There’s One Big Lesson Marvel Can Learn From Star Wars – And It May Have Already

The Marvel Cinematic Universe promised to be something the audience had never seen before. It was a franchise, where the movies would be a lot to each other than with any other real estate, creating an experience of reading a cartoon and seeing the character to be published before they go on their own adventure. This unique quality made MCU pop culture murmur more than a decade after its release in 2008. But it was then; Now what was once the biggest feature of MCU has become its worst mistake.

In fact, since 2019, since 2019, MCU films or exhibitions have become more refreshing as possible as possible from the rest of the franchise (Like “Moon Knight”) In order for the audience to do endless quantities of homework just to understand the plot. Nor does it help that McU has left several loose ends hanging for years, just to tie them from the bottom (Like what happened “Captain America: Brave New World”).

But franchise, which requires viewers to watch dozens of films just to understand the new one, is not the same as a successful extended universe. There are better ways to make compatibility. Take “Thunderbolts,*” a movie that serves as MCU’s response to “DC legends for tomorrow” in the sense that they both focus on superhero teams consisting of characters presented in other projects. As with that Arrowver exhibition, it is useful, but not absolutely necessary to understand where “Thunderbolts*” heroes come from – because their past doesn’t really matter as much as who they are together.

Now, it seems that Marvel has another ace on his sleeve (one that shows a better path to reaching each other) in the “Wakandan Eyes” format, an animated television program that offers a phenomenal world building without having to demand a lot of homework. Participants in the Annecy International Animation Film Festival had the opportunity to look at the first episode of the series, and it has been shaped by something quite special … just as I hope to have a sign of the things coming to MCU.

“Eyes Wakanda” is an anthology series from Wakanda’s attempts to seek stolen objects throughout history. The first episode, “The Lion’s Den”, begins in Crete in 1260 BC and follows Dora Milajen’s shameful former member as they pursue a “lion”, a man who failed from the Wakandan guard while using his own sea of ​​pirates, using Stolen Wakannan technology. The whole thing is inspired by the real-life hypothesis tribe known as Sea Peoples, which terrorizes Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean area in the late Bronze Age. (Merikanso also played a significant role Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Primal” excellent second season.In

The “Black Panther” stack is visually gorgeous and unlike anything else we have seen so far in the Marvel animation. Gone is “What if …? Animated” Wakanda’s eyes “only still supports” Black Panther “instructor Ryan Coogler and his team’s efforts to infuse Wakanda with cultural specificity, dressing and buildings to the body and skin of residents.

From the point of view of the story, “Wakanda’s eyes” manage to be independent, although it explores the long history of the imaginary nation of the same name and expands from Coogler’s first prologue for “Black Panther”, revealing more detail about how Wakanda’s society became so advanced. As “Lion Den” instructor Todd Harris explained after the screening of the episode, “Wakanda Eyes of Wakanda” is intended to investigate how tactics and Wakanda’s culture have evolved over time and how the country has remained as long as it is in MCU.

As each episode moves into a new period and focuses on stolen different objects (but there is a connection between them, because they both explore the consequences of the episodes in front of them), this seems to be a perfect way to expand the Marvel world. Sure, there are some familiar McU characters (as Harris confirmed, we see iron first at one point, although not the version you might expect), but what makes it even more attractive is that the show also works as a historical student from MCU.

As Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) put it at the end of the original “Iron Man” movie when he appeared in Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in the mansion: “Do you think you are the only superhero in the world?” In the past, we have received glimpses of MCU’s long history, including Flashbacks with the original Ant-Man and The Wasp. Still, we have never got something “Wakanda’s eyes”, that is, an extended historical doctrine that shows how MCU has developed and changed for centuries.

This is something of “Star Wars” Franchising -by studying different angles of its universe, expanding to certain periods, and generally painting a more complete picture of its imaginary environment. Even after so many MCU films and exhibitions, including all the limited series that serve as especially as world construction, the property is still strangely missing.

It makes “Wakanda’s eyes” to feel so special. It is a show that seems to fulfill MCU’s promise by re-creating an experience of reading a cartoon and following one character just to find that their past and ancestor is being explored a special one shot. It helps that Wakanda is already MCU’s most designed place, in a country with history, tradition and culture that viewers are eager to see more (unlike all the same foreign planets that we hardly have to study in “Galaxy of the Galaxy”).

“Eyes Wakanda” starts streaming on August 6, 2025 with Disney+.