Summary
Over the years, Marvel Studios has built up a reputation for providing excellent organization, leading to the seemingly impossible Marvel Cinematic Universe becoming something people have taken for granted recently. However, plans caught up with them forAvengers: Doomsday, which has led to the release of the highly anticipated moviebeing pushed back by seven months to Jun 02, 2025, instead of its original Jun 04, 2025 date.
The decision has been made to try and ensure the quality ofAvengers: Doomsdayis at the level audiences would expect from a film such as this. However, the film has now been pushed outside of the summer blockbuster season, and there is a potentially significant risk that will come with that decision.
Marvel Fans Will Now Have To Wait Even Longer For Avengers: Doomsday
The Expectation And Pressure Will Naturally Ramp Up On Marvel Studios
Marvel fans have been looking forward toanotherAvengers-level entryinto the MCU from the moment thatAvengers: Endgamerolled credits back in 2019. Given that it will have been seven years since the lastAvengersfilm andAvengers: Doomsdayreleased, there are going to be some major expectations. Now, adding a further delay is only going to increase the pressure on the Russo Brothers to deliver an unforgettable movie that holds up to what has come before, while also driving the franchise forward.
People Will Be Less Familiar With The Already-Introduced Characters In Avengers: Doomsday
The Storyline Building To Avengers: Doomsday Will Also Be Impacted
The significant risk that Marvel Studios is taking with this delayed decision is the fact that people will be less familiar with the already-introduced characters. This is anAvengersfilm missing many of the old guard, with no Iron Man or Steve Rogers to help carry the bulk of the story. Instead, fans are being treated to theNew Avengersand Fantastic Four, but by the timeAvengers: Doomsdayrolls around, both of those movies will be over a year old. That means a lot of people will have forgotten all the finer details of them and the characters that were introduced. This is even more problematic for older aspects of the franchise that are going to be important, such as the Disney Plus seriesLokiorCaptain America: Brave New World.The details that have been added to these characters will be worthless in the long run because fans won’t remember everything that happened, and that couldnegatively impactAvengers: Doomsdayif things aren’t re-explained within that movie, which will be impossible for all of the characters that are going to be involved.
Marvel has spent time developing many characters to make a big impact inAvengers: Doomsdayand help the franchise move forward for this movie and in the long term. However, the significant gap between now andAvengers: Doomsdaycould mean that all of those characters will have less of an impact.The New Avengers have a lot of buzzsurrounding them right now, but with such a gap, the momentum will be lost, which will hurt the movie overall, which is problematic. It’s going to hurtAvengers: Doomsdayand the characters beyond that point, and it’s something that Marvel Studios is going to have to navigate carefully.
Avengers: Doomsday’s Build-Up Has Already Been Confusing
There Is Too Many Multiverse Rules For People To Follow Along With
With or without a lengthy break, thebuildup towardAvengers: Doomsdayhas been confusing. The multiverse phase of the MCU hasn’t been handled exceptionally well, with characters appearing from nowhere without much rhyme or reason other than being from the multiverse. While that’s led to some fun cameos, such as Chris Evans playing the Human Torch again, unless all of the backstory is explained in detail, there will be some confused audience members. The gap in time is going to lead to an overreliance on the audience to do homework before going to watchAvengers: Doomsday, which isn’t a good thing. Fans shouldn’t have to go and watch multiple movies and television shows in order to be up to speed when it comes toAvengers: Doomsday.There are a lot of rules that people have to follow in a bid to understand everything that’s going to happen in this movie, and having a longer time to wait will make that even more complicated.
Even though Marvel Studios has decided to delayAvengers: Doomsdayin a bid to make the movie as entertaining as possible, it could come at a cost. If it ends up negatively impacting the fan experience, then it’s going to lead to the movie underperforming, which could thenimpactAvengers: Secret Warsbecause that is going to follow from this. It’s a significant risk that Marvel has taken withAvengers: Doomsday,and now the decision-makers will be hoping that it all works out.
