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How Marvel Heroes feel about Phase 4

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Marvel’s own heroes turn on each other days after Comic-Con.

Marvel Studios spent San Diego Comic-Con handing out movie and Disney+ deals like party favors, and the sketch collective RDCworld1 wasted no time imagining what that meeting would actually feel like from inside the MCU. Their video “How Marvel Heroes feel about Phase 4,” posted July 26, 2019, puts Marvel’s biggest names in a room together — and lets the pettiness fly. It’s not a press junket or a trailer breakdown. It’s a parody built entirely on jealousy.

• RDCworld1 uploaded “How Marvel Heroes feel about Phase 4” on July 26, 2019, just days after Marvel Studios unveiled its Phase 4 slate at San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H.
• The sketch stages a heated staff-meeting-style gathering where established MCU heroes react to who got greenlit for new movies and Disney+ shows — and who got skipped over entirely.
• Blade’s arrival in the MCU becomes a recurring punchline, alongside grumbling from veteran heroes who feel forgotten in the wake of Avengers: Endgame while newer characters land solo deals.

The Setup: A Very Petty Team Meeting

The joke works because it flips the script on how Marvel news usually gets covered. Instead of fans reacting to the Phase 4 announcements, RDCworld1 imagines the characters themselves reacting — and treating it like office politics. Who got the promotion, who got passed over, who’s suddenly best friends with the boss. The sketch leans on the idea that superheroes, stripped of their capes, would gossip and sulk just like anyone else who watched a coworker get a title bump they didn’t.

Official Comic-Con Major Announcements

The real fuel for the bit was Marvel’s Hall H presentation days earlier, where Kevin Feige laid out a Phase 4 slate stacked with new blood: Black Widow, The Eternals, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness on the film side, plus a wave of Disney+ series including WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, and Moon Knight. That’s a lot of new real estate being handed out at once, and RDCworld1’s sketch treats every one of those announcements as a fresh reason for somebody in the group chat to get their feelings hurt.

Industry Winners and Excluded Parties

The biggest comic target is Blade, whose long-rumored entry into the MCU finally became official at the con — a character with decades of history suddenly walking into a room full of Avengers like he owns the place. The sketch’s other big beat is the resentment from heroes who survived Endgame only to watch the spotlight shift toward names casual fans barely recognized a year earlier. That’s the whole engine of the joke: massive sacrifice in Endgame, followed immediately by a press conference full of somebody else’s good news.

Steve Rogers is dead, Tony Stark is dead, and the new guy shows up talking about vampires and already has a movie — that’s the entire premise.

Part of a Bigger Sketch Tradition

RDCworld1 built its audience on exactly this kind of pop-culture parody — reacting to real entertainment news through an in-character lens rather than a straight recap, the same instinct that’s kept late-night sketch slots like SNL’s cold opens relevant for decades. “How Marvel Heroes feel about Phase 4” slots into that same lineage: take a real headline, hand it to characters who’d have the most petty possible reaction to it, and let the sketch write itself.

The real Phase 4 the sketch is riffing on was set to kick off with Black Widow’s May 1, 2020 release date, already locked in when Marvel made the Comic-Con announcement — meaning the actual jealousy fest RDCworld1 joked about was only months from becoming very real box office business.