This is cope.
The first movies were building up to The Avengers. There was a teaser in the mid credit roll of each of them.
Avengers introduced Thanos.
The movies then introduced the infinity stones.
Winter Soldier dismantled shield...only for shield to come back in Age of Ultron.
The movies then kind of spin their wheels, introducing new characters and giving them their own movies, waiting for Infinity War to come out.
Infinity War comes out and Thanos wins but we know he doesn't win because Disney has announced all the movies after this one including characters we saw turn into ash.
End Game finishes decade's worth of build up to a kind of bloated fart of an ending where you feel good because it's finally passed and done.
To retort Bob's point of they didn't know why Thanos wanted the magic rocks until the end, yeah and it shows. Thanos's great plan is to wipe out half of all life in existence because of muh conservationism. Screw willing in more resources or creating sustainability for everyone as he is an actual god now. Screw the original plot from the comics, which was hinted at at the end of Avengers, where Thanos wipes out half of all life to impress death herself because he's a simp. He erases half of all life because resources be scarce y'all, nevermind that that will be forever true and will get less and less as time goes by no matter how many times he does it and he can't do it anymore because he destroys the stones in between movies because the last movie needed a conflict.
I've only watched the last two Spiderman movies as i had no desire to waste my time with Shang-Chi, a movie most people have completely forgotten about, or Eternals, another movie most people have completely forgotten about. I have no idea what they are building up to. Let's look at the mid credit thing for each movie since End game, curtosey of Wikipedia:
Spider-Man: Far From Home
In a mid-credits scene, J. Jonah Jameson of TheDailyBugle.net broadcasts doctored footage of the London incident in which Beck frames Spider-Man for the drone attack and his death before exposing Spider-Man's secret identity to the world, much to Parker's shock. In a post-credits scene, Fury and Hill are revealed to be the Skrulls Talos and Soren in disguise, under orders from the real Fury while he is away commanding a Skrull spaceship
Black Widow
In a post-credits scene set after Romanoff's death,[c] Valentina Allegra de Fontaine blames her death on Barton and assigns him as Belova's next target.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
In a mid-credits scene, Wong introduces Shang-Chi and Katy to Bruce Banner and Carol Danvers while researching the rings' origin. They discover that the rings are acting as a beacon to something. In a post-credits scene, Xialing becomes the new leader of the Ten Rings, training women alongside men, despite having told Shang-Chi that she would disband the organization.
Eternals
In a mid-credits scene, Thena, Makkari, and Druig meet the Eternal Eros, Thanos's brother, and his assistant Pip the Troll who offer their help. In a post-credits scene, Dane opens a case containing the Ebony Blade and an unseen person[N 3] questions whether he is ready for it.
Spider-Man: No Way Home
I have to type this as as wiki integrates it into the story at large because it's so small. Tom Hardy's at a bar as a guy is explaining to him who and what Spiderman is while Venom is talking in Tom's head. Tom gets blinked back to his universe but leaves a drop of symbiote on the bar.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
In a mid-credits scene, Strange is approached by a sorceress who warns him that his actions have triggered an incursion that he must help fix. Strange follows her into the Dark Dimension.
Now class, tell me how all of these are connected? What is this phase's version of Avengers? Where the hell are they going? Bob keeps throwing out Secret War like he's some great sage reading the tea leaves. Well whoopty shit. I have no idea what that is, the movies are not explaining what that is or why I should care, and I'm not gonna spend the next ten years consooming mediocre films for me to pretend that I care.
but Bob's not that much of an oddity in that fanbase that frequently amazes me in how ignorant and illiterate they can be. It also sadly appears a lot of creators on it are in a similar boat if you read their interviews.
