In 2025, Disney has an interesting collection of movies and TV shows coming out. Between Fantastic Four: First Steps and Ironheart, the MCU is expanding to corners of the multiverse that audiences haven't seen before. The Fantastic Four speak for themselves since this is their first outing, and Ironheart focuses on a street-level hero with Iron Man-caliber aspirations. Keep in mind that those are just a few examples of unexplored territory.
The list of MCU movies is the most important to dissect since it sets the stage for Marvel's culminating features, Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars. Here's everything coming out in 2025.
Captain America: Brave New World
The newest installment in the Captain America series is a massive departure from the first three movies. This time, Sam Wilson is the patriotic hero saving innocents—not Steve Rogers. Sam's challenges include fighting several rising villains, such as Sidewinder (Giancarlo Esposito), The Leader (Tim Blake Nelson), and Red Hulk (Harrison Ford). The latter of the three isn't technically a villain, but his angry outburst points to him hulking out, and gamma monsters don't have much self-control the first few times they transform. Bruce Banner can attest to that factor of Hulk transformations.
Captain America: Brave New World opens in theaters on February 14, 2025.
The Thunderbolts'
Marvel's sleeping giant, The Thunderbolts, doesn't look like it'll change the landscape of the MCU; that's only because audiences don't know the impending impact of the renegade team on the universe.
The Thunderbolts aren't simply a team of assassins working for the new Director of SHIELD. Bob, AKA The Sentry, is one of the most powerful superheroes in Marvel Comics, so he'll become significant regardless of where his allegiances lie. Yelena Belova is in line to take her sister's place as the Avengers' newest Black Widow and Bucky Barnes' destiny is to wear the blue cowl and shield at some point.
It's worth mentioning that Yelena and Bucky won't join Earth's Mightiest Heroes until their current arc runs its course. The regime that Director Fontaine established hinges on having a team of super soldiers that she can use to enforce her rule. That means keeping the Thunderbolts around, and from the look of Bucky Barnes in the clips released so far, he's back under Winter Soldier programming.
The Thunderbolts' premieres on May 2, 2025.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
The Fantastic Four: First Steps stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn of Stranger Things fame. It follows Susan Storm, Reed Richards, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm in what is presumably a first for them. Marvel confirmed that the movie isn't an origin story, although the subtitle First Steps points to them venturing into unexplored territory. Perhaps the title alludes to the Fantastic Four's first steps into the multiverse. They are tangling with Galactus and the Silver Surfer, and anytime cosmic energy is involved, multidimensional travel isn't far off.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps premieres in theaters on July 25, 2025