Avengers: Doomsday Is Finally Doing The One Thing Avengers: Endgame Needed To 7 Years Ago

Avengers: Doomsday's early story setup shows the movie is already doing the one thing Avengers: Endgame arguably missed out on despite it being much needed for the MCU and its road forward. The MCU's upcoming release roster contains more than one film that looks set to be a major Marvel heavy hitter, including the likes of the fifth and sixth Avengers movies, and the fourth MCU Spider-Man film.

Though Avengers: Doomsday faces a selection of challenges due to its complex and key place in the MCU timeline, there are signs the movie could indeed be what the franchise needs all these years after the last Avengers movie made such an impact on the world of cinema - especially since it seems set to pave a path forward by focusing on the one thing that Avengers: Endgame's story can be seen to have put on the backburner.

Avengers: Doomsday's Early Set Up Is Already Establishing The Next Generation Via Their Links To The MCU's Oldest Heroes

While the past few years have effectively set up a number of new heroes, the MCU has arguably suffered from there being less connective tissue between many of these figures and the franchise's first protagonists than may have been expected - or that is generally commonplace for the comics themselves.

A big part of this can be attributed to Avengers: Endgame focusing on tying up storylines in a way that sacrificed giving more time to passing on the torch for various heroes. While Iron Man and Spider-Man had a substantial mentor storyline in the franchise, their final parting was a relatively brief one - and Steve Rogers' decision to pass the Captain America mantle to Sam Wilson also arguably was a moment that would have benefited from more time being dedicated to it.

Avengers: Doomsday, inversely, has appeared to be explicitly focused on the concept of the next generation and on passing the MCU's story to the next roster more directly from its start.

The three currently-released Avengers: Doomsday teaser trailers all center on this idea, with this being most obvious in their depictions of Steve Rogers and what appears to be his child, and in Thor's prayers for guidance revolving around wanting to be there for his adopted daughter Love. However, the X-Men Doomsday teaser also does much the same, via setting up the titular team to be a core MCU staple going forward.

Avengers: Endgame Was A Stellar Superhero Movie, But The MCU Has Needed Avengers: Doomsday's Connections For Years

The MCU's trajectory from Avengers: Endgame onward has been a complicated beast. While Avengers: Endgame was so well-received and so genre-defining in part because of how it centered around the end of an era both in-universe and in the real world for the MCU, the decision to tie up so many endings without looking to the future as much can be seen to have negatively impacted later releases, with audiences feeling less of a close connection to many projects that released afterward.

Avengers: Doomsday focusing on reinvigorating the interconnected side of the franchise via the MCU's flagship film series is thus a needed move, even if the MCU could have potentially benefited from something like it more actively before now.

Indeed, with the current roster of Avengers: Doomsday teaser trailers all showing the various ways the MCU is looking towards the future for its fifth Avengers movie, there's more reason than ever to hope the franchise can reinforce its status as the kind of broad-reaching narrative tapestry that has left so many viewers invested in it for so long - and balance out the one unfortunate after-effect of one of the best superhero movies of all time.