{"id":785382,"date":"2026-05-10T00:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/785382\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T00:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:15:19","slug":"avengers-doomsdays-secret-unannounced-characters-teased-by-returning-original-x-men-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/785382\/","title":{"rendered":"Avengers: Doomsday’s Secret Unannounced Characters Teased by Returning Original X-Men Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> cast is widely expected to grow between now and its December release date, because of the sheer number of weirdly missing characters. Several \u2013 like Brie Larson\u2019s Captain Marvel, Teyonah Parris\u2019 Monica Rambeau, and Benedict Cumberbatch\u2019s Doctor Strange<\/a> \u2013 seem inevitable, and there are a lot of rumors that point to some more surprising inclusions. The great hope for MCU<\/a> fans is that not all of the big secrets are spilled before the movie\u2019s release, but it seems unlikely. Now, at least we\u2019ve got some insight into the measures Marvel and the Russos have taken to hide some of those secrets.<\/p>\n

Original X-Men trilogy star Alan Cumming has revealed that the Avengers: Doomsday cast<\/a> that we know isn\u2019t complete, and the upcoming sequel has secret characters who were even disguised in the script. Cumming spoke to Deadline<\/a> and revealed the detail while talking about his return as Nightcrawler for the tentpole MCU release:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis film is like superhero soup. There\u2019s so many of them in it. I just can\u2019t keep up. Also, they\u2019re really hard scripts to read \u2013 superhero films \u2013 because it\u2019s all action and then the names\u2026 everyone\u2019s got two names\u2026 and sometimes there were secret names in it because they didn\u2019t want to let out that this certain character was coming back, so they called them somebody else in the script. It was so confusing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alan Cumming Reveals How Much Nightcrawler is in Doomsday<\/p>\n

\"NightcrawlerImage Courtesy of Fox<\/p>\n

Cumming also reflected on his experience working on Bryan Singer\u2019s X2, which was infamously beset by set issues and a cast protest against the director\u2019s behavior. He says, \u201cthe working environment was very, very wrong and very just unacceptable\u201d but that Doomsday felt like a cyclical experience \u2013 and a far more positive one, thanks in part to the Russos, as well as revealing he\u2019s got some additional scenes to shoot, despite the producton wrapping principle photography in September 2025: \u201cI really liked the brothers who directed it, and everyone was so nice. And we shot it at Pinewood\u2026 and I\u2019ve actually got to do another bit of filming on it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Intriguingly \u2013 and a little disappointingly \u2013 Cumming also revealed how much he\u2019s in Doomsday, and it\u2019s not good news for fans: \u201cI\u2019m not in it very much, but I really had fun, and it was a really lovely thing to go back to\u2026 It was lovely to go back to something I never thought I\u2019d go back to and have a lovely time doing it. And also, it\u2019s kind of great being a superhero at 60. It\u2019s not so bad.\u201d Does that mean the original X-Men\u2019s timeline<\/a> isn\u2019t going to last long? Or perhaps that only some of the returning X-Men cast will be making the jump across to another universe? At this point, the former seems the most likely, but it would be a shame if they were all killed off before the chance to return in Avengers: Secret Wars. It\u2019s just hard to look beyond the idea of the Russos using some of the big names to sell how much of a threat Robert Downey Jr\u2019s Doctor Doom is\u2026<\/p>\n

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