With a solid that features members of the Avengers, Thunderbolts, X-Males, Incredible 4, and main members of Wakandan society — to not point out solo heroes like Shang-Chi — Avengers: Doomsday nearly looks like a information to what’s occurring within the MCU (and past: we see you, Gambit!) lately. Which raises the query: is Marvel simply making an attempt to faux the Eternals film didn’t occur?
That’s an oversimplification — in any case, the Macguffin in February’s Captain America: Courageous New World is the Celestial left over from the climax of 2021’s Eternals, so it’s clear that the complete film isn’t being quietly dropped off into a reminiscence gap fully. Nonetheless, Chloé Zhao’s film launched a wholly new race of superhuman into the MCU, and ended with a number of plot threads that felt as in the event that they have been getting ready to be adopted up, whether or not it’s the group of Eternals trying to warn brethren on different worlds concerning the chance of Celestials being born out of their planets; the introduction of Eros, Thanos’ adoptive brother; or Dane Whitman discovering the Ebony Blade, which might remodel him into the Black Knight of Marvel comedian canon… and not one character from the film made it into the Avengers: Doomsday solid announcement.
To be honest, there are a lot of characters in Doomsday already, because the five-hour-plus casting announcement made all too clear. It’s potential that the powers that at Marvel merely thought that any Eternals character could be misplaced within the crowd. It’s additionally price noting that the Eternals aren’t the one Marvel franchise lacking totally from Doomsday: no-one from The Marvels was represented, nor did a Hulk, or a Spider-Man get to point out up, both. And no matter occurred to the promised return of the legendary Star-Lord?
Some characters must be held again for Avengers: Secret Wars, maybe. Though even then, let’s wait and see what number of Eternals make the minimize.
Avengers: Doomsday can be launched Might 1, 2026. It’ll star greater than half the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it looks like, though no Eternals.