Marvel news: The X-Men are in crisis in the latest ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ teaser
Another week, another Avengers: Doomsday trailer, and this one focuses on the X-Men.
Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and James Marsden take centre stage, harking back over 20 years to the original 20th Century Fox X-Men films.
Film News Blitz’s Dan Lawrence reacts to the third Avengers: Doomsday trailer.
Things look bleak for the X-Men
Before the Disney merger, and stretching back beyond the roots of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, 20th Century Fox kicked off a successful series of Mutant-focused comic book films, starting with 2000’s X-Men.
A quarter of a century later (yes, 2000 is that long ago), we know that Avengers: Doomsday will feature a core group of that original X-Men crew, including Stewart (Professor Xavier), McKellen (Magneto), Marsden (Cyclops), Kelsey Grammer (Beast), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler), and Rebecca Romijn (Mystique).
Only the first free feature in this teaser, with Xavier and Magneto holding hands in solemn circumstances amid a worn-down X-Mansion, demonstrating the kinship displayed when Stewart and McKellen appeared together in 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Marsden’s Cyclops, meanwhile, in a comic-accurate costume, kneels down in a fiery battlefield, shooting a powerful optic blast into the air while the boot of a mutant-hunting Sentinel patrols in the background.
This dark tone and bleak circumstances support the theory fans have conjured regarding the X-Men meeting a quick demise early on in Avengers: Doomsday at the hands of Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom.
Moreover, this latest trailer for Avengers: Doomsday further supports the notion that Marvel is relying on multi-generational nostalgia to draw audiences to cinemas this December, rather than the strong narrative momentum that carried viewers through the Infinity Saga.
The teaser story of ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ so far
This X-Men teaser is the third for Avengers: Doomsday.
It follows a weekly release pattern that began with confirmation that Chris Evans will return as Steve Rogers/Captain America.
The second teaser focused on a battle-ready Thor, with Chris Hemsworth’s God of Thunder looking likely to shake the goofy tone of his last solo outing, Love and Thunder.
It’s expected that next week, a fourth teaser will focus on characters from Wakanda, and that a fifth, perhaps more story-focused teaser will broadcast during February’s Super Bowl.
Avengers: Doomsday plays in theatres from 18 December 2026.
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