Completely agreed with Moon Knight. My favorite Disney+ MCU show but would have been even better as a movie
-SOFA-KING-VOTE-2025-11-09 20:06
Secret Invasion should not have been a show and not been a movie either.
J_is_for_Jenius2025-11-09 20:13
Whatever format I just wish it was good
-SOFA-KING-VOTE-2025-11-09 20:15
Should have been a 60 second post credits scene
xreddawgx2025-11-09 21:50
Phase
-SOFA-KING-VOTE-2025-11-09 21:52
🗑️ phase
The_Abjectator2025-11-09 21:32
I say it should have been a fortnite dance.
cygnus22025-11-10 02:31
How could they possibly have fucked up a show about Sam Jackson sneaking around and killing aliens? It should have been easy money.
FreeStall422025-11-10 06:32
Best can do is the Earth's Mightiest Heroes version.
ArmadilloOk14452025-11-09 20:14
It should've been an Avengers movie
-SOFA-KING-VOTE-2025-11-09 20:15
Should have been a 20 min short on Disney+
22LOVESBALL2025-11-09 20:16
You can’t do that storyline in a 20 minute short lol
EEDDDWWWAARRRD2025-11-09 20:27
It should've been an entire phase
gzapata_art2025-11-09 20:33
Similar to the multiverse phase, I feel like it would've gotten boring quickly
EEDDDWWWAARRRD2025-11-09 20:35
It didn't need to be something so forced. Just drop tiny hints here and there before finally leading to an Avengers movie. People acting out of character or changing course (Sharon Carter for example), then finally some key figure dying and turning into a Skrull.
gzapata_art2025-11-09 20:38
That could have worked better. Like a small B plot running thru, maybe 1 movie focusing on it then a reveal of something Avengers level as set up for 1 major conflict
AnonymousFriend802025-11-10 02:01
No. People were already worn out keeping up with post credit scenes of infinity stones and Thanks popping up here and there. Having the couple dozen actor just showing up in each other's films distracting from the actual story of that film would have been terrible.
Intrepid_Permit2025-11-09 20:53
You mean, like in the actual comic books?
EEDDDWWWAARRRD2025-11-09 20:54
It's almost like they'd make good source material
AnonymousFriend802025-11-10 02:03
That type of stuff works in comics because they are essentially television shows with how often stories are released. The most popular ones show up in a dozen different projects a month, and these are as easy as literally drawing someone. And if they have to speak, draw a bubble and have a couple of lines.
xreddawgx2025-11-09 21:52
Not if you show skulls having X-Men powers. Letting your audience know they exist in the universe without actually showing the X-Men. Ya know like EMH
AnonymousFriend802025-11-10 01:57
Like six to eight movies of wondering who was actually who while still trying to tell complete stories in each film? Eww, no.
dantedoomsday2025-11-09 20:17
If it had to happen, it should have been its own saga. Thankfully, we never got a TV series of it. Can you imagine? That would have been awful.
MTM_28146162025-11-09 20:28
Maybe not a saga but definitly a Phase.
Weiland2422025-11-09 20:29
Buhos_En_Pantelones2025-11-09 20:23
I recently watched Secret Invasion and purposely went in with an open mind.
It had ideas, and just... went nowhere.
-SOFA-KING-VOTE-2025-11-09 20:24
It cost like $500 million to produce
CaptHayfever2025-11-09 21:12
That's partly because they scrapped & redid half of it with a new creative team.
Soft_Humor48682025-11-09 20:46
Tbh compared to the comics, secret invasion was just executed poorly. The story itself was interesting though
Past_Explanation692025-11-09 20:48
Secret Invasion could have been a whole phase, would have been a great phase 4
CaptHayfever2025-11-09 21:14
I contend that doing Secret Invasion *at all* was inherently doomed in a format where characters go long stretches between appearances.
FreeStall422025-11-10 06:33
Yeah and without catching readers off guard just does not work as well.
