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What Could the MCU look like if Marvel had the Rights to All their Characters? - Alternate MCU Thought Experiment

Hey my friends, and welcome back to my blog. So I did a previous podcast where I spoke about how back in the 90s Marvel's mismanagement by corporate raiders led to the Comic Book Crash, and caused Marvel itself to file for bankruptcy. As part of their solution to remain solvent they sold off film rights to many of their most famous characters, such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, Captain America, the X-Men, Wolverine, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor, Daredevil, Punisher, Ghost Rider, Luke Cage, Ant-Man, Black Panther, Namor the Sub-Mariner, and many, many others, to film studios large and small including  Universal, Paramount, Columbia Pictures and 20th Century Fox.  Now in our world we know what happened next. Many film ideas were batted around at many studios for years throughout the 2000s. Some, like Sony's Spider-Man and Ghost Rider , Fox's X-Men , Daredevil and Fantastic Four , New Line's Blade , Lionsgate's Punisher , and Universal's Hulk got either single...