Haven’t watched X-Men yet. Will that matter for Doomsday?

I haven’t watched any of the X-Men movies yet, apart from Deadpool. I’m also missing shows/movies like The Marvels and Agatha.

For Doomsday, do you think all of this is required viewing, or will the movie work fine even if you haven’t caught up on everything?

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MrMegaPhoenix2026-01-20 14:34

Doubtful

The events happened years and years ago to these characters

If we assume only xmen 1 and 2 were canon, the biggest importance is magneto was naughty and now he’s on friendly terms with Xavier

Caciulacdlac2026-01-20 14:35

You will be fine and probably understand everything. It's just that seeing the original X-Men coming back won't have any impact on you.

RoninPrime682026-01-20 14:35

No, you don't \*have\* to watch the X-Men movies

Yes, you will most likely enjoy Doomsday more if you did/will

for the love of god please consider looking if someone else asked something like that in the last week

bluewolf712026-01-20 14:38

I see you too are a person who tries to inform themselves rather than treat Reddit like a better Google.

hell20_2026-01-20 14:43

Exactly, if you google OPs (and virtually any) query you will get a bunch of same posts that are already answered. You're supposed to make posts on a forum only if you cannot get any explanation.

ubutterscotchpine2026-01-20 14:36

No I don’t. I personally don’t care for the X-Men. My only memories are of what I’ve seen as a kid. I’m not rewatching them lol. As of now there is no confirmation Captain Marvel/Monica/Kamala will be in it, but I don’t see how they won’t considering how it ended. Agatha is not necessary.

That being said, watch The Marvels and Agatha. They were both REALLY good.

Optimal_Lifeguard5752026-01-20 14:47

As someone who loves Captain Marvel/Monica/Kamala and my respective fave mcu shows were 1. Wandavision and 2.Agatha All Along….the Xmen disrespect here is crazy

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ubutterscotchpine2026-01-20 15:18

😂 I’m so sorry. Totally used to this reaction haha. I came around to the Fantastic Four so who knows what will happen in the future.

Optimal_Lifeguard5752026-01-20 19:34

❤️I can respect people having different tastes but the X-men media (be they comics or animated shows or film) helped me accept my queerness and I love how diverse they are and it doesn’t feel shoe horned in for quotas and cashbait…a disabled bald White American man (Prof X) is a powerful telepath, a half African/half African American orphan Woman can control the weather(Storm), a 5’3 man from Canada is fearsome and fearless…armed with claws (Wolverine)…I could go on and on, heck Magneto, a complicated character…being a holocaust survivor and the cruelty he experienced for having Jewish ancestry informing his actions on how he navigates around his mutant identity and how his “never again” is “I won’t give you chance to hurt me and any of my people”…is just WEEEEW…..damn Jean Grey flipping the script on the whole “hysterical woman” by being a vessel to a force so powerful (not to mention she is powerful in her own right BUT the Phoenix force….underestimate her at your own peril).

Reddit is a terrible place to have good faith convos between people who have a shared interest, but I can tell that you and I enjoy the same things so your initial comment was wild to me😂

Let’s not sleep on the X-men and their lore, sure the films had some flops and some phenomenal ones (X2 is a generational win in adapted comic book film making) but that shouldn’t the be-all-end-all interpretations of what X-men stories are about.

Sending wifi-respect your way

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ubutterscotchpine2026-01-20 19:57

I’m glad the X-Men were able to be that for you! I’m queer too so I respect that. I wasn’t really super into Marvel until after I’d realized and never really had any ‘coming to terms’ development thankfully, but I do understand it! I’m always supportive of any kind of natural diversity in stuff like this. I wish we got to see more in Marvel projects tbh.

Optimal_Lifeguard5752026-01-20 21:14

Thank you! The whole being different and standing up for yourself but also not succumbing to misery and being hateful to others was appealing, whilst X-men wasn’t the entire driving force in to my self-acceptance….it was a welcome early childhood addition(the animated show and the comics and then the films…in that order, I’m an older Millennial so there is that).

I 2nd your opinion on current Marvel films and how they seemingly are for inclusion but torpedo it with some fuck shit ass effort that actually wards off the people that they are trying to include and invite in to the fandom.

