An Unlikely Trio Is Leading Marvel’s Multiverse Saga — and It Highlights the MCU’s Biggest Problem
Move over Avengers mainstays — Marvel’s Multiverse Saga is being steered by an unlikely trio, upending expectations and reshaping the road to the next big crossover.
Fourteen movies and more than twenty Disney+ series into Marvel's Multiverse Saga, a fan actually did the math on who shows up the most. The result is not the trio you were picturing. Not even close.
"Wong, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, and Daredevil are the main characters of the Multiverse Saga."
That line comes from a Reddit post that tallied total project appearances. Not screentime, not narrative importance—just how often someone physically appears. By that metric, the three most-present faces of the Multiverse era are Wong, Val, and Matt Murdock, each popping up in four projects. If you were expecting Captain America, Doctor Strange, or even Yelena Belova to run away with this, same.
Who actually shows up the most (and where)
- Wong (Benedict Wong) — Four appearances: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
- Daredevil (Charlie Cox) — Four appearances: Spider-Man: No Way Home, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Echo, and yes, Daredevil: Born Again.
- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) — Four appearances: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Black Widow, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Thunderbolts*, where she is the chairwoman of OXE and spends a lot of time wrangling that team of anti-heroes.
Why this is weird (but also very Multiverse Saga)
As much fun as these characters are, they are not the names most people associate with the MCU's top tier. Which is kind of the point here: when you spread the story across this many movies and shows, the connective tissue ends up being supporting players and well-placed cameos. Counting a post-credits pop-in the same as a lead role is a choice—but that choice does explain why Wong, Val, and Daredevil float to the top.
It also highlights a bigger frustration fans keep coming back to: if Wong is arguably the most consistent face of the Multiverse Saga, why isn't he in Avengers: Doomsday? That disconnect is the sort of thing that makes the current MCU feel scattershot.
Fans are leaning into the bit. One joked, "Wong will be the one to defeat Doom to solidify his place as the lead of the saga," while another said, "I am totally down for making Daredevil the centerpiece of the MCU."
What Marvel has next on the calendar
Next up on the movie side is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, swinging into theaters July 31, 2026 as part of Phase 6.