So far, these seem to be the only must-see projects before watching Doomsday and Secret Wars

Even some of these are debatable, I guess. We don't know how relevant the Kang setup will be, so it's possible that Quantumania could end up being completely pointless. I'm going to include it for now though since it seems unlikely that they would just pretend the Kang stuff never happened. I'm sure it'll at least be referenced.

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thedylannorwood2025-11-15 16:36

Shang-Chi

Markus28222025-11-15 16:39

Yea there’s always been just a few movies absolutely required to watch the avengers ones.

wildeebelmondo2025-11-15 16:42

The Fox X-Men are going to be a pretty huge part of Doomsday. I would say the essentials on those are X1, X2 and Days of Future Past at the minimum.

powerful-force-user2025-11-15 16:44

days of future past is one my favorite marvel movies ever. I've re watched it more times than anything else from the x Men movies.

Meizas2025-11-15 16:46

It's such a good movie

wildeebelmondo2025-11-15 17:30

I couldn’t agree more. The beautiful part is, it makes a perfect trilogy with X1 & X2. First Class is a great prequel too.

NicoleIlieva2025-11-15 16:48

Is it confirmed they will be a huge part to the point all their previous movies will be relevant?

I've seen all X movies, I can't imagine all of those will be required. *D&W* had a bunch of characters with standalone movies, but you didn't really need to watch those to get the story.

Nonadventures2025-11-15 17:14

Yeah I never watched Elektra, it was a non-issue. TBH all you need to know is “this person played this character years ago” to follow along these old tie-ins.

wildeebelmondo2025-11-15 17:26

The Fox X-Men will be half of the entire cast of Doomsday. Their movies are most definitely relevant for the characters. It would be like watching the first Avengers movie without seeing the individual hero movies. Did you need to watch them all to understand the Avengers movie? No, but it makes it much better if you did.

Edit:
Have to add… No, not all of the X movies wouldn’t be required viewing. That’s why I listed the essential 3 movies (X1, X2 & DoFP). Think of it like No Way Home. The impact of that movie was 100x better if you watched the Toby & Andrew movies beforehand.

Paperchampion232025-11-15 17:16

Add First Class, it makes DoFP even better.

If we are doing that then DP1, 2, and Logan are essential to DP3 too.

Honestly with the projects OP laid out this is a much bigger web because those films all have essential prerequisites that make them better.

Meizas2025-11-15 16:45

I disagree - X-Men, Shang chi, Black Panther 2 for starters

kriswone2025-11-15 17:18

Then you better include Ironheart

Grindflicks2025-11-15 16:50

If you believe some of the DOOMSDAY theories out there, I'd say Endgame might be a "must-see".

I also think WandaVision, Shang Chi, and Ms. Marvel are more pivotal to DOOMSDAY/SECRET WARS than Thunderbolts\*.

Humble-Film-79882025-11-15 16:52

I would also agree that falcon and the winter soldier because how if sets in thunderbolts and sam fully embracing the shield

NicoleIlieva2025-11-15 19:53

I wouldn't say *TFATWS* is really needed. It doesn't set up for *Thunderbolts* aside from introducing Walker and Valentina, and you could easily streamline Sam's story from *Endgame* to *BNW*.

Otherwise, we can just put in every project in the last 2 phases as 'required'.

Soggy-University-5242025-11-15 17:01

Thunderbolts* is gonna be pretty pivotal if they’re the Avengers(z) in Doomsday tho

darthyogi2025-11-15 16:53

Only Captain America BNW, Thunderbolts and F4. Maybe Loki but i don’t think it will be as important without Kang

Legal-Start94832025-11-15 17:13

No way home has nothing very important for the next movies to be honest

Nonadventures2025-11-15 17:18

I think Quantumania will be buried in a grave now that Kang is gone. That goofy post-credit scene is a bigger liability than an asset now, and everything we knew about Scott going quantum has been explored already.

SeekerVash2025-11-15 18:21

The Marvels isn't, it's not related to Doomsday.

None of the characters are in it, and they aren't going to use anything from it in their "Absolutely cannot fail or everyone is fired" movie.

Being tied to cinema's biggest bomb ever as "must see" would be an absolute disaster, especially since the streaming numbers came out and we can see it did badly there too.

fisheggsoup2025-11-16 21:52

One of their characters is literally in another universe from Doomsday, already interacting with the X-Men there.

I get you just wanted to take this opportunity to further bash the movie though.

JyconX2025-11-15 20:33

You list only these because of the multiversal elements?

I think even the movies and Disney+ series that explained where characters who appear in Doomsday appeared before that movie are just as important.

Considering that Scott Lang appears in Doomsday, despite the Council of Kangs no longer being the saga villains, I still think Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is important. Not in the way originally intended, but still.

marvelcomics222025-11-16 08:09

I don't think that anything's a 'must see', because most things will probably be explained for people who haven't seen the last dozen MCU movies.