The Avengers have provided Marvel Studios with some of the biggest movies of the MCU – and indeed the biggest movies of all time – but why have they not become the focus of a Disney+ TV show? While many members of the team, from Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff to Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk, have made appearances on TV, producer Brad Winderbaum has now addressed the reasons it would be really hard to make an Avengers TV show.

Although it seems like it would be a no-brainer to bring Earth’s mightiest heroes together for a limited TV series, Winderbaum believes that long-form television would not provide the Avengers with the grand “statement piece” they require to be a success.

“I think the Avengers are about, there came a day when Earth’s Mightiest Heroes had to assemble. In a feature film, which is a statement piece, it makes sense that there’s an event that galvanizes them all. I think that on a long-form television show, it becomes more of a challenge to have, ‘There came a day’ every day.”

However, Winderbaum believes that there could be a way to have the Avengers “assemble so they can disassemble, then assemble again, and then disassemble again” in a TV series, but it would be a “very unique pattern for a television show.”

“In the comics, you can do it. It’s the Marvel universe, and there’s just spectacular things happening all the time. Yeah, but if you read the comics, you know that the Avengers really assemble so that they can disassemble, and then assemble again, and then disassemble again. Is it possible? Yes. But from a narrative point of view, it becomes like ascension and descension, which … it could be really interesting for a long-form story. But it would be a very unique pattern for a television show.”

The Avengers Will Assemble in Doomsday

The last time the Avengers came together, the world was treated to one of the greatest superhero movies ever put on screen in Avengers: Endgame. Delivering everything set up by more than a decade of storytelling, the movie was the epitome of the kind of “statement piece” that Winderbaum refers to.

However, following that epic showpiece has proven to be a struggle for Marvel Studios, with many fans being disappointed by the pullback in scale and scope, as well a drop in quality, of Disney+ shows such as Secret Invasion. Perhaps with that in mind, and the kind of budget that an Avengers TV should would require, there is a reason why the Avengers are best kept on the big screen.

The next appearance of the team will be in the renamed fifth Avengers movie, Avengers: Doomsday, which was recently retooled around the arrival of Doctor Doom in the MCU. As revealed earlier this year, Doom will be unexpectedly played by the returning messiah of Marvel Studios, Robert Downey Jr. While the fan base has been very divided over the idea of Downey Jr. playing the iconic Marvel Comics villain, there is little doubt that the 2026 movie will be very much a “statement piece” and will set up possibly the only comic book arc that could outdo Endgame; Secret Wars.

You can relive all of the Avengers’ adventures, and almost every Marvel Studios offering, on Disney+.