Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2058272-20161012193901/@comment-33690333-20171119035401

The idea was to have them know something was coming, which just turns out to be the Beyonder. It would kind of be like an Illuminati thing, where throughout Phase 3 we see Tony Stark, Reed Richards, Hank Pym, etc. working together to try and figure out / prevent whatever's going on. Towards the end of Captain Marvel 2, the Cosmic Cube would be acting unstable, and then in either the post-credits for CM 2 or Avengers 2, it would open a wormhole in outer space to Beyonder's pocket dimension. Maybe then we could have the FF get their powers while trying to examine the wormhole, or something involving it at least. The whole reason Ultron is made is to protect the Earth from whatever alien threat is looming, with that of course backfiring and weakening the Earth's heroes right before the arrival of a near omnipotent being, which would force them all to come together in Secret Wars.

That was all kind of a ramble, so I don't know if any of that makes any sense.