AVENGERS (2012) REVISITED | Road to Doomsday Ep 16

Road to Doomsday: A New Rockstars Podcast

New Rockstars & Studio71

Tv & Film

4.8 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Marvel’s The Avengers (2012)… how will Avengers Doomsday rank against the first Avengers movie? Welcome back to THE ROAD TO DOOMSDAY, New Rockstars’ ultimate Marvel rewatch podcast! In this episode, our hosts revisit the 2012 smash success, Marvel’s The Avengers, which elevated Marvel Studios to become a billion dollar franchise. Erik Voss and Jessica Clemons dive deep the film that provided the MCU with its blueprint for crossover event films, a plan that the team behind Avengers Doomsday seems to be following in a different way. -Find furniture, decor, and essentials that fit your unique style and budget. Head to ⁠Wayfair.com⁠ right now to shop all things home. -Own your health at ⁠https://www.functionhealth.com/rumor⁠ and use code Rumor25 for a $25 credit We're back at the UCB Theater in Los Angeles on April 17th, come in person or stream anywhere. Tickets: https://ucbcomedy.com/show/new-rockstars-live-its-morbin-time Join the NR Underground for exclusive audio shows: https://nrunderground.supercast.com Check out our merch! http://www.NerdRiot.shop Written by: Alex Berg Head of Content & Executive Producer: Erik Voss General Manager: Zach Huddleston Senior Producer: Jessica Clemons Producers: Gina Ippolito, Alex Berg, Patti Chambers Podcast Producer: Brian M Kim Post Production Supervisor: Joshua Steven Hurd Staff Editor: Abby Freel Editors: Eric Gorday For business inquiries please contact business@nrdigitalstudios.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	Welcome back to new rock stars, I'm Eric Voss. And as we look ahead to the fifth Avengers movie, Avengers Doomsday, we've got to go back to the first Avengers movie.
0:38.1	Avengers 2012, the movie that brought all of these Marvel heroes together. Before we see, well,
0:43.0	at least three of them all fight it out in Avengers Doomsday. This movie from 2012 was not only
0:48.4	one of the most commercially successful movies of all time, it provided a structural and
0:52.7	creative blueprint that all big Marvel
0:54.8	crossover movies coming after it would follow. And it's a movie that gave us stuff like
0:58.7	Agents of Shield, a show that we will also talk about on this podcast as we go further down
1:02.8	the road. As Jessica Clements and I revisit this pivotal film, we talk about why so much in this
1:07.7	movie is so iconic and what parts of it are so iconic that they really have to come back in some form in Avengers Doomsday. We are now coming to the end of our March episodes of The Road to Doomsday and starting in April, we're going to go back to just doing one a week every Saturday. And the next episode after this one will be our episode about the Amazing Spider-Man and the Amazing Spider-Man too. I hope you're ready for a higher form of war, because here we go, back to Avengers. So much of this movie is memorable and does get called back, but at the time when it was being made, none of this was inevitable. Jaws Weeden really didn't make the blueprint for what has to come in the future. It's such a brightly colored film that you do feel like you're reading comic book splash page.
1:47.0	This movie works beyond our wildest imaginations.
1:51.0	It was the movie.
1:52.1	It was the movie.
1:53.2	Genius, billionaire, playboy philanthropist.
1:55.5	Words it described Tony Stark in this movie,
1:57.9	but somehow they left off the adjective of Doomed?
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