The Avengers are back with a new universal threat, however this threat is going to be multiversal. The Avengers, The X-Men, Fantastic Four, Wakandans face-off the biggest foe yet, Doctor Doom.
This list is a recommendation of how to prepare for Marvel’s next film, Avengers: Doomsday
As the release of newest film, Avengers: Doomsday, draws near, the films in this list help prepare you to get back into action with the superhero team.
Firstly, The Avengers, known as Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, are a team of heroes who fight threats that can destroy the planet. Their duty is to protect civilians do not have powers. In Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, they took on Thanos.
Thanos, is a powerful Titan that wants to restore balance to the universe by destroying half of all life within it.
This time, the new threat the Avengers face is Doom– Doctor Doom.
Like Reed Richards from the Fantastic Four: Doom has Genius-level intelligence, which makes him the greatest foe tof the Fantastic Four and now the broader coalition of the Avengers. Originally, Marvel had an idea for another Avengers-level threat in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Kang the Conqueror.
However, Marvel had to scrap plans to use the idea of using Kang the Conqueror after actor Jonathan Majors was fired following a domestic legal case.
He had previously played Kang the Conqueror in Loki Season 1, Episode 6, and was featured as Kang in Ant-Man and Wasp: Quantummania (2023).
After his firing, Marvel decided to change the title and storyline for their next Avengers movie so that it would no longer focus on Kang the Conqueror.
Instead, Marvel pivoted toward Victor von Doom, casting actor Robert Downey Jr. as the infamous Fantastic Four villain. The actor previously played Tony Stark/Iron Man for Marvel until his character’s death in Avengers: Endgame.
Before bringing Downey Jr. back, we got a chance to explore the multiverse and the infinite possibilities it opened for Marvel in its more recent releases. The idea of the multiverse was introduced in Doctor Strange (2016), and later coined into television shows like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and Loki (2021-2023).
Later, the concept of the multiverse became prominent in movies like: Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Spider-Man: No way Home (2021), Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness (2022), Deadpool and Wolverine and Deadpool and Wolverine (2024).
1. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Credit: YouTube / Marvel Entertainment Firstly, before starting the start the multiverse saga, we begin at the Infinity Saga, which focuses on a powerful Titan, Thanos.
Thanos is set on destroying half of all life in the universe and is seeking six infinity stones for his Infinity Gauntlet so that he can carry out his plan.
According to Marvel, each infinity stone allows its owner extreme control over one aspect of the universe: time, space, reality, mind, power, and soul. When all six are directly wielded together, nothing is impossible for their bearer.
At the end of the film, Thanos attains all of the stones and wins. He wipes out half the universe, including half of all life on Earth, by snapping his fingers. In the MCU, this is referred to the Blip.
2. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
In Avengers: Endgame, five years have passed since Thanos snapped his finger and eliminated half of all life. Tony Stark/Iron Man, Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans), Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johans
Rocket (Bradley Cooper), Nebula (Karen Gillan), Clint Barton/Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Paul Rudd). They are the only Avengers left after Thanos snapped everyone out of existence.
In this film, the remaining heroes travel back in time in an attempt to retrieve the stones and bring them back to the current timeline.In this film, the remaining heroes travel back in time in an attempt to retrieve the stones anThey track them down, but one of the stones requires a sacrifice.
One of the Avengers sacrifices themself so the others can attain the Soul Stone in a heart-wrenching scene of conflict.
Tony Stark sacrifices his life after snapping his fingers and wiping out Thanos and undoing the deaths of everyone who helped him fight in the Avengers.
With Tony dying, Avengers: Endgame became the last Avengers film for a while. After Endgame, Marvel decided to focus on the characters post-Endgame,By releasing TV shows and movies focusing on individual heroes.
3. Loki: Season 1 and 2 (2021-2023)
The God of Mischief returns after escaping the 2012 Avengers’ Time Heist through a portal with the Tesseract.
The Tesseract is the Space Stone. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) gets captured by the TVA (Time Variance Authority), which serves as the Time Police.
They focus on people being in the wrong timeline by capturing them before it causes an Incursion, which occurs when more than one universes
4. Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Doctor Steven Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) has a nightmare where he is running from a squid-like creature with one eye.
But it isn’t the Earth 616, Strange, it is another universe, and he isn’t alone.
When running from the creature, he is with a girl named America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), who has the power to travel through the multiverse, America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez). The nightmare, however, is real;, it’s just not the main Doctor Strange. However, someone else is pulling the strings.
The real mastermind is Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen). Following the events of WandaVision, she creates a world where
Wanda uses this fake reality to create a life she has always wanted. America was her golden ticket to getting what she wanted. Wanda wanted to use other versions of herself to be able to be with her kids, Billy and Tommy.
4. Deadpool and Wolverine (2024)
Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and Logan Howlett/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman).
Were introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe after Disney bought Fox and reached a deal to complete ongoing contracts. This film follows the two heroes trying to repair Wilson’s timeline after his universe loses their Anchor being, which is a hero who saves the planet.
This film follows the two heroes trying to repair Wilson’s timeline after his universe loses their Anchor being, which is a hero who saves the planet.
However, the hero was the Wolverine from 2017’s Logan. This film brings back classic characters from the Fox Films, like: Blade (Wesley Snipes), from the Blade Trilogy, and Elektra (Jennifer Garner)
Blade (Wesley Snipes), from the Blade Trilogy, Elektra (Jennifer Garner)
Remy LeBau / Gambit (Channing Tatum) a member of the X-men, that are a group of mutants. Johnny Storm (Chris Evans) from the 2005 Fantastic Four film. This film follows the stepping stone into the multiverse saga and infinite timelines.
5. Thunderbolts * (2025)
This film focuses on the New Avengers, after the original Avengers are no longer around, a new, unlikely team forms.
Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), who is also Captain America’s lifelong friend. Yelana Belova (Florence Pugh) is Natasha Romanoff’s adoptive sister.
And additional characters from Marvel shows and movies:
John Walker/U.S. Agent (Wyatt Russell), Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), Bob Reynolds / Sentry / Void (Lewis Pullman), Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian (David Harbour), Ava Starr / Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen)
This movie sets up a new era for the Avengers,
6. Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
Finally, Marvel’s first superhero family returns with new stars:
Reed Richards/ Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm/ Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm/ The Human Torch (Joseph Quinn), Ben Grimm/ The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach).
That take on a universal giant Galactus (Ralph Ineson) a celestial being who has the power of eating planets.
He is joined by his herald, Silver Surfer/ Shalla- Bal (Julia Garner)
Shalla-Bal is a celestial being that warns planets and their inhabitants to evacuate before their planets are consumed.
Meanwhile, Sue gives birth to her and Reed’s son, Franklin, who in the comics has the power to warp reality.
At the end of the film, we are given a sneak peek of what is next for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the Post-credits scene, when Sue is reading to Franklin,
You can see Avengers: Doomsday in theaters on December 18th
