This movie should be putting an end to the multiverse stuff. Doom is supposed to win and lead us straight into Battleworld / Avengers: Secret Wars.
That means when all these characters from different worlds finally come together, the side conversations and passing references have to be there — otherwise it’s just bad writing.
In time-travel movies people often hunt down their other selves out of nostalgia. But the stakes here are too serious and dire for that. So instead, the visiting heroes would more realistically want to track down the heavy hitters from their own worlds and recruit those versions for actual help.
So we should be hearing things like:
• The X-Men bringing up mutants or “the mutant problem” and pushing to find this world’s Professor X (or other major mutants) because they need the power.
• The Fantastic Four asking where they stand in this universe, or more importantly, demanding to locate this world’s Mr. Fantastic so they can bring him in.
And the main Avengers should be the ones having to tell them the hard truth:
“Sorry… mutants don’t exist here.”
“Sorry… the Fantastic Four don’t exist in this world either.”
If that awkward but necessary conversation doesn’t happen, it’s lazy writing.
Then there’s the moment that still feels inevitable:
The Fantastic Four already know what Victor von Doom looked like before the accident. So if any of them see images of Tony Stark, someone should freeze and say, “Wait… that’s exactly what Doom looked like.”
Or if they show the main Avengers Doom’s pre-mask face, someone should immediately point and go, “That’s Tony Stark.”
If none of these natural character moments and clarifications happen while everyone’s being pulled together for the final multiverse chapter… it’s just bad writing.