JonTheWonton2025-11-09 21:29
I think it could've worked as a show but if it were multiple seasons with long episodes, closer to GoT or the Expanse
RacerXX72025-11-09 21:34
It should have been an entire MCU phase.
DanHero912025-11-09 22:33
Definitely should have been a phase of movies. End the first movie in the series with a post credit reveal that an Avengers was a Scrull.
Another of a lower down hero getting killed / injured by said Scrull.
Maybe one where the main villain of the movie had the upper hand almost the entire time because they were being fed info by the Scrullvenger, and now the Scrull is pissed they failed
A movie where the theme is someone (probably Cap) figuring out the Scrulls are here and starts to uncover how deep they're ingrained in society.
Avengers movie where they're trying to figure who's still human, and a rescue mission to save their friends.
vulcans_pants2025-11-10 00:15
In the right hands, Secret Invasion could be the MCU’s Andor.
MakeItSoNumba12025-11-10 00:28
I liked it as a show and they missed an opportunity to have more sleeper agents. It should have been longer and they shouldn't have had any mutant like powers.
TylerHyena2025-11-10 00:56
Correct, it should’ve been its own saga, preferably one right after the Multiverse Saga.
taquitosmixtape2025-11-10 01:20
It *could* have been a good movie or tv show but…
Venomm7372025-11-09 20:06
I think Eternals worked as a movie. An underrated movie.
arubablueshoes2025-11-09 20:16
it would’ve been better as a series though. they could’ve spent wayyy more time with each of the characters and dynamics
No-Understanding-9122025-11-10 00:31
Yes. To me the movie felt both very slow, but also rushed in some places. Making it a series would have really helped it out.
Narrow-Standard-37262025-11-09 20:06
Completely agree
FewWatermelonlesson02025-11-09 20:09
Moon Knight should have been a show, but street level. It didn’t need CGI monsters, giant kaijus or world ending stakes.
Ordinary-Chain-80472025-11-09 20:11
Eternals should’ve been a show and the Falcon and the Winter Solider should’ve been a movie. Like that one training episode that’s like an hour long only like the first and last 10 minutes are important the training scene could’ve been like a 2 minute montage
Punkodramon2025-11-10 03:28
Agreed, TFATWS feels like it was pitched as a movie but they were worried it’d bomb, so rather than make it a D+ direct release film they stretched 90 minutes of story into four and a half hours of episodes without adding anything else to the narrative.
fakermage2025-11-09 20:11
Mrs. Marvel as movie and the Marvels as a show.
Bigpappa362025-11-09 20:14
12 episodes of eternals would have been perfect; more fleshed out time periods and build up
To the final battle
ScoobyDeezy2025-11-09 21:26
A period piece per episode focusing on each character would have been amazing.
TheHeroicLionheart2025-11-10 00:38
With an intro and finale on either side. Woulda been great
SailorET2025-11-10 03:01
It also would have made >!Ikaris's!< betrayal much deeper and more impactful if we already had a multiple episode arc of >!him being the trusted leader only to find that he had turned on Ajak and sacrificed her to the Deviants.!<
saucytopcheddar2025-11-09 20:16
Loki could’ve been a movie
HamiltonFAI2025-11-09 20:17
Falcon and the winter soldier would have made a good movie, with tweaks to the story, and more Zemo of course
leytonscomet2025-11-09 20:18
Inhumans should’ve been a movie with a higher production value
chaot72025-11-09 20:22
And not run by Scott Buck
spilledmilkbro2025-11-09 20:20
Falcon and the Winter Soldier should've been the first movie with Sam as Captain America.
xdeath132025-11-09 22:05
They could have incorporated it with the Brave New World movie.
TheHeroicLionheart2025-11-10 00:38
Yeah maybe fold the new supersoldiers with Ross becoming hulk. The mcu has already connected banners origin with the super soldier programs.
Ive never thought about that, but yeah, the worst parts of FatWS (which I actually think is genuinely great and unfairly hated) would be helped by the few part of BNW that actually worked.
Itd take some work but I think theres something there.
