The Marvel universe is in an fascinating place proper now. Because of film bulletins from studio head Kevin Feige, we all know, mainly, the place Part 5 and Part 6 of the MCU are going. They’re going to culminate in two Avengers motion pictures: “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” and “Avengers: Secret Wars.” And if that is not sufficient, we all know for sure that variants of Kang the Conqueror will probably be inflicting chaos all through the multiverse in loads of these motion pictures and TV exhibits, per the “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”‘s end-credits scenes.
However Kang and his variants, performed by Jonathan Majors, appear to have a serious benefit. They’ll see time and have some skills to leap all through the universe, on high of different powers. The MCU’s heroes appear hopelessly outmatched — besides “Quantumania” appears to verify that there is one thing uniting the heroes’ tales collectively with out them understanding and possibly giving them powers to match Kang: supernatural rings. This principle begins with 2021’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and spirals out from there to incorporate 2021’s “Eternals,” 2022’s Disney+ sequence “Ms. Marvel” (and 2023’s “The Marvels” movie), and “Quantumania.”
Forward, we break down the MCU ring principle.
The MCU Rings Principle For “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”
In “Shang-Chi,” the title hero (performed by Simu Liu) will get the titular 10 rings (although they’re actually extra like bangles). On high of Shang-Chi’s martial arts coaching, the rings make him a bona fide superhero. As proven within the film, the rings give longevity and power, can emit vitality blasts, and so they can use telepathy to maneuver objects. Nobody is aware of precisely the place the rings got here from, although Wong (Benedict Wong) notes that their energy will be detected by sorcerers, and Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) suppose they’re additionally both receiving a message from or sending a message into outer area. The mix of alien and mystical powers along with rings retains arising repeatedly in different motion pictures.
The MCU Rings Principle For “The Eternals”
In “Eternals,” Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) makes bracelets that look so much like Shang-Chi’s 10 rings for the Eternals to make use of within the film’s last act. The rings let the heroes turn into a strong Uni-Thoughts. Technically, “Eternals” is about properly sooner or later from when the rings have been found in “Shang-Chi,” however Phastos says he is been engaged on them for a very long time. For the reason that Eternals are 1000’s of years outdated, it is attainable the ten rings utilized in “Shang-Chi” are a prototype model of Phastos’s. Or, since there’s a lot time-travelling and multiverses concerned, it is attainable the ten rings are a variant from one other dimension of Phastos’s rings.
The MCU Rings Principle For “Ms. Marvel” and “The Marvels”
In Disney+’s “Ms. Marvel,” Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) unlocks her powers when she places on a bangle that is a household heirloom. Later within the sequence, we see how her great-grandmother Aisha (Mehwish Hayat) first discovered that bangle in a cave with the opposite Clandestines — human-appearing creatures who need to get again to their dwelling dimension and appear to by no means age. The bangle offers Kamal the power to make use of Noor, and she will use it to teleport and even time journey.
Two massive issues to level out right here instantly: first, the Clandestines are inter-dimensional species, like Kang. And second, within the cave the place they discover the bangle, the symbols of the ten rings organisation from “Shang-Chi” are on the ground. So there may be positively some connection between the bangle and the ten rings — however there’s extra.
The top-credits scene for “Ms. Marvel” leads proper into this summer season’s “The Marvels.” It seems that Kamala’s powers are by some means entangled with Captain Marvel’s and Monica Rambeau’s (Teyonah Parris), and each time one in all them makes use of them, they swap locations. Captain Marvel’s powers got here by way of the Kree, and Monica’s got here by way of Wanda’s magic in “Wandavision.” With the hyperlink between the trio, Marvel combines mystical powers, alien expertise, and multiverses as soon as once more.
The MCU Rings Principle For “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”
This brings us to “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” Kang is trapped within the Quantum Realm, and he wants to make use of a particular gadget that appears like a golden orb to energy up his ship (and his personal latent skills). And as soon as it is powered up, it is clear that the golden orb is an interlocking set of golden rings. Someway, these rings are the important thing to travelling anyplace and to any time in the entire multiverse.
It does not seem to be a stretch that every one the rings — Shang-Chi’s, the “Everlasting”‘s rings, Kamala’s bangle, and Kang’s golden orb — are all related by some means and hyperlink collectively components of magic, alien expertise, and the multiverse. It is under no circumstances clear how the Marvel heroes will defeat Kang, however we might wager our cash it entails some mixture of these things and superheroes. We would not be shocked if July’s “The Marvels” makes these connections even clearer.
