Marvel Confirms Your List of Avengers: Doomsday Homework, Featuring 15 Movies and TV Series, And a Couple of Deep Cuts

Ready for your Avengers: Doomsday homework? Marvel has released a watchlist of 15 movies and TV shows you should ticker earlier December 18 rolls around.

Despite saying that Avengers: Doomsday would reset the MCU to 'Phase Zero', it turns retired that the optimal mode to ticker Marvel's adjacent blockbuster volition beryllium to person viewed immoderate of the galore films and TV bid that person travel earlier it. Who would person thought!

Thankfully, though, Marvel does not suggest you request to spot each 38 films released to date, nor each Agents of Shield episode. Instead, Disney+ present hosts an authoritative Doomsday mentation watchlist, with 15 projects highlighted by Marvel arsenic your astir important things to drawback up on.

Included successful that rundown are immoderate evident choices. Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame are successful there, of course, arsenic are movies that straight item immoderate of the characters and teams who volition travel unneurotic to effort and halt Doctor Doom: past year's fantabulous Thunderbolts/The New Avengers, arsenic good arsenic the so-so The Fantastic Four: First Steps, arsenic good arsenic Shang-Chi, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Deadpool & Wolverine. Deep cuts specified arsenic Fox's X-Men and X2 are besides seemingly recommended viewing.

(Technically, Disney has not released an updated formed database with Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds added, but the information that the brace person present been utilized to beforehand Doomsday astatine some San Diego Comic-Con and D23, arsenic good arsenic their beingness being wide accepted by fans owed to crippled leaks, makes their movie's inclusion present to beryllium expected.)

Next up successful the database are a fistful of projects that person dealt squarely with multiversal shenanigans (if you already cognize what Incursions are, apical marks for you). Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness and Loki are evident picks here, arsenic is, somewhat intriguingly, Spider-Man: No Way Home. (Hey! I wonderment if that Brand New Day post-credits country is pointing to different Peter Parker!)

And past determination are a mates of unexpected additions to Marvel's database of homework. The archetypal Avengers? I mean, it's a large movie. But if you've already seen it a twelve times, Infinity War and Endgame person you covered. Captain America: The First Avenger? Uh, I conjecture it sets up Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter's relationship, though again, Endgame besides ticks disconnected that one.

Notebooks astatine the acceptable for Marvel's afloat pre-Avengers: Doomsday watchlist:

1. X-Men
2. X2
3. Captain America: The First Avenger
4. The Avengers
5. Avengers: Infinity War
6. Avengers: Endgame
7. Loki
8. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
9. Spider-Man: No Way Home
10. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
11. Captain America: Brave New World
12. Deadpool & Wolverine
13. Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness
14. Thunderbolts
15. The Fantastic Four: First Steps

If you truly are coming to the MCU acold up of Doomsday, there's surely a mates much movies and shows I'd personally recommend. The Marvels deals heavy with the multiverse and Incursions, truthful its lack present surely raised my eyebrows. X-Men: Days of Future Past is different astonishing omission and yet much James McAvoy Professor X erasure, particularly if Doomsday argues that the X-Men person been faffing astir with timelines arsenic good (which they decidedly have).

That said, if this was conscionable a database of projects I'd enjoyed, we'd truly beryllium present each time — and definite omissions look understandable, specified arsenic nary Guardians of the Galaxy films (the squad is present disbanded/reformed/sitting this 1 retired entirely), Wandavision (RIP) oregon Wonder Man (no, I'm inactive not implicit its cancellation).

All of the projects connected the database are enjoyable, to beryllium honest, possibly with the sole objection of Captain America: Brave New World. Just ticker Endgame — bully proposal each around, truly — past you're sorted.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social