The the surprise MCU stream drew to a close. This is despite his fellow Avengers founders and "Big Three" title-holders, Chris Hemsworth and Robert Downey Jr., bookending the announcement. Still, there's a chance we could be in for more Marvel movie legends being revealed down the line.
Chris Evans was last seen in the MCU last year, though he was portraying a variant of his first Marvel movie character, Johnny Storm, in Deadpool & Wolverine. His last appearance as Steve Rogers was in Avengers: Endgame, despite hopes that he would reprise the role in Captain America: Brave New World. While this all raises concerns that Chris Evans is officially done with the MCU, I can at least find solace in the fact that the Avengers: Doomsday start-of-production announcement paid tribute to the legendary MCU actor in another obscure but hilarious way.
Marvel's Avengers: Doomsday Live Stream Lasted Five And A Half Hours
The Length Of The Stream Did Not Land Well With Some
Marvel Studios made a bold move with its Avengers: Doomsday live stream. In a stark departure from the comparable video released by Marvel for Avengers: Infinity War, the Avengers: Doomsday live stream aired over five and a half hours, with its content comprising nothing more than a slow procession of names due to star in the climactic Multiverse Saga movie. The result could easily be seen as a success, as Avengers: Doomsday dominated social media for the whole day as people discussed the names that appeared and the names that could appear while delivering Avengers: Doomsday memes aplenty.
Not everybody appreciated Marvel's slow-burner and minimalistic approach to announcing the cast.
Still, the reaction to the concept was mixed. Not everybody appreciated Marvel's slow-burner and minimalistic approach to announcing the cast. Unlike the minutes-long video for Avengers: Infinity War, the Avengers: Doomsday live stream made some feel captive, unwilling or unable to focus on anything else for fear of missing out on a particularly large announcement. It is fair to say that Marvel capitalized on this by keeping the biggest announcements like Ian McKellen and Alan Cumming until the very end, and ultimately, there may be some who find it hard to reconcile the sluggish reveal with the pay-off.
Marvel's Live Stream Was A Perfect Callback To A Chris Evans' MCU Cameo
Cap Delivers A Lesson About Patience In Spider-Man: Homecoming
This sentiment evokes a hilarious Captain America scene. In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Steve Rogers cameos in a recording played to high school students, regaling them with life lessons as one of America's foremost role models and authority figures. The Spider-Man: Homecoming post-credits scene then delivers one final word from Steve Rogers as he appears to the audience in full-screen, delivering a life lesson about how patience is a virtue, but it can often feel as though the pay-off wasn't worth the wait, leading you to wonder why you waited in the first place. His full quote is as follows:
"Hi, I'm Captain America, here to talk to you about one of the most valuable traits a soldier or student can have: patience. Sometimes, patience is the key to victory. Sometimes, it leads to very little, and it seems like it's not worth it...and you wonder why you waited so long for something so disappointing."
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Cap's words of wisdom may ring particularly true for some of those who sat through the entire five-and-a-half hours and felt dissatisfied by the results. After all, anybody who missed the live stream could easily read up on the information after the fact, especially if they weren't privy to the online hype or hyped themselves by the reveals as they happened. Still, like Cap's cameo in Spider-Man: Homecoming, I feel that while the content may have been controversial, it was valuable in another sense. For Cap, it was hilarity. For Avengers: Doomsday, speculation is now running rampant.
Marvel's Avengers: Doomsday Live Stream Should've Included Chris Evans
Chris Evans Deserves To Be A Part Of Avengers: Doomsday
Some of the biggest questions raised by the Avengers: Doomsday live stream surround absent names that many expected to see included. Among the biggest of these was Chris Evans himself. As I mentioned, Evans is one of the Big Three who personified the Infinity Saga, and it feels particularly odd to see his name excluded while Chris Hemsworth and Robert Downey Jr. sit at the start and end of the stream, respectively. Chris Evans deserves to be a part of Avengers: Doomsday to help bring everything full circle, though his insistence that he has retired is worrying.
Chris Evans recently responded to reports that he would be starring in Avengers: Doomsday by insisting he is "Happily retired."
Nevertheless, we've seen this kind of thing before, with Andrew Garfield repeatedly insisting that he wasn't a part of Spider-Man: No Way Home before the movie outed his deceit. Following reports that Chris Evans will be a part of Avengers: Doomsday, his refutations be damned, I'm inclined to believe that Chris Evans is following suit. Furthermore, there is reason to believe that Marvel isn't done with the Avengers: Doomsday cast announcements just yet - and to sit Chris Evans at the end of the next reveal like RDJ in the first would feel particularly satisfying.
Avengers: Doomsday
Cast
Thor
Vanessa KirbySue Storm / Invisible Woman
Johnny Storm / Human Torch
Ebon Moss-BachrachBen Grimm / The Thing
