MCU Rumor Roundup: X-Men Reboot Eyes Avatar Actor For Cyclops, Magneto's Avengers: Doomsday Role - Spoilers

MCU Rumor Roundup: X-Men Reboot Eyes Avatar Actor For Cyclops, Magneto's Avengers: Doomsday Role - Spoilers

In our latest MCU rumor roundup, we have updates on Marvel Studios' X-Men reboot, plans for Magneto and Deadpool in the next Avengers movies, and a "shocking" Spider-Man development.

By JoshWilding - Jun 25, 2026 11:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Doomsday

Much has been said about Avengers: Doomsday's supposed opening scene. Apparently, it will feature an Incursion between Earth-10005 and the world that Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man calls home, with Deadpool and Wolverine tasked with destroying Peter Parker's reality so theirs can live.

It doesn't sound overly heroic, but we saw the Illuminati do the same thing in the pages of New Avengers. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and it seems the Master of Magnetism will be there to lend them a helping hand.

According to insider @MyTimeToShineH, Magneto is part of the opening battle, implying that Spider-Man will have to hold his own against Deadpool, Wolverine, and the former villain. Could this be the destruction of New Jersey Ian McKellen has repeatedly teased?

The scooper is also reporting that the reason Thor was crying over the downed Deadpool is being saved for Avengers: Secret Wars. Meanwhile, @Cryptic4KQual has said, "You might see different colored incursions in Doomsday, like in the comics." In those, the sky would turn red or blue as two realities collided.

Over to Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and the prolific runtime and trailer leaker has strongly hinted that Spider-Man and The Punisher will team up to battle The Hulk. That's not hugely surprising, but what is, is that the web-slinger will use one of The Shocker's gauntlets to help them fend off the rampaging Jade Giant. 

Finally, we end with an X-Men reboot update. @MyTimeToShineH has said that Avatar franchise star Jack Champion is indeed being considered for the role of Cyclops in Jake Schreier's movie. 

This isn't the first time we've heard this, and we even asked Champion about it last June. "It’s, uh, definitely news to me," the Avatar: Fire and Ash star told us. "I mean, I don’t…I hope it comes true, you know. I would definitely love to play that character, but…rumours [shrugs]."

In Avengers: Doomsday, beloved heroes from three distinct universes will be set on a deadly collision course and face an existential threat unlike anything they’ve ever encountered.

Avengers: Doomsday stars Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie, Winston Duke, Tom Hiddleston, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, and Robert Downey Jr. Wyatt Russell, Simu Liu, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Mabel Cadena, Florence Pugh, Danny Ramirez, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, Lewis Pullman, India Rose Hemsworth, and Wesley Holloway all make their Avengers franchise debuts.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps leads Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn join them, as do X-Men franchise stars Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, with Deadpool & Wolverine star Channing Tatum. 

The Russo Brothers direct Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars from a screenplay by Stephen McFeely, with whom they previously collaborated on the Avengers and Captain America franchises. The movie is produced by Kevin Feige, Louis D'Esposito, and Jonathan Schwartz, with Callum McDougall serving as executive producer.

Avengers: Doomsday is set to be released on December 18.

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harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 6/25/2026, 11:37 AM
eye blame James gun's super girl for this
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HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 6/25/2026, 11:40 AM
"You might see different colored incursions in Doomsday, like in the comics"

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harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 6/25/2026, 11:43 AM
@HashTagSwagg - is there a white storm in that universe?
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HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 6/25/2026, 11:46 AM
@harryba11zack -

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Dcmarvel2025
Dcmarvel2025 - 6/25/2026, 11:51 AM
Only one actor has the range, the look and the charisma to play Scott/Cyclops Danny McBride, he's the perfect choice
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 6/25/2026, 11:54 AM
@Dcmarvel2025 - nah, he's already bee playing iron man
plus hes white
Dcmarvel2025
Dcmarvel2025 - 6/25/2026, 11:56 AM
@harryba11zack - omg why bring race into this??? Danny McBride is a great actor and looks the part, no need to use race dude, spreading positivity to all
PNW23
PNW23 - 6/25/2026, 11:55 AM
“MTTSH” so it’s just throwing shit at the wall. Got it
Matchesz
Matchesz - 6/25/2026, 12:02 PM
Jack Champion is definitely one of the actors around these days that's for sure
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 6/25/2026, 12:10 PM
I haven’t seen the Avatar films since the first one (which I didn’t really care for) but Jack Champion was in Scream 6 which I thought he was fine in…

Honestly looks wise , he seems more like a Bobby Drake/Iceman to me than Scott Summers/Cyclops.

