RUMOR: AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY's Wild Opening Scene Revealed; Details On MCU's Take On Doctor Doom - SPOILERS

RUMOR: AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY's Wild Opening Scene Revealed; Details On MCU's Take On Doctor Doom -  SPOILERS

New Avengers: Doomsday rumours claim to reveal the movie's jaw-dropping opening scene. We also have a couple of minor updates about Robert Downey Jr.'s portrayal of Doctor Doom.

By JoshWilding - Jan 25, 2026 09:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Doomsday

Marvel Studios is currently expected to release a traditional teaser trailer for Avengers: Doomsday during next month's Super Bowl on February 8. The hope is that it might finally reveal Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom and clear up what the story is actually about. 

Rumours continue to swirl online, and a few weeks from now, social media's scoopers may either have egg on their face or the opportunity to declare, "Toldja!"

There have been rumblings for a while about Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine interacting in Avengers: Doomsday. Today, a big update comes our way from insider @MyTimeToShineH.

Apparently, the movie will open with Maguire's web-slinger battling the X-Men, "and particularly Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine." This somewhat corroborates claims we've heard about an Incursion destroying Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Universe, and it gives Maguire's Peter Parker a lot to fight for in this movie and Avengers: Secret Wars as he looks to bring back his loved ones. 

This is sure to only increase speculation about Sadie Sink playing Peter #2's stranded daughter in Spider-Man: Brand New Day (Jean Grey still feels like a major misdirect). 

The scooper has also stated, "Avengers: Doomsday is not only the most epic Avengers movie, but it might be the most epic movie OF ALL TIME. The opening scene alone tops any previous Avengers movie, and the final battle is just INSANE." 

Finally, we have a couple of minor Doctor Doom updates for you. It's said that Robert Downey Jr.'s Victor Von Doom will wear his mask for most of Avengers: Doomsday and that he has an accent. Some of you might respond with "no sh*t" to this, but with so many crazy theories about plans for the MCU's Doom—including him being a Tony Stark Variant—this rumour will surely be welcomed.

As always, it's best to take anything like this with a pinch of salt, but until Marvel Studios decides to pull back the curtain on Avengers: Doomsday, claims like these (and the teasers below) are all we have to go on! 




Avengers: Doomsday officially 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, and India Rose Hemsworth 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 trades have pointed to Ryan Reynolds and Hayley Atwell also appearing in Avengers: Doomsday.

The Russo Brothers direct Avengers: Doomsday from a screenplay by Stephen McFeely, with whom they previously collaborated on the Avengers and Captain America franchises. Loki and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness's Michael Waldron is also working on the script.

Avengers: Doomsday is set to be released on December 18, with Avengers: Secret Wars scheduled to arrive on December 17, 2027.

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Rexotron
Rexotron - 1/25/2026, 9:41 AM
So MTTSH pretty much says thr same Campea said. Only with different words. And repeats the Wolverine rumor... Yep. No news here.
Hoot3
Hoot3 - 1/26/2026, 4:52 PM
@Rexotron - MTTSH also said we were getting a Spidey trailer last week. I hate that these types of accounts are getting full articles here...
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 1/25/2026, 9:45 AM
The FOX-Men would destroy Toby's Spider-Man tho? Probably not gonna be the full team I guess
Vigor
Vigor - 1/25/2026, 9:50 AM
@ProfessorWhy - other than op quicksilver, phoenix, and prof X, the foxmen aren't shit compared to their comic counterparts

I dont consider magneto an xmen fyi
OmegaBlack13
OmegaBlack13 - 1/25/2026, 10:00 AM
@Vigor - The movie clearly does consider him a member though lol
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 1/25/2026, 10:23 AM
@Vigor - Tobey is pretty weak compared to his movie and CB counterparts...I think he'd get beat down with any combo of 4 FOX-Men
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 1/25/2026, 10:51 AM
@ProfessorWhy - His Spidey stopped a friggin’ train in Spider-Man 2
CrimsonComet40
CrimsonComet40 - 1/25/2026, 11:20 AM
@ProfessorWhy -

OG 616 Spider-Man could beat the entire team single-handedly. Even Wolverine admitted Spidey made them look like fools in Secret Wars.

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ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 1/25/2026, 11:35 AM
@CrimsonComet40 - yeah that's why I made the distinction
Fogs
Fogs - 1/25/2026, 4:43 PM
@CrimsonComet40 - Yeap. I love that scene btw.

But whoever the writer wants, wins. As Stan Lee himself said.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 1/25/2026, 5:40 PM
@Vigor - 🤔 I've never seen any of the fox-men take a sh1t on a comicbook. Maybe that was in one of the R-rated extended cuts I missed.
Vigor
Vigor - 1/25/2026, 6:03 PM
@lazlodaytona - lmao
Deadinside
Deadinside - 1/26/2026, 11:55 AM
@lazlodaytona -
🤔 I believe that may have been the one that was directed by John Waters...!☮️💩😉
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 1/26/2026, 12:20 PM
@Deadinside - did Amber Heard star in it? If not, then it's utter crap
Deadinside
Deadinside - 1/26/2026, 12:54 PM
@lazlodaytona -
Nah...I heard that it's box office totally sh!t the bed...! ☮️😏
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 1/25/2026, 9:50 AM
That sounds great, but I’d like to see how To y’all Spidey gets to another universe first. Why wouldn’t others escape there too if an incursion caused it? How did it start, and how is a battle going to stop worlds from colliding? I hope they answer all that. And they better now kill Toby’s Spider-Man! That would make the original movies meaningless since he eventually gets taken out anyway.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 1/25/2026, 9:51 AM
@Bucky74 - “The hell” man they need an edit button.
OmegaBlack13
OmegaBlack13 - 1/25/2026, 10:02 AM
@Bucky74 - The way they’ve set up Incursions is so different from the comics, a battle to save one Earth legitimately makes no sense. I’ve always said that if they ever got around to adapting Hickman Avengers (besides the Black Order) they’d never have the balls to have their heroes debate whether or not to blow up planets.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 1/25/2026, 10:49 AM
@OmegaBlack13 - Exactly. Like how does a “fight” stop an incursion? I hope they explain it in a satisfying way.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/25/2026, 5:29 PM
@Bucky74 - If they are going by the comics then one Earth has to be destroyed in order to save the other Earth. A struggle between powered beings from both Earths usually takes place.

