Celebrating 10 Years of Marvel Studios:The Road To Infinity War

It's here. It's finally here. Avengers: Infinity War releases today. Its been 10 years since the first Iron Man movie which reshaped the superhero genre and opened the doorway for a new and unique way of storytelling: Shared Universe. The post credit scene in Iron Man is a significant one and only few knew at that time to wait for these post credit scenes at the end of the movie. The moment Nick fury stepped out of the shadows and told Tony “ I'm here to talk to you about the Avengers initiative”, I knew its going to be a hell of a ride and they didn't dissapoint. 18 movies [few missteps in the way] but still they were unshakable.

The end is near:

Now after 10 years, we are here at the culmination of 10 years of Marvel. "The end is near" is the best and the most suitable tagline for Marvel Cinematic Universe right now. Or not. Let me rephrase that. It is the perfect tagline for the first 10 years of MCU. Because end is only the beginning, the beginning of something new and fresh. They still have thousands of stories to be told and many other different superheroes to introduce.

Avengers assemble:

When the first Iron Man came out in 2008, it was just an another superhero movie for most of the audience and also it was overshadowed by the humongous success of Christopher Nolan's brilliant Batman The Dark Knight. First Iron Man movie was grounded and realistic and it was a separate entity. But soon other superhero movies started to emerge from Marvel Studios, the studio that once went bankrupt and sold all its character rights to different studios[ fox studios, Universal studios, Paramount studios, Sony's Columbia Pictures and later most of them are bought by Disney]. These superhero movies are different in theme, genre and overall approach but was connected by these post credit scenes. Finally in 2012, the world witnessed the first contemporary superhero team-up movie, the task which was considered impossible by many at that time. It became a huge success.

Avengers effect:

After that there was a phase called “Avengers effect” as called by the fans. The post avengers movies [ Iron Man 3, Thor:The Dark World] were not perfect by any means, but it succeeded nonetheless not because they are the best movies in the world but because of the potential they held for future stories to be told. Then came Avengers: Age of Ultron, Marvel's major misstep [ though it succeeded at the box office very well]. It was criticized by the fans so much for not telling the story it was meant to tell but instead setting up the future movies [Captain America: Civil War, Thor Ragnarok, Black Panther, Avengers Infinity War]. But now when you think about it, there is no Infinity War without that movie.

The Culmination of 10 Years:

After that every movie was giving the finishing touches to the journey and some of them introduced new characters and opportunities. In the end, Everything is tied to one major event: Avengers: Infinity War. Almost every character that was introduced in the MCU will come together to fight the most terrific, smartest, badass villain ever appeared on screen: Thanos, the mad titan who first appeared in the first Avengers movie back in 2012 in a post credit scene.

Conclusion:

So it's all coming to an end. Everything that has been build up to this point has reached its destiny.

Sure, there will be a lot more marvel movies in the future and many of them already in production, but it won't be same. So I thank Marvel Studios for giving us the fans the most amazing, one-of-a-kind cinema experience and also the cast of the Avengers for brilliantly portraying the characters and for putting their heart and soul into the character to justify them in every way.