Marvel to learn from: don’t hamper your creatives with MCU world-building requirements and always put emotive storytelling first. Whether it takes these tips on board, though, remains to be seen.

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Leaked production details on Jonathan Majors’ return as Kang may just confirm what Marvel experts have been expecting

Although Kang‘s reign of terror has really only just begun, and we have a lot left of the Multiverse Saga (for better or for worse) still to come, Marvel lovers can’t help but keep one eye on the not-so-distant future as the MCU barrels towards its next big crossover event movies, 2026’s Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars. At this point, it’s far too early for any plot details to come out, but perhaps the latest leak at least allows us to make one big inference that’ll please comic book readers.

Following Jonathan Majors’ role as Victor Timely in Loki season two, the next confirmed re-appearance for the MCU’s current big bad is these Avengers movies, but while Kang Dynasty isn’t quite ready to go before cameras just yet, we do now know the film and its sequel’s working titles. It’s been confirmed that Marvel’s codename for these highly spoilerphobic productions is “Apple Pie 1” and “Apple Pie 2.”

These working titles may seem totally innocuous, but they likely have ties to a Carl Sagan quote from his seminal Cosmos TV series: “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” In the context of Marvel, this likely refers to Kang the Conqueror’s aims to tear down the universe and rebuild it as he sees fit. In this way, then, the codenames may just offer our first clue as to how these films will draw from the source material.

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In the original 1984 Secret Wars storyline, the Beyonder kidnapped various heroes from Earth and relocated them to Battleworld, a realm of his own creation, in order to force them to fight for his amusement. Meanwhile, in 2015’s event of the same name, a new Battleworld was introduced, this time being the merged vestiges of Earth-616 and Earth-1610 (aka the Ultimate universe) after the two realities are caught in an Incursion.

Going by these loaded “Apple Pie” titles, it seems likely that Kang will reshape reality to create a Battleworld of his own, one that’s perhaps made up of Earth-616 (or 99999) and other cinematic Marvel universes, allowing for crossovers galore. But, just like the best deserts, we’re going to have to wait to enjoy the calorific goodness of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars.

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Marvel’s most embarrassing timeline goof yet forces Disney Plus users to watch ‘Quantumania’ painfully early

Disney Plus is the hub for (practically) all things MCU, so the streaming platform’s handy-dandy ordering of every Marvel Studios movies in timeline order is a great aid for users looking to work their way through all the films in a way that best suits the ongoing narrative. Well, at least, it is in theory as, in actuality, Disney Plus’ MCU timeline is full of flaws. Trust us, there’s a much more accurate way to watch the MCU in chronological order.

To demonstrate how wayward the streamer’s watch order is, one subscriber took to the r/MarvelStudios sub to share a major goof they’d spotted. As the screenshot reveals, Disney Plus accidentally placed Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the opener to Phase Five, in the midst of Phase Three, bizarrely slotting it in between Black Panther and Spider-Man: Homecoming. I mean, I guess there could be something to getting Ant-Man 3 out of the way early, like an unwanted chore you can’t avoid, but that’s just ridiculous.

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To clarify why this placements makes so little sense, Black Panther and Spider-Man: Homecoming are set shortly after the events of Captain America: Civil War, which takes place in 2016. Quantumania, meanwhile, occurs long after The Blip is concluded in Avengers: Endgame, in 2025, almost a full decade later. Presumably, Ant-Man and the Wasp is supposed to be in this position instead, as that also takes place following Civil War.

An alternate MCU viewing order based on a qualitative system, that squeezes the franchise’s least-enjoyable entries among some of its very best to soften the blow, could actually be a good idea, but that’s probably not what Disney Plus was intending here. If Quantumania comes before Homecoming in the chronology, then Kang’s definitely been messing with the timeline again.

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