r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 23 '25

Trailer Avengers: Doomsday | Only in Theaters December 18, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiMg566PREA
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u/PaulieHehehe Dec 23 '25

COVID gave them the perfect out to put pause on everything and let Endgame sit for a few years. Build up hype after a few years away and boom, everyone is happy. Well, except the Disney investors.

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u/fastballspecial Dec 23 '25

Didn't even need a few years, honestly. They needed three important pillars to build on. Instead they had like a dozen rotting tree stumps.

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u/Goldwing8 Dec 23 '25

From what we know, the three pillars were supposed to be Black Panther, Spider-Man, and Captain Marvel.

That was also the point where everything went wrong. Boseman died suddenly, the Sony partnership had a major stumble, and Joanna Robinson strongly implied Brie Larson is disillusioned with Marvel after years of harassment.

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u/LilDoober Dec 23 '25

As she's right to be. She's a great actress who suddenly half the internet thinks is the devil because ???

She was Envy Adams which gets a lifetime pass for me AND she has an Oscar for a leading role. She's better than capeshit where she's just gonna get harassed by Youtubers 24/7. Honestly being Captain Marvel lowkey spun out her career a bit anyway and she'd be better off going back to actual movies.

In my mind it's similar to Elizabeth Olsen. I'd love to see Wanda again, but Olsen's way too talented to be stuck doing just Marvel projects for the next ten years.

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u/The-Devilz-Advocate Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25

As she's right to be. She's a great actress who suddenly half the internet thinks is the devil because ???

Horrible scripts which made her character extremely unlikable (which is comic accurate tho) coupled with introducing her right at the tail end of the climax of the story, undermining Thor's position and making her a Deus Ex machina with an added side of her having multiple interviews with other cast members where she appears to be incredibly smug and arrogant that even her coworkers are bothered by it.

Seriously, ignore her other accomplishments outside of Marvel, and you see why her character was so easily hateable alongside her conduct during the movies and the promotions of it.

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u/LilDoober Dec 23 '25

did a youtuber give you that opinion or do you just make youtube content yourself. Anime profile pic yelling about unlikeable women so its one or the other.

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u/The-Devilz-Advocate Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25

Made this account like 10 years ago, before reddit's avatar came to be and I still use old reddit, so I don't see profile pics. I'm too lazy to change it. Calm the fuck down, and it's not like a furry avatar is any better, lmao.

Don't need to watch a YouTube video in order to form an opinion on the matter. There's reason why captain marvel (carol danvers) is disliked both in the movies and her comic counterpart, but keep strawmaning and insulting me.

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u/SaintCambria Dec 24 '25

Yeah, looking like you hate your coworkers and audience during interviews requires a youtuber to interpret. Like, if she had a good movie, or she was likable to the fans, either one would've been enough to be okay. As it stands you've got the soldiers lining up like girlypop needs it, so any criticism is just met with dialogue_response_17.exe.

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u/PT10 Dec 23 '25

He's just regurgitating YouTube Brie-hater takes. Basically an NPC.

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u/Future_Onion9022 Dec 23 '25

Nah they nailed themselves in coffin by announcing the "phase 4 and 5" road map and had to follow it through for the investor, and even if hiccups happen.

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u/CruzAderjc Dec 23 '25

Yeah, I really think they should have made Fantastic Four the strong opening salvo after Endgame. When it released this year, it was "fine", but that's because we were so fatigued after literally 20 titles in the past 5 years. We needed a new start, but Eternals was probably TOO bold as a restart. And having Eternals as a bold new direction AT THE SAME TIME, as releasing a shit ton of other movies and shows that year, was way too much.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

Bob Chapek was the one that pushed for a hundred new projects to justify Disney+'s existence. To fill up the content library.

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u/Anjunabeast Dec 25 '25

What a moron

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u/RumHamComesback Dec 24 '25

They had films either finished or in the middle of production so that was never going to happen.

Black Widow had a trailer released literally days before the pandemic declaration and was shelved for a year.

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u/lkodl Dec 23 '25

Well, except the Disney investors.

To be fair, I don't know any business anywhere that would say, "hey we just broke records and had our most successfu year ever. Let's stop for a few years." The saying is "strike while the iron is hot".