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There’s a big chance Marvel Studios will fix a huge injustice involving Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War in a key sequence in Avengers: Judgment Day. infinite war It remains one of the most ambitious films in the Infinity Saga MCU, as it carried the weight of responsibility of bringing Thanos and his plan to recover the six Infinity Stones to the forefront. Despite the massive scale of the MCU crossover movie, there are still missed opportunities for Infinity War, most notably the Xandar sequence that was supposed to show how Thanos eliminated the Nova Corps to recover the Power Stone. Instead of showing this brutal sequence, Avengers: Infinity War Solo confirmed Xandar’s fate through Thor’s dialogue, revealing that Thanos “decimated” the planet and went through the Nova Corps to get it.
Thanos creator Jim Starlin said in an April 2023 interview that the Russo brothers and Marvel Studios cut a 45-minute Thanos sequence. “obtain the first Infinity Stone [Power Stone]” of Avengers: Infinity Warquoting “They never wanted to spend the money on the effects:”
“But about a month before the movie came out, I got an email or something from Joe saying, ‘The 45 minutes of Thanos that we had at the beginning of Infinity War, we cut it.’ There was a whole sequence where he got the first gem and they had to cut it out. They shot it, but they never wanted to spend the money on the effects and they didn’t want the movie to be as long as the second one. [‘Endgame’] was. “They didn’t realize it was going to be a success.”
Many felt that the omission of the sequence Avengers: Infinity War It was a great injustice because it limited Thanos to a villain whose first great conquest exists only as exposition. The fact that it was never released as a deleted scene only compounded the problem.
Avengers: Judgment Day you are now better positioned to fix infinite warThe error due to what is the last post-credits scene of Avengers: Endgame Encore revealed about the true state of the Multiverse.
The sequence showed the Time Variation Authority (TVA) witnessing the deaths of realities and the incursions in real time. Given that Loki is the one holding those timelines together and the fact that the branches fall during that sequence, it’s possible that Doctor Doom is already attacking the source, attacking the God of Stories with the intention of killing him and taking his power. The next logical target is the TVA itself.
A large scale attack on Avengers: Judgment Day Robert Downey Jr.’s TVA-leveling Doctor Doom (and potentially Loki, the All-Time Employee) would finally put on screen the methodical, large-scale destruction of a villain, the way Thanos never received in Avengers: Infinity War.
It is unknown when the attack on TVA will occur. Regardless of whether it’s at the beginning or the middle of the film, seeing Doctor Doom decimate an entire organization and an actual God would perfectly herald his arrival at the climax of the Multiverse saga, sending a clear message that he’s not one to be messed with.
Why Avengers: Doomsday Needs to Show How Powerful Doctor Doom Is From the Start
The Infinity Saga had the luxury of a 10-year build-up with Thanos as the true big bad and the final point of this MCU chapter. Avengers: Infinity War could be opened with the remains of the Statesman (Thor’s ship from Thor: Ragnarök) and the massacre of the Asgardians without ever showing the fight itself. At that moment, fans already understood the magnitude of the threat.
Doctor Doom is a different story because he comes to Avengers: Judgment Day almost no MCU story, with a debut in the post-credits scene in The fantastic four: first stepsand then an immediate jump to a Multiversal crossover. Doomsday can’t assume that audiences fear Doom anymore, even though the marketing clearly emphasizes how powerful he really is.
Avengers: Judgment Day He needs to demonstrate Doom’s powers right away, which is why the destruction of TVA and the death of Loki would be the perfect entry point for both die-hard and casual fans.
If Doom doesn’t seem capable of threatening them all at once from the first time he appears, the premise of Doomsday He would fail instantly, considering he needs a reason for the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and the X-Men to gang up on him.
The MCU can’t afford to take its time establishing Doom as a threat. Bringing his dominance to the forefront from the operational scenes is the only way a villain with almost no backstory or screen time can carry the weight. DoomsdayHistory demands.