Can the MCU survive without the original Avengers?

[Revolutionary_Jack]

First, it's impossible that Logan inspired Infinity War because filming of the latter started in January 2017 and therefore at a moment Logan wasn't even released. So the screenplay had to be finished even earlier than 2017.

Feige explicitly said LOGAN was an inspiration for them for ENDGAME
(https://www.cinemablend.com/news/247...ctful-as-logan)

Second, the Avengers movies make more money in foreign markets than in the US,

That's not how the box-office works.

International grosses by itself don't count as profits because a lot of that money goes to fees to international distributors, tariff fees, taxes, to respective nations and so on. Whereas the US box office gross doesn't include any of that, and also benefit from some generous tax breaks...so the lion's share of the profitability of any American blockbuster depends mostly on the US grosses. International grosses are multipliers of that, and amplifiers but not entirely profitable by itself. That's why movies like Warcraft which failed in the Western market but did really well in China isn't getting a sequel.

I mean Disney execs considered Age of Ultron a box-office failure (https://www.goliath.com/movies/aveng...is%20committee.) even if it had a worldwide gross of $1.4bn simply because it's US domestic gross significantly lower than Avengers 1.

if we look at Endgame US audiences were responsible for only about 30% of the total box office. So your theory about the presidency having a big effect on the success of these movies is rather flawed unless you think people in China or Europe care about who the current US president is when they decide to watch a movie.

People in China and Europe do care who the current US President is, especially because if often affects the Visa status of many relatives audience members there currently have studying or working in America. And besides, Trump's election set off and was part of a big populist wave of authoritarianism worldwide. It matters greatly who the US President is. Dissidents can point to America as a model when Obama or someone like him is in charge and not when there's a president whose personal intentions and ambitions are not very different from Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un.