The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a busy place.
With its crisscrossing sequels, superheroes who dart in and out of each other’s movies, and labyrinth of laws and totems and over-the-cosmos-and-far-away lands, it’s become a metastatic playground, the kind of place that even the most ardent comic-book fans have to dedicate themselves to keeping up with.
But if you’re the kind of viewer who surveys the Marvel landscape and thinks, “Nope.
Sorry.
Not busy enough,” the MCU has good news for you: It’s going to get even busier.
Last year’s mega-hit “Spider-Man: No Way Home” was a multiverse fantasia that felt like a Rubik’s Cube, though if you ignored the plot gyrations (which were triggered by Doctor Strange), you could sit back and enjoy it as a glorified “SNL” sketch featuring all three of the actors who had played Spider-Man.
(How could they occupy the same universe?
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