Hey, @melbourneswest.

Glad you liked it. :)

I'm agreeing with you regarding the Avengers vs. X-Men in that not having the latter around forced provided an opportunity to the MCU to take characters that always have been, in my opinion, great characters, but overshadowed by the Big Three in one way or another, and give them the top billing they deserved.

It's funny because while The Fantastic Four and Spider-Man have been huge hits from their conception, The X-Men were on the verge of cancellation. Then, the newer X-Men arrived, along with a cavalcade of new characters, and they quickly became a force to be reckoned with.

So, Marvel Studios had to work harder to make compelling movies to sell their next tier of heroes and I think it will end up being a good thing. Hopefully, it saves them from jumping the shark with this next round because now they're into the C and D-listers. I mean The Eternals? Shang Chi? Fortunately, they'll be backing those up with other B to C level characters that have already been established.

re: multiverse in latest Spider-Man
I guess Spider-Man: Far From Home technically did acknowledge the existence of a multiverse with Mysterio stating as much as his origin story, but that turned out to be as fake as he was.

However, with the upcoming Spider-Man movie, and the signing on of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield as former Spider-Men, along with Doctor Octopus actor Alfred Molina and so on, something's got to explain them all running around in the MCU from the previous Sony outings. So, we'll see.

I'm just hoping they don't do to the MCU Spider-Man what they did to the Sony Spider-Men, and that's make it too big. There could be six supervillains and who knows how many Spider-Men, along with Doctor Strange and whoever else. Spider-Man 3 from the first outing and Spider-Man 2 from the next suffered because they brought in too many villains at once.