So The Cabal have a weapon that can blow up the other Earth and they have to fight that worlds super beings who are trying to stop them from blowing their Earth up.
OmegaBlack13
OmegaBlack13 - 2/2/2026, 8:49 AM
@ObserverIO - Right, but they haven’t really set any of that up. And none of the links have implied such either. I could be wrong of course, but it really seems like the set up for Incursions is just so different.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/2/2026, 5:15 PM
@OmegaBlack13 - That's true, the way they've set it up is all over the place. Hopefully Doomsday goes back to the comics on it.

Will they have the moral debate with the Illuminati? I dunno. On the one hand The Russos and McFeely did Civil War (and even Winter Soldier had some moral grey) but then on the other hand I don't feel like cbms have actually evolved that much when compared to comics storytelling. It still feels pretty simplistic. Even the '60s comics seem more complicated than most cbms, with more mature storytelling.

I think it's more likely that they would skip that whole moral debate and go straight to The Cabal. Or present a watered down popcorn movie version wherein Doom wants the Illuminati (or just a group of superheroes) to blow up Earths and that6's when they realize he's a bad guy.
deamon
deamon - 1/25/2026, 9:52 AM
Daughter of Peter Parker from another worl makes much more sense than Jean Grey in Spider-Man movie.
Even Hope Summers or Rachel Summers would make more sense than Jean Grey.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 1/25/2026, 10:48 AM
@deamon - But why wouldn’t Toby have told his “brothers” in NWH that he had a daughter?
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/25/2026, 5:31 PM
@Bucky74 - not necessarily. He didn't tell them that he had a clone called Ben or that his aunt died either but it happened. In my head canon.
nerdygeek12
nerdygeek12 - 1/25/2026, 10:00 AM
I hope RDJ is bringing out the accent he used for Doolittle and uses it for Doom.
DarthMauve
DarthMauve - 1/25/2026, 11:11 AM
@nerdygeek12 - Dr Doom with a terrible Welsh accent? You bastard, I'm in!
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 1/25/2026, 10:40 AM
Interesting if true…

Perhaps due to Doom’s manipulation or just a misunderstanding , we get Tobey taking on these X-Men variants because both of them feel the other is responsible for the incursion happening between their planets which I could see being the case tbh.

Anyway in regards to the details about RDJ’s Doom , I hope that’s true since I like the sound of it…

Also if he does indeed have an accent then I hope it’s more akin to his Sherlock Holmes than Dr Dolittle!!
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 1/25/2026, 11:22 AM
@TheVisionary25 - Accent wise it shouldn't be either, should be one sounding like it comes from the Banat region of Europe (Romania, Serbia and Hungary based). As in should have the feel of leaning heavily into the main ones from the IRL countries stated plus maybe a dash of Romani/German/Baltic
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 1/25/2026, 12:21 PM
@Apophis71 - oh definitely.

I was just saying moreso in terms of vocal quality and beliavability
HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 1/25/2026, 11:09 AM
I love RDJ but he doesn’t do accents well
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 1/25/2026, 11:24 AM
@HammerLegFoot - He doesn't but as it is a FICTIONAL nationality being bad is less an issue as long as it FEELS vaguely Banat.
LenSpiderman
LenSpiderman - 1/25/2026, 1:30 PM
@HammerLegFoot - true, but Scarlett never used an accent, Olsen dumped hers, Thor, Odin, Loki, and Frigga are Australian, Welsh, British, and American and don’t mask their accents. Cumberbatch’s performance is totally hindered by him trying to hit that American accent. Wakanda is just “what does someone from ‘Africa’ speaking English sound like to you?” Granted, I think the voice does a lot of the heavy lifting with doom because he’s a masked villain, but I’m hopeful Downey can do enough with it to make it work. Or they just Trevor Slattery him and cast an Eastern European actor in the next F4 movie.
Pimpanzee
Pimpanzee - 1/26/2026, 9:16 AM
@HammerLegFoot - He actually does them well, and you're a hick who doesn't know better. Don't believe me? You also don't know better than to suggest he can't do AN ACCENT HE MADE UP well. How the [frick] are you going to judge the authenticity of his made-up Latverian accent? The same way you judged his other ones.
Jackraow21
Jackraow21 - 1/25/2026, 11:42 AM
Oh God yes. Hope for once that MTTSH is right about this!
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 1/25/2026, 12:54 PM
Nonsense. The movie needs to be able to stand on its own. Short of following Peter Parker around for (even) a short bit, the scene doesn't make sense.
Yellow
Yellow - 1/25/2026, 7:55 PM
Oh god stop with trying to shove Maguire into everything, god.
He is the new Henry Cavill.
Twinkie
Twinkie - 1/26/2026, 2:11 AM
itd be really great if rdj was just playing a regular dr doom, no multiverse, no iron man relation. just rdj doing his thing
Pimpanzee
Pimpanzee - 1/26/2026, 9:19 AM
@PerfectOpinions - That is exactly what he's doing (though they may have sacrificed the original connection to Reed Richards).

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