What did you predict about how the Multiversal saga would perform back in 2019/2022? These were my ORIGINAL crazy predictions — what were yours?

I know these predictions feel very crazy and very out of place, but this is what I thought these movies would perform like when they announced Phase 4 and part of Phase 5 at the 2019 Comic-Con panel, months after Endgame came out — on the same day that movie surpassed Avatar as the highest-grossing film in history.

Extra note: at that panel they also announced a Blade movie.

Now obviously some of these numbers are extremely inflated, because I had no idea the pandemic was going to happen. So even when we were all in quarantine, I still thought there was a chance my predictions could come true. Here are some notes on why I thought that — and let’s see if any of you thought the same:

-Black Widow: she was one of the most popular members of the original 6 Avengers — even as popular as Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor. If Captain Marvel managed to hit a billion, Natasha, who is a more popular and iconic character, why wouldn’t she?

-Eternals: when it was announced, it sounded like “the most innovative thing in the franchise” and that it was “going to explain the origin of the Marvel universe.” Because of that, there was more speculation and more hype.

-No Way Home: I definitely underestimated this one compared to the final result, but at the time I didn’t know it was going to be a crossover between the three franchises. I just thought that since the previous Spider-Man movie, Far From Home, benefited from the Endgame hype and made a billion, this one — which resolved the cliffhanger and treated the general audience with more respect — would do really well.

-Multiverse of Madness: I thought this was going to be what they’re now doing with Avengers: Doomsday, throwing in characters from past Marvel universes from Sony and Fox. And I said, “Yeah, this will make numbers like an Avengers movie

something very close to Avengers: Age of Ultron.”

-Love and Thunder: I knew it would make less than Ragnarok. I don’t know why, but I never thought it would make less than $100M.

-Wakanda Forever: I thought this would be like Furious 7. Yeah… for obvious reasons.

-Quantumania: I thought that since this was now an Avengers-scale Ant-Man movie, and with the “new Thanos,” I said, “Yeah, this is going to be a huge event for the general audience to understand what’s going to happen in Secret Wars.” Oh God.

-Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: I thought that since each movie kept increasing its box office, and since this one was like “the final chapter where several characters would die,” the numbers were definitely going to be inflated.

-The Marvels: I thought that since the first one made a billion and “everyone cared,” it would do the same. Oh God.

-Deadpool and Wolverine: I underestimated the nostalgic hype for the 2000s X-Men. I mean… can you blame me? The X-Men were never as popular as Tobey’s Spider-Man, so did I really think it was going to make a billion when no X-Men movie ever did?

-Captain America 4: I thought it would perform like The Winter Soldier, just because I believed everyone would accept Sam as the new Cap. Oh. God.

-Fantastic Four: I thought it would be like Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Panther, or Captain Marvel — in the sense that since it would be the last movie before the big release of Avengers 5, it would get a big hype boost.

And what did you expect?