A new rumor suggests that one of the biggest mysteries regarding the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday won’t be addressed in the movie whatsoever.
What mystery won’t be explained in Avengers: Doomsday?
During a recent episode of the John Campea Show, Campea was taking questions from fans when he was asked about Doomsday. Specifically, Campea was asked whether or not the fact that Doctor Doom looks like Tony Stark will be addressed whatsoever.
Campea took a moment to answer, noting that he knew the answer but didn’t want to give away too much. He then simply said that no answer comes in Doomsday, but that the follow-up ensemble film, Avengers: Secret Wars, will address these changes.
“I’ll put it this way,” Campea said. “They do not, nor should they, and that answer will come in [Avengers: Secret Wars]. They don’t, and that’s okay, because they will in Secret Wars. And I think it’s the right decision. I can’t give anymore context or justification or whatever to that. But unless they change something very last second, no they do not explain, in this movie, why Doom looks like Tony. They don’t, and that’s going to be something that comes a little bit later on.”
The mystery of why Doom looks like Tony is one that fans have been trying to figure out for some time. Upon the announcement that Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. would be playing Doom, many believed his likeness would play a vital role in Doomsday and Secret Wars. Some, on the other hand, were unhappy that a proper Victor Von Doom story may be looked over in this change.
Judging by Campea’s comments, we’ll have to wait until Secret Wars comes to find out the answer to all this.
So far, several major stars from the MCU have been confirmed to appear in the movie, including Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby’s Invisible Woman/Sue Storm, Anthony Mackie’s Captain America, Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Letitia Wright’s Shuri/Black Panther, and Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man.
More names for the upcoming movie include Wyatt Russell’s U.S. Agent/John Walker, Tenoch Huerta’s Namor, Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s The Thing/Ben Grimm, Simu Liu’s Shang-Chi, Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, Kelsey Grammer’s Dr. Hank McCoy/Beast, Lewis Pullman’s Bob/Sentry, Danny Ramirez’s Joaquin Torres/Falcon, Joseph Quinn’s Johnny Storm/Human Torch, David Harbour’s Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian, Winston Duke‘s M’Baku, Hannah John-Kamen‘s Ava Starr/Ghost, and Tom Hiddleston‘s Loki.
Several X-Men characters are also coming back for the upcoming movie, including Patrick Stewart‘s Charles Xavier, Ian McKellen‘s Magneto, Alan Cumming‘s Nightcrawler, Rebecca Romijn‘s Mystique, James Marsden‘s Cyclops, and Channing Tatum‘s Gambit.
Avengers: Doomsday is set to release on December 18, 2026. Avengers: Secret Wars will release a year later on December 17, 2027.