As ambitious as it is, the Multiverse Saga is already in danger of being renowned as the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s biggest missteps, with critical and commercial returns having been on a downward trajectory ever since Avengers: Endgame drew the first decade of interconnected storytelling to a close.
While there have obviously been major successes along the way, the fandom has been growing increasingly disgruntled with the drop-off in quality, something Kevin Feige and his team have a little more time to get right after virtually every single announced project through the remainders of Phases Five and Six was hit with a delay.
One person who’ll factor heavily into both Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars is Anthony Mackie, which is a given seeing as he was recently anointed as the MCU’s new Captain America, with Brave New World coming to theaters next year. However, in an interview with Inverse, he didn’t exactly paint an encouraging picture of his familiarity with the storyline that’s driving half a decade of film and television content.
“I’m still trying to figure out the Marvel-verse, or whatever. I don’t know. I don’t even know what the multiverse is. Dude, I have no idea what it is. I’m still trying to figure that sh*t out.”
Having been a staple part of the series for a decade and made countless appearances during that time, it’s strange to hear somebody as pivotal to the MCU as Captain America himself admit he’s clueless when it comes to branching timelines, alternate realities, incursions, and all the rest. Then again, it’s not really a surprise at all given Marvel’s famed levels of secrecy.
