Short Answer: A) Two more Hulk movies and B) a better way to introduce the X-Men to the MCU (hint: it's Storm).
A) There are six Avengers in the first Avengers movie. Four of them are super-powered.
Captain America (who gets a trilogy), Iron Man (who gets a trilogy), Thor (who got a trilogy and is now getting a part 4!), and the Hulk.
Who gets... a movie... that was not even an MCU movie but was retcon-ed into it.
One of the best Hulk storylines in the comic books is called Planet Hulk. They made it into an animated movie. In it, Hulk lands becomes a gladiator on a distant planet and liberates his fellow inmate-warriors. You might recall this as the plot of the third Thor movie, in which Hulk does not lead the rebellion.
But why do the Marvel people treat Hulk so shabbily? Why doesn't he get a trilogy, or at least two more movies that are properly MCU movies, in which he is played my Mark Ruffalo?
At the end of the Edward Norton version, Hulk is in a pine forest learning to control his power. When we meet him in the MCU, he is treating patients in a poor Asian village. OK, how'd he get from one place to the other? Where's that story, for starters?
And then Betty Ross, Hulk's girlfriend in the Norton movie-- daughter to General "Thunderbolt" Ross-- is AWOL. A movie could explain what happens to her and fill in more holes in Hulk's timeline. She disappeared in the Snap and came back with everyone else, and her story may be continued from that point in the She Hulk series. I'm talking about what happened to her between she had Hulk parting ways in the Norton movie and the Snap.
B) The other questions are what to do about Black Panther now that Chadwick Boseman is gone... and how to integrate the X-Men in to the MCU (now that Disney has the rights to them). Their answer to the second question revolves plopping Professor X into the next Dr. Strange movie.
But there is a much better way that also solves the Black Panther issue. And it also plugs a whole in the X-Men storyline. Yes, it solves all three problems at once!
See, Storm and T'challa-- in the comic books-- were a couple. They even get married.
So... integrate Storm into the next Black Panther movie, and made it a prequel. Set it before T'Challa joins the Avengers, when he is dating Storm, when she was still Ororo Munroe
As was implied by the title "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," there was going to be a series of such movies for each of the original X-Men. In the first movie, Wolverine (still just Logan then) shows up and meets Professor X, Cyclops (whose origins we see), Storm, and Jean Grey. They are the professors; the rest are still students.
Putting Storm in the next Panther movie reboots the "X-Men Origins" sub-series and gives the X-Men franchise a place to "go," now that it has been to both the past and future.
Yes, Hollywood was hesitant to have a female-led superhero movie after Supergirl, Elektra, and Catwoman. But now we have had Captain Marvel, Black Widow, and Wonder Woman prove that a woman can lead a superhero movie successfully. Wonder Woman even got a sequel.
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