RUMOR: James Marsden's Cyclops Will Wear Jim Lee-Inspired Suit In AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

There's a huge amount of excitement to see Marvel Studios' spin on the X-Men in Avengers: Doomsday, and a new action figure leak suggests we can expect to see James Marsden's Cyclops in blue and yellow...

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By JoshWilding - Aug 02, 2025 11:08 AM EST

Filed Under: Avengers: Doomsday

Despite being titled Avengers: Doomsday, the movie could have just as easily gone by "Avengers vs. X-Men." While that crossover event is likely being saved for the post-Secret Wars MCU, the heroes of Earth 616 and Earth 10005 are expected to clash in the 2026 movie.

That's reportedly set to happen when Doctor Doom manipulates the two superhero teams to go to war with each other, and the result will be a clash fans never imagined would be possible to see on screen.

We're expecting some surprises, but Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler), Kelsey Grammer (Beast), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), James Marsden (Cyclops), and Channing Tatum (Gambit) are currently the confirmed X-Men for Avengers: Doomsday.

According to Displaying Model Behaviour, several members of the mutant team will get their own Marvel Legends action figures (you can find a full list here).

The YouTuber has also revealed that the Cyclops figure will be decked out in a blue and yellow suit based on Jim Lee's classic design. There have been rumblings for a while about the heroes donning comic-accurate costumes, and it seems the Russo Brothers are pulling from those, X-Men '97, and what we saw in Deadpool & Wolverine.

This does raise the question of what the MCU's new X-Men will wear in Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier's planned reboot. The Astonishing X-Men costumes remain hugely popular, though we could end up with the classic "First Class" suits, too.

"Without going into detail, I was a fan," the filmmaker recently told The Playlist. "X-Men has inherently complex, interesting characters and internal conflict. Being able to explore that material at the scale it deserves is a rare and exciting opportunity."

Are you excited to finally see Marsden don Scott Summers' most iconic costume in Avengers: Doomsday? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section.

Avengers: Doomsday stars 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, Florence Pugh, Danny Ramirez, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, and Lewis Pullman all make the Avengers franchise debuts in the movie.

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, and Deadpool & Wolverine star Channing Tatum.

The Russo Brothers direct the movie from a script by Stephen McFeely, with whom they previously collaborated on the Captain America and Avengers franchises.

Avengers: Doomsday is set to be released on December 18, 2026, with Avengers: Secret Wars scheduled to arrive on December 17, 2027.

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Shmokey20 - 8/2/2025, 11:37 AM

Sweet

vectorsigma - 8/2/2025, 11:41 AM

After ALL 3 films underperforming this year, Marvel has nothing going for it but comic acurate somethings, cameos and nostalgia.

I enjoyed Thunderbolts and F4. Too bad

bobevanz - 8/2/2025, 11:52 AM

@vectorsigma - I enjoyed all three. Too bad

bobevanz - 8/2/2025, 11:52 AM

And there's 4 btw

gambgel - 8/2/2025, 11:53 AM

@vectorsigma - And why are you guys using the word nostalgia as that is a bad thing?

People just want familiar faces, not constant new versions, another version, a reboot, another reboot, another reboot.

Fans keep saying "nostalgia this, nostalgia that"....... yiiiikes, lol

epc1122 - 8/2/2025, 11:55 AM

@vectorsigma - I’m not sure if thunderbolts would be considered an under performer. I think it did ok for a bunch of no names. Superman did ok domestically and would say ff4 def underperformed. Was there a third marvel movie you were referring to? I for one can’t wait to see a more Jim Lee comic accurate cyclops! Thought we were you going to see that in Wolverine and Deadpool. I’m sure it’ll be worth the wait!

mountainman - 8/2/2025, 11:56 AM

@vectorsigma - The three highest performing MCU movies post Endgame - No Way Home, D&W, and Dr Strange 2, all relied on nostalgia casting. We can all decry this as much as we want, but the message is clear that this is what the GA wants.

