Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

2017’s Thor: Ragnarok will be a huge event in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it will see the return of Loki, the aftermath of his usurping of Odin to become the ruler of Asgard and the arrival of characters like Surtur – and for those reasons you’d think it would be higher on this list.

However, due to the relative mediocrity of 2011’s Thor and 2013’s Thor: The Dark World, fans of the MCU aren’t as excited about it as perhaps they should be.

That being said, the events that unfold in the movie will change the face of the entire franchise and the scale of it could make it absolutely epic, so it may well end up being a huge success – maybe even on the same level as the Avengers movies. Either way, we are still looking forward to it a lot.

Black Panther (2018)

Black Panther AKA T’Challa is an incredibly popular comic book character who has been a prominent member of the Avengers since the 1960s, so it’s fairly unfathomable that he hasn’t already had a movie of his own – but, now that he is, it’s a very exciting prospect.

The character was first hinted at in an Easter egg in Iron Man 2 (when his fictional home nation of Wakanda was highlighted on a map of key locations held by S.H.I.E.L.D.), but he has since been confirmed for a solo movie and Wakanda has been explicitly mentioned on screen (in Avengers: Age of Ultron).

Chadwick Boseman will take on the role of the Wakandan royal – the first black superhero to get a solo movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – and will first appear in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, prior to getting his own movie in 2018.