DOOMSDAY casting announcements are finally here!

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Marvel has begun to announce their cast for the upcoming AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY film, slated for a 2026 release. There had been rumors since March 25th that the studio will be dropping some massive news the following day, possibly bigger than the Robert Downey Jr. reveal as Dr. Viktor Von Doom during San Diego Comic Con 2024.

Jump to March 26th at 11:30AM EST/8:30AM PST, Marvel studios would begin streaming on their official YouTube and X/Twitter account for the AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY cast announcement. The Stream would begin in a dimly lit room with the camera facing the back of a single cast member’s seat with their name displayed on the back. At random intervals, the musical cue or motif for that respective character would play, leading up to the camera doing a truck shot to the following cast member’s seat of the character tied to that theme or musical motif. Then the process would repeat again of minutes of silence and staring at the seat, before another cue plays, followed by another reveal.

For AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY, here are the revealed cast and their characters so far. This list is sorted by the group or faction within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Let me tell you, some of these announcements caught me by surprise and had me choke on my lunch like Ildris Elba at Hot Ones.

Avengers

Anthony Mackie as Captain America
Chris Hemsworth as Thor Odinson
Danny Ramirez as Falcon
Paul Rudd as Ant-Man (Scott Lang)
Simu Liu as Shang-Chi

Thunderbolts

Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova
David Harbour as The Red Guardian
Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes
Wyatt Russel as U.S Agent (John Walker)
Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost (Ava Starr)
Lewis Pullman as Sentry (Bob)

Fantastic Four

Pedro Pascal as Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards)
Vanessa Kirby as The Invisible Woman (Sue Storm)
Joseph Quinn as The Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
Ebon Moss-Bachrach as The Thing
Robert Downey Jr. as Dr.Victor von Doom

Wakandans

Letitia Wright as Black Panther (Shuri)
Winston Duke as King M’Baku

Talokanil

Tenoch Huerta Mejia as King Namor

X-MEN

Sir Patrick Stewart as Professor X (Charles Xavier)
Sir Ian McKellan as Magneto
James Mardsden as Cyclops
Kelsey Grammar as Beast
Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler
Rebecca Romjin as Mystique (Raven Darkholme)
Channing Tatum as The Gambit

TVA

Tom Hiddleston as Loki Odinson

This is a very stacked cast, larger than that of AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR and ENDGAME. Marvel has also intentionally or unintentionally spoiled the fate of the main Thunderbolts team for the upcoming Thunderbolts* film, as many of them would have a role to play in Doomsday. Hinting that possibly Thunderbolts* will be essential viewing leading up to Doomsday. Also, to my surprise, we got confirmation that the X-men from the Fox Universe will be involved in the story as well with the surprise announcement of Sir Patrick Stewart, Sir Ian McKellan, Kelsey Grammar, and Rebecca Romjin reprising their roles from those films, but also Magneto, Mystique, and Cyclops’ official debut within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In addition, the fact that Channing Tatum returns as The Gambit from Deadpool and Wolverine, making his portrayal of the character more official within the MCU. Surprisingly the one anticipated X-Men actress who wasn’t revealed was Halley Berry as Storm. There is also no mention of Wanda Maximoff, Carol Danvers, Ms.Marvel, Monica Rambeau, The Hulks, Spider-Man, The Guardians of the Galaxy, Young Avengers, Wolverine, and Deadpool. I’m assuming none of these characters have been confirmed to return for Doomsday or will be announced later into the film’s development. One of our fellow writers also pointed out that we need Planet X! Only time will tell as to any of this will happen as the film is now in production.

Last but not least i’d like to take the time to have some honorable mentions of characters and actors whose names have been dropped in the stream chats but sadly have not been confirmed for AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY.