{"id":607643,"date":"2026-07-28T05:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/607643\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T05:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:09:15","slug":"robert-downey-jr-s-x-men-tease-gives-mcu-fans-new-reason-to-care-about-avengers-doomsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/607643\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr.\u2019s X-Men Tease Gives MCU Fans New Reason to Care About Avengers: Doomsday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The upcoming MCU action film Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> had a nice presentation at SDCC 2026. While the movie is bringing multiple superhero teams across the MCU<\/a>, one of its biggest attractions is the return of several original X-Men stars.<\/p>\n

Marvel is keeping Avengers: Doomsday’s story under wraps, but Robert Downey Jr.’s<\/a> latest comments have ignited fans’ excitement. The former Iron Man<\/a> lead, who is returning to the MCU as Doctor Doom<\/a>, praised the movie and spoke about what it was like working alongside the original X-Men cast.<\/p>\n

During Entertainment Weekly<\/a>‘s post-Hall H interview at San Diego Comic-Con, Downey Jr. reflected on seeing Rebecca Romijn<\/a> and Kelsey Grammer<\/a> return as Mystique and Beast. “It was a big moment, you and Kelsey being back,” Downey Jr. told Romijn. He added that the cast couldn’t hide their excitement. “I have to say, we nerded out.”<\/p>\n

What other X-Men characters are confirmed to appear in Avengers: Doomsday?<\/p>\n

Romijn and Grammer aren’t the only ones coming to Doomsday. Patrick Stewart<\/a> is back as Professor X, Ian McKellen returns as Magneto, Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, and James Marsden<\/a> is reprising as Cyclops. All are reprising their roles from the original 2000s X-Men trilogy except for Channing Tatum returning as Gambit following his appearance in Deadpool & Wolverine.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Hoult and Jennifer Lawrence, who played the younger versions of Beast and Mystique in the 2010s prequel film, are not confirmed for Doomsday yet.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his return as Beast, Grammer said he has always admired the character. “I love the character. I have this sense of this kind of nobility about him\u2026 a deep respect for all life,” he said.<\/p>\n

The movie also expands the MCU’s storyline by bringing in Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Thunderbolts, the Wakandan Warriors, and many more. With this much star power in one single film, it’s not hard to explain why Robert sounded confident.<\/p>\n

Robert’s comments also suggest that Marvel is planning to make Avengers: Doomsday much more than just a superhero team-up, giving fans reasons to look forward to its release.<\/p>\n

Avengers: Doomsday will hit theaters on December 18, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The upcoming MCU action film Avengers: Doomsday had a nice presentation at SDCC 2026. While the movie is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[5939,256583,18,117,19,17,73054,1891,5940,327,2280,109244,5097,136854,256593],"class_list":["post-607643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-doomsday","tag-downey-jr","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kelsey-grammer","tag-marvel-studios","tag-mcu","tag-movies","tag-patrick-stewart","tag-rebecca-romijn","tag-robert-downey-jr","tag-san-diego-comic-con","tag-superhero-teams"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116995880707419826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}