Avengers 5: Doomsday

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I think it's just diminishing returns. The movies also don't feel fresh anymore because they recycle the same formula, the jokes feel the same, the character interactions are the same, etc.

They can always mix things up. That's not the problem. The problem is that Feige/Marvel/Disney have been dead set on aging out the core characters with the actual actors so that they can replace them with ones more in keeping with the higher ups' ideology (that means mostly women, disabled people, POC and LGBTQ stuff). They've already saddled all of the surviving Avengers with kids now (mostly girls). When they realized that none of this was working and nobody wanted to see this new direction it was mostly too late. Now the best they can do is do a couple back to back events to "freshen the pot" and revitalize/recast where needed.

In comic book terms, they're cancelling Vol. 1 of the MCU and bringing it back with a nice, shiny Vol. 2 #1. After Secret Wars.