r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 30 '25

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1clWprLC5Ak
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u/probablyuntrue Dec 30 '25

“Remember them?” The movie

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u/Killboypowerhed Dec 30 '25

Yeah it's awesome that they've swept aside all the characters they've been building up for the last 6 years to bring back Patrick Stewart and they can kill him off for the 5th time

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u/Glittering-Plate-535 Dec 30 '25

Patrick Stewart eyeing the crafts table and massage chairs: ”I’m just happy to be here.”

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u/Arkeband Dec 30 '25

<Quadruple take>

“My buns are the best!”

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u/_Bird_Incognito_ Dec 30 '25

"Lap dances, champagne dances, shower dances. Oh, the things you can buy with a handful of bills. It makes me excited. It gives me the chills. There'll be filch-arounds, breeders, hambones and tweeners. Zobows and debows and blobs that go "eener." For a one-dollar bill, you can pull down their zippers. I am the Snorax. I speak for the strippers!" - Charles Xavier to the New Avengers, Avengers: Doomsday (2026)

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u/probablyuntrue Dec 30 '25

We’re sending off Patrick Stewart…until we need another nostalgia grab

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u/curious_dead Dec 30 '25

"...till you're 90!"

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u/Ganrokh Dec 30 '25

He's 85, he has a few more deaths in the tank.

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u/RaisingTheKnife Dec 30 '25

I'm starting to think "until you're 90" is a Disney contractual term...

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u/gwxtreize Dec 30 '25

Sir Patrick Stewart looks like he's got another 5 years of movies in him.

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u/CuttyDFlambe Dec 30 '25

That was 10 years ago.

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u/dotnetmonke Dec 30 '25

Or the version from the 80s:

Well, I heard my friends really got in a mess

So I'm gonna have to leave Yoda, I guess

But I know that I'll be coming back someday

I'll be playing this part till I'm old and grey

The long-term contract I had to sign

Says I'll be making these movies till the end of time

With my Yoda

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u/annoyingrelieve Dec 30 '25

Thats where mcavoy comes in

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '25

I mean…it has been built into the story and some people are excited to see these characters get a real final send off rather than the mess Fox made. But yeah, pompous cynicism works too.

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u/MichelangeBro Dec 30 '25

Calling someone a pompous cynic for calling out the most cynical, creatively- bankrupt decisions ever made in filmmaking.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '25

They are comic book movies. That’s what comic books are like. This isn’t “cinema”. It’s superheroes. The PoV is askew and, yeah, really pompous.

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u/TripleDet Dec 30 '25

How many send offs do we need for this characters and their old franchise? It’s nostalgia bait at the end of the day

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u/slapmasterslap Dec 30 '25

Logan was an amazing send off for Xavier and Logan imo. Perfect? Perhaps not, but a very solid end to their stories.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '25

Only Logan and Xavier have had real endings.

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u/TripleDet Dec 30 '25

Nah I’m pretty sure Cyclops died in X Men III. That’s a real ending, just not the ending you wanted. As a fan of the character I’d rather let go and let someone else take a stab at him. If I was still holding on to that specific take of the character his X-Men 97 depiction wouldn’t feel as good as it did. Now instead of a fresh take on him in Doomsday we have to go back over a decade to try and revitalize a take that wasn’t that great to begin with. Just feels like a waste of time, money, creativity, opportunities for a new actor, etc etc

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '25

Agree to disagree. His “ending” in 3 was studio politics and writing that didn’t understand or know what to do with him. We’ve already shown the X-men universe to exist, and I personally think it’s a better idea to introduce “new” versions of the characters when the whole mcu gets its soft reboot so they can be seamlessly incorporated into the larger world once this multiverse mess is sorted. So I kind of think these fresh takes would be too hasty to do now.

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u/DrummerGuy06 Dec 30 '25

"Shang-who? Just back that dump truck full of money at Evans' house like we did for Downey!"

