Avengers: Doomsday Trailer Arrives And Confirms Every Marvel Fan’s Worst Fears

Written by Chris Snellgrove | Published 17 seconds ago

Marvel Studios had a huge hit with its first trailer Avengers: Doomsdaywhich was scheduled to premiere before James Cameron’s upcoming film Avatar: Fire and Ashes. However, the trailer was recently leaked online, focusing entirely on the return of favorite Steve Rogers.

Chris Evans will reportedly play the title character in this highly anticipated film, but that’s actually a bad sign: it reveals that Marvel has officially run out of ideas, and the big plan to save its brand from superhero fatigue is to pit Steve Rogers against Tony Stark in a movie that just needs to be named. Captain America: Civil War 2.

Somehow, the Civil War returned

the first Avengers: Doomsday The trailer (which we’re not allowed to show here until it’s officially released) isn’t all that impressive. You see Steve Rogers getting off a motorcycle at home, holding a baby (presumably his son with Peggy Carter) and staring at his old superhero suit. The trailer ends with a promise that “Steve Rogers will return Avengers: Doomsday“.

According to reliable scout Daniel Richtman, the first trailer focuses on Steve for the simple reason that he will be the main character in the film; This lines up with old rumors that Tony Stark’s Doctor Doom is hunting Steve because the former Captain America changed the timeline by staying in the past at the end of Avengers: Endgame.

This all makes sense from a cynical marketing perspective, of course: one of the reasons for Marvel’s superhero fatigue is that audiences don’t like new heroes like Mr. Marvel. Fantastic or Anthony Mack’s Captain America as much as they love the original Avengers. Therefore, bringing back these core actors in the Avengers is a big part of that doomsdaymarketing, and went so far as to bring back Robert Downey Jr. as an entirely new character. As much as audiences might want to see him and Chris Evans back on screen together again, I don’t think the fanbase would be too excited about a movie whose basic plot is a weak retread of a movie Captain America: Civil War.

Bring in the strange and new patterns and traditions

while Civil war The Marvel film was solid, but it’s mostly remembered for two things: the extended airport brawl between the various heroes and the devastating fight at the end between Captain America and Iron Man. Previously it was marketing for Avengers: Doomsday It focused mostly on the crowded cast of characters, including popular MCU mainstays (like Loki, Bucky, and Thor) and fan-favorite X-Men from the 20th Century Fox films (like Beast, Magneto, and Professor X). The film implicitly promises that we will see a large number of battles and group formations with characters who rarely interact, e.g Captain America: Civil War On a much larger scale.

Civil war It was also revealed that Tony Stark’s parents were killed by Bucky back in the Winter Soldier days. When this news came to light, it exacerbated the relationship between Captain America and Iron Man, a relationship that had already been strained because these heroes had taken different stances on the issue of superhero registration. All of this, of course, was a complicated reason to pit former best friends Steve Rogers and Tony Stark against each other.

Judgment Day for Marvel Studios

Now, that’s what Avengers: Doomsday It feels like a renovation. We’re getting a timely story and a massive multiverse crossover event just so the same two guys who cried over each other in 2016 can cry over each other again in 2026, complete with competing teams of familiar favorites. At best, this will just be a worse version of the big-screen battle we’ve already seen; At worst, this gamble could sink the MCU when the general public realizes that the big new Marvel movie is based on nothing but recycled ideas.

Of course, you have to recycle old ideas when you can’t create new ones, and that’s where the Marvel Cinematic Universe is right now. As an old school fan, I would love to be wrong here, and I sincerely hope so Avengers: Doomsday He is worthy End game A sequel that blows us all away. But judging by the lukewarm online response to the leaked trailer and the Steve Rogers deal, it looks like Marvel is about to wipe out its cultural legacy faster than Robert Downey Jr.’s new character can say “I’m not Iron Man.”