Avengers: Doomsday Test Screening Reports Point to the Darkest, Deadliest Marvel Movie Yet

New test screening reports suggest Avengers: Doomsday could be darker than any Marvel movie we have seen yet, and the death toll is said to be up there. A lot of Marvel fans are now saying Marvel really is going all out and that the movie will be bigger than we thought, and yeah, that's probably accurate.

Marvel recently held test screenings for Avengers: Doomsday. We heard a little about them last week, and the scores were reportedly through the roof. One person even rated it a 98 out of 100, which is really good. Now more details are coming out about what people are saying, and they are mostly about tone. Every report I am covering here reportedly comes from people who saw the test screening.

The Avengers: Doomsday opening reportedly pits Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man against Hugh Jackman's Wolverine

One thing you may have heard from the earlier reports is that the first 10 minutes of the movie are insane. James Mack is now saying Avengers: Doomsday will be the first Marvel movie where the audience starts screaming in the theater within the first 10 minutes.

Spoilers if you don't want to know: what is rumored and reported to be the opening scene is Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man versus Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. But it's not just that. It's a whole sequence, one universe versus another. The new TVA scene released with Avengers: Endgame Encore showed universes that literally fire missiles at other Earths, and one of those universes was the X-Men universe. So it's now established, as we had heard, that the X-Men universe has dealt with incursions before. When they go to Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man's universe, they know exactly what to do to destroy it.

That means it's really Tobey and whoever else there is able to fight versus the X-Men. It's basically legacy versus legacy, and looking at it that way, it's a dream come true. Everything we wished the MCU had back when it didn't have the rights, it's finally going to have. That's how you have to open this movie, because it's supposed to be bigger than ever.

Avengers: Doomsday will reportedly have almost zero jokes, like The Winter Soldier

Next is humor. Some Marvel movies get really humorous, and sometimes it works, like with Guardians of the Galaxy. I actually think the humor in Infinity War and Endgame works really well, but then you have Thor: Love and Thunder, where it's way too much. According to Beyond Report, Avengers: Doomsday will have the same humorous tone as Captain America: The Winter Soldier, with almost zero jokes.

That makes a lot of sense to me. Think about what is happening here: the destruction of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the entire multiverse being destroyed. I think that entails everything. They might not say it outright, but the animated Spider-Verse films were highly hinted to be part of the larger multiverse of the MCU, and I think everything's kind of included. I think we'll see more of that in Secret Wars than in Doomsday, but we are going to see a lot of universes destroyed in Doomsday, and that's a serious matter.

That TVA scene from Endgame Encore was very serious, and I truly loved how heavy it was. That's really the tone of the movie. You're not cracking jokes when the entire multiverse is collapsing and trillions upon trillions of lives are dying. And it's probably all because of Doom; I think Doom probably specifically sets out to destroy the multiverse at some point. Not undercutting those heavy moments with a pun here or a joke there is good, I think. I do think there will obviously be some jokes, but it sounds like, for the most part, it's a desperate movie.

One source claims Avengers: Doomsday is borderline horror

One account online said, "so I know a guy who's on set and he straight up told me it is borderline horror." Another confirmation added that the opening scene is going to break the internet.

Borderline horror is pretty crazy to think about. We kind of heard that for Multiverse of Madness, and there were some scenes in there that were borderline horror, I guess you could say. I'm not really a horror person, so I'm not a good authority on what counts as horror, but that was supposed to be a horroresque Marvel movie.

Test screening descriptions call Doom the best villain in the MCU

Other reports about what was seen during the test screenings describe the movie as epic, visceral, the movie with the most deaths in the MCU, once again the best opening sequence in Marvel history, terrifyingly tense, shocking, and with Doom as the best villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. A lot of people are saying that about the opening at this point, which is pretty cool to hear.

I don't really have any doubt that they're going to nail Doom. Say what you want about Robert Downey Jr. returning, say what you want about the accent; I actually kind of like it. I think he's going to crush it. Just that scene with the Sentinels is pretty amazing.

The most deaths in the MCU could mean Bucky does not come back

As for the most deaths in the MCU, I don't think we're counting Infinity War for that. Or maybe we are, and if we are, there are a lot of deaths, and I'm talking about the Avengers, not the billions of people deleted across the universe. Either way, I don't think this means people dying at the end of the movie and then getting resurrected. I think we get some real deaths. Based on what we've heard, it sounds like some characters are dying and are not coming back.

Consider what is happening: the multiverse is getting destroyed and they are literally doing a soft reboot for a new universe. Not everyone is going to survive, and we knew that going in, which means some characters might not be in Secret Wars. I think Bucky bites the dust, and I know a lot of people don't want to hear that, but we've heard reports that he'll have a pretty heroic moment saving some people. In that scenario he even says, "This is the end of the line for me," calling back to telling Steve early in the MCU that he's with him till the end of the line, and sacrificing himself to save Steve and other heroes. I don't want to see him go, but I think it would be a pretty good way to go.

People are going to die in this movie, but it sounds like a lot more than we thought. You can go down the cast and probably tell who might live and who might die. Professor X? We've seen him die a lot. I don't want to see it again, but what's one more time? Will Magneto survive? They're bringing in the new X-Men in Avengers: Secret Wars, so are they making way for them, or will some of the older X-Men interact with the new ones? I think that would be really cool too.

The Russo brothers promised a tonal shift and a more frightening villain

Every report coming from the test screenings describes the movie as incredibly intense, borderline horror. I think a lot of that comes from Doctor Doom, his castle, and what he is willing to do. I wouldn't call the Sentinel scene horror by any means, but we've only seen them rise, and who knows what they'll do. I think we get some deaths in that scene as well. As for shocking, I definitely think there are some big twists coming, but I can't get over everybody talking about how intense the opening scene is.

Keep in mind the Russo brothers have said Avengers: Doomsday has a very surprising ending, a very different tonal shift and a more frightening, Machiavellian villain. Robert Downey Jr. said he returned to the MCU to redefine the genre of superhero movies. I think a lot of people don't take Marvel, or superhero movies in general, super seriously, which is why Doomsday might be a pretty serious movie. I think we might be flipping a switch here, and they're really trying to show these movies are cinema.

They don't have to prove anything to me; they're my favorite type of movie. But there are cynics and critics who criticize Marvel all the time, and maybe this different tone will change some opinions. Maybe. I don't think they're doing it specifically to silence those people, though. I think the story calls for it. Doom is the type of villain who calls for that tone, and so does the destruction of the entire multiverse with a new one maybe being rebuilt. If universes colliding and trillions of people dying happened in real life, it would be horroresque. Add heroes facing a villain they probably have a very slim chance against, and it's frightening. I think we're in for a real treat, and I can't wait to see it.

Do these test screening reports make you more excited for Avengers: Doomsday, or are you still not sold on it?