You’d assume a five-hour lengthy video of some chairs with names on them could be devoid of Marvel Cinematic Universe Easter eggs, however some followers imagine there’s one hiding within the shadows.
To recap, this week Marvel introduced the forged of Avengers: Doomsday in a video that slowly revealed chairs with MCU actor names on them. The video confirmed an extra 26 actors set to look within the superhero mash-up alongside Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom. It took almost 5 and a half hours to take action.
Most have now moved on from the video to debating what the forged announcement means for Avengers: Doomsday itself, however some have caught with it, analyzing the chairs and even the shadows to inside an inch of their lives. And now, some imagine they’ve discovered… one thing.
The appropriately-named redditor True_Confusion_295 stated “I really feel like a conspiracy theorist circling issues in purple” once they identified {that a} shadow forged by one of many chairs varieties what seems to be like an X on high of an A. What does that imply? Avengers vs. X-Men, after all.
Marvel shocked many by saying a variety of returning stars from Fox’s X-Men movies. Fox X-Men veterans Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden are all now confirmed to look in Avengers: Doomsday. 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 but to look within the MCU. Neither has Cumming, who performed Nightcrawler, Romijn, who performed Mystique, nor Marsden, who performed Cyclops. Even Channing Tatum will get to play Gambit once more after his star flip in Deadpool & Wolverine. It begs the query: is Avengers: Doomsday secretly an Avengers vs. X-Men film?
Perhaps, when the film is lastly revealed, followers will return to this second to declare the hotly anticipated superhero scrap was first teased within the shadow of a chair. Or not.
Letters in shadows isn’t the one conspiracy concept popping out of Marvel’s announcement video. At the tip, Robert Downey Jr. does a barely unnerving ‘shhh’ to the digicam as he brings his finger as much as his mouth. Why? Could it’s a form of ‘don’t inform anybody’ warning as a result of manufacturing is about to start? Could it’s a tease for Avengers: Secret Wars? Could it’s a nod to extra casting bulletins to come back?
Or might it’s a reference to Agatha in WandaVision? And, in flip, the sudden look of Scarlet Witch, regardless of actress Elizabeth Olsen suggesting she’s not?
Doom x Agatha.#AvengersDoomsday pic.twitter.com/3LX38W5Kc0
— Cosmic Marvel (@cosmic_marvel) March 26, 2025
Earlier this month, co-directors the Russo brothers stated they see Avengers 5 and 6 as a “new starting” that may lay the inspiration for no matter comes subsequent in Phase 7 of the MCU.
“The solely factor I’ll say in regards to the film is that this: we love villains who assume they’re the heroes of their very own tales,” Joe Russo stated. “That’s once they grow to be three-dimensional and so they grow to be extra fascinating. When you will have an actor like Robert Downey, it’s a must to create a three-dimensional, properly formed character for the viewers. That’s the place numerous our focus goes.”
Avengers: Doomsday is at present set to reach in theaters on May 1, 2026, and Secret Wars arrives a few 12 months later in May 2027. Before then, Thunderbolts* comes out in May 2025, TV present Ironheart is out in June, and Phase 6 kicks off with The Fantastic Four: First Steps in July.
In October, Marvel Studios added three untitled film tasks to its 2028 launch schedule: February 18, 2028; May 5, 2028; and November 10, 2028. It appears more and more possible one in every of these films is X-Men.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
