Downey Jr. may be playing a new role, but Marvel really brings the band(s) back together here. The film is set fourteen months after the events of this year Lightning strikes*. So we have Avengers favorites Thor (Chris Hemsworth), the new Captain America (Anthony Mackie), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), Falcon (Danny Ramirez) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Then there's the Wakandan contingent: Shuri as the new Black Panther (Letitia Wright), M'Baku (Winston Duke), and Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejia).
Naturally, the Thunderbolts* (aka New Avengers) will appear: John Walker/US Agent (Wyatt Russell), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bob/Sentry (Lewis Pullman), Red Guardian (David Harbour), and Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen). That includes the Fantastic Four: Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn). But we also have the original
For good measure, Marvel threw in Gambit (Channing Tatum) and Xu Shang-Chi (Simu Liu). There will also be plenty of cameos, such as the Steve Rogers appearance that was recently revealed. We can expect (at least briefly) Peggy Carter, Spider-Man (Tom Holland), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), among others.
Avengers: Doomsday will be released in theaters on December 18, 2026. Avengers: Secret Wars is currently scheduled for release on December 17, 2027, marking the conclusion of phase six of the MCU.
