When Nick Fury stepped out of the shadows in the post-credit scene of 2008’s Iron Man, his words portended a seismic change in the world of entertainment.
“You think you’re the only superhero in the world? Mr. Stark, you’ve become part of a bigger universe. You just don’t know it yet.”
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That bigger universe in the context of Iron Man was the Avengers Initiative, Fury’s brainchild born of anxiety over the fate of humanity in a world where superpowered humans and extraterrestrial threats required Earth’s mightiest heroes fighting under one banner. In a meta sense it was the beginning of the interconnected MCU, which ten years and fifteen billion dollars later is the single highest-grossing film franchise of all time. Read more…
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