It's a new year, and that means there's a new movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe on the horizon. This year, that initial MCU offering is Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. And maybe, just maybe, this film will finally give the MCU a little bit of focus after three years of movies and TV shows have struggled to connect to one another.. While it's doubtful Disney has felt any kind of pain in the wallet over the fan response to the post-Endgame MCU yet, the people have gotten restless with this supposed shared universe being dominated by unrelated stories.

And then when they have tried some of that connective tissue lately, it's gone poorly. Take Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, an astonishing film from a great filmmaker that nearly grinds to a halt whenever Martin Freeman or Julia Louis-Dreyfuss is on screen as part of the greater MCU story.

But Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania could change this state of affairs for the MCU by dealing with some major dangling threads and finally giving the MCU the new central plot thread it's been lacking since Endgame. Things may be about to change in the MCU in the biggest of ways.