A foreword in the new edition of Marvel’s Secret Wars comic from Kevin Feige may hint at the future of the MCU post-Secret Wars. So, let’s get started shall we?
In the new Marvel Premier Collection edition of Secret Wars, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige provides a foreword.
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Kevin Feige’s Foreword for Marvel Comics’ Avengers Secret Wars
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Foreword by Kevin Feige
Secret Wars is the end of the Marvel Universe as we know it.
But it’s also a new beginning.
In 1984, Jim Shooter and Mike Zeck introduced Secret Wars, a groundbreaking crossover that brought together Marvel’s pantheon of heroes and villains for the first time on a patchwork planet, Battleworld. As the Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four and more engage in an epic battle across time and space, Doctor Doom rises to seize power from the cosmic entity behind the curtain. Thirty years later, Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić took the trailblazing vision and created something indelible with their 2015 series, which you now hold in your hands.
Hickman’s intricate story which developed across multiple series, and Ribić’s bold, beautiful art hit some of the same notes as that earlier comic but remixed and reframed its events. It starts with a collision of worlds, and it ends in a Marvel Multiverse rebuilt and retooled for the modern age. They invented something entirely new, seamlessly picking up where the old universe left off, but branching out in all-new, all-different directions.
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We do the same thing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We pick and choose from Marvel rich, nearly 90-year comics history and make movies that honor the source but become something entirely different.
That cycle continues as we head toward the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s own version of Secret Wars. Like Loki gathering up stranded branches of the timeline at the end of all things, we’ll pick up the threads of Hickman and all those who came before and weave a new story inspired from the vast tapestry of our comics and films. We will bring together the characters we know and love in pinch-me moments that we as fans have always dreamed of but have never seen realized. And we will call on Doctor Doom, the greatest villain in the history of the Marvel Universe, to become a centerpiece of that story. On one Hand, he’s noble and loyal. He’s true to his word. But he’s also a monster. He seeks power over all things, and he will use whatever means necessary to achieve his ends. And just like the legacy that came before, there is no *Secret Wars* without Doom.
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Legacy born from our comics and shaped in the years since, is one of the most important reasons why we’re here today. It guides our every move at Marvel, and at the heart of it all, it opens the door to an infinite world of storytelling and characters, one that we are honored to steward and bring to life on the screen.
In Hickman and Ribić’s Secret Wars, we see Steve Rogers fight from atop a dinosaur, banished heroes battle against hordes of zombies and by the end, apocalyptic fires reforge the entering universe. All the stories of the past remain true, but now all things are possible. We hope to carry that inspiration forward into a new medium
The Marvel Universe will never die, but it will never be the same either. Open these and see what Marvel’s limitless imagination and stories can create.
*Kevin Feige.*
We’ve heard rumor that Secret Wars is both the end of the MCU as we’ve known it and the start of a new beginning with every Marvel propety under the one banner. It sounds exactly like what Feige has planned.
Leave any thoughts on this foreword by Feige below,
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