I’m way out of the loop.. What’s up with the old X-Men actors being cast for Doomsday? And does it mean the MCU is doing a full reboot after Secret Wars?

I’m missing something, but I feel like the nostalgia of bringing back the older x-men actors has been done enough. Are the old ones there for both Doomsday and Secret Wars? And no new actors before or in Secret Wars? Because after Secret Wars, >!in theory there should be no more multiverse, right?!< So, where would new x-men come from unless the whole MCU doing a reboot after Secret Wars.

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ROBtimusPrime19952025-10-05 20:12

The old X-Men are returning because the concept of the multiverse allows for the actors who are still alive & well to play their characters again one last time, along with MCU characters.

If Marvel didn't bring them back, everyone would be complaining about the missed opportunity.

But because they are, others complain about nostalgia.

It's a lose-lose/win-win scenario depending on who you are.

They will likely be in Secret Wars as well.

Once that film ends, the old X-Men will ride off into the sunset, allowing the MCU to reboot its own unique X-Men franchise.

Eclipsiical2025-10-05 20:12

We don’t know the plot yet but Doomsday is likely going to be partially inspired by AvX, with the catalyst being that Earth-616 and Earth-10005 are experiencing an incursion or are otherwise at odds with each other. The post-credit scene of The Marvels set the groundwork for how the two are connected.

People keep talking about this hypothetical reboot but there is nothing pointing towards that, especially not a full reboot. At most there will be some changed events, actors, etc.

ponylauncher2025-10-05 20:14

Why is everyone obsessed with the word reboot? They can just continue and use the same actors without rebooting anything.

__wasitacatisaw__2025-10-05 20:22

Because they want to recast characters like Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff and any other actors who’s done with Marvel after Secret Wars

HuckleberryUnique4462025-10-05 20:23

The ages of the majority of the original X men trilogy actors are unreason they won't be kept around.

Andthen the young counterparts Fox brought in never got popular enough, thanks in part to the MCU taking off in popularity.

So save for MAYBE some weird trickery to keep Hugh Jackman's Wolverine around in some capacity, yes, Feige and the MCU will be telling an X Men set of stories from the ground up after whatever transpires in Secret Wars.

Mailing the casting and creating young stars the way they did with Evans, Hemsworth. Hiddleston, Olson, and to a lesser degree Johanson, Ruffalo, and Renner(they were well known already, though not superstars) will be critical.

As the MCU does need to reel in a younger audience that it's begun to lose.

georgelater2025-10-05 21:34

I’m um… not obsessed with it? I just thought about it this morning after rewatching Multiverse of Madness. The unnecessary little spoiler tagged comment I made explains (I think) why I would consider a reboot possible. No more multiverse, no more duplicates of the same characters.

_________FU_________2025-10-05 20:14

My guess is they’re cannon fodder for Doom.

jamesbondswanson2025-10-05 20:15

Did you not hear about no way home?

georgelater2025-10-05 21:15

What about it? The three spidermen? Or spider-man’s?

jamesbondswanson2025-10-05 22:29

They had old actors from old movies in NWH and it made over a billion. That’s exactly why they are doing this cameo fest movie of old actors with this new movie and also with secret wars

georgelater2025-10-05 23:01

Oh yeah, everyone wanted to see Toby and Andrew team up with Tom against their old enemies, that was for the fans, but again made a ton of money too. I feel like we’ve seen more than enough of Jackman’s and Stewart’s characters dying and coming back. I can’t remember which one of them has permanently died more times over the last 25 years.

aguywithsixmagikarps2025-10-05 20:15

an "incursion" causes universes throughout the multiverse to collide. an incursion is going to happen in doomsday, causing the MCU (earth-616) to collide with the fox x-men universe (earth-10005).

Hylianhaxorus2025-10-05 20:28

Its the last big hurrah to all of the non-disney marvel universe, once and for all. Literally destroying those worlds permanently. So yes its the last time you'll see these characters and many will surely die in the process. The mcu will get a soft reboot bringing back whatever actors, characters, or story elements they want, and cutting whatever they don't like or think fans don't like.

FragrantGearHead2025-10-05 21:08

The 2015 Secret Wars book had multiple variants of each character on Battleworld.

And then there’s no multiverse afterwards. So only one variant of each character remains.

It’s both a recasting and a passing of the baton.

CaptHayfever2025-10-06 05:27

First question: We *suspect* (because nobody outside the cast/crew knows *for sure* yet) that the plot will involve an incursion between the X-Men universe & the MCU.

Second question: No, not a full reboot.

Hedgewitch2502025-10-07 00:52

It’s a sendoff there’s not gonna be a full reboot cause that’s way too mcu especially for a franchise thats almost 2 decades old it’s gonna have some universal changes but nothing extreme like an iron man 1 remake.

The old X-men are getting theyre farewell and after that it’ll introduce the mcu X-men as mutants have already been established to exist in the mcu