If, like me, you’ve been staring obsessively at the glitchy numbers at the end of the latest Avengers: Doomsday teaser trailers, you’re not alone. But before our collective tinfoil hats spin off and we disappear into a rabbit hole of rewatching and reinterpreting every past Russo Brothers' Marvel movie, take a breath: the world’s foremost Dr Doom specialist (a real thing) has taken a swing at cracking the mysterious codes Marvel has been drip-feeding fans, and the result is far less cinematic than internet lore would have you believe.
Mark Hibbett, yes, the actual academic with a PhD who’s somehow made “Doctor Doom expertise” a thing (well played), has gone frame-by-frame through the four micro-teasers Marvel has quietly rolled out in cinemas ahead of Avatar: Fire and Ash. Each ends not with a bombastic scene but with a glitchy suffix of letters and digits that have fan forums in meltdown.
