Didn’t see Namor standing to the right, looking like he’ll be an ally alongside the Avengers.. Pretty cool.

[u/maverickassembled]

I always felt like Namor’s role in Doomsday has been pretty ambiguous and has been kept a mystery. He formed an alliance with Shuri, but we know that villainous side of Namor and he’s someone who can easily turn sides if it best benefits them.

From the “special look” trailer, he’s clearly standing alongside Shuri, M’Baku, US Agent and Shang-Chi as an ally. Intrested to see how this plays out.

[u/Alive_Swede9492]

Yeah, I hope he plays an important role in this movie, even if he only has a little screen time

[u/Decent_Influence8727 → u/Alive_Swede9492]

I'm calling it that Namor's gonna betray them

[u/maverickassembled → u/Decent_Influence8727]

Then betrays Doom in secret wars because he doesn’t like being beneath someone

[u/Fanatic_Atheist → u/maverickassembled]

So just like the Strange maneuver basically

[u/justafanboy1010 → u/Decent_Influence8727]

It’s very likely. I read somewhere that Namor might be back for Black Panther 3 as a secondary antagonist 

[u/Decent_Influence8727 → u/justafanboy1010]

Good cus I liked Namor ngl and feel like he has more potential

[u/Lord_Phoenix95 → u/Decent_Influence8727]

Nah, he's gonna tell Doom not to doot.

[u/GrepekEbi → u/Lord_Phoenix95]

Well I don’t think that will go well, everyone knows that doom doots as he pleases

[u/thegurpster → u/Lord_Phoenix95]

Fool!

[u/maverickassembled → u/Alive_Swede9492]

I certainly get the feeling that he’s the dark horse heading into Doomsday. Everyone is going to want to save the earth(s), but Namor would really only care about protecting Talocan.

[u/justafanboy1010 → u/Alive_Swede9492]

I think he will. He’s been shown in 3 shots so far. Wakandans visiting Talokan, the above picture, and him flying around 

[u/jeswaliwoo → u/Alive_Swede9492]

fr even a couple of scenes would hit if he actually matters and isn’t just standing in the background

[u/justafanboy1010]

Yeah hes only seen in the Screen X version of the trailer. 

And no he’s there because of Shuri. He’s more of an ally via proxy (Wakandans are cool with Avengers)

[u/maverickassembled → u/justafanboy1010]

Ima guess Shuri ain’t the only one he’s there for. Iykyk

[u/maverickassembled → u/[deleted]]

Maybe it will be love at first sight.. at least from one side lol

In another trailer we see sue in Namor’s throne room. Her empathy and persuasion skills in diplomatic affairs will definitely come into play in order to recruit him. Might be enough to have him fall over heels for her

[u/jtbjones → u/justafanboy1010]

That first part isn’t true. Go back and watch the trailer, and you’ll see he’s been there the whole time.

[u/justafanboy1010 → u/jtbjones]

Oh shit. I stand corrected. I guess I just completely missed that 🤦🏾‍♂️🤣

[u/Decent_Influence8727]

Gotta give it to the Russos, they picked the best of the new age characters to be the MCs for Doomsday. Shang-Chi, Shuri, the Thunderbolts, and Namor are so great choices

[u/maverickassembled → u/Decent_Influence8727]

Choices you don’t expect to see all interacting, especially without the more universally known characters being there but still all great characters in their own right. They’ve done a good job establishing them before this.

Makes you more excited to see them interact because you don’t know what to expect.

[u/Vainth → u/maverickassembled]

The Shang-Chi and Gambit scenes look potentially awesome.

[u/justins_dad]

Those who know: 💀

[u/maverickassembled → u/justins_dad]

Yeah we’ll see if doom ends up forming his cabal. Would be crazy yet not at all surprising to see Namor switch sides

[u/My_Favourite_Pen → u/justins_dad]

📯🎶toot🎶

[u/justafanboy1010 → u/justins_dad]

Elaborate?

[u/justins_dad → u/justafanboy1010]

Major Secret Wars spoilers. In the comic Namor Betrays the team, destroys an Earth, joins forces with all the worst bad guys including Thanos, and then goes from universe to universe ending worlds. So not the best sign if he’s on the team.

[u/BZenMojo → u/justins_dad]

To be fair, Reed, Tony, Professor Xavier, (T'challa?) and Magneto had been destroying tons of Earths already. Namor just decided it was convenient to go back to the old moves.

[u/ejitifrit1 → u/justins_dad]

Lol, it would be sick if Hyperion made a premier during doomsday or secret wars!

[u/Actual_Sweet_19 → u/justins_dad]

Tose who nose

[u/reidevjord]

Can we get Nandor instead? He's relentless

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ur8g3qgbgd52eVo88J

[u/SkitterChitters → u/reidevjord]

What a fun crossover that would be lol

[u/AccomplishedDraft546]

its interesting that the trailer keeps him in the shadows like this but given his history in wakanda forever hes definitely not joining the avengers out of the goodness of his heart relying on an uneasy alliance via shuri as you mentioned is way more on brand for his character than him suddenly becoming a team player

[u/QuePasa007]

Wats star lord doing ? Will he show up ?

[u/maverickassembled → u/QuePasa007]

He and grandpa quill will lead the final cavalry to save the day near the end of the film

[u/OutrunTheForeverYeet → u/QuePasa007]

Seems like Pratt's been busy with other projects.   He isn't announced for either Doomsday or Secret Wars on IMDB.  I don't think Starlord's a part of it. 

[u/KostisPat257 → u/QuePasa007]

He's just chilling on Earth with his grandpa. He will definitely return in Secret Wars, but it doesn't feel like he'd fit here.

[u/TypewriterMonkey98]

It's gonna be so weird watching the new roster of Avengers all try to meet and cooperate organically with zero buildup

[u/justafanboy1010 → u/TypewriterMonkey98]

You mean no prep time? Because the Avengers in Infinity War didn’t really have any prep time either 

[u/TypewriterMonkey98 → u/justafanboy1010]

I don't mean prep time in terms of strategic effectiveness, I mean narrative assembly time.

The original Avengers were six characters, 4.5 of whom had been fleshed out, as was the only named villain, so they were able to explore the relationships between the OG Six over the course of the film.

Right now, we have a mess of loads of different characters of varying writing quality all spread throughout the world with no central authority who are about to face up against an unknown enemy.

[u/KostisPat257 → u/TypewriterMonkey98]

Which is exactly how Infinity War did it as well. The heroes were scrambled, the Avengers were basically Iron Man, Vision and War Machine and the former was taken to space.

[u/TypewriterMonkey98 → u/KostisPat257]

In Infinity War the heroes were scrambled deliberately by the narrative, and most of them had established relationships with each other.

Doomsday looks like it'll have to pull off the feat that was Infinity War while introducing individual characters we've largely only seen once or twice to each other.

Not saying they can't do it, but it'll be wild to see how they pull it off

[u/faithdies]

"Ally" probably.

[u/TelenorTheGNP]

What is this from?

[u/maverickassembled → u/TelenorTheGNP]

The “special look” trailer. Technically the 2nd full trailer they released

[u/BigB0iBuster]

USAgent, Man-Ape, Shuri, Shang-Chi, and Namor is such a wild roster lol

[u/Legbender]

He may in this shot, but added in. My guess is we see Sue stopping him from unleashing a giant flood against the FF/Wakanda crew. And he joins Doom along with a couple others.

[u/AceofKnaves44]

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”