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Eternals

A four-film epic adventure centered around the super species Eternals, their history, conflicts, and adventures in the present and past. Film 1 is an origin story type film exploring the history of the Eternals and Deviants, and their conflict, culminating in a big twist that sees the Celestial creators and their lack of emotion as the ultimate cosmic antagonists. Film 2 explores the conflict long brewing between Ikaris and Druig over how to relate to humanity that finally boils over into a war featuring the X-Men assisting the Eternals against Druig and the invading Horde. Film 3 delves deep into the history of the Eternals and introduces the Patriarchs Uranos and Kronos, and the reverberations of their ancient conflict. Also, Thanos takes over the Eternals hoping to use them to expand his conquering army, placing them in conflict with the Avengers and X-Men. Film 4 awakens the Progenitor - a long dormant Celestial believed to be responsible for Earth's superpowered people - who initiates Judgment Day, while Druig unleashes the banished Uranos to eliminate the mutant species, causing an all out war between factions of the Eternals, Avengers, and X-Men. But a small team comprising members of each will hopefully stop the conflict before judgment is rendered.

Marvel's The Midnight Order

An anthology miniseries over three seasons focused on supernatural happenings in and around London. Featuring a team of antiheroes and loners brought together to combat the threats too dark for the squeaky clean Avengers to face. You know, things that go "bump" in the night like vampires, werewolves, demons, and zombies. They call themselves The Order of the Midnight Sons, inheriting a centuries-old tradition. But, they also try to be inclusive, so they dropped the "sons", and refer to themselves as The Midnight Order but it's a working title. They bicker their way to combating threats like Lilith and Dracula, Nightmare, Mephisto, and more.

Captain Britain: Excalibur

After a devastating cataclysm with the X-Men, Brian and Betsy Braddock form a new super team called Excalibur with Meggan, Nightcrawler, Rachel Summers, and Shadowcat to investigate multiversal and reality-warping threats to the Otherworld and pertaining to the Captain Britain Corps.

The Ultimates

A 2 or 3 film sequence focusing on the interstellar and interdimensional barrier breaking superteam featuring Blue Marvel, Spectrum, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, and America Chavez as they interface with S.W.O.R.D. and fend off intergalactic threats.

S.H.I.E.L.D.: Secret Empire

The agents of SHIELD use espionage and a variety of special skills to expose various threats like the Skrull Empire and combat the secret evil organization HYDRA that has infiltrated its ranks and threatens to take over the whole country.

Young Avengers

An ongoing series featuring the Young Avengers, while progressing into the Champions and the Warriors teams of young superheroes. It follows Nathaniel Richards, Kamala Khan, and Quake, as they struggle to find purpose and navigate life outside of the mainstream superhero teams. The fight Hydra and evil Skrulls, criminal sociopaths, and ultimately work to stop the machinations of Kang the Conqueror.

The New York City Chronicles

A group of gritty dark action-packed shows focused around street level crime fighting in and around New York, with various heroes working on their own and sometimes with one another to thwart underground networks and large scale criminal enterprises. And all roads lead to the power hungry Wilson Fisk.

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

A 6 film epic series with spinoffs shows surrounding the growth and adventures of Peter Parker in and around NYC and beyond, fighting bad guys and trying to cover up his secret to protect his loved ones.

The Avengers

Similar to the current MCU but not the only big team-up tentpole film series of this new cinematic universe. It stands alongside X-Men, Fantastic Four, Eternals, the Ultimates, Captain Britain Corps, and builds toward conflicts like Avengers Vs. X-Men and others. Most characters here appear in their own films.

X-Men: Generation X

A series focused on a young team of X-Men wannabes led by Emma Frost (as part of her personal supervillain recovery program) who are also students at the Xavier Academy, working through the woes of young adulthood while fighting bad guys, including Emma's old gang, the Hellfire Club, the evil Tempus, Adrienne Frost, Lady Mastermind, Matthew Malloy, and Kang the Conqueror.

