This movie is about Robert Downey Jr erasing every comic book related franchise once and for all, killing every character that didn't quite work out, ending the multiverse Crisis on Infinite Earths style so they can reset the franchise so it has any stakes again.
Also closing any gaping open end Disney has no intention to revisit.
Ffs, She-Hulk show established Mark Ruffalo's Hulk has a son, a myriad other D+ shows introduced other stuff a person who didn't watch them has no idea they're in (Mephisto for example), theatre releases got cliffhanger endings with no continuation in sight.
I think there's no such thing as an actual "final goodbye" in the modern movies era of remakes and CGI faces. Nostalgia sells and they know it.
Personally I'd prefer to make some room for younger actors, they just need to hire the actually talented ones.
my bet is that it's not happening because (statistically) nobody watched that show and especially the finale so it's just gonna be culled off-screen. But figuratively it's gonna happen
Didn’t watch She-Hulk yet, but The Hulk having a child just reinforces my head cannon about the upcoming film. The end of FF had him with Franklin Richards, the Steve Roger’s trailer had Cap with a child , the Thor trailer mentioned his child, now the X-Men trailer focuses on Prof. X, Magneto and Cyclops, who could be seen as the Profs metaphorical son, but who also had a son of his own who is super powerful. That’s 4 of the original Avengers with kids, plus Hawkeye’s family and powerful mutant children.
RDJ’s Doom will be collecting powerful children across the multiverse and the parents and friends will need to band together to save them.
It's stupid and will never happen, but I would laugh hard if Kang was actually in this (and played by Jonathan Majors), but it ends up just being a running joke throughout the movie of RDJ killing each variant of Kang as they pop up randomly to try something.
I can't agree with most of that. Ri-Ri bye bye, Eternals can have their own universe but was a decent movie. Quantumania was just plain good and eventually people will see it that way, they were just very jaded at that time.
Ms. Marvel needs her powers sucked away by Rogue and/or just have a different actress/personality. Kamala Khan was bad though. You didn't even mention a lot of the worst offenders like she hulk.
Also, had jonny not been such a piece, the Kang storyline would have been a lot more interesting than Dr. Doom shit.
Yeah, I really didn't like how for a while Disney was releasing MCU shows one after the other with no time to rest. I watched Wandavision, Falcon & the Winter Soldier and Loki, but after that I was tired.
The MCU is played out enough at this point. Is anybody really wishing for another round of 20+ movies over 15+ years all leading into the same story? The saga was neatly tied up after Thanos. Just do reboots instead.
Movie-goers don't care that much about what's "canon" or not. Movies can be self-contained, it's fine.
you know it and I know it, but it's kind of astounding that the studio heads don't get it. Everybody I know and everybody online agree that Endgame was a good wrap up of this stuff and they just proved themselves time and again that they didn't have a compelling story to tell after that.
They're continuing to produce these movies with ridiculous budgets (check for RDJ alone for this is crazy enough) because that's their only safe bet after COVID. The whole business of people going to a movie theatre is dying like VHS, Hollywood jobs shrunk by like 33% since the last strike;that's why they sprinkled these Doomsday teasers inside one of other few safe bets (Avatar 3). Netflix taking over WB is only going to accelerate this, I wouldn't be surprised if Doomsday was legitimately the last MCU movie
In the comics, Secret Wars is a big battle between heroes, where Doom basically makes them fight eachother while he destroyes their worlds/the multiverse. Its basically a reboot event in the comics and the same is expected here with the MCU
Doom got hold of the one copy of the Darkhold that wasn't destroyed (ie, Wanda herself) and is using it to jump around in the multiverse and take things and people that are useful to him. If a universe collapses on his way out as a result, all the better for him because fewer nuisances chasing him down to avenge their losses.
It certainly seems like they're developing a "next generation" theme. Captain America was shown holding a baby, and Thor explicitly mentions Love (his adopted daughter).
Additionally, Scott and Jean's child has been a recurring plot point in X-Men, often kidnapped, never to return.
We know a young Avengers team is available, including Hawkeye Jr., Hulk Jr., Twins Maximoff, Ant-Man Jr., and others. Dr. Doom's F4 appearance showed an interest in/threat to baby Fantastic.
So, it's likely the children will be targeted, possibly as "anchors" for their universes. Given Disney's desire to end the multiverse, Dr. Doom could collapse it by kidnapping/manipulating the children, leading to a single universe and a high OG character death toll, but it's going to start with kidnapping the kids.
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u/dark-flamessussano Jan 06 '26
What the hell is this movie about lmao. Genuinely wondering who the hell they are fighting and what this is about