Marvel Fans Are Convinced They've Found An AVENGERS VS. X-MEN Tease In The AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Cast Reveal

Marvel Fans Are Convinced They've Found An AVENGERS VS. X-MEN Tease In The AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Cast Reveal

Following the news that Avengers: Doomsday will feature several actors from the X-Men franchise, many fans are convinced they've discovered a nod to Avengers vs. X-Men in one of the reveal photos...

By JoshWilding - Mar 28, 2025 09:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Doomsday

This week's Avengers: Doomsday cast reveal confirmed that the X-Men will play a key role in the upcoming movie. We've suspected this might be the plan for a while, particularly as Kevin Feige got his start working as an associate producer on 2000's X-Men

So far, X-Men franchise stars Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), James Marsden (Cyclops), and Kelsey Grammer (Beast), alongside Deadpool & Wolverine's Channing Tatum (Gambit), have all joined the movie, with more expected to follow. 

Rumour has it an Incursion will see Earth-616's Mightiest Heroes forced to battle the X-Men, essentially meaning we're getting an Avengers vs. X-Men movie featuring the most iconic actors to have filled those roles.

The question is, has Marvel Studios already teased the prospect of those teams doing battle next year? 

As you can see below, many fans are convinced they've spotted a shadow in a photo that followed the live stream which creates an "A" and an "X" sitting on top of each other. If it sounds like a stretch, then you may want to cast your minds back to Avengers: Endgame

Before that movie's title was revealed, the Russo Brothers shared a social media post with a behind-the-scenes image and told fans to "look hard." Eventually, people figured out that various items on set spelled out "E-N-D-G-A-M-E."

During a recent interview, Joe Russo explained what brought him and Anthony back to the MCU. "What's compelling about these two new Avengers movies is they're a beginning," he revealed. "It's a new beginning. We told an ending story, now we're going to tell a beginning story."

That was quite the revelation, but it lined up with what we've heard about Avengers: Secret Wars softly rebooting the MCU and creating a new Sacred Timeline the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and X-Men all call home. 

As for what their Marvel Studios future looks like beyond that, Joe said, "Who knows where we'll go from there? Maybe it will be another five years. I think we just needed that time and perspective to figure out where it needed to go next and the only thing that brought us back was the right story." Rumours persist that the Russos will direct the eventual X-Men reboot. 

Avengers: Doomsday is set to be released in May 2026, with Avengers: Secret Wars scheduled to arrive in May 2027. 

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TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/28/2025, 9:22 AM
Man , it doesn’t take much to convince us Marvel fans of anything lol…

It’s likely just a shadow because that’s what happens when you shine a light on chairs shaped like that.
RedFury
RedFury - 3/28/2025, 9:28 AM
@TheVisionary25 - if it is in fact an Avengers vs. X-Men tease, whomever thought that up is an actual lighting wizard!

Likely just a shadow though hahah
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 3/28/2025, 11:04 AM
@TheVisionary25 - RDJ’s legs are crossed, making an X and that’s confirmation that Doom has the “X” gene, HE’s a Mutant! 🤯
But in all seriousness, that chair shadow is just a shadow.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/28/2025, 9:24 AM
And that confirms AvX? That's reaching. We might see the teams having a small misunderstanding, but no way we're getting an Avengers vs. X-Men adaptation.
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 3/28/2025, 9:27 AM
@bkmeijer1 - I’m expecting it to be similar to Civil Wars smallest & shortest war in MCU history.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/28/2025, 9:35 AM
@bkmeijer1 - agreed

Also I don’t really want to see that tbh.
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 3/28/2025, 9:37 AM
@bkmeijer1 - agreed you. it's kinda cool i guess, but no way its full-on Avengers vs Xmen. Plus the Avengers would get housed with that pathetic lineup. Anyways, im expecting them to have a small confrontation with each other before realizing that incursions are happening and Doom is either behind it all or pulling the strings behind the scenes making them want to fight each other for his benefit
TGDestroyer
TGDestroyer - 3/28/2025, 9:41 AM
@bkmeijer1 - The only question I have had thus far is if Tatum is reprising his role as D&W cajun or if it's that universe's version and part of that team. The D&W credits did say Gambit would return though.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/28/2025, 10:33 AM
@MotherGooseUPus - that's what I'm guessing as well. Think it'll be similar to the Tong, Strange & Spider-Man and the Guardians meeting on the Q-Ship in Infinity War.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/28/2025, 10:35 AM
@TGDestroyer - I'm kinda hoping the Doomsday X-Men are actually the '97 X-Men finally making the jump to live-action. Then he would be a different Gambit.

No way that's happening though. I bet it's just the X-Men team from the Days of Future Past ending, with D&W's Gambit dropped in that reality to join them.
TGDestroyer
TGDestroyer - 3/28/2025, 10:40 AM
@bkmeijer1 - Me too, but you never know. I know they were playing with the idea of animated characters in live action for a time, according to alleged reports, but that's a rabbit hole they don't want to go down I think.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/28/2025, 10:48 AM
@TGDestroyer - I think thewent down that hole by putting Storm in What If without explanation. Granted, that wasn't live-action though.

