WithDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , Marvel ’s most late Revelation of Saint John the Divine , andThor : Love and Thunder , the approaching Taika Waititi followup to 2017’sThor : Ragnarok , the MCU go on to suffer from a outpouring of potential world - cease threats .

It seems both the audience and the studio apartment enjoy stories run a risk the very highest degree of bet . While street - stratum heroes like Spider - Man and Daredevil love a unwashed - man legacy , it ’s fit out like the Avengers and the Guardians ( as well as a certain master copy of the orphic arts and a god of mischievousness ) who face Omega points metre and again .

Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume 2: Ego Threatens To Replace All Life With Himself

The much - heralded subsequence toGuardians of the Galaxyhad a raft give out for it . James Gunn returned with an epic script , the same beloved squad of misfits , and an A - leaning resister courtesy of Kurt Russell playing Peter Quill ’s long lost Fatherhood , who claimed to be one of the immortal Celestials ( later expand upon with the expiration ofThe Eternals ) , an ancient slipstream of godly being with near straight-out power .

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Russell ’s megalomanic deity seeded countless planets with his essence , planning to eradicate all other sentient life story throughout the existence . It ’s an queerly somber consideration compared to the usual lighthearted Guardians ambience , particularly with the method acting in which it would happen via amorphous Ego blobs squander all in their path .

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What If Season One: Marvel Zombies

What If?‘shandful of initial storylineswere met with assorted reactions from critics and rooter . The Watcher ( Jeffrey Wright ) see a number of alternate timeline and world coming to stark ends , including one world long anticipated by Marvel devotee where a living dead infection need hold of the total satellite .

A ragtag grouping of Avenger survivor entailing the likes of Spider - Man , the chief of Ant - Man , Doctor Strange ’s Cloak of Levitation , and a badly wounded T’Challa offer some measure of comic rest period , in stark demarcation to the rather unsettling part of that post - revelatory , undead Earth , not the least of which were living dead versions of Cap , Stark , Wanda , Wasp , and an Infinity Gauntlet wielding Thanos .

What If Season One: Infinity Ultron’s Destruction Of Humanity

What If ’s interesting alternate timeline in time of year one ’s last two episodes was sure as shooting an apocalyptic humdinger . Posing the dark vista of what would have happened if Ulton had triumphed over the Avengers , the taradiddle proceed to show just that , with a starkly rendered animated nuclear apocalypse destruct most life story on earth after Stark ’s scallywag AI killed its Divine .

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Not contented to quit with the obliteration of one earth , Ultron first definitively vote out Thanos with one quick mindstone beam straight down the middle ( prompting endless cyberspace meme ) , take the Infinity Stones for himself , and set out to destroy all life in all multiverses , motivating the Watcher to drum up a Guardians of the Multiverse squad .

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Loki Season One: Lamentis

It ’s wide agreed upon by many Marvel fans that the first time of year ofLokidelivered much more compelling multiversal content and shenanigans thanDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness . Loki ’s TVA storyline was one of his good , following Sylvie ’s movements from one apocalyptical point in sentence to another . The show was framed around varied earth ending circumstances , include this incredibly give installment where Loki and Sylvie attempt to pull through the destruction of a colonised lunation about to be destroy by an incoming planet .

The hysteria , pathos , and affright of the colony residents coupled with Loki and Sylvie ’s affectionate banker’s acceptance of their pending end makes Lamentis one of Marvel ’s more poignant apocalypses .

Thor Ragnarok: Surtur Destroys Asgard

Within the wide-ranging kingdom of the Marvel Cinematic Universe , it ’s hard to get more real clip revelatory than the existent end of Thor ’s home world . The Odinson expend nearly the entire movie stress to prevent its namesake , long foretold in Asgardian lore . finally he see the only way to prevent his sister Hela ’s eventual hostile coup of the Nine Realms is to bosom its inevitability just as Surtur implore him to accept .

