Top Ten Most Surprising Things Revealed About Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase 4

Phase 4 of the MCU was revealed at SDCC with Kevin Feige making a lot of explanations, particularly with the new releases of Disney+ shows like Loki, Hawkeye, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and WandaVision. Not to mention the movies for this phase include Black Widow, Shang-Chi, the second Doctor Strange, the fourth Thor, and the Eternals. What was most surprising about these reveals?
The Top Ten
1 Natalie Portman will reprise her role as Jane Foster, but will become the female Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder

The biggest reveal out of all of them, after her character was absent ever since Dark World, they are bringing her back to the fold but as a female Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder.

2 Blade is coming to the MCU

For those that don't remember, Blade was a cult classic superhero movie with Wesley Snipes, and there's some talk regarding his inclusion into the MCU. Mahershala Ali will actually play the title hero though.

3 Fantastic Four is coming to the MCU

Another surprise that Kevin Feige dropped at the very end the F4 will be coming to the MCU, which was bound to happen given the Disney-Fox merger.

Really? This better be good.

4 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will be a full horror movie

The series has been all about hero action but has not taken a turn towards other genres, so seeing the second Doctor Strange movie become a horror movie would be interesting.

5 Shang-Chi will feature the real Mandarin

The Mandarin was teased heavily in Iron Man 3 but it will be shown that Tony Leung will apparently play that character against Simu Liu's Shang-Chi.

6 Daniel Bruhl will reprise his role as Helmut Zemo in Falcon and the Winter Soldier

With Anthony Mackie's character now becoming the new Captain America and Barnes at his side, who'd be a villain in this case? They are actually bringing Zemo back, and this time in a way that would fit his comic book character, with the purple mask and all.

7 Hawkeye will deal with the title character training Kate Bishop

While no casting details for this show (apart from the obvious Jeremy Renner) have been released yet, a comic book favorite in the form of Kate Bishop will show up in this show.

8 Elizabeth Olson's Scarlet Witch will be featured in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
9 The Eternals will be a prequel to the entire MCU

Given the stakes and how everything is brand new, yet already mentioned in GOTG 1, what are the odds The Eternals would be anything besides a prequel. And by that I mean a prequel to the entirety of the MCU, they could be in conflict with the Celestials (we only know one, Ego, but by then there were no Eternals and no other Celestials since the race is extinct).

10 X-Men will be coming to the MCU

Well, Kevin Feige only mentioned the word "mutants" and not necessarily referring to the X-Men by then. But it's been heavily hinted numerous times that it's time the X-Men will be coming to the MCU. We'll just have to wait quite a few years.

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