Avengers: Doomsday - How Many Minutes of Screen Time Can Each Avenger Really Get?

If you’re similar me, you’ve spent the past fewer nights incapable to get to sleep, wondering – nay, worrying – astir however directors Joe and Anthony Russo are going to acceptable each 27 announced formed members into Avengers: Doomsday. I mean, that’s a batch of superheroes (and villains and anti-heroes), right?

Well, remainder easy, True Believers. After applying immoderate Basic Math Technique (an existent people I took successful assemblage – and got an “incomplete” in) to this earth-shattering problem, I’m feeling overmuch amended astir things. Hopefully you volition too, arsenic it turns retired that erstwhile compared to immoderate erstwhile Avengers epics, 27 formed members is fundamentally MCU chump change.

Of course, keeping successful caput that the pursuing calculations are estimates (and that Downey, Jr. and Marvel are already teasing that more cast members person yet to beryllium announced), arsenic of close present Doomsday seems to person a limb up arsenic acold arsenic giving its assorted characters clip to bash immoderate existent avenging.

How Long Will Avengers: Doomsday Be?

The movie lone started accumulation this week, truthful there’s nary mode to cognize the reply to this yet. But based connected the past 2 Avengers movies, Infinity War and Endgame, we’re going to presume that Doomsday volition person a moving clip of 2 hours and 45 minutes (2:45). That’s fundamentally splitting the quality betwixt Infinity War’s 2 hours and 29 minutes (2:29) and Endgame’s 3 hours and 1 infinitesimal (3:01).

Next, since some Infinity War and Endgame had astir 12 minutes of closing credits (and a post-credits country successful the former’s case), we’ll trim 12 minutes disconnected of Doomsday’s prospective moving clip arsenic well. That gives america a theoretical magnitude of 2 hours and 33 minutes (2:33) wherever existent radical tin look onscreen.

How Much Screen Time Can 27 Characters Really Get?

More than you mightiness expect arsenic it turns out! If you simply disagreement the magnitude of 2:33 by 27, that means each quality gets connected average, if their clip is dispersed retired evenly, astir 5 minutes and 40 seconds onscreen. (I wonderment what their hourly complaint is?)

By comparison, Infinity War had astir 38 “name” characters, and was a spot shorter than our unreal Doomsday tally time, resulting successful an mean of 3 minutes and 33 seconds per character.

Endgame, meanwhile, was a spot longer, and had a whopping 60 “name” characters (on your left!), resulting successful conscionable 2 minutes and 49 seconds of surface clip per character. On average, of course.

So What Does All This Math Junk Really Mean for Doomsday?

Of course, there’s nary mode each quality is going to get the aforesaid magnitude of dialog oregon close-ups oregon scenes. Robert Downey, Jr.’s Doctor Doom volition astir surely beryllium the astir salient portion of the film, oregon astatine the precise slightest volition instrumentality up the bulk of the surface clip with different “classic” players similar Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson/Captain America and flashy newcomers specified arsenic Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic. And past we besides indispensable see that, you know, actors really interact with 1 different successful scenes, truthful Downey, Jr. could beryllium onscreen with, say, Mackie and Pascal each astatine the aforesaid time, with the 3 sharing their precious minutes.

On the different broadside of the coin, anyone who has seen Endgame’s large last conflict knows that sometimes these Marvel characters amusement up conscionable agelong capable for a chill infinitesimal oregon one-liner, and past a fistful of radical shots. We can’t each beryllium RDJ, you know. So if James Marsden’s Cyclops gets abbreviated shrift yet again successful Doomsday, don’t consciousness excessively atrocious astir it. That seems to beryllium his batch successful beingness successful any universe.

So to comparison things to the erstwhile Avengers films again, let’s look astatine however overmuch existent clip immoderate players had successful Endgame. The folks astatine ScreenRant and elsewhere already did the legwork connected this, truthful beryllium definite to cheque retired each their facts and figures astatine the links.

Avengers: Endgame Screen Time

On the precocious extremity you have:

• Iron Man/Robert Downey, Jr.: 34 minutes and 45 seconds
• Captain America/Chris Evans: 30 minutes and 45 seconds
• Thor/Chris Hemsworth: 21 minutes and 15 seconds

And connected the debased extremity there’s:

• Captain Marvel/Brie Larson: 6 minutes
• Falcon/Anthony Mackie: 4 minutes and 30 seconds
• Doctor Strange/Benedict Cumberbatch: 1 minutes and 15 seconds

The bottommost enactment seems clear: Avengers: Doomsday volition astir apt travel a signifier akin to Endgame. Maybe the players are a small different, but you tin sub successful a Pedro Pascal for a Chris Evans or, connected the different broadside of things, a Hannah John-Kamen (Ghost) for a Gwyneth Paltrow. And with the Russo Bros. backmost successful the MCU to nonstop Doomsday and Secret Wars, aft truthful deftly balancing monolithic casts successful some Infinity War and Endgame (and adjacent Civil War earlier that), the bully quality is we’ve got a filmmaking squad present that person intelligibly proven their mettle connected this front.

Yeah, everything’s gonna enactment retired conscionable good it turns out!