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Alongside a presentation at D23 last week, Marvel Studios released a new “special look” at its upcoming superhero team-up movie, Avengers: Doomsday. This appears to be the same footage the studio debuted at San Diego Comic-Con, featuring an emotional confrontation between Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal) and Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.) and revealing Doom’s control over a group of Sentinels, the giant robots known to hunt the X-Men.
At the end of the trailer, Doom places his hands on the ground and, through some green-hued magic, awakens the Sentinels, who seem to have been buried in the ground. As they rise up, he turns to the camera and strikes a very familiar pose that calls back to the first Iron Man film in 2008, where we first met Tony Stark (also Robert Downey Jr.) boasting about the damage his Stark Industries Jericho missiles could do for the U.S. military before he had an epiphany and decided that protecting people was a much better direction for his life to take.
Of course, the similarity of Iron Man and Doctor Doom’s poses in the trailer could be a coincidence, but Marvel does love its callbacks, and this huge display of weaponry feels too delicious to be unintentional.
Marvel has not yet confirmed why Tony Stark and Victor Werner von Doom look exactly alike, with Downey Jr. simply pointing out that the difference between the characters goes beyond their proficiency with “the science thing,” noting, “Tony had the trauma that turned him into a hero and Doom’s got the exact opposite, to where it takes the prowess of all of these folks to go up against him.”
While some enjoyed comparing the two shots, others quickly pointed out some notable visual differences beyond Tony Stark’s signature pose in Iron Man and Avengers: Doomsday, with one X user suggesting Marvel had experienced “a generational fall off.”
“Look at how Iron Man is real location with real lighting and color while Doomsday is just a muddy grey blur,” one person replied, while another added, “First one shot on Kodak Vision 2 motion picture film, second one CGI slop.” In response to the negative comments, a user retorted, “They aren’t discussing film techniques nerds, they mean the juxtaposition is peak. Tony acting the same in different universes.”
The visuals of Jon Favreau’s MCU-kickstarting Iron Man certainly do feel old-school compared to Marvel’s later output, but the transition to a heavier use of computer-generated effects didn’t harm the studio’s performance at the box office when it came to its last two Avengers films.
Only time will tell if this forthcoming Avengers installment also has the juice, but anticipation is still building around Doomsday, where Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) will return to help Thor, Ant-Man, The New Avengers, the other Avengers, Black Panther, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four stand their ground against Doom’s multiverse-clashing endgame before a follow-up film called Avengers: Secret Wars arrives in 2028 to potentially conclude the classic Marvel villain’s first arc.
Avengers: Doomsday is set for release on December 18
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