If Sadie Sink is playing Jean Grey, Spider-Man: Brand New Day may be using her to expose the wounds behind Punisher, Hulk, and Peter Parker’s power — while quietly setting up the control problem that leads to Doomsday and Secret Wars.
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Deadpool & Wolverine should be empty sugar. Instead, it becomes one of the more meaningful Marvel movies in years. In this episode of The MCU Diaries, Blake breaks down why the film works beneath the blood, the jokes, and the multiverse chaos — and why the Honda Odyssey fight is the scene where the whole argument finally clicks shut.
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Quantumania is a messy movie with a sharp moral engine: when fear spikes, who gets to choose? In this entry, Blake defines The Consent Line and shows how Janet, Kang, and Scott turn that question into the saga’s clearest test of agency.
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Loki Season 2 turns the multiverse into a load-bearing system. Once you see the failure point, you understand how a villain like Doom gets leverage—without ever winning a fair fight.
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Doctor Strange is the saga’s multiverse spine because Marvel keeps rewarding his control… then charging him for it. This entry tracks the receipts that make a Doom alliance feel inevitable instead of random.
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The first Brand New Day trailer works because it turns Peter Parker’s erased identity into a physical problem. This is a Spider-Man story where the mask starts consuming the man, and that gives Marvel a real clock again.
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Secret Wars isn’t a multiverse encyclopedia — it’s a story engine built on pressure, impossible choice, and irreversible consequence. Loki Season 1 is the cleanest on-screen blueprint for how that engine actually works.
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RDJ returning as Doctor Doom isn’t nostalgia—it’s storycraft. This entry breaks down the mirror-villain move, the Tony Stark DNA it’s built from, and what it teaches us to watch for on the road to Doomsday.
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The MCU Diaries Host Blake Larsen chats the LOKI season 1 finale: episode 1.06 – For All Time, Always.
Blake discusses why we have to go back to the beginning to understand the end, why Jonathan Majors is exceptional as He Who Remains, and why this episode feels like a Smashing Pumpkins song…
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The MCU Diaries Host Blake Larsen chats LOKI: episode 1.05 – Journey Into Mystery.
Blake discusses “theme vs. anti-theme”, why this might be his favorite MCU episode yet, and why there absolutely needs to be an Old Loki and Alligator Loki spinoff…
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