Now that I’ve seen Thunderbolts & have a better idea of how we’re getting to Doomsday/Secret War, I’d like to revisit Eddie’s last post from over a year ago to try and help rephase the post-Endgame MCU, balancing out pacing & holding off on introducing new info as soon as possible.

EddieDean said:

For PHASE FOUR: AFTERMATH then, it’s as I had it before:

Spider-Man: Far From Home deals with our fear over the next Avengers-level threat (plus Spidey, post-Tony, and Fury).

Falcon and Winter Soldier deals with the global political state post-Endgame (plus Sam and Bucky, post-Steve and a hint of Wakanda)

Daredevil is necessary here for Daredevil and Kingpin

Thor: Love and Thunder deals with Asgardian refugees post-Endgame plus (plus Thor and Valkyrie)

Hawkeye deals with post-Avengers issues and more Kingpin (plus Yelena and new Hawkeye)

Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special sets them up again

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings introduces some new shit (plus an update on Hulk and Captain Marvel)

Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 wraps them up and takes them off the board in a big, satisfying finale.

First off, “PHASE FOUR: AFTERMATH” is such a genius phrase for the phase immediately after Endgame. As for the phase itself, I’m going to really stretch the letter of the “8 entries per phase” stipulation:

PHASE FOUR: AFTERMATH

Spider-Man: Far From Home
Daredevil - The redheaded step-child of this thought experiment. On one hand, like Eddie said, it’s necessary for when Daredevil and Kingpin appear later on in the MCU. On the other hand, it doesn’t really add to the greater meta-narrative of the Phases. To compromise, we could always count Infinity War & Endgame as one entry for Phase 3, and FFH as the 8th entry. In lieu of a season one of Daredevil, I recommend Forbidden Marvel’s Man Without Fear edit.
Falcon and Winter Soldier - I recommend Spence’s movie edit.
Thor: Love and Thunder
The MCU Holiday Extravaganza (aka, Hawkeye & The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special) - The GotG special is short enough that it feels weird giving it it’s own spot, and depending on how you watch Hawkeye, you’re already watching multiple hours of TV anyway.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Provides an important bit of post-Endgame fallout, dealing with the death of T’Challa/Chadwick Boseman (especially since he was supposed to be a post-Endgame tentpole), plus it give us our final look at Val, which will be important at the end…
Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - Gives us an update on Hulk and Captain Marvel, like Eddie said, & shows that the Avengers are pretty disorganized/non-existent at this point, which leads to…
Thunderbolts - Directly addresses & answers the question of “Where are the Avengers,” so we don’t need to think about it going into Phase Five. Aside from having to make edits removing/altering references to entries that haven’t come up yet, it makes for a good capstone to Aftermath.

EddieDean said:

So PHASE FIVE: MULTIVERSE can now become something much more focused:

Loki 1 kicks it all off. It’s timeless, and ends up with a Multiverse (and Loki in unknown time).

Spider-Man: No Way Home is our big, exciting, fan-favourite multiverse story, featuring three Spideys and Doctor Strange. The biggest sacrifice of this ordering is having this paced a while after Far From Home, but I think it’s far more beneficial this way. Here, we open on a flashback to just after he’s been outed by Mysterio, then we assume that his legal troubles occupied perhaps at most a year - in which the previous phase occurred. Then after Daredevil steps in and clears it all up, we’re back to the present in the timeline.

Wandavision is here, as early as we can get it. Even if you ignore the Pietro tease, Wanda, Maria Rambeau, and Monica Rambeau will return this phase.

Ant-Man and Wasp: Quantumania sits here, balanced between the two Loki seasons, and set in the middle of this phase, developing the Kang threat we’ve had since Loki 1, and giving us the update on our final group of post-Endgame characters not yet returned to.

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness now brings our 616 characters to other universes, starting the true crossover phase. Wanda, Doctor Strange, Maria Rambeau, Xavier, and even Captain Carter for the What If fans. We’re getting serious.

Loki 2 next. Again, it’s timeless, but it serves to temporarily reduce the Kang threat (letting us forget him for a while) and it’s just great. And it leaves us clear to take a run at our final two items:

Ms. Marvel has some further nice reflecting on the prior Avengers, and directly leads into-

The Marvels, with a great focus on Carol, Kamala, and Monica, then that nice multiversal tease with Maria and Beast, and setting up Kamala looking to team up with young Hawkeye.

This is a very concise Phase with a solid throughline. I would just do a little rearranging so that it ends on a stronger note:

PHASE FIVE: MULTIVERSE/EXPANSION (because this is the “Multiverse Saga” so calling the phase Multiverse sounds a little redundant, and “Expansion” ties in with what I want to name Phase 6, but I could go either way)

Loki 1
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Wandavision
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
Ant-Man and Wasp: Quantumania - Still in the middle of this phase, and given how Doctor Strange ends, makes it more dire that Ant-Man is the only one who can face Kang
Ms. Marvel
The Marvels
Loki 2 - Makes for a stronger ending to this Phase & bookends with how it started, like an ouroboros.

Now, we’re still a ways out from Phase 6, but it’ll still be a fun exercise to draft a Phase 6 based on what we do know:

PHASE SIX: INCURSION/DOOM

The Eternals - This is the latest The Eternals as a concept can be introduced, and the dead Tiamut plays a big part in Captain America BNO.
She-Hulk - Admittedly, a bit of a placeholder, but it’s light-hearted, gives us follow-up on Bruce Banner, has a Tiamut reference, reintroduces the idea that people are after Hulk blood/want to make more Hulks, and it gives us the “hey, when are we getting X-Men” line, which leads to…
Deadpool & Wolverine - Brings us back to the multiverse, brings back the TVA, and adds a new wrinkle to how different universes can be destroyed.
Captain America: Brave New World - I, admittedly, haven’t seen this yet, but I know that part of the plot is Ross wanting Sam’s help to restart the Avengers (let’s say Sam trademarked it immediately after John Walker’s introduction offscreen), which is a pretty important plot point going into Avengers Doomsday.
Fantastic Four: First Steps - The last big movie release for the MCU before Doomsday.
Avengers: Doomsday
Spider-Man: Brand New Day - Three for three on Spider-Man making an appearance in each phase. Plus, if the rumors that this movie takes place in a sort of Battleworld Reality post-Doomsday, even better.
Avengers: Secret War - The end of the Multiverse Saga.