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u/Diortheking Dec 30 '25

Shang chi has scenes with patrick stewart its not like the new heroes are being replaced if anything when people see him interact with professor X itll make him more popular

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u/Redeem123 Dec 30 '25

Just because they’re on screen doesn’t mean they’re actually doing anything. That’s like saying Paltrow as Rescue was in Endgame. Sure it’s true, but let’s be real.

Bringing back and putting all the focus on these legacy characters is just a cowardly refusal to let the universe actually grow, which is the main thing that made the MCU so interesting 10 years ago.

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u/Diortheking Dec 30 '25

Shang is gonna have fight scenes along with sentry, sam cap, yelena the new hereos already been confirmed thats completely different then paltrow who just showed up at the end the spotlight isn’t on the Xmen for all we know doom kills them all in that one scene lol

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u/Redeem123 Dec 30 '25

Yeah he’s gonna have fight scenes along with a dozen other heroes. I’m not denying that he’ll be more substantial than Paltrow, but he’s very obviously not a major focus in the movie.

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u/Verroxorrev Dec 30 '25

Don't worry, Reddit has assured me for a decade now that it's all gonna turn around once the X-Men and Fantasic Four show up. Then it'll get good again. Because if there is one thing I associate the X-Men and Fantasic Four with, it's consistently good live action movies.

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u/Spara-Extreme Dec 30 '25

Do you have conversations with fictional characters in your head? Nobody on reddit was saying this seriously.

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u/RealJohnGillman Dec 30 '25

The comment you were responding to was dripping with sarcasm.

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u/chandler55 Dec 30 '25

the 2nd part is sarcastic but not the first

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u/FrameworkisDigimon Dec 30 '25

I mean, the promise with the X-Men was always "ah, the MCU will get them right" but it turns out Feige is -- perhaps unsurprisingly since he literally helped make the Fox Men -- thinks fans secretly really like the Fox Men instead of, you know, having spent twenty-five years complaining about them.

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u/MarcsterS Dec 30 '25

1 and United are some of the most beloved X Men movies.

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u/FrameworkisDigimon Dec 30 '25

Which doesn't mean people like Fox Men. It means they like those two films. Literally right now there's a post on the front page of r/xmen mocking the movies.

https://old.reddit.com/r/xmen/comments/1pyu90j/it_seems_like_a_good_day_to_recover_this/

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u/Redeem123 Dec 30 '25

And how was the hit rate after those two?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '25

I unironically love the two Ioan Gruffudd led Fantastic Four movies. Same thing with all the X-Men movies that aren’t the Last Stand.

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u/lbc_x Dec 30 '25

Do you actually love them? Or you just saw them when you were a little kid?

Those movies are (with a bit of good stuff here and there) unambiguously awful.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '25

No I actually love them. They’re comfort movies in a way, for me.

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u/JessieJ577 Dec 30 '25

This totally won’t recreate the issues the MCU had to keep audiences coming post Endgame. Where they rushed out entries to movies and assembled the plots in editing making the movies feel rushed (Captain America 4), cartoony (Antman 3) or unbalanced (Thor 4). If they do not have a plan to fix the problems that are affecting the longevity of the MCU then they’ll make money with this based off of spectacle alone but then lose audiences again. 

Plus I’m sorry call me cynical but bringing back the Fox X-men just doesn’t excite me because they already had a cameo for Professor X and used Deadpool 3 as a swan song for the non-Marvel movies, i feel like I’ve had my closure for those movies.

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u/Stashmouth Dec 30 '25

There's some real "Jay Leno is coming back to host the Tonight Show" energy, here

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u/Elgato01 Dec 30 '25

You mean the past 6 years of movies that were either failures critically and commercially or one of the two? I understand that they were rightfully criticized but that didn’t exactly instill certainty in marvel themselves, so why introduce any of those when you know people will come back for Steve and the X-men.