AmIDoingThisRight202025-11-10 01:24
Wait, people in general don't like FatWS? I had a great time watching it.
TheHeroicLionheart2025-11-10 01:28
People really hate the villains and dont like his "do better" speech at the end.
I think those part could be better, but they are FAR out weighed by the good. The action, Bucky, Isiah, him becoming Cap, the suit, are all perfect.
Chill00002025-11-10 01:34
I was also not a fan of how chill Zemo was. Dude was in depression and ready to kill himself after getting Cap and Tony to fight themselves so he can be with his family. I know people can change and grow but comparing the last time to the next time we see him, it was a very big change. Same with Abomination. Just offscreen development that completely changes a character
TheHeroicLionheart2025-11-10 01:36
I give Zemo some grace as he was in an extremely volitile state at the end of CW, people do bounce back from that.
But yeah, emil was just a joke, nothing of the origonal character remained.
AnonymousFriend802025-11-10 01:55
He was still in mourning about his family, listening to those last recordings over and over and over again. He understood how terrible the things were he was doing but did them anyways. Once he got his revenge, he was ready to be reunited with his family. As the years went by, he had time to complete his mourning, and the Blip changed his outlook.
This-Major-92392025-11-09 20:21
I don’t think Eternals should’ve been a thing. Nobody cares about the characters so why an ensemble show or movie? Plus, there are too many popular characters who need time to shine from mutants, like X-Men, to supernatural, like Ghost Rider and Blade.
ABBJ552025-11-09 20:21
I don't agree. Eternals introduced 10 heroes and visually it was excellent. The problem is that post endgame they added 10 guys out of nowhere who ignored Thanos... but the movie itself was good beyond this
DownhillSisyphus2025-11-09 20:22
Eternals would definitely have benefitted from being a series, but would still have had the CW teen show casting problems.
Adorable-Bit68162025-11-09 20:23
Eternals/Hawkeye
jackson501112025-11-09 20:24
I'm not sure I would've liked eternals as a show.
I ordered the 2-3 hour lore dense movie rather than having to wait another week to find out what happens next
Monday_Vibes2025-11-09 20:29
FATWS should’ve been Mackie’s first cap movie. The Marvels should’ve been a continuation of the Ms. Marvel tv show.
freebuster2025-11-09 21:19
I disagree with The Marvels. I think Captain Marvel 2 should have been a soft secret invasion. Where they use the story threads of Carol failing to find a world of the Skrulls.
I don't think the Ms. Marvel show should have happened. It's like they didn't know what they wanted her to be and in the end just went "we can't figure out this clandestine shit. Call her a mutant and be done with it".
If they wanted to introduce Kamala. Do it in Captain Marvel 2 and just don't do the show.
justduett2025-11-09 20:34
F&WS, without studio-forced reconfiguration, should have been Cap 4, Eternals definitely could have flourished as a show, and there are multiple D+ shows which could have been 90-120 minute D+ “Special Presentations” or could have simply not been made at all.
Wooden-Agent-32692025-11-09 20:41
Falcon and the Winter Soldier should have been a movie, same with Secret Invasion
CyberKitten052025-11-09 20:45
I actually think Moon Knight works fine as a show, it's just that he needed to be part of the Defenders mini-franchise rather then the Avengers franchise.
Shows that should've been movies are TFAWS and Ms. Marvel. The first one is just baffling, if they wanted Sam to be the new face of the Avengers then setting him up as Cap in a Streaming show is ridiculous, though not as ridiculous as his only other appearance in the Saga so far being in his own movie. Ms. Marvel is in a similar boat because they wanted her to be part of the Avengers movie from the beginning, and I think Shows being mandatory for the main plotline was very harmful to the MCU. They should either be Spin-offs like Hawkeye or in their own sub-franchise like Daredevil.
On that note, Black Widow could've been a Show.
Jet-Let46062025-11-09 20:46
Should Have Been:
**A movie:**
Secret Invasion (as Captain Marvel 2)
Falcon & The Winter Soldier
**A Show:**
Captain Marvel (as Marvels Special)
Eternals
n_mcrae_19822025-11-09 20:47
I’ve been saying this about both from the beginning!
