The MCU Has The Perfect Way To Adapt Secret Wars’ Most Brutal Villain Scene

Avengers: Secret Wars is still a while off in the MCU’s release schedule, but recent developments have set up a way to perfectly adapt one of the comics’ most brutal villain scenes. With Marvel being shown to make swinging changes to other adaptations, the way it intends to adapt the Secret Wars run of comics into the MCU timeline is still a mystery – though many story beats have already been set up. Incursions are the biggest of these – with a particularly significant incursion being the premise for the events that will supposedly bring about the MCU’s soft reboot.

In the lead-up, the MCU is still introducing characters into the fold, despite many new characters being left hanging after their Phase 4 introductions. Some of these characters don’t make significant appearances in the Secret Wars comic, which suggests Marvel will be taking ample creative liberties when the Multiverse Saga’s climax rolls around. Meanwhile, the upcoming release of Daredevil: Born Again is re-introducing characters whose MCU future was uncertain for a while, including Kingpin, Punisher, and Bullseye. Yet it is with these characters in particular that Avengers: Secret Wars can now adapt one incredible opening scene.

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The MCU’s Avengers: Secret Wars Could Adapt The Punisher’s Villain Killing Scene

No matter how closely the MCU adapts Secret Wars, one thing is practically certain: a lot of characters are going to die in an incursion. Some of these will undoubtedly occur off-screen, but one comic interaction should transpire now that Punisher and Kingpin are sharing a cinematic universe once again. This interaction sees Kingpin bring together a slew of street-level villains to witness the failure of their foes in their final moments, only for his end-of-the-world party to be crashed by a gun-toting Punisher hellbent on spending his final moments doing what he does best.

The scene would succinctly round off at least two beloved characters without consigning them to an off-screen death while the main characters of Avengers: Secret Wars take center stage. It would conclude their arcs perfectly – with Fisk relishing the downfall of his enemies and Punisher ensuring that he is the one to kill the villains instead of an incursion – and it could take place in a space of seconds. This means there is plenty of scope to include it in an epic hours-long movie, and time aplenty to build towards this finale before a new story emerges.

The Punisher Killing Kingpin In Secret Wars Sets Up The MCU’s Big Reboot

The function of Secret Wars in the comics will likely be replicated in the MCU. Namely, it will subject the cinematic universe to a “soft reboot” in which some characters die, others remain, and others are even brought back. This makes sense given that the X-Men are likely to take center stage in the new MCU saga, laying the groundwork for a new slate of heroes in a refreshed cinematic universe. With The Punisher’s killing of Fisk and his villainous cohort, the same will undoubtedly occur for the MCU’s street-level villains.

Recasting Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle and Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin has been met with widespread approval – but their tenure won’t last forever. Paving the way for a new Punisher like Joe Garrison, and drawing a line beneath Kingpin’s reign, opens up a plethora of new possibilities for street-level characters. Of course, the two could just as easily be re-cast once more as new variants post-Avengers: Secret Wars, but adapting this particular comic scene into the MCU too good of an opportunity to pass up.