Film Theory: The R-Rated Avengers Are COMING!

If the MCU switches its focus to pleasing the mature audience, it's going to definitely attract an even larger audience. The younger audience will always find a way to watch the mature movies either way.

With the darker themes of Moon Knight and Multiverse of Madness, I wouldn’t be surprised if Marvel leans into some R rated stuff with Deadpool and future grim storylines like Secret Wars

“The R-rated Avengers, but that won’t be what they’re called.” My brain: …Revengers?

To be honest I just watched Multiverse of Madness in cinemas (literally a few hours ago as it released in the uk today) and it was WAY darker than I thought it would be. Absolutely fantastic 10/10 movie but just did not expect it to be that dark

This is how I felt about the second Venom film. I think the PG-13 rating is what killed it. Almost anything big happened off-screen because Carnage is wayyyyy too dark for a PG-13 film

After watching the new multiverse of madness movie, we are DEFINITELY close. It's gonna happen

I know you’ve done a Bee Movie theory before but, hear me out, I think a theory estimating how many bees would actually be needed to hold and fly a plane would be very interesting to watch. (Or if it’s even possible for any amount of bees to do so)

They might make a few tv series R-rated, as those are a smaller cost gamble if they flop. But I doubt that Disney would allow for a R-rated full Marvel film with around $200 million budget.

I hope matpat is right. Especially as I'm terrified Daredevil will be lowered in rating when he pops up again.

First time I realized that I love Marvel’s darker side was when I watched the Legion series. And now with Moon Knight I’m seeing a lot of similarities. Again though, Moon Knight can only do so much of that type of psychological horror without getting an M rating. Which ofc saddens me, bc I’d really like to see what Moon Lnight could’ve been with the same boundaries Legion had. To anyone who hasn’t seen it, I’d highly recommend it. Season 1 is amazing, season 2 is great too but gets a little iffy, and then towards the end it’s just a little too much. But I still definitely recommend.

It could also open it up for them to do a blade vs morbius battle at some point cause blade fought and hinted morbius in the comics on several occasions

Back when the new MCU Blade was yet to be announced and the Marvel Netflix shows were still running, I thought Blade would be a perfect addition to the more R-rated Netflix Marvel universe. Now it seems like we might be getting something like that some time in the future....

they're literally maturing the level on content in movies at the same rate that their audience is maturing, ingenious move actually

MoM took me off guard with that pg13 rating while Wanda killed the illuminati which looked like something straight out of the boys

[SPOILER ALERT FOR DR STRANGE 2] They really showed maturity and more of a gorey vibe in the movie that remind me of invincibles with Wanda killing the whole Illuminati. I've always preferred DC over marvel in everything except movies Bc they're always darker and mature and I love the route they're taking now

From a business standpoint it also makes a lot of sense since the main audience from back in the day now is grown up. Hook new kids/teens, keep the adults.

I never knew that moon knight was the origin of the "random bullshit go!" And now I love that superhero

(11:05) So that's not how real relationships are...?

he was right..it has become more dark and we saw that now when we watched multiverse of madness

There was rumors reporting a “Marvel Max” for rated R titles for Disney plus for things like Deadpool, Ghost rider and these darker titles. As soon as we got the content permissions the old report came back in my head. Hoping to see it come in soon