Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk: how Marvel’s new TV shows will add to MCU’s phase four, building on the success of Loki, Wandavision and Hawkeye

The Marvel Comic Universe is set to grow further in scope and scale, in part because of the increased array of Disney+ television shows

Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, and Secret Invasion are just some of the series in the pipeline

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A still from Moon Knight, starring Oscar Isaac. The upcoming Disney+ series is one of a number of new Marvel TV shows that will expand the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2022.

Published: 11:15am, 10 Feb 2022Updated: 6:54pm, 10 Feb 2022

For those who thought the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) would shrivel after Avengers: Endgame, you might just have miscalculated.

The superhero gang known as the Avengers may well have seen their joint adventures conclude with 2019’s Endgame, which is still the biggest movie of all time, with a US$2.79 billion box office. But of late the MCU has been about a lot more than just Iron Man and his pals.

The past six months alone have seen the induction of the highly trained assassin Shang-Chi and alien super-beings the Eternals into the MCU. Yet it’s really been on the small screen where Marvel has flourished, thanks to the advent of Disney+.

The Disney streaming service has been the perfect platform for the evolution of MCU’s so-called Phase Four, allowing Marvel’s president, Kevin Feige, and his writing teams to further deepen various character arcs.

That was certainly the case with 2021’s WandaVision, which carried on the post-Endgame story of Wanda Maximoff and Vision, played by Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany. Wittily using American sitcom tropes to reflect Wanda’s psychological turmoil, it was a clever way of further exploring life after Endgame – proof that even after the cataclysmic events the world faced, the MCU rumbles on.