is the only movie in theaters this year. It’s enjoying a terrific run at the box office, having topped $1 billion after three weekends. What I’m getting at is that is easily the best MCU movie since .
But one other project has received much attention lately: . Yes, there’s . This will be Marvel’s biggest crossover since and the direct rival of the two movies from the DCEU.
Like in those films, we’re looking at a team-up of former villains and antiheroes who must work together against a bigger threat. Marvel showed at D23, which has leaked since then. Poor-quality versions are making the rounds online, and I’ve already explained what happens in the clip.
I’ll now focus on an incredibly funny detail from the leaked trailer, which reminded me of a hilarious MCU plot hole that Marvel needs to fix. It concerns Rocket (Bradley Cooper) and Bucky Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan). .
Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. By signing up, I agree to the and have reviewed the We haven’t seen Bucky in the MCU since . That’s sometime in mid-2024 (MCU time).
As a reminder, we’re currently somewhere in 2026 MCU time. That’s the present tense of the Earth-616 reality. happens in 2024, but that’s the present time in a different reality, Earth-10005.
We last saw Rocket at some point in 2026, during the adventures of . That film was practically a Rocket story. We learned how Rocket became this amazing superhero and how incredib.