Avengers: Doomsday Could Get a Second Batch of Character Teasers Tied to Spider-Man: Brand New Day

A fan named Nick asked whether Avengers: Doomsday could get a second round of character teasers, similar to the four that came out with Avatar: Fire and Ash, this time timed to Spider-Man: Brand New Day. My answer is yes, I think that is possible, and I have said as much recently on a Screen Crush livestream.

Why a second wave of Doomsday teasers timed to Brand New Day makes sense

The first four character teasers covered Steve Rogers, Thor, the X-Men, Wakandans, Black Panther and the Fantastic Four. I think that was just the first leg of the marketing, and the second leg will be even more ramped up as we get closer to Brand New Day, since that film lands six months out from Doomsday. I expect a second trailer by then, with the first trailer probably dropping around the Super Bowl and a second trailer arriving alongside Brand New Day.

Brand New Day is a Marvel Studios film being put out by Sony rather than Disney, but I still think it could carry Doomsday marketing. I have already talked about how important it is to Marvel that Brand New Day feel like a strong lead-in to Doomsday. Rolling out character teasers week by week alongside Brand New Day could help Doomsday's performance and also build audience excitement heading into it.

My pick for teaser one: New Avengers and Sam's Avengers

The first teaser I would want is one built around a New Avengers and Sam's Avengers, featuring Yelena and Bucky on one side. On Sam's Avengers side, I picture Sam as Captain America leading a team that could include Ant-Man, Shuri, and possibly She-Hulk. I am still pulling for She-Hulk even if Tatiana Maslany does not end up doing it for whatever reason, though I love Tatiana Maslany and hope she does return.

The teaser itself could show Sam and Bucky and Yelena in conflict, echoing the tension teased in the Thunderbolts post credit scene over who gets to be called the Avengers. It could end with a line saying the Avengers will return in Avengers Doomsday. That is a teaser I would really like to see.

My pick for teaser two: Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man

The second teaser I would want is a Tobey Maguire Spider-Man teaser, ending with a line that his Spider-Man will return in Avengers Doomsday. This would run alongside Brand New Day.

My pick for teaser three: Deadpool and Wolverine

The third teaser I would want is a Deadpool and Wolverine will return in Avengers Doomsday teaser. Deadpool and Wolverine made more than 1.3 billion dollars as an R rated film during the multiverse saga, a period when Marvel movies were not doing so well, so I think that would be a strong trailer to run in front of Brand New Day.

Working out a fourth teaser: the Marvels, Shuri, the Ten Rings and the multiverse

I struggled to land on a fourth pick. One idea I landed on involves Monica Rambeau, who is currently in the Fox X-Men universe. I thought about a teaser saying the Marvels will return in Avengers Doomsday that also reminds audiences what is happening with Monica over there. Captain Marvel was shown looking at the Ten Rings in the Shang-Chi post credit scene, and Ms. Marvel has a big connection to the bangles, who in turn connect to why Monica ended up in the X-Men universe.

Since I already placed Shuri on Sam's Avengers team, I adjusted the idea to a teaser saying the Marvels and Shuri will return in Avengers Doomsday, exploring the Ten Rings and Bengali connection. I think that beacon plot thread could lead to Loki, and I believe there were originally plans connecting the bangles and the Ten Rings to Kang. My guess is Marvel could rework that into a wider multiverse connection for the story Avengers Doomsday is telling, though this is my own speculation rather than anything confirmed.

Why it feels notable that Tom Holland's Spider-Man and Mark Ruffalo's Hulk are missing from Doomsday

I am genuinely excited for Brand New Day and I describe myself as a Spider-Man guy, not just a Doctor Doom guy. Even though I am a big Tobey Maguire fan and expect his Spider-Man to appear in Doomsday, saying it is "very very very likely" and that I would call it "100% certainly going to be Avengers Doomsday," I admit it is a little strange, without wanting to say disappointing since I have not seen the film, that Tom Holland's version keeps ending up as second fiddle in his own franchise.

I pointed to Homecoming being shared with Iron Man, Nick Fury and Maria Hill, Far From Home living under the shadow of Tony Stark, and No Way Home being shared with actors who played the character before him alongside nostalgia villains, which I think he enjoyed but which still meant he never fully got his own story. Now Mark Ruffalo's Hulk and Jon Bernthal's Punisher are both in Brand New Day, which I do not have a problem with and am excited for, but it continues that pattern for Holland's Spider-Man.

It looks like Holland's Spider-Man is probably not in Doomsday, and neither is Ruffalo's Hulk, and I am genuinely curious why. My guess is we may not see them again until Secret Wars, or possibly in a post credit scene for Doomsday, but that is speculation on my part.

Looking back at how well the first round of Doomsday teasers worked

I closed by noting that I was something of a naysayer on the character teaser strategy for Doomsday, releasing them in theaters and letting them leak online to build excitement, but it really worked out. I think doing the same approach again around Brand New Day would be smart, on top of whatever official trailers Marvel puts out separately.

What is the fourth teaser you would want to see alongside Spider-Man: Brand New Day?