MCU's First 'Avengers: Doomsday' Trailer Shifts Focus to Earth Ahead of December 18 Release
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Updated · Space.com · Jul 21
MCU's First 'Avengers: Doomsday' Trailer Shifts Focus to Earth Ahead of December 18 Release
3 articles · Updated · Space.com · Jul 21
Summary
Marvel’s first “Avengers: Doomsday” trailer keeps most of its action on Earth, with almost no outer-space setting despite the franchise’s long sci-fi streak.
The footage includes the Fantastic Four arriving by spaceship and Thor appearing, but otherwise centers on Earth-based heroes and an earthbound Doctor Doom, played by Robert Downey Jr.
That emphasis suggests Marvel is continuing a post-Thanos pullback from cosmic storytelling as X-Men, multiverse plots, time travel and the quantum realm give the MCU other ways to expand.
Earlier trailer details still point to a large crossover—bringing together Avengers, X-Men, Thunderbolts and Fantastic Four—but the latest read is that space is no longer the saga’s main backdrop.