AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Synopsis Reveals Doctor Doom's Plan To "Unleash A Cascading Crisis Across The Multiverse"

AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Synopsis Reveals Doctor Doom's Plan To "Unleash A Cascading Crisis Across The Multiverse"

The first official synopsis for Marvel Studios' Avengers: Doomsday has been revealed at the Walt Disney Marketing Expo in Shanghai. We also have a new banner featuring Doom, Spider-Man, and more...

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By MarkCassidy - Sep 13, 2025 02:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Doomsday

This week, we got what appears to be our first official look at the character design for Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom via some promo art, and we now have some more details on the powerful villain's nefarious plans for the MCU thanks to the first synopsis for Avengers: Doomsday.

Unveiled along with a new banner at the Walt Disney Marketing Expo in Shanghai, the logline reads:

"Doctor Doom has officially arrived in the MCU. This villain, a master of cutting-edge science and powerful magic, will unleash a cascading crisis across the entire multiverse."

While this doesn't tell us too much, it does confirm that Doom will utilize magic and technology. As for this "cascading crisis," rumor has it that Victor Von Doom's mission will involve him hunting down those who were responsible for causing the Multiversal incursions, one of which resulted in the deaths of his wife and child.

If this is the case, it sounds like Doom will cause even more damage in his quest for vengeance.

Check out the banner below, along with a new fan-made poster for Doomsday.

Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars were recently hit with significant delays, with Doomsday now set to arrive in theaters on December 18, 2026, and Secret Wars positioned for December 17, 2027.

Both movies will be directed by the Russo brothers, who also make their MCU return after helming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. 

"Being able to create stories and explore characters within the Marvel Universe fulfilled a life-long dream of ours, and we discovered a powerful connection with audiences in each film that we made. We’re thrilled to collaborate once again with Kevin, Lou and the entire Marvel team to bring this epic adventure in storytelling to new and surprising places for both the fans and ourselves”, said The Russos in a statement after the SDCC panel.

You can check out the full (for now) Doomsday cast list below.

• Paul Rudd as Ant-Man

• Simu Liu as Shang-Chi

• Tom Hiddleston as Loki

• Lewis Pullman as Sentry

• Florence Pugh as Yelena

• Danny Ramirez as Falcon

• Ian McKellen as Magneto

• Sebastian Stan as Bucky

• Winston Duke as M’Baku

• Chris Hemsworth as Thor

• Kelsey Grammer as Beast

• James Marsden as Cyclops

• Channing Tatum as Gambit

• Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent

• Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm

• Rebecca Romijn as Mystique

• Patrick Stewart as Professor X

• Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler

• Letitia Wright as Black Panther

• Tenoch Huerta Mejia as Namor

• Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards

• Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost

• Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm

• David Harbour as Red Guardian

• Robert Downey Jr as Doctor Doom

• Ebon Moss-Bachrach as The Thing

• Anthony Mackie as Captain America

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Thing94
Thing94 - 9/13/2025, 2:21 PM
Holy hell is than an official image with the Ultrons and Thanos and Sentinels?
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 9/13/2025, 2:23 PM
@Thing94 - no
Jackraow21
Jackraow21 - 9/13/2025, 2:24 PM
@Thing94 - I wish! It’s fan made.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 9/13/2025, 2:27 PM
@Thing94 - if it is, that's Doom's Avengers
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 9/13/2025, 2:36 PM
@Jackraow21 - damn, that would have been bonkers. I actually still like the evil/dark Avengers, if it's true.
NonPlayerC
NonPlayerC - 9/13/2025, 4:32 PM
@Thing94 - glad you asked, thought it was official there for a sec myself
r0njeremy
r0njeremy - 9/13/2025, 11:20 PM
@Thing94 - his army is led by nimrod and the sentinels and allies is ultron and king thanos??
Mrcool210
Mrcool210 - 9/13/2025, 2:31 PM
I honestly think doom will be pretty well characterized. They know he's been royally [frick]ed at least 2 times (3 if you count the 94 movie) so similar to the fantastic four I feel like getting doom right is one of the biggest priorities with these movies.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/13/2025, 3:09 PM
@Mrcool210 - yeah though I’m interested to see their specific take on Doom and how RDJ portrays the character

Even with all the hubbub around his casting , he’s still the reason for most of my interest/excitement around the film.

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McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/13/2025, 4:17 PM
@Mrcool210 - nah. They're Feige-ifying him. He's misunderstood!
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 9/13/2025, 11:09 PM
@McMurdo - Exactly. I hate it.
JackDeth
JackDeth - 9/13/2025, 11:44 PM
@McMurdo - Awww. Did they ruin your childhood by making THANOS relatable?
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 9/14/2025, 7:04 AM
@JackDeth - I actualy thought the motivation for Thanos in the MCU was better than the comic one regarding the infinity gauntlet, serious flaws in the logic of it as wouldn't take that long for a population to double again but instead of doing it to try and win favour of Lady Death...

