Avengers: Doomsday | Special Look
Avengers: Doomsday | Special Look | In Theaters December 18
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This is better than the other trailer + spot/s they released to the public. I actually learn things about doom from this, get to hear his line delivery, get to see the Abengers Line-Up.
This is the same trailer shown at SDCC a few weeks back. So if, like me, it looks familiar now you can see it in high quality.
Do I need to watch all the other crap marvel movies after endgame to understand this?
They're not all crap, but no.
Obviously I haven't seen the movie so I don't actually know for sure, but I would expect it to be like Infinity War where you also didn't need to have seen everything that came before it, but if you have then you'll probably notice things from those films.
As an example in the opening of Infinity War we find Thor, Loki and Hulk in space. Is it required to know the events of Thor Ragnarok in order to appreciate Infinity War? No. But is it a bonus to know what Thor, Loki and Hulk were up to? Yes.
My understanding is that it is a direct sequel to Endgame. Some of the stuff that happened since will have mattered, and characters you don't yet know will be in it, but the story beats extend from Endgame.
If you chose to watch one thing, I would suggest the two season Loki show, but even that they will introduce to the audience with enough information to catch up.
Maybe a hot take but so far I'm a bit disappointed with the portrayal of Doom. It does fit his usual MO, yes, but it doesn't really feel like Time Runs Out? My favourite portrayals of Doom are where he's genuinely doing good things but doing so with horrible methods that lead to his downfall alongside his pride. Doom isn't even really a villain in Time Runs Out and he's definitely an antagonist in Secret Wars (2015) but I'd also hesitate to call him a villain. Granted, obviously, he's not good, but he shouldn't just be evil.
I think it's a little bit of a misdirect, because we don't actually know what exactly Doom is up to.
For Thanos we knew going into the film that he was collecting the Infinity Stones, but we didn't know why.
We know going into Doomsday that Incursions are happening, but we don't know why. Is Doom causing them? Is Doom choosing to save one universe over another? The marketing is conspicuously missing other characters like Doctor Strange, is he on Doom's side?
While Doomsday/Secret Wars are going to be a similar one-two punch that we had for Infinity War/Endgame, we can't (or probably shouldn't) do the same story. Thanos was the big bad who destroyed half of the universe. Doom could just be the big bad who destroys multiple universes...but he is probably up to something else... But for the something else to work as a setup, you market Doom as something more simple.
I hope so. I just don't know how they'll pull it off, and also the Thor-Doom fight feels weird to me. It feels like it belongs a lot more in Secret Wars than a Time Runs Out aka Doomsday imo?
Then again I think no matter what it will be extremely hard for it to match up to Hickman's run, so I just hope it's a good story in and of itself. Though we oughta have at least one "Everything dies".
Also doubt the Cabal or the Illuminati will exist in this adaptation but I am so curious what they're gonna do with Namor.
Granted, I know he's properly evil in the original Secret Wars, but this feels a lot more like Hickman's with the incursions and everything.