Open Channel: Pick a Marvel Hero to Headline a Future Holiday Special

Amongst the cinematic and tv hits that made up the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s 2022 output, the megafranchise received into the vacation spirit with a pair of one-hour specials. The Guardians of the Galaxy headlined the lately launched Christmas particular, whereas Werewolf by Night kicked issues off with one for Halloween, and it’s cheap to imagine that future specials are in numerous levels of conception as we converse. Given that Marvel is slowly however certainly making its manner again into animation, there’s a stable likelihood that a few of these specials, after they launch, will wind up being animated moderately than dwell motion.

At this level, the MCU has lengthy develop into a cultural establishment, and the releases for its movies definitely rely as holidays in and of themselves. The two specials launched to date give us an thought of what we might moderately count on from upcoming installments: some specials will function some legacy characters getting as much as shenanigans, others will introduce a particular character and supporting solid for audiences to be launched to. And that is solely mentioning single-day holidays; Marvel Studios might take a web page from the Marvel Voices anthology comics and launch a particular for the celebratory month of a selected minority group.

The MCU has a big roster of characters that grows on a fairly usually foundation, and there’s loads of holidays for Disney to make worthy of a seasonal one-shot. With that in thoughts, for this week’s Open Channel, we need to know what Marvel character you’d select to star in a hypothetical vacation particular. It is usually a legacy MCU character, it may be somebody who hasn’t gotten the headline increase that you just assume they deserve, or an entirely new particular person that would make their MCU debut by means of this.

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