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This previous Wednesday Marvel proved that, regardless of all of it, it may well nonetheless demand a good grip of on-line consideration when it managed to get the web voraciously watching 27 chairs get specified by a row for over five hours. How a lot of the web? A variety of the web.

Deadline experiences that the Doomsday solid announcement pulled in over 275 million views over its runtime, and three.1 million mentions throughout social media–trumping the view data the studio beforehand established for the primary Deadpool & Wolverine trailer. 24 hours after it dropped, and we had been all nonetheless making rather silly jokes about chairs, the livestream remained the #2 trending stream on Youtube. Apparently nobody simply wished to relive the magic when Marvel themselves condensed the entire thing all the way down to beneath two minutes to put up on Twitter.

#AvengersDoomsday. Now in manufacturing. pic.twitter.com/syykJ57W1l

— Marvel Leisure (@Marvel) March 26, 2025

Contemplating a lot of the final doom-and-gloom there was about Marvel’s output for the time being–a general malaise within the post-Endgame pivot to Disney+ mixed with the latest sting of Captain America: Courageous New World being met to middling reviews–it speaks to the studio’s means to take care of a lot of that grip it’s had on popular culture over the previous virtually 20 years now. Maybe some other studio with the reckless confidence to make folks tune in for over 5 hours to see fold up chairs and a tiny glimpse of Robert Downey Jr. could have crashed and burned, and but right here we’re.

And but we should be, if Marvel has something to say about it. Doomsday‘s oddball solid combine–two returning Avengers A-Listers, the Fantastic Four, 95% of the principle solid of the upcoming Thunderbolts, a random chunk of Fox X-Men stars, after which a number of stalwart MCU mainstays–instantly left followers pondering that there could also be extra to return, both for Doomsday or inevitably for the multiversal shenanigans of Secret Wars, and the studio itself appears to be indicating that there will probably be.

“That’s what you name a deep bench of expertise…truly it’s extra like a row, however an additional lengthy one…that have to be it…proper?,” Downey Jr. wrote within the feedback of his Instagram put up in regards to the enterprise, just for Marvel Studios to reply shortly after:

“There’s at all times room for extra…”

How lengthy can they make us watch chairs this time?

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