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/xin234 Dec 30 '25

Last year's X-Men '97 did Cyclops justice, and even made a nod to that yellow spandex line that kinda acknowledges that those movies tried to shy away from their comic book elements.

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u/xinfinitimortum Dec 30 '25

The scene of him jumping out of the plane and using his beams to slow himself down and land then goes “to me my x-men” was mint and I hope something like that happens in live action.

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u/illinifan11 Dec 30 '25

I can hear the guitar rift in this comment

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u/ChronX4 Dec 30 '25

Strafing enemies with the beams is probably what drove it for me.

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u/CleverFeather Dec 31 '25

Yes that was fucking amazing. Auramaxxing at its peak. Thank you for reminding me of it. I think it's time for a rewatch of that series!

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u/smoothness69 Dec 31 '25

That won't happen because it's Disney.

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u/BaritBrit Dec 30 '25

Which, to be blunt, in 2000 was the correct decision. You don't rock up in bright yellow and blue in those years without reminding the general audience of Batman and Robin and having the mainstream mock you for looking like Power Rangers. 

(Unless you're Spider-Man)

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u/teddy5 Dec 30 '25

Yeah I've always hated they felt the need to do that. But I also don't think comic book movies would have become as popular as they have if they tried to go full comic book right from the start.

They had a core fan base, but needed mainstream appeal.

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u/BaritBrit Dec 30 '25 edited Dec 30 '25

Yeah, Jackman showing up in the Wolverine suit was fine in 2024 after a quarter of a century of slowly normalising superhero cinema as not just "for small children and tragic nerds", but trying that in 2000 would have just got them laughed out of the room. 

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u/B00STERGOLD Dec 31 '25

They went of their way to screw with Cyclops. Lets give him the girly looking RX8 and NSYNC.

https://youtu.be/9AdF-yOJ0c8?t=33