...I mean wanting power, domination or some warped idea destruction can help bring ballance are all better film motivations for the GA than trying to impress a chick even if the latter can work well in comics where you have more time to dwell on a growing obsession over a woman who is the living emodimant of Death.
Yellow
Yellow - 9/14/2025, 8:19 AM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - is there anything you guys DON'T hate? lol
JackDeth
JackDeth - 9/14/2025, 1:45 PM
@Apophis71 - I mean, if DEATH is played by Aubrey Plaza, I can get behind that motivation.
JackDeth
JackDeth - 9/14/2025, 1:48 PM
@Yellow - Welcome to CBM. The home of the comic book movie fans who hate comic book movies. lol
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 9/14/2025, 2:06 PM
@JackDeth - VERY true, lol
McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/17/2025, 3:01 PM
@JackDeth - not at all but without Death he's far less compelling.
JackDeth
JackDeth - 9/17/2025, 3:14 PM
@McMurdo - I think his reason makes more sense in the MCU. Trying to impress 'Death' is kind of wacky.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/17/2025, 4:33 PM
@JackDeth - trying to impress death gave Thanos some meat as a true villain. Now he is just another "I did mass murder for good".
JackDeth
JackDeth - 9/17/2025, 4:52 PM
@McMurdo - Well, as a Human in the real world I can say I relate more to MCU Thanos seeing as how I don't believe in a living embodiment of Death and all.
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 9/13/2025, 2:34 PM
I hope they go full comic book and let the Sentinels look like that and hopefully they’re not a big Iron Man suit.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 9/13/2025, 2:38 PM
@WruceBayne - After Galactus I'm pretty sure they will. Feige recently talked about this comicbook accurate thing, when he talked about the X-men
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 9/13/2025, 2:41 PM
@RegularPoochie - I’m all for it. I know we had that promising set photo of that comic accurate Sentinel leg and I hope that it gets better from there.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 9/13/2025, 2:48 PM
@WruceBayne - exactly
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 9/13/2025, 2:52 PM
@WruceBayne - Feige also said in that he wanted comic accurate suits for them in fox-men, but they went with those that we got, so basically p-parody suits
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 9/13/2025, 3:36 PM
@RegularPoochie - Feige didn't have much creative input when working on the Fox films, least not in the early days so not his fault if they didn't go with what he wanted in those. I'm sure he wasn't alone amongst all those working on them that wanted comic accurate but did their job anyway when those with the power to decide opted otherwise. I mean the first one he had about as much power as a political intern str8 out of Uni would in determining government policies. Once he DID start climbing the ladded enough that his voice would have weight we got First Class which was a big improvement on what went before but only so far they can deviate from the prior films when those are supposed to be what they will end up wearing/looking like.

We've mostly had close to comic accurate in the MCU, even if oft more ultimate comics accurate and the like rather than original 616 outfit choices and over time progressively gotten closer and closer to classic 616 looks in the costume dept most the time.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 9/13/2025, 4:32 PM
@Apophis71 - I know, that was my point and now he wants the comic accurate suits in the MCU.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 9/13/2025, 4:34 PM
@Apophis71 - Also the MCU suits are like a mix of normal and ultimate.
StopTheInsanity
StopTheInsanity - 9/13/2025, 9:03 PM
@Apophis71 - It is documented that the biggest creative input Feige had for the Fox X-Men movie was Wolverine's hairstyle.
SpiderParker
SpiderParker - 9/13/2025, 2:37 PM
Marvel will do a better Doomsday than DC.

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DarkeyeZ
DarkeyeZ - 9/13/2025, 2:39 PM
So he will have Science AND Magic? Dope. I was afraid that we were going to get a nerfed Doctor Doom. His last 2 portrayals on screen were....less than Ideal (that is the nicest way I could put it).
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 9/13/2025, 2:42 PM
I thought Doom was trying to save the multiverse. That suggests that he is the cause of the problem.
Vigor
Vigor - 9/13/2025, 3:08 PM
@Bucky74 - sometimes you have to destroy, to fix
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 9/13/2025, 3:42 PM
@Vigor - That was sort already done withThanos
Vigor
Vigor - 9/13/2025, 3:59 PM
@Bucky74 - so was trying to save the universe
McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/13/2025, 4:18 PM
@Bucky74 - it's Thanos 2.0
AnthonyVonGeek
AnthonyVonGeek - 9/13/2025, 2:42 PM
I hope there’s gonna be flashbacks to Dooms past , if not it seems kinda lazy that they’re gonna have Doom show up all powerful not show us his rise to power.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/13/2025, 2:43 PM
The rumor of RDJ’s Doom possibly hunting down people he feels are responsible for the Multiversal incursions which led to the death of his wife and child is interesting…

Victor having a family reminds me of the take in Iron Man:Armored Adventures where he was a member of the Latveria royal family who did an experiment that killed his mother & wife to be while also scarring his face (that version also had no ties to the FF).

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Anyway , I just hope we finally get a truly good or great version of the character since he hasn’t had that in live action even with the controversy around RDJ’s casting…

I’m not a big fan of Julian McMahon’s version of the character from the Tim Story films and the less said about Fant4stic’s version , the better (I do enjoy Joseph Culp’s from the unreleased 1994 film just for his sheer theatricality from the clips I have seen).
epc1122
epc1122 - 9/13/2025, 2:51 PM
@TheVisionary25 - why didn’t you like Julian McMahon version?
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