I actually didn’t mind Eternals, but there were a LOT of new characters and a LOT of backstory.
The_Erlenmeyer_Flask2025-11-09 20:48
Black Widow should have been a series. There's plenty of story there.
Inhumans should have been a movie.
H0meless_GUI2025-11-09 20:49
Werewolf by night should have been a movie,
It's really the only quality live action product that the MCU has released post Endgame
Excluding No Way Home all the the Phase 4-5 movies and F4 could have been a show
TheOriginalDx12025-11-09 20:51
Being as the movies and shows are equal in quality.. this is technically asking for 3x more eternals, and only having ⅓ of moon knight.
Which i could never agree with, moon knight is some peak mcu and I love every second.
Was going to list my examples. But turns out id just want Ms.Marvel as a movie so its shorter, but I don't want any of the films extended (and those i would.. marvel wouldn't do)
atomix20202025-11-09 20:55
The Marvels should’ve been a limited series and then really committed to the singing planet and had a whole singing and dancing themed episode.
Wooden-Radish-90082025-11-09 20:58
Sorry, Eternals works great as a movie. Movies have had large ensemble casts for a long time. Not every character in every piece of media needs 12 hours to get their story across
KeptPopcorn51892025-11-09 21:03
Nah Moon Knight just needed more episodes. He’s honestly too complex of a character to try and explain in just a movie
MakeItSoNumba12025-11-10 00:31
A second season with other midnight suns characters would have been cool.
Willow18832025-11-09 21:30
Brave new world should’ve been a show and FATWS should’ve been a movie.
EightBiscuit012025-11-09 21:34
Every show except Loki, WandaVision, and Born Again should’ve been a movie
DJfunkyPuddle2025-11-09 21:37
Never heard this take before
Present_Bad38962025-11-09 21:38
You are too right honestly
crimsonangel682025-11-09 21:38
One of Eternals biggest issues was that it was trying to accomplish too much in a single movie. Two major storylines completed for details and left both wanting.
I will hard disagree with Moon Knight being a movie though. I think the series was better to flesh out the multiple personalities, while also telling the underlying story as well
PhotoBonjour_bombs192025-11-10 01:24
I love and enjoy eternals, thought the pacing and introduction of tons of characters was well done. So for me seeing people say the TV thing, the movie should’ve been a little more longer instead
ChaoticCaptain1772025-11-09 21:38
Agreed with both of them. And I believe TFATWS should've been a movie
OnlyBeGamer2025-11-09 21:58
Eternals is a masterpiece as it is
intraumaticspiderman2025-11-09 22:04
And Ironheart should have been a blooper ....
with rdj and favreau laughing in the corner
NerdNuncle2025-11-09 22:13
Admittedly on the fence about *Moon Knight*. It probably could have worked as a movie, but spacing out things a bit helped make Marc and his alters feel like “people”, for want of a better word. Also more time for the audience to recover from the gut-wrenching flashbacks with Wendy
**MOVIE THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A SHOW**
*Captain Marvel* & *The Marvels* ~ More time for emotional investment, redemption for Carol and Monica, flesh out the Kree and Skrulls, and an excuse for seeing more of the MCU’s resident goofball
**SHOW THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A MOVIE**
*Hawkeye* ~ Fairly linear plot with Bishop taking on the King(pin), test waters before giving Echo a show imo
Aznsupaman2025-11-09 22:29
I think the spider Man movies would have been better as a premium streaming series. Spider man is the rare exception where we really want to see the slice of life side as well as the supervillain of the week side. Plus it would have been perfect with seasons ending leading into movies
Introduced in civil war leading into season 1 homecoming leading into infinity war and endgame then season 2 far from home then multi verse of madness to introduce multiverse is real then season 3 no way home.
