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After churning out boatloads of content over the past three years, the MCU slowed down considerably in 2024. We’ve just had our only MCU movie of the year with Deadpool & Wolverine, and the second of two TV series is coming in September with Agatha All Along. The slowdown is much needed, since the franchise has become overburdened with tons of separate, unrelated plot threads and very little synergy between any of the various properties–some consolidation is desperately needed.
We’re sort of in a holding pattern on that front, since the few MCU projects on the calendar in 2024 don’t appear to have much big picture significance–presumably things will start coming into focus with Thunderbolts and the new iteration of Fantastic Four next summer
With things in the MCU being the way they are, there are probably at least a few recent threads you’ve completely forgotten about. Like Moon Knight, which made no references to other Marvel things, and which has never been referenced elsewhere in the MCU at all. There’s been a lot of that going around in this franchise.
With so few connections between the stories, it becomes easy to forget the many dangling story threads. But we can help with that. What you’re about to read isn’t a full recap of the MCU’s story so far or anything like that–I have a life beyond writing nerd blogs. Instead, this is just a quick trip around the MCU to give a refresher about where each outstanding plot thread currently stands and what all the major characters were last up to as far as we know. That’s up to and including Deadpool & Wolverine, so be warned that there will be spoilers here.
