An obvious Avengers: Doomsday set photograph has set the Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom into overdrive, with some claiming it alerts unhealthy information for the X-Men.
Warning! Potential spoilers for Avengers: Doomsday observe.
Last month’s Avengers: Doomsday forged reveal was heavy on veteran X-Men actors. Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden are all now set to seem in Avengers: Doomsday, confirming the X-Men are within the movie in an enormous approach. Grammer famously performed Beast within the Fox X-Men franchise earlier than making his MCU debut by way of The Marvels’ post-credits scene. Stewart performed Charles Xavier/Professor X within the X-Men movies earlier than showing briefly within the MCU by way of Doctor Strange within the Multiverse of Madness as a member of the Illuminati. McKellen, who performed Magneto, has not but appeared within the MCU. Neither has Cumming, who performed Nightcrawler, Romijn, who performed Mystique, nor Marsden, who performed Cyclops. It begs the query: is Avengers: Doomsday secretly an Avengers vs. X-Men film?
Now, there may be hypothesis that the X-Men might be launched early in Avengers: Doomsday and meet their doom: Doctor Doom, that’s.
The alleged set photo in question emerged on-line this week from an apparent drone doing something it certainly shouldn’t forward of the start of filming in London. It reveals what very a lot appears to be like just like the grounds of the X-Mansion, also called Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, because it seems within the Fox X-Men movies, with mini-craters suggesting an enormous battle is going down.
This photograph has led to vital hypothesis in regards to the occasions of Avengers: Doomsday, and the consensus is that it’s the setting for a battle between the X-Men and Doctor Doom. This battle, some are predicting, will seem early within the movie because of an incursion, and can go very badly for the X-Men, probably even wiping the mutants out.
Why? To set up the universe-ending potential of Doctor Doom, in an identical approach Avengers: Infinity War kicked off with Thanos beating Hulk so badly Hulk principally went into hiding for the remainder of the MCU part.
“Yeah I feel we may have a conquest scene for the chilly open of doom massacring the OG X-men,” redditor Nethias25 predicted. “Everyone is worked up in regards to the return of the highest expertise however I’m betting they’re lifeless earlier than the brand.”
Of course, this hypothesis could possibly be huge of the mark. The photograph itself might not reveal what the MCU group thinks it’s, and relate to one thing else solely. But if it does present the X-Mansion, and we’re in for an X-Men vs Doom battle, that may assist clarify the return of all these Fox X-Men characters.
Now manufacturing on Avengers: Doomsday has kicked off, Marvel Studios faces an uphill problem conserving its secrets and techniques off the web. There is maybe no different movie in growth proper now with extra curiosity than the subsequent Avengers, and followers are determined for plot hints, particularly given the sheer variety of superheroes already confirmed to make an look.
Fans had been already speculating that Oscar Isaac might seem in Avengers as Moon Knight as a result of he pulled out of this month’s Star Wars Celebration occasion “as a consequence of adjustments in his manufacturing schedule.”
Marvel Studios producer Kevin Feige has confirmed that the Avengers livestream didn’t embrace your complete forged of Doomsday — “We revealed many, not all,” he mentioned over a video name at CinemaCon.
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