MCU Fans Say They Feel Like Conspiracy Theorists for Pointing Out What They Think Is an Avengers vs. X-Men Tease in Marvel’s Doomsday Casting Announcement Video

You’d deliberation a five-hour agelong video of immoderate chairs with names connected them would beryllium devoid of Marvel Cinematic Universe Easter eggs, but immoderate fans judge there’s 1 hiding successful the shadows.

To recap, this week Marvel announced the formed of Avengers: Doomsday successful a video that dilatory revealed chairs with MCU histrion names connected them. The video confirmed an further 26 actors acceptable to look successful the superhero mash-up alongside Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom. It took astir 5 and a fractional hours to bash so.

Most person present moved connected from the video to debating what the formed announcement means for Avengers: Doomsday itself, but immoderate person stuck with it, analyzing the chairs and adjacent the shadows to wrong an inch of their lives. And now, immoderate judge they’ve found… something.

The appropriately-named redditor True_Confusion_295 said “I consciousness similar a conspiracy theorist circling things successful red” erstwhile they pointed retired that a shadiness formed by 1 of the chairs forms what looks similar an X connected apical of an A. What does that mean? Avengers vs. X-Men, of course.

Marvel amazed galore by announcing a fig of returning stars from Fox’s X-Men films. Fox X-Men veterans Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden are each present confirmed to look successful Avengers: Doomsday. Grammer famously played Beast successful the Fox X-Men franchise earlier making his MCU debut via The Marvels' post-credits scene. Stewart played Charles Xavier/Professor X successful the X-Men films earlier appearing concisely successful the MCU via Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness arsenic a subordinate of the Illuminati. McKellen, who played Magneto, has yet to look successful the MCU. Neither has Cumming, who played Nightcrawler, Romijn, who played Mystique, nor Marsden, who played Cyclops. Even Channing Tatum gets to play Gambit again aft his prima crook successful Deadpool & Wolverine. It begs the question: is Avengers: Doomsday secretly an Avengers vs. X-Men movie?

Perhaps, erstwhile the movie is yet revealed, fans volition instrumentality to this infinitesimal to state the hotly anticipated superhero scrap was archetypal teased successful the shadiness of a chair. Or not.

Letters successful shadows isn’t the lone conspiracy mentation coming retired of Marvel’s announcement video. At the end, Robert Downey Jr. does a somewhat unnerving ‘shhh’ to the camera arsenic helium brings his digit up to his mouth. Why? Could it beryllium a benignant of ‘don’t archer anyone’ informing due to the fact that accumulation is astir to begin? Could it beryllium a tease for Avengers: Secret Wars? Could it beryllium a motion to much casting announcements to come?

Or could it beryllium a notation to Agatha successful WandaVision? And, successful turn, the unexpected quality of Scarlet Witch, contempt histrion Elizabeth Olsen suggesting she's not?

Doom x Agatha.#AvengersDoomsday pic.twitter.com/3LX38W5Kc0

Earlier this month, co-directors the Russo brothers said they spot Avengers 5 and 6 arsenic a “new beginning” that volition laic the instauration for immoderate comes adjacent successful Phase 7 of the MCU.

“The lone happening I’ll accidental astir the movie is this: we emotion villains who deliberation they’re the heroes of their ain stories,” Joe Russo said. “That’s erstwhile they go three-dimensional and they go much interesting. When you person an histrion similar Robert Downey, you person to make a three-dimensional, good shaped quality for the audience. That’s wherever a batch of our absorption is going.”

Avengers: Doomsday is presently acceptable to get successful theaters connected May 1, 2026, and Secret Wars arrives astir a twelvemonth aboriginal successful May 2027. Before then, Thunderbolts* comes retired successful May 2025, TV amusement Ironheart is retired successful June, and Phase 6 kicks disconnected with The Fantastic Four: First Steps successful July.

In October, Marvel Studios added 3 untitled movie projects to its 2028 merchandise schedule: February 18, 2028; May 5, 2028; and November 10, 2028. It seems progressively apt 1 of these movies is X-Men.

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