It’s unfortunate, but it’s the reality. Doomsday and Secret Wars will lean hard into this, which is more or less fine given that they are the Multiverse close outs. But after Secret Wars? That will be when this gets really interesting.

epc1122 - 8/2/2025, 11:57 AM

@vectorsigma - my mistake, I think you were referring to captain America. I still stand by thunderbolts but ingiddd 2/3 underperformed 👍

mountainman - 8/2/2025, 11:58 AM

@epc1122 - Neither Thunderbolts nor Brave New World turned a profit. That is underperformance. Any movie that doesn’t make money is an underperformer. Too early to tell with FF, but the 2nd weekend drop isn’t looking good.

$400 million isn’t a bad number, but with the budgets so high, it isn’t enough.

ObserverIO - 8/2/2025, 11:59 AM

@bobevanz - including Superman?

BigPhilbowski - 8/2/2025, 12:14 PM

@mountainman - 400 is FF breaking even. Anything after that is profit. And thunderbolts did make a profit. 180m budget plus and additional 100m for marketing. It made 380. At least 100m of a profit

mountainman - 8/2/2025, 12:18 PM

@BigPhilbowski - A movie needs to make double the budget plus marketing costs to profit, since theaters take approximately a 50% cut. According to the publicly available numbers, neither Brave New World nor Thunderbolts turned a profit.

epc1122 - 8/2/2025, 12:21 PM

@mountainman - I’ll take it your right but I’m not sure what the budgets or totals were for those movies and I’m too tired to look it up. I know the totals were low and I’m not sure if they made anything in digital sales to say it didn’t make any profit but it is what it is. 👍

vectorsigma - 8/2/2025, 1:03 PM

@gambgel - because it is a big cop out. No heavy lifting needed.

Your movies flop? Bring nostalgia in.

vectorsigma - 8/2/2025, 1:08 PM

@mountainman - yeah, unfortunately. I also enjoy nostalgia but it tends to make the studios lazy and be less creative imo.

For example, Gunn didnt need it for gotg3 and it was successful as well. The GA will be there if the story is well thought out.

And i agree that after SW it will be interesting. Im hoping for a full reboot though. Woyldve preferred they start the reboot with the xmen but with rumors (schrier as director) swirling around now, it seems to be not the case

vectorsigma - 8/2/2025, 1:12 PM

@epc1122 - yeah cap 4.

For thunderbolts, its budget is 180M and BO is 380+M maybe just a break even but marvel will not be happy im sure 😅

BigPhilbowski - 8/2/2025, 1:16 PM

@mountainman - that 50% number is plucked from thin air. Sure it can go as high as that, 45% to be more accurate but that's only with movies that are still performing really well after multiple weeks. For most movies it starts between 10 and 20% and the percentage they keep rises based on how well it does. Another thing most people never factor in is merch. That also adds to the movies profitability. By all available numbers thunderbolts made a profit. Everything else is just speculation.

gambgel - 8/2/2025, 1:18 PM

@vectorsigma - Feige had the Secret Wars idea since many years ago, lol.

The moment Disney bought Fox, Feige had all the characters to do this big event. Thats why they brought Patrick, Kelsey and Hugh back before these events. It was all leading to Secret Wars, with all the familiar actors from all franchises people know and love.

vectorsigma - 8/2/2025, 1:25 PM

@gambgel - it'smone thing to have an idea and another to execute it.

If the studio knows that the general audience will consume a slippy film full of nostalgia, they will be lazy and be less creative.

For example, the rwtionale of nwh why the muktiverse shenanigans happened was dumb, it needed both strange and peter to be stupud at tur same time and it wasnt convincing.

But hey, at least we see tobey and andrew back, it doesnt matter. So we got 1B.

