The original Avengers had to prove Marvel’s shared-universe experiment could work. Avengers: Doomsday may have an even harder job: proving that years of movies, Disney+ series, multiverse stories, new heroes, legacy characters, and shifting plans can still feel like one connected MCU.
Eric looks back at what made Phase One’s buildup so special, why the Multiverse Saga hasn’t necessarily suffered from too little setup—but from too little convergence—and why meaningful team-ups are still part of Marvel’s secret sauce.
Can Doomsday reconnect all of these scattered roads and make the last several years feel like they were building toward something? And could smaller teams like the X-Men, Midnight Suns, Young Avengers, and West Coast Avengers help Marvel rediscover that sense of anticipation after Secret Wars?
The original Avengers had to prove the experiment worked.
Doomsday has to remind everybody why the experiment was special in the first place.
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