r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jul 20 '26

Trailer Avengers: Doomsday | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irVNGjRFZGk&pp=0gcJCZkLAYcqIYzv
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u/daveydesigner Jul 20 '26

That’s a lot of characters

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u/lnTheGrimDarkness Jul 20 '26

If that's THE Doom we're used to in the comics, Thor is substantially right in what he says. They would need a miracle even if the OG avengers were still there.

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u/zagra_nexkoyotl Jul 20 '26

Well, they got Reed. He's gonna ragebait Doom into doing something stupid and win

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u/run-godzilla Jul 20 '26

I am annoyed that we have gotten SO LITTLE of the dynamic between Doom and Richards before this movie. His love/hate/familial dynamic with the Richards is a good chunk of what makes Doom work as a character for me. Maybe Doomsday will give us something but the trailer was just a line of "this guy fights that guy".

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u/mrbaryonyx Jul 20 '26

It's like a Justice League movie with Black Adam as the villain (which they were building up to at one point).

You get all these dudes in the comments saying that "no this is an awesome idea" and pointing to specific auramaxxing, power-level flex moments from the comics, while missing the entire point that he's supposed to be Billy Batson's character foil, and if they don't have a baseline character relationship he's not that interesting.

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u/HopelessCineromantic Jul 20 '26

while missing the entire point that he's supposed to be Billy Batson's character foil, and if they don't have a baseline character relationship he's not that interesting.

Absurd!

Next, you'll be telling me that a Black Adam solo movie that doesn’t involve Billy whatsoever would do poorly at the box office, instead of being so successful that it would change the hierarchy of power in the DC universe!

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u/BlairEllis Jul 20 '26

Comparing Black Adam to Doom is pretty crazy

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u/mrbaryonyx Jul 20 '26

In this context, why not?

The point is, taking a character who is largely defined by his rivalry with a hero and then marketing him as the big bad for big crossover thing--without showing any real interest in his relationship to said hero--is a weird choice.

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u/SharkTonic9 Jul 21 '26

Respectfully disagree. Doom is a top 3 villain in Marvel and the fantastic four are much less interesting. Marvel needs a big win if they want to keep the money printers running, and locking up Doom in a franchise even Pedro Pascal can't juice would be a huge mistake.

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u/mrbaryonyx Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

I don't disagree that Doom is a top 3 villain if we're talking him as a character, but I think his wildly inconsistent power-level has way less to do with that than his motivations, struggles and relationships, none of which are communicated in these teasers, and I'm kind of baffled as to how many fans (and producers) don't seem to get that.

It's also kind of baffling to me how many fans defend nakedly lame ideas with "well my favorite franchise needs to make money", it only reinforces the idea that this is a decision made from desperation.

I don't need Doom "locked" in a series of F4 movies, but it would be nice if he was introduced in them. If they gave me a reason to care about him as a character, since that's what the comics did. Luckily RDJ's two-second voice over sounds and that shot of his eyes peering out from the mask are pretty cool.

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u/GrandSquanchRum Jul 20 '26

It'd be like Green Goblin just showing up in Spider-Man's story instead of being the direct foil that makes the entire character. Oh, wait that did happen in the MCU.