From the future of the Avengers to potential recastings, Marvel fans are debating which big changes we'll see to the MCU after Secret Wars

Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic in The Fantastic Four: First Steps — (Image credit: Marvel Studios)

With Avengers: Secret Wars mysteriously promising some big changes to the MCU, Marvel fans are debating just what exactly that might entail.

"Endgame, literally, was about endings. Secret Wars is about beginnings," Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige said earlier this year. "Reboot is a scary word. Reboot can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Reset, singular timeline – we're thinking along those lines."

One Reddit user had several suggestions about what could happen, including Doctor Doom having "a history with the other heroes and Reed Richards, but is not particularly villainous, just antagonistic towards them," the X-Men being "established for a while, and they have existing relationships with the rest of the superhero community," and Steve Rogers and Tony Stark leading the Avengers from Mount Avengers.

"I don't think it'll ever be a complete reboot cause then wtf do you do with characters with ongoing stories?" replied someone else. "Spider-Man is just about to start a new trilogy, Shang-Chi needs a 2nd movie, Black Panther 3 and Doctor Strange 3 are both in development. I have to assume Fantastic Four 2 is coming…"

"I saw someone say they're viewing Secret Wars/ Doomsday like Avengers 1, where it unifies the world that’s so far been mostly separate, and that we’ll see more cohesion and collaboration going forwards in a more structured linear line," suggested another user.

"It seems like the only recast characters at scale that we know of atm will be the X-Men universe," reads another suggestion. "Like if the X-Men’s universe is destroyed in Doomsday via incursions or incursion prevention, then they are folded into 616 at the end of Secret Wars, they can explain the differences as being a result of them being introduced into different environmental variables affecting the new timelines."

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