I enjoyed the Marvels…did I think it was disjointed and set up for failure? YES-2 of 3 characters were introduced in disney+ exclusive show, no famous villain and the director was heavily over seen by producers….same thing with the Eternals, Black Widow and Cap 4…just outright giving hater ammo to the dweebs to hate on.

Just feels like they are throwing shit at the wall and hoping it sticks when it comes to stories about people who aren’t 5/6 of the core avengers….5 straight/white/male

ubutterscotchpine2026-01-20 21:25

God your post is absolutely spot on for what I’ve been yelling about concerning The Marvels and recent films. When watching it in theaters (we did it twice in a day during a Disney trip bc we loved it) I didn’t even realize, but after thinking about it, guarantee the hate is rooted in the fact that all of the characters are POC except the main who is white, but female with sapphic undertones and way overhated by white male fans already. The only things I would’ve changed about this movie is villain, longer, and placed after a Captain Marvel 2.

Definitely does feel like Marvel’s just throwing spaghetti noodles tbh and instead of sticking to the characters they have now, they’ve now convinced the white straight fanboys that they’re going to get their fave white originals recast. It’s sad.

rohithkumarsp2026-01-20 14:36

I personally made my wife watch all 3 old men and 4 new xmen apart from dark Phoenix, all Logan and Deadpool and all 5 Spiderman before even starting mcu Ironman.

But you wouldn't understand the weight of those characters if you've not seen atleast the original 3 xmen and until xmen days of future past atleast.

ra4oasis2026-01-20 14:36

I'd be shocked if you miss much. However, X2, First Class, and Days of Future Past are really good, highly recommended.

rodroidrx2026-01-20 14:37

I don't think it matters but you should join the X-Men 97 bandwagon. It's fire.

CharacterOld86912026-01-20 14:38

Days of Future Past is a good one to watch, if you just want the gist of the conflict, the main characters, and their morally grey philosophies.

Bigpappa362026-01-20 14:38

For the 1000000000th post in a row about this shit. Can the mods actually mod and quit letting the same bs post every day.

Void_Warden2026-01-20 15:26

Just removed it. But if you want us to remove a post, the best way to do so is to report it. We can't constantly watch 24/24 every post that gets through the filters.

Bigpappa362026-01-20 15:28

Understood, thank you for the info

tcguy712026-01-20 14:39

No clue, Doomsday hasnt come out yet

Sports101GAMING2026-01-20 14:39

This sub is turning into garbage now. Can we stop asking this stupid question. They have been ask so many times already. Mods do somthing ffs

BetaRayPhil6162026-01-20 14:41

If you've never seen any of them, id recommend watching the first from 2000. If you dont enjoy it, at least youll have learnt some of the basics of xavier/mags backstory and leave it at that. And if you enjoy then you can watch a few more.

Edit: Also, another vote here to watch the Marvels, might not be req. but I really enjoyed it.

Realistic_Analyst_262026-01-20 14:42

Think about it like this. Did the older Spiderman movies matter for No Way Home? I’d say the plot stood without them and it made sense, however half of the enjoyment is from how impactful their return was.

Doomsday will likely be done similarly. Do with this as you will.

bluewolf712026-01-20 14:46

Ask yourself how many characters are in the movie and how much screen time each will get.

Ask yourself how old the X-men movies are (first one was 2000).

Ask yourself if you were making a movie if you’d write it so you were requiring the audience to know details from movies that are 15-25 years old to follow along. Ok. Dark Phoenix, which few saw, is only 6 years old.

Also, it’s only January and you have plenty of time to watch up to 7 movies with X-men - if you’re worried about this - before December. If you were asking this in November it’d be more relevant. Just watch the darn movies! Lots of them hold up well.

It would probably help to be familiar with who each actor is playing though. So you can get excited when someone shows up (think about DPW).

mr_oberts2026-01-20 14:48

Sure there is benefit to seeing those things before the movie comes out, but if everyone did their jobs correctly, you should be able to go in cold.

TrinityCodex2026-01-20 14:50

Reading the comics is probably a better way to ''get'' the these xman

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