As for series into movies I could see falcon and the winter soldier being a 2 parter with Walker and his turn into a vigilante in the first movie and getting suit upgrades and facing the flag smashers and walkers redemption in the 2nd one and the Sharon carter reveal at the end would still have worked. I could also see Hawkeye being just a movie. I could really care less that Hawkeye is going deaf and having family problems and don't need it explored, John Mclane had family problems too but we didn't need to go into detail we got the ghist of it in those 5 minute phone calls we'd witness every 3 or 4 years between movies. We could still keep the best part of the series the larp battle in the movie version and the yelena Kate interactions and pizza dog.
DoveInvisibleDry2025-11-09 22:44
The X-Men movies
Abraham_Issus2025-11-09 22:59
Wrong movie it should’ve been Inhumans
RavenBrannigan2025-11-09 23:01
“Hey guys, you know those two wildly popular opinions that people had been repeating for years now? Well here they are again!”
Axius-Evenstar2025-11-09 23:08
Secret invasion should have been a movie. And actually good
GrayGuard972025-11-09 23:21
Meizas2025-11-09 23:55
Hot take, but Civil War should've happened after phase 5 when we had a bajillion new heroes and it should've been a huge crossover show. The comic's scale is MASSIVE, and as much as I love the movie, all we got was two small teams fighting at a somehow empty airport and in an empty nuclear silo or something
BravoLeader30002025-11-10 00:13
I enjoyed Eternals, but I've always thought that it would've been better as a show.
Reasonable-Dealer-162025-11-10 00:22
Secret Invasion should have been an avengers movie.
mercy_death2025-11-10 00:35
Eternal- 6 episode show, first and last focusing on the group, middle episodes focusing on 3 members each.
Secret Invasion should have been Captain Marvel 2 with alterations.
The Marvels should have been a televised spinoff to Ms Marvel or even Ms Marvel season 2 similar plot but introducing Captain Marvel in final 2 episodes.
FATWS should have been a movie OR Captain America BNW should have been season 2 of FATWS.
Echo should have been an R rated special presentation.
There should have been some one-shots ahead of Thunderbolts for Walker, Ghost and Red Guardian.
BaronZhiro2025-11-10 00:37
Generally I think all the series were better off as episodes, but *Ms. Marvel* might have flowed a lot better as a unified movie.
I’m also in a weird position where I think *Loki*’s second season would’ve been way better if shortened into a movie, but I wouldn’t dream of cramming s1 into just a couple of hours.
eastsideflaco2025-11-10 01:37
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0LoveAnonymous02025-11-10 01:58
I loved Eternals as a movie
Mike715862025-11-10 02:00
100% agreed
j1h152332025-11-10 02:01
If yall didn’t like Eternals as a movie you would have hated it as a tv show
tLM-tRRS-atBHB2025-11-10 02:05
Eternals had all that was needed in the movie. If it had been a show, MFRs would've said it was too slow
Being a movie kept it a much faster pace
Extra-Cod50142025-11-10 02:17
Moon Knight worked well precisely because it's a show
the4077thbisexual2025-11-10 02:33
Multiple shows that came out really should've been movies because they all suffered from a sagging middle (too much content for a movie, technically, though they could trim it!), but the ones I'm mainly thinking of are Falcon and Winter Soldier, and Hawkeye. On the other hand, I think Wakanda Forever probably could've been a brief TV series instead. (So could Eternals)
andlewis2025-11-10 02:43
Yep. Eternals is one of the few movies that was both too long and too short.
jddev_2025-11-10 03:14
Loki should have been a movie
AerialAce962025-11-10 03:40
Moon Knight needs a season 2 real bad!!
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It had ideas, and just... went nowhere.
Another of a lower down hero getting killed / injured by said Scrull.
Maybe one where the main villain of the movie had the upper hand almost the entire time because they were being fed info by the Scrullvenger, and now the Scrull is pissed they failed
A movie where the theme is someone (probably Cap) figuring out the Scrulls are here and starts to uncover how deep they're ingrained in society.
Avengers movie where they're trying to figure who's still human, and a rescue mission to save their friends.