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With Loki and Valkyrie ’s help , Thor give Sutur ’s pennant , and the blast heavyweight fulfills his destiny . WhileThor Ragnarokis full of Taika Waititi ’s humor , the good deal of escape Asgardians see the straight-out annihilation of their legendary land was a hair - raising and glowering MCU moment .

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Captain Marvel: Ronan and the Kree Fleet Attempt To Eradicate Life On Earth

Captain Marvelhas a middling share of knocker and stalwart alike , mostly split up about Brie Larson ’s rendition ofthe Captain Marvel theatrical role , but there was no denying its super - powered heroine had hallmark second , including the coming of the motion-picture show wherein she confronts a Kree fleet commanded by Ronan the Accuser , ofGuardians of the Galaxyfame .

Shortly after reaching her firmly - won acme of business leader , not the least of which was ego - powered space flight , Carol Danvers countermanded Ronan ’s initial ballistic assault on earth and destroyed one of his ship to show she meant business . Though the apocalypse was averted , if Captain Marvel had n’t been there , Earth would ’ve been summarily destroy by Ronan ’s Accuser armada .

Loki Season One: Post-Apocalyptic New York In The Void

Few episode in the first time of year of Disney Plus’Lokiseries were as attention - grabbing as Loki ’s pruning to the Void at the final stage of fourth dimension itself . Boasting an incredible amount of Marvel easter testicle ( A giant Yellowjacket helmet ! The Thanos Copter ! Frog Thor ! ) and an eclectic oblation of Loki variants including Boastful Loki , Classic Loki , Alligator Loki , and Kid Loki , the Void offered a banquet of fanboy lip service .

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Not only do TV audience get to see the jetsam and jetsam of Marvel lore scattered across the Void at the Omega of all existence , they find a post - apocalyptic New York in ruination complete with a seesaw Avengers tower . It ’s stark indeed and translate beautifully withLoki ’s crack CGI squad .

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The Avengers: Battle Of New York

More or less the one that started it all , the firstAvengersfilm finally bring the heat buff had been waiting for since 2008’sIron Man . Barring the first Thor film ’s possible devastation of the ice rink elephantine home world Jutenheim , most anterior Marvel moving-picture show had focused on relatively localized threat .

Yet inThe Avengers , the first known endeavour at the conquering of humanity ( later retconned with Captain Marvel ’s 1990 ’s Kree penetration ) is finally lay to bare , command via Thanos and executed via lackey Loki ’s continued lust for power and aureole . The Chitauri Invasion was for sure a Marvel global event and watching the alien marauders raze New York was as compellingas the present moment the Avengers ultimately band together .

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness: Sinister Strange’s Incursion Reality

There was too many multiversal minute through theDoctor Strangesequel that deserve eye - pop fan condition , but in terminal figure of Revelation of Saint John the Divine , few were more darkly sharp than the Earth 616 sorcerer ’s visit to an substitute universe where his fellow variant had literally destroyed all realness .

In that creation , its sole survivor Strange had used the Darkhold to dreamwalk across universes to find a Christine Palmer to be with , and when he realise he was n’t become to be able to do so , he started killing other version of himself . It ’s a dark assumption and its outcome are eloquently and gloomily show in a post - catastrophe emptied universe falling asunder at the seams .

Avengers Infinity War: The Thanos Snap

In terms of audience impact and subsequent deduction for the Marvel Universe ’s future , there is no bigger apocalypse which bechance both the citizens of the Earth and the Avengers themselves . Witnessing the heroes ' failures to stop Thanos was one thing , but having to weather half of them subsequently nictitate out of world in clouds of ash was quite another .

Particularly heartbreaking for most movie theater patron was the look of horror on Thor ’s face as Thanos snap his fingers , the un - making of several iconic character including T’Challa , Wanda , Falcon , Bucky , and Starlord , but the true coup - de - gras was Tony Stark ’s anguish when his protege Peter Parker cried out for redemption as he faded to dust .

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