I don't put it besides Marvel though. We saw an animated series inspired in Multiverse of Madness, and they keep playing that theme everywhere too.
TGDestroyer
TGDestroyer - 3/28/2025, 11:03 AM
@bkmeijer1 - hahaha, that they do
StSteven
StSteven - 3/28/2025, 8:03 PM
@bkmeijer1 @slickrickdesigns @TheVisionary25 @MotherGooseUPus - Yeah, I agree with y'all. The reason that "CA:CW" was a watered down version of the comics Civil War is because they didn't have the rights to all the characters, so they decided to make the story more about Steve, Tony, and Bucky (which was fine in my opinion).

But now that they have the rights to pretty much all the characters, so they don't to do a half-assed version of "AvX" just to shoehorn it into "A:DD" and/or "A:SW", so I really don't think that they're going to do that. I think that Feige knows how big an actual "AvX" movie could be, and would likely make for a great Avengers/X-Men movie somewhere during the Mutant Saga (with presumably the new MCU X-Men vs. whatever iteration of the Avengers is happening at that time).

So I agree with you guys that there will likely be an initial confrontation between our current roster of Avengers and the Fox-Men due to an incursion between their respective universes, but they will ultimately resolve it and team up against Doom, only to have the movie end on a cliffhanger where they discover that Doom has caused all kinds of incursion resulting in Battleworld leading into "A:SW". Or something like that.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/29/2025, 4:44 AM
@StSteven - I think the actual AvX can easily function as the two-part finale of the Mutant Saga (or Phoenix Saga if they wanna call it that).

As for Doomsday, I don't think it's gonna be Doom causing incursions. Rather, he's just destroying universes to prevent the multiverse incursion, resulting in him taking only the necessary bits to form Battleworld
StSteven
StSteven - 3/30/2025, 1:51 AM
@bkmeijer1 - To your first point, I can easily see that as how they could go, with villains like Sinister and such being the big bads of the phases of the "Mutant Saga" (or whatever), but planting the seeds for a proper AvX as the conclusion of the saga, as you say. My guess is that after whatever happens in "A:DD" and "A:SW" the resulting Avengers and X-Men teams will shake hands and walk away, with the Avengers doing their own thing and the X-Men doing their own (similar to how it woks in the comics), but I do think that they will start laying the seeds for an eventual AvX, which will probably be similar to the comics, with it being about the Phoenix Force.

I honestly don't think that at this point they're going to go down the road of Jean Grey/Phoenix/Dark Phoenix any time soon (or possibly at all considering it's been done twice already), so I could see it being handled like how it was in AvX. But that would be after phases involving possibly different storylines such as Inferno, X-Tinction Agenda, etc.

Regarding "A:DD", I dunno. I definitely think that Doom will be introduced in "FF:FS" in some capacity, and I think it's possible that the movie will end with their universe having an incursion with another, resulting in both universes ending up in chunks as the FF and Doom escaping to the 616 universe, possibly sparking the idea in Doom that when incursions happen universes collide and if someone had the power they could take those remaining pieces and use them as building blocks to build their own, "perfect" universe, which I think is kinda what you're saying.

But then the real question is if Doom is going to sit by and wait for incursions to happen, OR to figure out how to make them happen, basically speeding up the inevitable (sound like "DP&W"?), so that he can collect the pieces he needs to create his "perfect" universe, i.e., the new Sacred Timeline. I tend to think that Doom is more of a "F**k it, I'll do it myself." kinda guy, but where he would get the power to be able to do that would be interesting. Maybe that's where they tie it into the Kangs, specifically the Conqurer who got sucked into his machine, essentially making him the Beyonder (similar to the recent "A:KD" story leaks).

Anyhow, I'm just reaching here, but overall, it seems slightly feasible that perhaps a very small amount of what I just laid out could possibly work it's way into either of those movies, so time to report everything that I just said as a "rumor from a reliable source" 😉.

bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/30/2025, 2:16 AM
@StSteven - yeah, that's how they could go about it. With both AvX and Doomsday. Not exactly how I envision it, but both how you describe to work really well I think
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 3/28/2025, 9:25 AM
I’d dismiss this as something for any other project but I also would like to believe this was an intentional subliminal message constructed by the creative marketing team at Marvel.
But most likely was just lighting the scene without thought of an X and A shadow.
AnEye
AnEye - 3/28/2025, 9:27 AM
Looks more like an hourglass honestly lol.

But honestly saying this is a "secret" is pointless. They are going to fight. It's very obvious.
TGDestroyer
TGDestroyer - 3/28/2025, 9:45 AM
@AnEye - I hope it isn't rushed though it potentially feels that way. It gives of BvS vibes in that regard. But the Fox class isn't getting any younger. It should be cool to see Ian flex as Magneto in the MCU proper though.
AnEye
AnEye - 3/28/2025, 9:53 AM
@TGDestroyer - I just don't see them trusting each other at first. Iron Man & Thor didn't even know each other and they went straight into fight mode.

