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Let's roll back the clock to before What If...?

There are two Marvel Animation(s). There's the newly created Marvel Studios Animation to go with the first animated project Marvel Studios themselves was about to release.

And there's the other Marvel Animation, taken back from Ike Perlmutter's grubby hands two years ago and was pretty much in a limbo state with everything left in their slate (Spidey and His Amazing Friends, Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur, Hit-Monkey) now directly under Marvel Studios' supervision.

Even before that point the division's woes had been well documented for years. Canning the fan-favorite EMH for bland synergy attempts like the new Marvel animated block on Disney XD. Cutting animation cost to the bone even viewers could feel it with Spider-Man (2017 animated series). Pushing Ike's agendas by flooding the Inhumans in everything while suppressing household brands like X-Men and Fantastic Four. The list goes on and on.

Anyway, the new division had a lot to do to fix a tarnished brand. There's this interview from the What If...? crew explaining the process behind the making and in it Brad teased Marvel Studios' future in animation as well.

>Brad Winderbaum: Yes, we have plans now because of What If…? to make more animated shows; all these shows that require animation as a medium and that can only exist in this art form. Each exists on its own term and hopefully explore unexpected facets of the MCU.

And there's also a second interview with Variety:

>(Brad) Winderbaum: I think what’s amazing about the Multiverse Saga in particular is that you can go down so many more roads. We’ve experimented at the studio for a long time about telling stories that take place in a linear fashion, but also going back in time, and being able to show how the MCU can blossom in the past. But what the multiverse does, it allows us to look at alternate paths and other takes on the characters, which is, of course, what happens in the comic books as different artists, different writers, different storytellers work with characters. You see them expanding and growing in unforeseen, unexpected ways. And that’s something that is our guiding light as we make more animated projects.

Now that the first batch of Marvel Animation projects had been out I believe Brad had largely delivered on these promises, and that really made him an improvement from Jeph Loeb despite having to learn on the job.

These shows now exist on their own terms. There's no shared continuity between X-Men '97, or Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, or Marvel Zombies. They just exist under the Marvel Animated Multiverse banner. And that gives each head writers creative freedom to pursue what fits these projects rather than conforming to a house style.

To those projects already in development before the new division was formed they have all carved out their own identities under Marvel Studios as well. Moon Girl is a great showing for a largely unknown character, and Hit-Monkey offered a bloody solid look.

They got to explore unexpected facets of the MCU. I am Groot dealt with Groot's hijinks and misadventures between the events of the first and the second GOTG films. Eyes of Wakanda explored an untouched and untold history of Wakanda. They're both ultimately fine for what they are, but that's another promise delivered.

One project in particular, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, is a great improvement over its disastrous predecessor, and also allowed Marvel to look at an alternate path and making it the premise. I believe it's a good showing of what the MCU could have done when Sony isn't in the room with them.

And the best of all? These projects have been anywhere from solid (even if middling) like Marvel Zombies to all-timer, like the X-Men revival. That's not something you could say to old Marvel Animation as it trended downward after EMH. The bad things about these were mostly contained within the projects themselves.

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Basically opening an old wound from a decade ago. I still think the Inhumans/X-Men dispute was utterly pointless then and it's still pointless now because it caused nothing but misery.

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Available 06/23/2026.

All numbers taken from Box Office Vietnam.

None of the imported films cracked the top 5, but only the top 2 films did not struggle in a crowded schedule.

No I do not have a spoiler policy for dogshit.

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