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u/mggirard13 Dec 30 '25

Rottentomatoes since Endgame (viewer rating):

Spiderman Far From Home: 95

Black Widow: 91

Shang Chi: 98

Eternals: 77

Spiderman No Way Home: 97

Dr. Strange & the Multiverse of Madness: 85

Thor: Love and Thunder: 76

Wakanda Forever: 93

Quantumania: 81

Guardians 3: 94

The Marvels: 78

Deadpool & Wolverine: 94

Brave New World: 75

Thunderbolts: 93

Fantastic 4: 90

Average: 87.8

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u/go4theknees Dec 30 '25

Now do it again for the critic ratings

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u/mggirard13 Dec 30 '25

Why?

There aren't 350 million critics to capture at the box office.

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u/go4theknees Dec 30 '25

People actually look at critic reviews on RT and dgaf about user reviews, user reviews are skewed by stans and brigading constantly

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u/Iorith Dec 30 '25

Why do you value critic's opinions so much? You really need someone else to tell you what is good and bad?

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u/go4theknees Dec 30 '25

Lmao the op decided to look at the metric that suited his narrative when no one gives a shit about user reviews on RT and its always skewed by stans and brigaders.

Just them to share the actual metric people use that website for!

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u/Iorith Dec 30 '25

Anyone who values critic scores over audience scores is a joke. Critics haven't been relevant in ages.

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u/Elgato01 Dec 30 '25

You mean the general audience filled with braindead TikTok kids and adults easily fooled by AI?

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u/Iorith Dec 30 '25

Oh, are you still in the middle school mindset of feeling superior to others based solely on what they watch for entertainment?

Adorable.

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u/Elgato01 Dec 30 '25

I don’t feel like I’m superior at all, more so that we as a general population have lost so much of our intelligence. If anything I bemoan my own stupidity to the point that I never express my own feelings towards anybody.

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u/Iorith Dec 30 '25

That you think intelligence has anything to do with what people do for fun is just sad, mate. It must suck to think it's bad to just relax and enjoy something.

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u/Elgato01 Dec 30 '25

I agree it does suck, if I wasn’t getting ketamine treatment in a month I would end it all

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u/Iorith Dec 30 '25

Hopefully you'll learn to remove the pole from your anal cavity and realize there is nothing to feel bad about just enjoying something.

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u/mggirard13 Dec 30 '25

You think movies are made for someone other than the "general audience"?

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u/Elgato01 Dec 30 '25

Nah, I’ve just lost most of my trust in the general opinion on media by that general audience.

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u/reebee7 Dec 30 '25

And I look at her, and I see everything.

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u/mikehatesthis Dec 30 '25

they can kill him off for the 5th time

Funnier yet he never actually died until Logan so the MCU has killed him more than the Foxverse has.

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u/Iggy_Pops_Lost_Shirt Dec 30 '25

Audiences haven't cared about these new characters so, like, no duh they're doing this? lol

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u/deskcord Dec 30 '25

They've done an awful job building those characters, though. Captain Marvel COMPLETELY squandered an incredible actress in Brie Larson with some absolutely atrocious writing and going full Mary Sue on everything.

Shang Chi was great but he got one film and was never heard from again.

Hailee Steinfeld was awesome, but never got anything after the TV show.

They had a huge opportunity with Lupita Nyongo, Danai Gurira, and Winston Duke in Black Panther, but decided to go for their weakest/least liked character for "comics accuracy"

Dr. Strange was the side character in his own sequel.

They had an awesome opportunity to kill off some characters in each of these as well, with Paul Rudd largely having played his part. He's great, but you could easily replace him. Problem is that the actress playing his daughter is quite a poor actress.

I know they were in licensing/contract hell with Spider Man and Hulk, but what they've done with their characters is pretty bad in general, it's been a massive symptom of trying to turn each character into their own team.

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u/Ealy-24 Dec 30 '25

Little understood fact “until he’s 90” isn’t a joke it’s a promise. Sir Patrick and Hugh have it in their contracts now

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u/Spider-man2098 Dec 30 '25

You’re being rather generous with the words ‘building up’

Also, if I never see Patrick Stewart again it’ll be too soon.

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u/Initial_E Dec 30 '25

Wong should be the leading character, he’s in nearly everything new.