My friend hasn't seen many marvel movies, but he wants to watch avengers doomsday with us. Could someone give me a list of absolutely everything he should watch before doomsday and what he can skip?
Until the film is out there’s no way to know what past films are important.
When it has released, there will be YouTube videos of “what you know to know before watching…”
He can then just watch Doomsday, and get more context on the characters he likes after.
OppH20402025-10-19 17:30
Can't tell people what to watch to prepare for a movie that no one knows what it's about
Segwaye2025-10-19 17:48
Yeah, this is kinda THE question. What parts of post-endgame will really matter? What parts will they ignore or even retcon ?
ricardo510682025-10-19 18:00
My most important ones, I'd say to watch, in chronological order:
Infinity War
Endgame
Loki S1 and S2
Shang-Chi
Both Spider-Man: Far From Home and No Way Home alongside Spider-Man: Brand New Day coming up next year
Wandavision
Dr Strange 2
Thor 4
Guardians 3
Black Panther 2
Ant-Man: Quantumania
The Marvels
Deadpool and Wolverine
Captain America 4
Thunderbolts*
Fantastic Four
Tryonite2025-10-19 18:01
Thank you!!!
Edboy7962025-10-19 22:16
When done, I would recommend most of the first few phases up to Infinity War/Endgame
DigificWriter2025-10-19 18:18
Nothing.
The notion that someone can't jump into the MCU without having to do a bunch of 'prep work' is a fallacy that has actually been a hindrance to the IP from the very beginning.
NbaLiveMobile102025-10-19 18:21
Still over a year before Doomsday but the important ones are most likely:
Ant Man & The Wasp
Infinity War
Endgame
Shang Chi
Spiderman No Way Home
Wakanda Forever
Thor Love & Thunder
Captain America Brave New World
Quantumania
Deadpool vs Wolverine
The Marvels
Loki Tv Show
Thunderbolts
Fantastic 4
Everest_952025-10-19 19:00
Just watch the entire MCU that should cover it, he's got a year
TherealDeathy2025-10-19 19:28
Unfortunately. there really is no "necessary watching" Doomsday was kinda shoehorned into the MCU.
Nobody knows how this connects, what's going to happen. I'd say maybe Infinity War, Endgame and Fantastic Four. otherwise no idea
Limp-Ad-3062025-10-19 19:41
Just to cover the basics,
Loki
The Marvels
Thunderbolts
Fantastic Four
BradyPhoenix2025-10-19 19:41
Oh my sweet summer child.
To actually understand all the character backstories you’d have to watch pretty much everything.
Like you’d have to watch Thunderbolts, and to understand that you need to watch Black Widow (which requires Captain America Civil War which requires Age of Ultron etc etc) and Ant-Man 2 (which requires Ant-Man 1) and The Falcon and Winter Soldier show (which requires Endgame which requires the rest of the Infinity Saga pretty much) and so on and so forth.
And that’s not even bringing to mind potential crossovers with the other Marvel franchises, like the Fox X-Men series.
DigificWriter2025-10-19 19:46
"To actually understand all the character backstories you’d have to watch pretty much everything"
This is incorrect.
TheIratePrimate2025-10-21 02:33
"This is incorrect."
This is incorrect.
DigificWriter2025-10-21 03:23
Despite assertions to the contrary, a person can absolutely jump into the MCU anywhere they want without having to have done any 'prep' or have any prior knowledge whatsoever.
In fact, the IP works so much better when experienced in individual 'chunks'.
PirateBeany2025-10-21 22:48
The GGparent comment says "To actually understand all the character backstories \[...\]"
Of course you can dive in anywhere you want; they're almost all self-contained stories, by design. And if you don't care about backstories, that's fine.
But that approach means you won't know a lot about many of the characters, and what they'd already been through to get to the movie you're currently watching.
DigificWriter2025-10-21 23:28
"But that approach means you won't know a lot about many of the characters, and what they'd already been through to get to the movie you're currently watching."
This isn't true at all.
You could jump straight in with Infinity War and get all the backstory information you need provided to you through the course of the story.
