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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World.

Doomsday is coming. You know it. I know it. And today, thanks to the Leader, Captain America knows it to.

In the hapless post-credit field for Captain America: Brave New World, criminal Samuel Sterns offers a reminder to Sam Wilson, one that points to the next Avengers movie and, probably, the close of the MCU as we know it.

Captain America 4&#8217, s Post-Credit Field Explained

Sam Wilson is no Steve Rogers, as the selling for Captain America: Brave New World often reminds us. And that &#8217, s a good thing. Sam&#8217 ;s history as a counselor is used by Brave New World to transform him into a Captain America who prefers to talk things up with villains over punching them in the face.

So it &#8217, s no surprise when Brave New World ends with Sam visiting Thaddeus Ross, no longer in Red Hulk kind, in jail on the Raft. Nor is it a wonder when he also drops by the body of Samuel Sterns, the movie&#8217, s great poor, a gamma-radiated supergenius called the Leader.

Yet though he&#8217, s been defeated, Sterns cannot help but moan, getting a one-up over Sam by showing off his knowledge. Sterns congratulates Sam and his other soldiers on their efforts to end the world. But then he reveals the results of his equations. &#8220, Do you think this is the only earth? &#8221, Sterns asks. &#8220, We&#8217, ill see what happens when you have to defend this position &#8230, from the others. &#8221,

On one hand, Sterns &#8217, s reveal is a bit of a let down. We&#8217, have known that there are other kingdoms. Pop tradition is choking on multiverses. Heck, this present period of the MCU is part of the Universe Story, a story that includes Spider-Man: No Method Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Deadpool &amp, Wolverine. The Leader&#8217, s reveal seems clear and Sam seems decrease on the uptake around, even if there&#8217, s no cause for most people on the perfect truth Earth-616 to know about these kingdoms.

On the other, Stern&#8217, s caution is n&#8217, t just that there are other worlds. Additionally, it &#8217 is important to note that these other universes are a risk and that there are heroes who would fight against them. That makes more of a particular reference to the 2015 Marvel Comics Secret Wars storyline, which will serve as the inspiration for the upcoming two Avengers movies, Doomsday and Key Wars.

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Uncovering the Key War

Secret Wars, which was written by Jonathan Hickman, really begins with his Fantastic Four operate in 2009, moves up through his work on Avengers and New Avengers in 2013, and wraps up with Key Wars in 2015. In a crisis where Earths from two different realities start to cycle into one space, Reed Richards describes an &#8220, Incursion, &#8221, interplanetary conflict. After eight hours, the Rocks and their respective worlds are destroyed after each invasion.

The New Avengers sections of the Key Wars story deals with attempts by the Illuminati of Earth-616&#8212, a key group of prominent people that includes Richards, Iron Man, Namor, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt of the Inhumans, and Beast/Professor X of the X-Men&#8212, to save their world. Along the way, the party encounters both real-world heroes and villains who want to annihilate our planet to save their own. The hungry Illuminati later follow suit, starting attacks on additional realities to save Earth-616, despite first abhorring the idea.

New Avengers is a grim story, one filled with a creeping horror that &#8217, s more threatening than anything the MCU has done before. But we&#8217, ve now heard allusion to attacks before, in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Not only do the Illuminati of Earth-838 featured in that film refer to incursions, but the post credit scene finds Clea ( Charlize Theron ) arriving to recruit Strange in a battle against the Incursions.

Also, the title of the next Avengers video suggests that the MCU soldiers will cope with the attacks in a way similar to that of the Marvel Comics &#8217, soldiers. Most of the heroes in Avengers and New Avengers either accept their unavoidable ending or pass away trying to avoid it. One hero and one villain are able to see the solution. With the help of the all-powerful Molecule Man, Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom take the fight to the Beyonders, the god-like architects of the multiverse.

The trio defeats the Beyonders to the point where they lose their incredible abilities. Strange hesitates to take on such amazing power, but Doom does not. He rediscovers the universe and uses it to transform himself into God. He takes the power and saves ours.

The final Secret Wars installment follows Reed Richards and other heroes ‘ battles to restore things to how they were in Doom&#8217’s reign as God Emperor of a newly designed Marvel Universe.

Preparing for Doomsday

Given the Leader&#8217, s warning, it sounds like Avengers: Doomsday will show Marvel&#8217, s heroes fighting with those of other realities, all trying to protect their Earth from the incursions. And like in the comics, Robert Downey Jr., who plays Doctor Doom, will make an outrageous choice to remake his universe.

If that &#8217, s the case, Earth &#8217, s Mightiest Heroes will face their greatest battle yet in Avengers: Secret Wars. The Leader should have given Sam the warning right away so he can begin assembling his Avengers and possibly fixing things.

Captain America: Brave New World is now in theaters.

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