The Avengers: Doomsday trailers have been getting followers excited, however it’s the X-Males trailer that has garnered probably the most consideration, and that is likely to be a sign of who ought to be taking on the MCU. To date, we have had three teaser trailers for December 2026’s Avengers: Doomsday, a brand new MCU movie hoping for Endgame ranges of buy-in from followers.
That is a tall job, significantly contemplating how little we all know in regards to the movie and the way janky the previous three phases of the MCU venture have been. The reappearance of Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Chris Evans as Steve Rogers is definitely thrilling, however in reality, it reveals how shallow Marvel’s roster is by way of who audiences have related with.
The newest trailer offers us our first have a look at the X-Males, together with Sir Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Sir Ian McKellen as Magneto, and James Marsden as Cyclops. There appears to be much more on-line curiosity on this trailer than the earlier two, indicating perhaps it is time for the Avengers to step apart for a brand new MCU crew.
The X-Males Are Bringing Extra Hype To The MCU Than The Avengers These days
Out of the three Avengers: Doomsday trailers which have dropped thus far, that are about as teaser as teasers can get, the X-Males one appears to have obtained the warmest reception. The Captain America trailer was thrilling, seeing Evans again, however Rogers had an awesome send-off in Endgame, so it appears like a step backward.
It is all the time nice to see Thor, however Thor: Love and Thunder was part of MCU’s Part 4, and so it is not a shock that he is showing on this movie. All of us knew that the X-Males can be part of Avengers: Doomsday, however it’s nonetheless thrilling to see McKellen, Stewart, and Marsden again within the universe.
The X-Males have been getting a whole lot of love currently, extra so than even the Avengers, who’ve gone via so many iterations currently; it is unclear precisely who makes up the “official” Avengers. If Deadpool & Wolverine proved something, it is that audiences need extra X-Males, Wolverine masks and all.
The MCU’s Multiverse Saga Would Not Have Labored With out The Fox Characters
Phases 4 via 6 of the MCU are collectively titled “The Multiverse Saga”, which started in Avengers: Endgame with the heroes’ time journey trickery. The multiverse of the brand new MCU has sought to usher in superheroes from everywhere in the many universes of Marvel, a nifty method to ignore overlapping movies, exhibits, and character deaths.
Steve Rogers is likely to be outdated in Avengers: Endgame, you see, however in Avengers: Doomsday, he is been plucked out of one other universe (or timeline? Some place else) so now he is younger once more. It is a wobbly sort of storytelling, however it’s one the X-Males have really pulled off prior to now.
Time and universe-jumping shenanigans within the current spate of Marvel movies really began with the twentieth Century Fox X-Males motion pictures. 2014’s X-Males: Days of Future Previous revealed {that a} multiverse story may very well be advised efficiently in a tentpole blockbuster. MCU’s multiverse schemes would have been lots more durable to swallow with out X-Males’s foray into the house.
How The X-Males Can Grow to be The MCU’s New Flagship Franchise
Regardless of the “Avengers” in Avengers: Doomsday, MCU’s flagship superhero crew has misplaced a whole lot of its sparkle since they snapped Thanos into nothingness in 2019. Practically all their makes an attempt so as to add members have fallen flat. The place are Shang-Chi, the Eternals, and Ms. Marvel? Are the Thunderbolts the New Avengers or not?
I assumed Sam Wilson, the Falcon, was imagined to be the brand new Captain America? So why is Steve Rogers showing within the advertising supplies? It is gotten unwieldy, and it is potential that Disney ought to simply be happy with a decade of profitable Avengers-based Marvel movies, and perhaps they will cease insisting on the crew.
The X-Males are prepared and ready to take up the mantle of flagship franchise. There are such a lot of characters within the franchise, with notable storylines and villains, that it is principally its personal film universe unto itself. I do not suppose it could be a foul thought to begin a 3rd saga, “The X-Males Saga”, and neglect about all the things that is come earlier than.
When Will The MCU Introduce The New X-Males?
A reminder, the MCU has not produced an X-Males-centric film but. These movies have all been underneath the auspices of twentieth Century Fox. Disney and the MCU did produce Deadpool & Wolverine, however that movie is extra targeted on Deadpool, with some X-Males making appearances.
Avengers: Doomsday will introduce the X-Males to the MCU in a extra substantial method, presumably, however with the quantity of superheroes anticipated to look, they might not have as a lot screentime as followers are hoping for. Fear not, although, as a result of an untitled X-Males movie is ready for a while after Avengers: Secret Wars.
This untitled X-Males movie will happen after the anticipated “reset” of Secret Wars and can function a brand new group of youthful actors portraying the characters from the comics. Jake Schreier, from Thunderbolts*, is anticipated to direct. This group of New X-Males is likely to be what we have to get previous the Avengers after Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars.
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December 18, 2026
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Johnny Storm / Human Torch
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