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MCU Rewind: How We Got to Avengers: Endgame

Joshua M. Patton
8 min readApr 2, 2019

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The world is a lot different today than it was a decade ago when Marvel Studios premiered their first film, Iron Man. Lest we forget, in the first scenes Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark makes a MySpace reference over the sounds of a CD boombox, and his high-tech phone is not of the “smart” variety. It was also a time when the current craze of superhero films seemed to be starting its inevitable downslide, poised to…

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Joshua M. Patton

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