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Anthony Mackie, whose Captain America: Brave New World underperformed at the box office, said something about Avengers: Doomsday, the next big adventure the Russos are bringing to the table. On April 15, IGN was discussing the second season of Twisted Metal, where Mackie also shared his views on the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film. He said:
"I'm really excited for what this project is going to be. It's going to give the audience that old Marvel feeling that they always had."
Hopefully, that will be the case when the movie arrives on May 1, 2026.
The current state of the MCU rings a bell to this conversation between Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), where the latter implies that the "world used to be a bigger place."
We want to tweak Sparrow's answer, where we will assume MCU as the "world" to fit the context here. "MCU's still the same. There's just more in it."
Post-Infinity Saga MCU isn't the gem it used to be
Perhaps Infinity Saga is called the Infinity Saga because it will remain in fans' hearts for eternity: Avengers, Captain America, Thor, and more. They gave us stories that will take more than great stories to outshine the Infinity Saga. After Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) was laid to rest, the MCU has merely succeeded in giving the audience the experience it used to deliver. Downey will be back in Avengers: Doomsday, which ought to add some quality to the Multiverse Saga.
The post-Infinity Saga MCU opened well with the Multiverse Saga. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), and more were good. Add to TV shows like Loki (2021), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021), and more, that will give it some strength. They did sprinkle us with some good stuff like Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), but that's all.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), The Marvels (2023), and a few more were disasters. Sure, some of them did quite well commercially, but "that old Marvel feeling" was missing. It's the goosebumps factor that matters, and it was when Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield joined Tom Holland in No Way Home that we got some of those hair-raising moments.
Avengers: Doomsday needs to restore that goosebumps factor
When Tony Stark gave a presentation of the firearms Stark Industries used to make, when Thor returned as the God of Thunder after Hela popped his right eye, when we found out Bruce Banner's secret—that he is "always angry," and more. What's common in all of these scenes is that every time you see them, they give you the feeling of those goosebumps.
Avengers: Doomsday needs to bring them back. The large fighting sequences we saw in Infinity War and Endgame won't be enough. Action's great, but doing the same thing at different times is likely to make things stagnant. There is a slim chance that Doomsday and Secret Wars will be commercial failures, but then they have to rely on the greatest actor they have ever worked with. What does that tell us?
Nostalgia is a good thing—bringing old faces will certainly give the fans that. We can give you that. But that's not likely to work every time—Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is one recent example of that. Avengers: Doomsday wouldn't want to break the success spree in the superhero series.
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