Either way though, I think now is a good time to do a scene with Avengers fighting the X-Men. Especially if it's the Fox X-Men.
TGDestroyer
TGDestroyer - 3/28/2025, 10:06 AM
@AnEye - Agreed. They'll go back to formula and them be at odds before finding common ground and going after the big bad. I'm looking forward to seeing it unfold regardless. Especially if they let Marsden's Scott and company cut loose like it's X'97.
AnEye
AnEye - 3/28/2025, 10:09 AM
@TGDestroyer - Yeah I think that's what may happen, but I also think someone will screw it up for everyone which will lead to Secret Wars.

Similar to Star-Lord in Infinity War. But I think it may be more as a betrayal than someone getting the emotions get the best of them. Maybe Magneto goes his own way.
TGDestroyer
TGDestroyer - 3/28/2025, 10:16 AM
@AnEye - That was my first thought, Magento, also when you mentioned it. I hope not, but elements do tend to get recycled so I wouldn't care as long as they pull it off. I wish they'd found an excuse to bring McAvoy and Fassbender, but I have no problem with the OG's. Definitely Romijn over JLaw. She was less Mystique and more Misty.
AnEye
AnEye - 3/28/2025, 10:20 AM
@TGDestroyer - Yeah I think it can work, just depends how they do pull it off. But I do sense someone will betray them and make them lose. Hell it could even be Doctor Strange. Maybe Doom is Sorcerer Supreme.

Yes to McAvoy and Fassbender. Especially Fassbender. But yeah I'm excited because the OG's will get the shot to portray the comic characters they should of in 2000 rather than a watered down version of them. Which I'm hoping we see more of Cyclops try to be a leader and not just "Yeah I shoot laser beams!"
TGDestroyer
TGDestroyer - 3/28/2025, 10:34 AM
@AnEye - I forgot about Strange, it'll likely be him given the comics. Well assuming they choose to follow that part, but I could see him break bad for the greater good. I hope they learn their lesson and don't give us the 2000s Scott and Logan dynamic, not too much anyway. Scott, like an Ororo, needs to be showcased for the boss he is.
Vigor
Vigor - 3/28/2025, 9:32 AM
Monica will be the mediator
Chavez will be the messenger
Sentry will be "the problem" for both universes
TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 3/28/2025, 11:10 AM
@Vigor - That sounds about right. The fact Grammer's chair was far from the other X-Men makes me think it's the Beast that was in the Marvels. Not sure why Parris didn't get a chair, but she probably will play a big part.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 3/28/2025, 9:35 AM
It could be Avengers vs. X-Men vs. Alien vs. Predator vs. Planet of the Apes vs. Avatar vs. Star Wars.

Disney has purposefully screwed us over so many times this should still be boycotted.
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 3/28/2025, 9:45 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - User Comment Image

this was almost the first comment i actually fully agreed with you on... until that last sentence when you went and f*cked it all up for no reason
TGDestroyer
TGDestroyer - 3/28/2025, 9:47 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - People aren't disciplined enough to boycott anything these days I think. It'll be good, mid, or just bad imo.
Rpendo
Rpendo - 3/28/2025, 9:50 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - alright, killer. We’ll sll go see it, and you can stay home and continue to whine like an entitled twelve year old.

We’ll let you know how it is.
NateBest
NateBest - 3/28/2025, 10:30 AM
@JayLemle - A quick reminder to keep your comments respectful. Insulting other users by calling them names is actually goes against the community guidelines. Thanks!
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 3/28/2025, 9:46 AM
milk it like it's your third nipple


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supermanrex
supermanrex - 3/28/2025, 10:05 AM
people pushing this avengers vs x men are going to be disappointed. the most they will probably do is the obligatory first meeting scuffle then they team up against doom when they realize the misunderstanding. then people will be pissed they didn't fight the whole movie.
AnEye
AnEye - 3/28/2025, 10:10 AM
@supermanrex - That's honestly what I am expecting. An obligatory scuffle like Iron Man vs Thor or the Civil War fight
gambgel
gambgel - 3/28/2025, 10:34 AM
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this is f**** clever. Yeah, thats done in purpose, its not a realistic shadow of that chair, so clearly done by marvel crew.
JacobsLadder
JacobsLadder - 3/28/2025, 10:43 AM
@gambgel - agree. that's intentional.
ARegularCrab
ARegularCrab - 3/28/2025, 10:40 AM
Massive reach.

It's a shadow, there's a light behind the chair 🤦‍♂️

Pretty sure they'd save that tease for when we have an actual team of Avengers or X-men in the mainline MCU.
gambgel
gambgel - 3/28/2025, 11:24 AM
@ARegularCrab - you clearly have no idea about photography and lighting lol.

The real shadow of the chair goes to the center of the pic, and the real shadow of the chair IS on the pic too, like the rest of the chairs, loook closely.

This is an edited shadow with two letters. The chair doesnt have an A shape, you know? lol.
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