{"id":677161,"date":"2026-01-06T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677161\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T07:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:04:11","slug":"avengers-doomsday-rumor-details-fantastic-4s-role-in-mcu-movie-comic-book-movies-and-superhero-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677161\/","title":{"rendered":"Avengers: Doomsday Rumor Details Fantastic 4&#8217;s Role in MCU Movie &#8211; Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/avengers-doomsday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> rumor<\/strong> has potentially shed some light on what the role of The Fantastic Four will be in the upcoming MCU movie. <\/p>\n<p>What is the Fantastic 4\u2019s rumored role in Avengers: Doomsday?<\/p>\n<p>According to a new report from insider MyTimeToShine, the group will be running into Doctor Doom in the upcoming movie. The report notes that Victor Von Doom will be asking the group for help with multiversal \u201cincursions.\u201d They will then \u201ctravel together to the MCU\u201d to warn others, and join forces to head to the \u201cX-Men universe,\u201d and try to stop that universe from coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The rumor, while not confirmed, does seem to track given what we\u2019ve already seen in The Fantastic Four\u2019s own movie, First Steps. In a post-credits scene, Doom briefly appears in the group\u2019s home, interacting with Franklin Richards. The post-credits scene for Marvel Studios\u2019 Thunderbolts also teases the group\u2019s arrival in their universe. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In Avengers: Doomsday, Victor asks the Fantastic Four for help with the Incursions. They travel together to the MCU in their ship to warn everyone, then join forces to head to the X-Men universe \u2013 the source of the next Incursion. They have to fix it before that universe destroys\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jnDEF1D1r0\">pic.twitter.com\/jnDEF1D1r0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MyTimeToShineHello (@MyTimeToShineH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MyTimeToShineH\/status\/2008228769614504176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So far, several major stars from the MCU have been confirmed to appear in the movie, including Chris Hemsworth\u2019s Thor,\u00a0Pedro Pascal\u2019s Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby\u2019s Invisible Woman\/Sue Storm,\u00a0Anthony Mackie\u2019s Captain America,\u00a0Sebastian Stan\u2019s Bucky Barnes\/Winter Soldier,\u00a0Letitia Wright\u2019s Shuri\/Black Panther, and\u00a0Paul Rudd\u2019s Ant-Man.<\/p>\n<p>More names for the upcoming movie include\u00a0Wyatt Russell\u2019s U.S. Agent\/John Walker,\u00a0Tenoch Huerta\u2019s Namor,\u00a0Ebon Moss-Bachrach\u2019s The Thing\/Ben Grimm,\u00a0Simu Liu\u2019s Shang-Chi,\u00a0Florence Pugh\u2019s Yelena Belova,\u00a0Kelsey Grammer\u2019s Dr. Hank McCoy\/Beast,\u00a0Lewis Pullman\u2019s Bob\/Sentry,\u00a0Danny Ramirez\u2019s Joaquin Torres\/Falcon,\u00a0Joseph Quinn\u2019s Johnny Storm\/Human Torch,\u00a0David Harbour\u2019s Alexei Shostakov\/Red Guardian,\u00a0Winston Duke\u2018s M\u2019Baku,\u00a0Hannah John-Kamen\u2018s Ava Starr\/Ghost, and\u00a0Tom Hiddleston\u2018s Loki.<\/p>\n<p>Several X-Men characters are also coming back for the upcoming movie, including\u00a0Patrick Stewart\u2018s Charles Xavier,\u00a0Ian McKellen\u2018s Magneto,\u00a0Alan Cumming\u2018s Nightcrawler,\u00a0Rebecca Romijn\u2018s Mystique,\u00a0James Marsden\u2018s Cyclops, and\u00a0Channing Tatum\u2018s Gambit.<\/p>\n<p>Avengers: Doomsday is set to release on December 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Avengers: Doomsday rumor has potentially shed some light on what the role of The Fantastic Four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[3983,823,77,3985,15576,4516,16280,3943,201291,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-677161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avengers-doomsday","9":"tag-disney","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-marvel","12":"tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","13":"tag-marvel-studios","14":"tag-movie-news","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-the-fantastic-four","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}