That's how lazy studios tend to get when nostalgia is in play imo

Comicmoviejunki - 8/2/2025, 2:39 PM

@vectorsigma - I enjoyed all three. Too bad

bobevanz - 8/2/2025, 11:51 AM

This better happen or it's a waste of time

Malatrova15 - 8/2/2025, 11:55 AM

Just get back Jonatan Majors

hue66 - 8/2/2025, 11:58 AM

Without the yellow underwear I hope

DannyBrandy20 - 8/2/2025, 12:15 PM

@hue66 - James Gunn ain't directing it

Bucky74 - 8/2/2025, 12:04 PM

Excellent! Now tag Jackman in there. You can’t have a proper X Men Vs Fantastic Four without Wolverine

gambgel - 8/2/2025, 1:20 PM

@Bucky74 - Wolverine, Storm and Jean. They four are the core X-Men after all, and the ones that started the franchise in year 2000. So all of them should be here together, with the later recruits.

Oberlin4Prez - 8/2/2025, 12:07 PM

Aren't there peaked set photos of this already or were those fake?

ObserverIO - 8/2/2025, 12:12 PM

I don't know if anyone's picked up on this, but the leak for the Doomsday figures specifies James Marsden for Cyclops and Anthony Mackie for Captain America.
What's so interesting about that? Well they don't specify Kelsey Grammar for Beast or Alan Cumming for Nightcrawler or Rebecca Romijn for Mystique so why specify the specific actors for both Cyclops and Cap?

Answer: Because there is more than one actor playing both Cyclops and Captain America.

Now with Cyclops that's not big news. It could mean either Tye Sheriden or a sneak peek at the new Cyclops from the post-Secret Wars reboot.
But for Captain America that probably means Steve Rogers (whether Chris Evans or a multiversal variant like the 1990 Cap).

But it does all but confirm Steve Rogers will be in Doomsday.

MouthyMerc - 8/2/2025, 12:15 PM

Why are we wasting the suit on James Marsden? What the hell is the reboot Cyclops gonna wear? I figured the X-Men reboot would have the classic suits.

DannyBrandy20 - 8/2/2025, 12:18 PM

@MouthyMerc - MCU X-Men not going to look anything special cos they're going to do all the good stuff with FoX-Men characters.

0bstreperous - 8/2/2025, 12:25 PM

@MouthyMerc - they gave a Jim Lee inspired suit to the young cyclops in X-Men apocalypse for 2 seconds

lazlodaytona - 8/2/2025, 1:53 PM

@MouthyMerc -
Marsden deserves to be seen in Cyclops's comic accurate suit and to be given a chance at redemption from the pathetically bad Fox-Men take.

MCUKnight11 - 8/2/2025, 2:16 PM

@lazlodaytona - Um, what exactly did he do to deserve that suit?

LenSpiderman - 8/2/2025, 2:44 PM

@MouthyMerc - cyclops has a few iconic costumes, but if they are truly planning on doing an original lineup with younger actors (which they should have done with first class but whatever) they’ll probably just give their cyclops a version of the original lineup’s unis and let it develop from there. If they want to avoid rehashing the yellow gun holster strap and pouches look that they gave Sheridan (but Sheridan’s was worse than CW quality) and now supposedly will give marsden, they can evolve to any number of his comic suits. As long as he has the visor, we’ll know who he is.

ModHaterSLADE - 8/2/2025, 12:18 PM

FINALLY!

TheVisionary25 - 8/2/2025, 1:11 PM

Not surprised with Marsden wearing that outfit since I expect most if not all the X-Men characters to wear those ones in the movie…

Also given that we have seen destroyed Sentinels in the front yard of presumably the X-Men mansion , I wonder if the ones announced are genuinely the last remaining survivors of the team in that universe?.

Ha1frican - 8/2/2025, 1:17 PM

Gimme all those straps and pouches.

lazlodaytona - 8/2/2025, 1:55 PM

@Ha1frican - crotch-pouches!

dragon316 - 8/2/2025, 1:18 PM

Costume will look weird with yellow underwear over blue costume maybe laughable they did it good wolverine maybe cyclops to

RUMOR: James Marsden's Cyclops Will Wear Jim Lee-Inspired Suit In AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

There's a huge amount of excitement to see Marvel Studios' spin on the X-Men in Avengers: Doomsday, and a new action figure leak suggests we can expect to see James Marsden's Cyclops in blue and yellow...

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