Today, November 7, 2025, was supposed to be the premiere of Avengers Secret Wars.
Yes. Originally, Marvel Studios planned to release two Avengers movies in 2025:
The Kang Dynasty on May 2nd, and Secret Wars on November 7th.
We obviously knew this would be impossible, and later both movies were significantly delayed because:
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which is the prequel to Kang Dynasty, failed critically and at the box office, and Kang wasn't well-received as a villain.
Jonathan Majors was fired due to his legal controversy.
There were massive restructurings that forced Marvel to delay and shelve projects.
And in 2024, the idea of Kang as the villain of the multiverse saga was scrapped, and Kang Dynasty was renamed Doomsday.
Doomsday was originally scheduled to premiere in just a few months, on May 1, 2026, and Secret Wars on May 7, 2027, but both films were delayed until December of their respective years.
And now the November 7, 2025 release date has been taken by Predator: Badlands.
As a fun fact, Blade was also supposed to premiere today. Lol
The Kang Dynasty on May 2nd, and Secret Wars on November 7th.
We obviously knew this would be impossible, and later both movies were significantly delayed because:
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which is the prequel to Kang Dynasty, failed critically and at the box office, and Kang wasn't well-received as a villain.
Jonathan Majors was fired due to his legal controversy.
There were massive restructurings that forced Marvel to delay and shelve projects.
And in 2024, the idea of Kang as the villain of the multiverse saga was scrapped, and Kang Dynasty was renamed Doomsday.
Doomsday was originally scheduled to premiere in just a few months, on May 1, 2026, and Secret Wars on May 7, 2027, but both films were delayed until December of their respective years.
And now the November 7, 2025 release date has been taken by Predator: Badlands.
As a fun fact, Blade was also supposed to premiere today. Lol
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Doom, doom, doom. I want you in my room.
Then when you think they’re done, who should show up? Sasha Baron effing Cohen, wearing a red shirt and little devil horns, holding his hands out palm side up and saying “Can have me job back plz plz?”. 🤣🤣🤣
Like?????? Genius…They never failed to get it right…never fail, not once
When Doom tried to become God Emperor Doom only to be killed by Rhodey, I was shocked.
Then he smiled and said "This Secret War needs a War Machine to run it." And I realised it made so much sense.
10/10
And the world was freshly coming out of the pandemic lockdown. People were hungry enough to stuff themselves with every Marvel project in the market, leading to some severe burnouts.
If the Multiverse collapsing was the most imminent danger that the audience should be invested in, I'd say they picked a pretty tough concept for people to resonate with, and they did a terrible job conveying the gravity of it. They also didn't give people a core cast of characters to feel emotionally attached to.
And this is besides the obvious drop in overall writing quality.
Have I completely misjudged that one?
To have Wolverine seek help from Mysterio and a Rhodey from an alternate universe to try find their daughters was not what I was expecting.
To then suspecting that the Riddler took them was where it lost me… multiverse sure, but to bring in a completely different property like DC this far into the MCU is a stretch too far. Not to mention throwing in a cameo from Polka Dot Man and Amanda Waller (who’s somehow married to Rhodey???) yeah the MCU is officially dead. It was a hell of a ride though.
A reversal of Avengers one.
But it was really undercut when Korg interrupted the tense moment with "Hey, who turned off the wifi? I have get back to playing Helldivers 2!"
AGATHA ALL ALONG!
Can't wait for Phases 7-9, the Agatha Saga (or the "Saga-tha," if you will)
The way Kang turned out to be the good guy trying to save the universe, and it was the avengers who were on the bad side was such great and ironic story telling. Bravo Marvel.