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The first teaser for Avengers: Doomsday heralded the return of Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, and our second checked in on Chris Hemsworth’s Thor. And for week three? It’s all X-Men, baby.
Well, “all” in the sense that it’s about the superteam. The teaser here chooses to focus on three returning actors: Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), Magneto (Ian McKellen), and a tiny tease of Cyclops (James Marsden). We get shots of the Xavier Institute, which looks to be empty of students and staff, and Charles and Erik playing chess like they did in the old movies.
Then, Cyclops yanks off his visor to use a full-force optic blast in the middle of battle. And after that shot of Cyclops? “The X-Men will return…”
The MCU has been flirting with bringing back the OG Fox-Men for a while, starting with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness featuring an Xavier variant and continuing that thread with The Marvels and Deadpool & Wolverine.
With Avengers: Doomsday, one-third of the film’s main cast consists of these comeback characters: along with Charles, Erik, and Scott, we’ll be seeing older versions of Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), Mystique (Rebecca Romijn), Beast (Kelsey Grammer), and Gambit (Channing Tatum). The jury’s out on if we’ll see other X-actors like Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Storm (Halle Berry), or Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), but it certainly could happen.
Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18.
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