To the final battle
Ive never thought about that, but yeah, the worst parts of FatWS (which I actually think is genuinely great and unfairly hated) would be helped by the few part of BNW that actually worked.
Itd take some work but I think theres something there.
I think those part could be better, but they are FAR out weighed by the good. The action, Bucky, Isiah, him becoming Cap, the suit, are all perfect.
But yeah, emil was just a joke, nothing of the origonal character remained.
I ordered the 2-3 hour lore dense movie rather than having to wait another week to find out what happens next
I don't think the Ms. Marvel show should have happened. It's like they didn't know what they wanted her to be and in the end just went "we can't figure out this clandestine shit. Call her a mutant and be done with it".
If they wanted to introduce Kamala. Do it in Captain Marvel 2 and just don't do the show.
Shows that should've been movies are TFAWS and Ms. Marvel. The first one is just baffling, if they wanted Sam to be the new face of the Avengers then setting him up as Cap in a Streaming show is ridiculous, though not as ridiculous as his only other appearance in the Saga so far being in his own movie. Ms. Marvel is in a similar boat because they wanted her to be part of the Avengers movie from the beginning, and I think Shows being mandatory for the main plotline was very harmful to the MCU. They should either be Spin-offs like Hawkeye or in their own sub-franchise like Daredevil.
On that note, Black Widow could've been a Show.
**A movie:**
Secret Invasion (as Captain Marvel 2)
Falcon & The Winter Soldier
**A Show:**
Captain Marvel (as Marvels Special)
Eternals
I actually didn’t mind Eternals, but there were a LOT of new characters and a LOT of backstory.
Inhumans should have been a movie.
It's really the only quality live action product that the MCU has released post Endgame
Excluding No Way Home all the the Phase 4-5 movies and F4 could have been a show
Which i could never agree with, moon knight is some peak mcu and I love every second.
Was going to list my examples. But turns out id just want Ms.Marvel as a movie so its shorter, but I don't want any of the films extended (and those i would.. marvel wouldn't do)
I will hard disagree with Moon Knight being a movie though. I think the series was better to flesh out the multiple personalities, while also telling the underlying story as well
with rdj and favreau laughing in the corner
**MOVIE THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A SHOW**
*Captain Marvel* & *The Marvels* ~ More time for emotional investment, redemption for Carol and Monica, flesh out the Kree and Skrulls, and an excuse for seeing more of the MCU’s resident goofball
**SHOW THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A MOVIE**
*Hawkeye* ~ Fairly linear plot with Bishop taking on the King(pin), test waters before giving Echo a show imo
Introduced in civil war leading into season 1 homecoming leading into infinity war and endgame then season 2 far from home then multi verse of madness to introduce multiverse is real then season 3 no way home.
As for series into movies I could see falcon and the winter soldier being a 2 parter with Walker and his turn into a vigilante in the first movie and getting suit upgrades and facing the flag smashers and walkers redemption in the 2nd one and the Sharon carter reveal at the end would still have worked. I could also see Hawkeye being just a movie. I could really care less that Hawkeye is going deaf and having family problems and don't need it explored, John Mclane had family problems too but we didn't need to go into detail we got the ghist of it in those 5 minute phone calls we'd witness every 3 or 4 years between movies. We could still keep the best part of the series the larp battle in the movie version and the yelena Kate interactions and pizza dog.
Secret Invasion should have been Captain Marvel 2 with alterations.
The Marvels should have been a televised spinoff to Ms Marvel or even Ms Marvel season 2 similar plot but introducing Captain Marvel in final 2 episodes.
FATWS should have been a movie OR Captain America BNW should have been season 2 of FATWS.
Echo should have been an R rated special presentation.
There should have been some one-shots ahead of Thunderbolts for Walker, Ghost and Red Guardian.
I’m also in a weird position where I think *Loki*’s second season would’ve been way better if shortened into a movie, but I wouldn’t dream of cramming s1 into just a couple of hours.
Being a movie kept it a much faster pace
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