🚨 DOOMSDAY FOR MCU: Avengers Doomsday Set to WIPE the Slate CLEAN – Erasing ALL Post-Endgame Flops in Epic Multiverse Reset! 🦸‍♂️💥
Endgame was the peak – epic battles, heartfelt goodbyes, $2.8B glory. But Phases 4 & 5? A multiverse mess: Eternals’ snooze-fest (47% RT), She-Hulk’s cringe cameos, Quantumania’s $200M flop, and Ant-Man 3’s CGI catastrophe. Now, Avengers: Doomsday (May 2026) drops the hammer: Rumors scream a total ERASE of the “lackluster” era – incursions from Endgame’s time heist colliding universes, Doctor Doom (RDJ!) culling the weak links in a Battleworld reboot. No more overstuffed slogs like Multiverse of Madness or Wakanda Forever’s weepy wander – just a fresh slate post-Secret Wars. Marvel’s admitting defeat? Or genius pivot to ditch the duds? Fans split: Relief or rage?
The timeline’s trembling… Unpack the leak bombshell, flop autopsies, and Doomsday’s do-over blueprint – click before it’s pruned! 👉
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, once an unassailable juggernaut that reshaped Hollywood with interconnected epics and box-office billions, has spent the past six years in a state of creative flux—a sprawling Multiverse Saga marred by inconsistent storytelling, bloated budgets, and audience fatigue. Avengers: Endgame, the 2019 crescendo that bid farewell to Iron Man and Captain America while grossing $2.8 billion worldwide, set an impossibly high bar: a narrative payoff 22 films in the making, blending spectacle, emotion, and closure. Yet the projects that followed—Phases 4 and 5—have largely faltered, with critical darlings like WandaVision overshadowed by duds such as Eternals (47 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ($476 million worldwide against a $200 million budget, the lowest-grossing Ant-Man film). Now, as Avengers: Doomsday looms on May 1, 2026—directed by the Russo Brothers and starring Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom—industry rumors suggest the film won’t just advance the saga; it could obliterate it, erasing the “lackluster” post-Endgame era in a multiversal cataclysm designed to reboot the MCU from its Endgame zenith.
The whispers, first amplified by YouTuber Doomcock (real name Larry Kenney) in a September 15 video viewed 1.2 million times, posit that Doomsday will invoke “incursions”—colliding universes from Endgame’s time-travel heist—to cull the multiverse’s weaker branches, including Phases 4 and 5’s misfires. In the comics, incursions—dramatic overlaps where realities smash and one (or both) perish—drove 2015’s Secret Wars, birthing Doctor Doom’s Battleworld from the ashes. Here, the theory ties Endgame’s “sacred timeline” fractures—Steve Rogers’ post-credits retirement, Hulk’s snap reversal—to a Doom-orchestrated purge: Quantumania’s quantum realm glitches, Multiverse of Madness’ dreamwalking disasters, and Eternals’ celestial awakenings as “incursion triggers” slated for deletion. “Marvel’s admitting the post-Endgame era was a detour into mediocrity,” Doomcock speculated, citing anonymous Skydance sources (the Russos’ production banner). “Doomsday resets to Endgame’s emotional core—strong heroes, clear stakes—ditching the bloat.”
The rationale rings true amid Phase 4 and 5’s stumbles. Post-Endgame, Marvel Studios unleashed a torrent: nine films and 15 Disney+ series from 2021-2025, a volume triple the Infinity Saga’s pace, stretching Kevin Feige’s oversight thin. WandaVision (91 percent RT) dazzled with sitcom subversion and grief’s raw edge, but She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (78 percent) veered into meta fourth-wall breaks that alienated casuals. Eternals, ChloĂ© Zhao’s ambitious $200 million epic, earned a dismal 47 percent for its meandering mythology and underdeveloped ensemble, grossing $402 million but failing to spark sequels. Thor: Love and Thunder (64 percent) squandered Taika Waititi’s Ragnarok magic on slapstick excess, pulling $760 million but alienating fans with its tonal whiplash. Quantumania, Jonathan Majors’ Kang showcase, bombed at $476 million amid CGI critiques and plot holes, accelerating Majors’ ouster post-assault charges. Disney+ fare fared worse: Secret Invasion (52 percent) squandered Samuel L. Jackson’s gravitas on a sluggish spy thriller, while The Marvels ($206 million, MCU’s lowest-grossing film) suffered from pandemic delays and “superhero fatigue.”
Critics and fans alike decry the era’s dilution: overstuffed ensembles (Eternals’ 10 leads), rushed integrations (Ms. Marvel’s mutant retcon), and a multiverse muddle that prioritized cameos over cohesion. “Phase 4 felt like a victory lap without the race,” lamented Entertainment Weekly‘s Kristen Baldwin in a 2023 retrospective, noting how Black Widow’s post-Endgame placement and Shang-Chi’s standalone charm bucked the trend but couldn’t stem the tide. Reddit’s r/marvelstudios threads echo this: “Phase 4’s the weakest—only No Way Home saves it,” one megathread tallied 524 upvotes, citing “bloat and bland climaxes.” Box office tells the tale: Endgame’s $2.8 billion dwarfed Phase 4’s $3.8 billion cumulative (versus Infinity’s $22.5 billion), with Quantumania’s 70 percent second-week drop the MCU’s steepest ever. Disney+ viewership cratered too: She-Hulk’s finale drew 1.5 billion minutes, a fraction of WandaVision’s 2.1 billion peak.
Enter Doomsday: the Russos, Endgame’s architects ($2.8 billion, six Oscars), return to helm a $350 million behemoth blending Infinity War’s scope with Secret Wars’ multiversal stakes. RDJ’s Doom—teased at Comic-Con with a multiverse mask—anchors the cast: returning heroes like Anthony Mackie’s Captain America, alongside Fox X-Men vets (Patrick Stewart’s Xavier, Kelsey Grammer’s Beast) and rumors of Chris Evans’ Human Torch. The plot, per leaks, orbits incursions: Endgame’s timeline tweaks—Hulk’s snap, Cap’s retirement—destabilizing realities, with Doom as multiversal surgeon excising “flawed” branches (read: Phase 4/5 duds). “It’s a soft reset,” Doomcock posited, aligning with Feige’s 2025 pivot: fewer projects (two films, one series annually post-Secret Wars), grounded stakes, and X-Men integration sans bloat. Collider‘s Drew Taylor calls it “desperate genius”: “Endgame’s high ruined the low; Doomsday levels the field.”
Fans are fractured: Reddit’s r/MCUTheories megathread (4 upvotes, 61 comments) hails “Doomsday hate” as “safe nostalgia,” but laments “Phase 4-5 worthless setup.” Screen Rant‘s op-ed dubs Endgame “the MCU’s kiss of death,” arguing its spectacle set unattainable bars, spawning fan-service slogs like No Way Home ($1.9 billion) while starving innovation. Yet hope flickers: Deadpool & Wolverine’s $1.3 billion haul and Thunderbolts*’ grounded grit (84 percent RT) signal course-correction. Feige, at D23, teased: “Doomsday honors Endgame’s heart—loss, legacy—while forging ahead.”
In Cameron-esque isolation—diving for Avatar 3‘s depths—Feige recalibrates, his $200 million Phase 6 war chest betting on Doomsday’s purge. For MCU faithful, the multiverse’s mess is a midlife crisis: Endgame’s triumph too towering, its echoes too faint. As incursions loom, one truth endures: in superhero sagas, endings are illusions—Doomsday may not erase the past, but it could rebirth the future.
