Avengers: Doomsday Is At Risk Of Becoming Oversaturated
Avengers movies are tentpole events for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Avengers: Doomsday is the next up for Marvel Studios. It’s a film guaranteed to have plenty of importance in terms of plot, with the previous run of films since the last Avengers story all building towards it. There are still few details known about the plot of Avengers: Doomsday, but a huge cast is one thing that can be guaranteed.
Audiences anticipate Avengers films because they involve many of the biggest superheroes crossing over and joining forces to fight off a major threat. Whether it’s Ultron, Loki, Thanos, or someone else, these movies often require a huge cast. However, from the reports that have been coming out for Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel could be taking things to a new level with the cast of this one.
Marvel Is Stacking The Cast For Avengers: Doomsday
The official cast for Avengers: Doomsday is currently unknown, and that’s likely going to remain the case until much closer to the project commencing filming as more details become official and trailers are unveiled. However, there have been a lot of reports about different actors appearing in the movie, which has made people excited and nervous in equal measure. Disney has confirmed that Robert Downey Jr. is returning to the MCU, this time to play Dr. Doom, and that’s a monumental news story by itself. However, his appearance also means that the Fantastic Four are set to appear, which throws a bunch of new characters into the mix.
Chris Evans is also rumored to be returning to the franchise, this time playing the character of Nomad, but the current lineup for the Avengers is unclear because every single hero was involved in Avengers: Endgame due to the threat level. However, certain core characters like Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, and Spider-Man will all be expected. Benedict Cumberbatch is set to reprise his role of Dr. Strange, while Daredevil is also rumored to have a small role in this one to showcase how many characters will be involved.
New reports have also claimed that Gambit, Deadpool, and Wolverine are all going to appear in Avengers: Doomsday too. It showcases that Marvel is rolling all the dice for this one to get people talking, and those three characters being part of the project will lead to a lot of X-Men speculation, which could potentially open the door for a whole host of others to appear. While that will create tons of possibilities and make the movie easy to market, it could make it tricky to actually create an engaging story.
Certain Characters Could Be Lost In The Shuffle
It is always challenging to give every character the right amount of screen time in an Avengers project due to the number of people involved in it. However, given how many characters appear to be involved in this particular movie, that could be taken to the extreme. All of Marvel’s heroes didn’t appear until the end fight scene in Avengers: Endgame. Therefore, it didn’t matter that not every character was given a chance to shine. However, it’s unlikely that Marvel Studios will repeat that type of scene because there is no built-up villain such as Thanos that would require it for this movie.
That could lead to a lot of characters being lost in the shuffle as the story goes on. There will be some in core roles that are always going to be given more screen time, but there’s a chance that some will end up not feeling important at all. That is fine for a one-off, but it can negatively impact how audiences view that particular character coming away from it. Marvel needs to ensure all of its heroes are treated equally so that people will still care about them when they appear in smaller movies or television shows. But if they’re only shown as secondary characters when it comes to the most important films of all, then that is going to be a problem.
Avengers: Doomsday Could Become Oversaturated
Having tons of characters with different powers and personalities will provide a lot of opportunities for the writers to take things in multiple directions. This will impact the potential fight scenes and the general plot, as there could be character connections that have never been seen on the big screen before. However, the movie risks becoming oversaturated as too much of a good thing can become problematic. Marvel might struggle to balance the need to showcase all of the characters rather than focusing on the story itself and the emotion behind all of the decisions made.
There’s tons of excitement surrounding Avengers: Doomsday, and adding all of these characters creates a great canvas for people to work with to make it a success. Audiences will get to speculate about potential dream fights or moments between characters they want to see, and many of them will be brought to life. However, the risks might outweigh the possible rewards with Avengers: Doomsday because if the entire movie becomes oversaturated, it isn’t going to connect, and that’s problematic when this is expected to build up to the next Avengers film the following year.
CES 2025 comes to a close today, wrapping up a jam-packed week of high-tech, futuristic cars packing everything from artificial-intelligence voice assistants to flying cars and 1000-plus horsepower electric powertrains. Some of these vehicles are already on sale in other countries while some preview upcoming production cars and others are far-fetched flights of fantasy. So without further adieu, here are some of the coolest vehicles we spotted on the show floor at CES 2025.
Honda showed off two prototypes of its 0-series EVs, both of which are due to start production in 2026 and sport sleek, stylish bodywork. The 0 SUV will arrive first with more conventional looks while the radical 0 Saloon is due in late 2026 and wears the same radical wedge shape as the 2024 Saloon concept.
Chinese automaker Zeekr, founded in 2021 and part of Geely’s vast portfolio of brands, brought three vehicles to the show. The 001 FR is the most appealing from an enthusiast standpoint—the wagon-like shape cloaks a quad-motor electric powertrain cranking out 1248 horsepower. The aggressive body kit, which includes a sizable rear wing, gives the 001 FR serious presence, and we were impressed by the quality of its suede-covered interior. We’d love to get behind the wheel and pin the 001 FR’s accelerator.
The Zeekr Mix is drastically different from the 001 FR, a bubbly electric minivan for the Chinese market with a spacious cabin. The Mix seats five, but the front seats can swivel 270 degrees to either face rearwards, towards each other, or towards the coach doors, which open up with no pillar in between to ease access to the cabin. Despite the more practical approach, the Mix is no slouch, with a rear-wheel-drive 416-hp single-motor powertrain and up to 436 miles of range on China’s CLTC test cycle when fitted with the larger 102-kWh battery pack. We’d be curious to see how the Mix would stack up against the VW ID.Buzz if it was ever brought to America.