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However if true and he is cast as Scott , I would then be certainly willing to give him a shot in the role!!.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 6/25/2026, 12:19 PM
I'm starting to wonder if a bunch of these rumors come from multiple iterations of a script. Wrong more often than not. Starting the movie out with Spider-Man fighting them, and then Magneto fighting the other people is stupid. It's stupid.... say it with me.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 6/25/2026, 12:20 PM
I petition for pictures of the actors in said article.
Dobler
Dobler - 6/25/2026, 12:31 PM
Jack Champion was also the kid on the bike in Endgame who gave Paul Rudd the dirty/confused look when he question where everyone was.
LenSpiderman
LenSpiderman - 6/25/2026, 12:37 PM
@Dobler - it’s all connected…
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 6/25/2026, 1:00 PM
@Dobler - oh man , that was him

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Now we know where Scott’s beef with the Avengers could start lol
Dcmarvel2025
Dcmarvel2025 - 6/25/2026, 12:40 PM
The Sorrow of Detonatus
Before the world knew him as Detonatus, the man with the power of explosive diarrhea, he was simply a boy named Oliver Finch.
Oliver was born during a thunderstorm in a tiny coastal village. The doctor who delivered him died moments later when the hospital roof collapsed. His mother spent her last breath naming him. His father, a fisherman, vanished at sea before ever seeing his son's face.
Raised by his grandmother, Oliver grew up kind, hopeful, and impossibly unlucky. Every stray dog he adopted passed away. Every friend he made moved away. Every birthday cake somehow ended up on the floor before he could blow out the candles.
Yet he endured.
At seventeen, he met the love of his life, Clara. They spent years dreaming of a future together: a small house, a garden, perhaps children. On the day Oliver planned to propose, a freak meteor struck the café where they were supposed to meet.
Clara survived.
Oliver did not make it there in time.
For years he blamed himself.
Seeking purpose, he became a humanitarian aid worker, traveling to disaster zones and helping strangers rebuild their lives. People called him "the man who could find hope anywhere."
Then came the accident.
While delivering supplies to a secret research facility, Oliver was exposed to an experimental particle reactor, twelve unstable chemicals, and a genetically modified probiotic yogurt that had been banned in forty-three countries.
The explosion should have killed him.
Instead, it transformed him.
For three days he lay unconscious.
On the fourth day, he awoke in a hospital bed and accidentally unleashed a blast from his bowels so powerful that it shattered windows three blocks away, launched an ambulance into a river, and altered local weather patterns.
The doctors fled.
The government classified him as a biological catastrophe.
His grandmother, the last family he had, died before he could explain what had happened.
The world laughed.
News channels mocked him.
Children pointed and giggled.
Villains didn't fear him—they made fart noises whenever he appeared.
Yet every time disaster struck, Oliver showed up.
When meteors fell from the sky, he propelled them off course.
When alien warships invaded, he rocketed into orbit using forces no physicist could explain.
When a volcano threatened a city, he redirected the lava flow through an act historians would later describe only as "deeply unfortunate."
He saved millions.
Nobody took him seriously.
Statues were never built.
Songs were never sung.
The only thing the public remembered was the smell.
One winter evening, after saving the world for the hundredth time, Oliver stood alone atop a skyscraper overlooking the city.
Below him, families laughed together.
Couples walked hand in hand.
Life continued because of sacrifices nobody knew he had made.
A child looked up, recognized him, and shouted:
"Hey! Poop Man!"
The crowd erupted in laughter.
Oliver smiled anyway.
Not because it didn't hurt.
Because after a lifetime of losing everything, he had learned that being a hero was never about recognition.
It was about carrying the burden no one else could.
A single tear rolled down his cheek.
Then a pigeon hit him in the face.
And somewhere in the distance, a toilet flushed ominously.
Duty called once more.
The saddest part isn't the power. It's that he genuinely became one of Earth's greatest heroes, and history still remembers him as "Poop Man."

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