Marvel's The X-Men

A core film series with spinoffs and TV series options that eventually converges with the Avengers line of films. Core Team: Professor X, Storm, Jean Grey, Cyclops, Beast, Iceman, Rogue, Angel, Shadowcat, Colossus, Magik. (With others, like Deadpool, Wolverine, Emma Frost, Polaris, etc) Antagonists: Magneto, Mystique, Hellfire Club, Apocalypse, Bolivar Trask, Rev William Stryker, Sen. Robert Kelly, Sabertooth, Mister Sinister, Rasputin, Tom Cassidy, Cassandra Nova

Strange Tales of Kamar-Taj

Four films and TV series focusing on Doctor Strange and the magical world of Kamar-Taj, including a spin-off focused on Strange Academy.

The Fantastic Four

A 4 part film series about the world famous super family and their cosmic adventures

The Black Panther

Characters features in a 4 film sequence (featuring the T'Challa-Storm wedding and conflicts with Namor and Doctor Doom).

Trinity of Sin

A Series. Follows the ageless Pandora as she tries to make amends and break her ancient curse, while learning the truth about her history and seeks a path towards death and absolution. She teams up with Question and Phantom Stranger, similarly condemned souls, to travel the land and help various characters redeem their sins. Meanwhile, Pandora tries to escape the wandering eye of a mysterious and powerful cosmic force.

The Lost Son

Film that focuses on oddball escape artist Scott Free (Mister Miracle), who is the son given up by Highfather to be raised on Apokolips by Darkseid, who himself gives up his son Orion to be raised by Highfather on New Genesis. But he does not know any of this. He has grown up believing he is Darkseid's son, until Orion encounters him and tells him the truth and that he is a vessel for Darkseid's greatest treasure, and is needed by his uncle to stop a coup being staged by his sons Kalibak and Grayven. Scott must escape from his uncle's planet if he is to save himself, and the universe as a whole. But, there's a catch, he's fallen in love with one of Darkseid's champions. It'll be a tall order to get her on his side. But he will need all the help he can get if he hopes to get away in time and join his real father and family who will no doubt be glad to see him...right? Because they're the good guys, right?

Justice League 9: The Syndicate

With the multiverse becoming increasingly unstable, evil variants of the Justice League slip through the rip in reality to invade our Earth. They work with a conspirator to systematically take out each of the JL team members, leaving the playing field open for conquest. Calling themselves the Crime Syndicate, they announce their intentions to overthrow governments and forcibly take control of this world. And who will stop them?

Justice League 7-8: Dark Crisis pts 1 and 2

JL 6: Dark Crisis -- Mister Miracle, who no one knows, falls to earth with a dire message and seeks refuge. Darkseid's generals have infiltrated earth and begin their attack, laying waste to various sectors. Meanwhile, Darkseid himself locates the Anti-Life equation inside his nephew. The JL assembles to fight off the generals and parademon army. And just when they think they have stopped Darkseid from acquiring the equation, they fail. He arrives and kills Scott, taking it for himself. JL 7: Dark Crisis pt 2 -- One year later, millions are enslaved to Darkseid and the world is a wasteland. Millions more, including some heroes, are dead. Several of the remaining superheroes serve as his slaves, or have voluntarily taken his side. Others are on the run as insurgents. A ragtag group must band together to foil the next phase of Darkseid's plan and save the world from further destruction.

Justice League 4: Conquest

Sensing the evil world collector Brainiac advancing towards Earth, the Green Lanterns warn the Justice League about the encroaching threat.

DC Elseworlds

(in the style of Marvel's What If series.) this animated series follows The Monitor watching over the multiverse as variants of the Prime Earth DC characters play out various familiar scenarios with diverging consequences. He sends out his assistant, the Harbinger, to ensure that events play out as they should but she discovers her stolen memories and a broader conspiracy that implicates The Monitor in her captivity and in various cataclysms of the multiverse. Season 1 culminates with Brainiac as the major threat. Season 2 culminates with Kal-El-Doomsday as the major threat. Season 3 culminates in Darkseid and Highfather as the major threat. Season 4 culminates in the Monitor and Anti-Monitor as the final threats, and the heroes seek help from Brainiac, Doomsday, and Darkseid.