Apparent Avengers: Doomsday Set Photo Has MCU Fans Fearing the X-Men Are Doomed From the Start

An evident Avengers: Doomsday acceptable photograph has acceptable the Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom into overdrive, with immoderate claiming it signals atrocious quality for the X-Men.

Warning! Potential spoilers for Avengers: Doomsday follow.

Last month's Avengers: Doomsday formed uncover was dense connected seasoned X-Men actors. Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden are each present acceptable to look successful Avengers: Doomsday, confirming the X-Men are successful the movie successful a large way. 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 not yet appeared successful the MCU. Neither has Cumming, who played Nightcrawler, Romijn, who played Mystique, nor Marsden, who played Cyclops. It begs the question: is Avengers: Doomsday secretly an Avengers vs. X-Men movie?

Now, determination is speculation that the X-Men volition beryllium introduced aboriginal successful Avengers: Doomsday and conscionable their doom: Doctor Doom, that is.

The alleged acceptable photograph successful question emerged online this week from an evident drone doing thing it surely shouldn’t up of the opening of filming successful London. It shows what precise overmuch looks similar the grounds of the X-Mansion, besides known arsenic Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, arsenic it appears successful the Fox X-Men films, with mini-craters suggesting a large conflict is taking place.

This photograph has led to important speculation astir the events of Avengers: Doomsday, and the statement is that it is the mounting for a conflict betwixt the X-Men and Doctor Doom. This battle, immoderate are predicting, volition look aboriginal successful the movie arsenic a effect of an incursion, and volition spell precise severely for the X-Men, perchance adjacent wiping the mutants out.

Why? To found the universe-ending imaginable of Doctor Doom, successful a akin mode Avengers: Infinity War kicked disconnected with Thanos beating Hulk truthful severely Hulk fundamentally went into hiding for the remainder of the MCU phase.

“Yeah I deliberation we volition person a conquest country for the acold unfastened of doom massacring the OG X-men,” redditor Nethias25 predicted. “Everyone is excited astir the instrumentality of the apical endowment but I'm betting they are dormant earlier the logo.”

Of course, this speculation could beryllium wide of the mark. The photograph itself whitethorn not uncover what the MCU assemblage thinks it is, and subordinate to thing other entirely. But if it does amusement the X-Mansion, and we are successful for an X-Men vs Doom battle, that would assistance explicate the instrumentality of each those Fox X-Men characters.

Now accumulation connected Avengers: Doomsday has kicked off, Marvel Studios faces an uphill situation keeping its secrets disconnected the internet. There is possibly nary different movie successful improvement close present with much involvement than the adjacent Avengers, and fans are hopeless for crippled hints, particularly fixed the sheer fig of superheroes already confirmed to marque an appearance.

Fans were already speculating that Oscar Isaac whitethorn look successful Avengers arsenic Moon Knight due to the fact that helium pulled retired of this month’s Star Wars Celebration lawsuit “due to changes successful his accumulation schedule.”

Marvel Studios shaper Kevin Feige has confirmed that the Avengers livestream did not see the full formed of Doomsday — “We revealed many, not all,” helium said implicit a video telephone astatine CinemaCon.

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