Days after Avengers: Doomsday's directors issued a cryptic tease regarding the movie's recent teasers, one fan believes they've "cracked the code" hidden in their countdown clocks.

This theory is certainly captivating and, in many ways, checks out. However, why Avengers: Endgame specifically and not any other Marvel Studios movie? Well, it appears to be because Avengers: Doomsday is being positioned as a direct sequel to Endgame.

Once Marvel Studios completed Avengers: Doomsday 's four trailer rollout, the Russo brothers delivered a surprising tease. In an Instagram post sharing the Black Panther and Fantastic Four Doomsday teaser, they said that the four pieces of marketing aren't trailers but stories and clues about what's coming.

Doomsday theory posits that each of the countdown clocks in the movie's teaser trailers is referencing specific, Multiverse-related scenes in Avengers: Endgame.

Those four trailers — initially attached to Avatar: Fire and Ash — have given fans a first look at the movie's big players in action, though revealed relatively little about the overall plot. And, notably, Doctor Doom himself, played by Robert Downey Jr., has remained under wraps.

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