And the same thing applies to any other film or TV series in the MCU.
urgasmic2025-10-19 21:35
tbh he has time to watch all of it and only watch less than a single movie every week. we don't know what it's about so impossible to say. i could leave a movie off that seems irrelevant but then it could actually be quite pivotal.
edit: if it was a week away i would probably just say infinity war, endgame, thunderbolts and fantastic 4.
Greygor2025-10-20 14:25
And, Doomsday will have Fox X-Men characters.
But we know so little its hard to say what will be essential prep viewing.
I am hoping they will make it accessible to people who have watched nothing, a new jumping on point.
Maybe Thunderbolts & Fantastic Four: First Steps will be enough, who knows.
achshort2025-10-21 00:01
all of it
Powerful-Stranger1432025-10-26 09:26
Since we are just over a year out of Doomsday being released, I would recommend every movie starring a Marvel Comics character starting with Blade (1998). We know the OG X-Men will be in Doomsday and we have already seen some other legacy Fox and Sony Marvel characters in the MCU.
We don’t know many details about Doomsday and while it’s not necessary to watch every Marvel movie ever made, it would certainly make the Doomsday and eventually Secret Wars viewing experience better when you know every character on screen whomever they may be. There’s enough time to watch them all if you watch 1-2 movies a week.
Disney+ has the rights to a lot of those films as well so that should make things easier no matter what gets decided.
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When it has released, there will be YouTube videos of “what you know to know before watching…”
He can then just watch Doomsday, and get more context on the characters he likes after.
Infinity War
Endgame
Loki S1 and S2
Shang-Chi
Both Spider-Man: Far From Home and No Way Home alongside Spider-Man: Brand New Day coming up next year
Wandavision
Dr Strange 2
Thor 4
Guardians 3
Black Panther 2
Ant-Man: Quantumania
The Marvels
Deadpool and Wolverine
Captain America 4
Thunderbolts*
Fantastic Four
The notion that someone can't jump into the MCU without having to do a bunch of 'prep work' is a fallacy that has actually been a hindrance to the IP from the very beginning.
Ant Man & The Wasp
Infinity War
Endgame
Shang Chi
Spiderman No Way Home
Wakanda Forever
Thor Love & Thunder
Captain America Brave New World
Quantumania
Deadpool vs Wolverine
The Marvels
Loki Tv Show
Thunderbolts
Fantastic 4
Nobody knows how this connects, what's going to happen. I'd say maybe Infinity War, Endgame and Fantastic Four. otherwise no idea
Loki
The Marvels
Thunderbolts
Fantastic Four
To actually understand all the character backstories you’d have to watch pretty much everything.
Like you’d have to watch Thunderbolts, and to understand that you need to watch Black Widow (which requires Captain America Civil War which requires Age of Ultron etc etc) and Ant-Man 2 (which requires Ant-Man 1) and The Falcon and Winter Soldier show (which requires Endgame which requires the rest of the Infinity Saga pretty much) and so on and so forth.
And that’s not even bringing to mind potential crossovers with the other Marvel franchises, like the Fox X-Men series.
This is incorrect.
This is incorrect.
In fact, the IP works so much better when experienced in individual 'chunks'.
Of course you can dive in anywhere you want; they're almost all self-contained stories, by design. And if you don't care about backstories, that's fine.
But that approach means you won't know a lot about many of the characters, and what they'd already been through to get to the movie you're currently watching.
This isn't true at all.
You could jump straight in with Infinity War and get all the backstory information you need provided to you through the course of the story.
And the same thing applies to any other film or TV series in the MCU.
edit: if it was a week away i would probably just say infinity war, endgame, thunderbolts and fantastic 4.
But we know so little its hard to say what will be essential prep viewing.
I am hoping they will make it accessible to people who have watched nothing, a new jumping on point.
Maybe Thunderbolts & Fantastic Four: First Steps will be enough, who knows.
We don’t know many details about Doomsday and while it’s not necessary to watch every Marvel movie ever made, it would certainly make the Doomsday and eventually Secret Wars viewing experience better when you know every character on screen whomever they may be. There’s enough time to watch them all if you watch 1-2 movies a week.
Disney+ has the rights to a lot of those films as well so that should make things easier no matter what gets decided.