The answers, July 21 -- Within three hours of its Sunday evening release, the first full trailer for Avengers: Doomsday had broken the single-day trailer viewing record previously held by Deadpool and Wolverine. Marvel Studios did not need the data to know it had something. The footage answered the questions the studio had been holding for two years: what Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom sounds like; whether Steve Rogers is genuinely back; and how a story this large accommodates the X-Men alongside everyone who came before.

commanding and deliberate, stripped of irony. Yes, and he is a father now. The X-Men appear front and center, in shared-universe combat sequences that make their arrival in the MCU feel less like a transition and more ...