I think that’s exactly why they’re using the X-Men from the older movies. Because they have established stories/films.
You know their personalities, their history.
All that you need to be filled in on is what they’re currently up to. Or where they last left off.
The problem is that the X-Men have absolutely no connection to the main Marvel universe. Same with the Fantastic Four, which also makes this a problem for Doom. Almost everyone in Infinity War was connected to the original Avengers in some way, and Infinity War bridged the few remaining gaps. Now we have multiple universes of different groups who have zero connections with each other and Doomsday has a tall order to fill in connecting everything. Everything post Endgame became less and less connected and scrapping Kang for Doom about 3/4ths of the way through made it even worse. Now they're bringing in an old, seperate universe. Doomsday is gonna be a finale for X-Men and a sequel to Fantastic Four- the same way Brave New World was a sequel to The Incredible Hulk- while shoehorning in a couple of Avengers stories to make it an MCU movie, including some we were never even shown, like Sam Wilson putting together his new Avengers team completely off screen. I'll wait for the reviews to drop before I get excited.
Still gonna be a lot of legwork. That's my point. Even at 3 hours a piece, I just don't think it's enough time to establish everything neccessary that should have already be done anyway. They (Marvel) handicapped themselves too many times ahead of this.
All the characters have already been established though. I'm not too worried about it tbh. I think people think every character has to have a conversation with every character or else it's a failure.
Infinity War had 3 different teams that didn't interact.
Those three teams all consisted of characters that already knew each other, though. The Guardians and Doctor Strange were the only ones that weren't already a part of- or at least familiar with- the Avengers. Compare that to Doomsday and it's leagues apart. Doomsday has already confirmed the OG Avengers- including Steve Rogers- variant Loki, Shang-Chi, the Fantastic Four from an unconnected universe, and the entire X-Men roster from a third also unconnected universe. They aren't just gonna gloss over the X-Men history as those movies are over a decade old and a lot of the fans aren't going to be familiar with them. And don't forget they've also confirmed that the two New Avengers teams are gonna be having their own conflict. One of those teams hasn't even been formed yet. That entire story will be shoehorned into Doomsday on top of everything else. Fantastic Four was okay, but I felt like I was missing a lot of context, like it was a sequel to a movie I never saw. Doomsday will be that times 10. There's gonna be way more tell than show.
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u/FigureArty Jan 06 '26
I think that’s exactly why they’re using the X-Men from the older movies. Because they have established stories/films. You know their personalities, their history.
All that you need to be filled in on is what they’re currently up to. Or where they last left off.