How Marvel could announce which characters are in Secret Wars without spoiling who survives Doomsday

Y’all must remember the chairs livestream for Avengers: Doomsday that Marvel made in March of this year. They announced 26 actors in the movie (besides the already confirmed RDJ Doctor Doom), but a lot of absences were noticed, where was Spider-Man, Hulk, Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, etc…?

Because of that, many people expected Marvel to announce more names for Doomsday later on the road, but it’s been extremely quiet on that front so far. This led many people to speculate that characters like the ones I mentioned in the 1st paragraph are not in Doomsday & will only be in Avengers: Secret Wars, or that Marvel is just not gonna reveal them until December 2026 (when Doomsday releases).

But here’s something I thought about today, there is a way for Marvel to confirm which characters are in Secret Wars without saying if they are in Doomsday or saying who survives Doomsday.

Secret Wars is scheduled to start shooting in March-April 2026, what if Marvel makes another chairs livestream next year before they start filming? Not for Doomsday tho, for Secret Wars.

But to not spoil which characters die and which characters survive Doomsday, they only announce for Secret Wars characters that are not confirmed for Doomsday (like Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Hulk, Captain Marvel and etc…). So if Doomsday characters (like Sam, Bucky, Yelena, Reed Richards and etc…) are in Secret Wars or if Secret Wars characters are in Doomsday remains a secret until December 2026.

We would know which characters are in the 2-part finale of the Multiverse Saga, we would know a handful of them who are in Doomsday and a handful of them who are in Secret Wars, but not which ones are in both movies.

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BatmanForever232025-11-01 00:41

They could just... not do a silly announcement video that takes like 10 hours. That'd work too imo.

Didn't need a bunch of chairs for Endgame.

Pardybro9112025-11-01 00:52

Really didn’t need to do anything to pump Endgame up.

BatmanForever232025-11-01 00:55

You'd hope that Doomsday will be enough to pump up Secret Wars. If it's not... some chairs aren't gonna make a difference lol.

Azraelrs2025-11-01 02:21

I think the RDJ Doom thing is a hindrance because it's just lazy, but I'm probably in the minority. Like, that's iron man, and we don't need some "in another reality Tony Stark is Doom, not Iron Man, but then a different Doom will show up from yet another reality and be Doom going forward".

CaptHayfever2025-11-01 03:34

That's not what they're doing.

Azraelrs2025-11-01 04:16

Oh, so RDJ won't be Doom?

CaptHayfever2025-11-01 04:25

He will be Doom.
Doom won't be a Stark variant.

Azraelrs2025-11-01 13:14

That doesn't take away from how lazy it is.

CaptHayfever2025-11-01 16:45

Now explain why it's lazy *without* the false premise you used that I was debunking.

Azraelrs2025-11-01 17:01

You didn't debunk anything. You may have misunderstood what I said, but it was still accurate. RDJ is Iron Man, RDJ playing a different VERY prominent character is fucking lazy. Then you'll all come here and whine about it underperforming because you don't understand that seeing Tony Stark as Doom shatters the illusion for the younger watchers. Kids identify with characters and Iron Man being Doom shatters that illusion.

"Somehow, Palpatine (I mean RDJ) has returned" -Disney

BatmanForever232025-11-01 10:35

RDJ has been confirmed to be Victor von Doom - not a Stark variant.

Azraelrs2025-11-01 13:13

And that's lazy.

BatmanForever232025-11-01 13:36

Not as lazy as making him a Stark variant, which is actually besides the point - as your entire premise has already been debunked.

SeekerVash2025-11-01 04:22

The only reason they did that was to try and salvage Brave New World a bit.

It was a low cost publicity stunt basically involving stuff they had in storage, with the intent of generating hype and getting people so excited about Doomsday that they'd rush out and buy BNW tickets.

It didn't have anything to do with Doomsday, time and money spent on marketing more than a year before release is wasted time and money. The general audience isn't going to remember it 3 months later, much less a year later.

AValorantFan2025-11-01 06:59

The Doomsday chair video came out an entire month and a few weeks after Brave New World released in theaters, if the idea was to make people rush out to buy a month old movie then it was a really stupid plan.

It was very obviously marketing for both Fantastic Four and Thunderbolts, which kind of didn't work in the long term.

SeekerVash2025-11-01 18:16

They had to do something to try and salvage it as it wasn't going to break even.

AValorantFan2025-11-01 18:19

I can't tell if you're being serious, if this had been true the chair reveal would've been done in February before the film's release, that's just not how film marketing works.

Were they trying to salvage the DVD sales?

Myhtological2025-11-01 00:42

They can’t. Instead they’ll throw junk out there that won’t actually happen in the movie.

Pardybro9112025-11-01 00:53

That infinity war hulk trailer still pisses me off

Jecht3152025-11-01 00:53

The cast announcement isn't needed. I don't think people will die like IW so there won't be that many spoilers if they did. If the movie is setting up Secret Wars/battleworld, the new movie will be the one with the possible deaths. Even Battleworld probably won't have the deaths unless it's whole worlds being destroyed.

Careless_Royal82092025-11-01 01:23

Or, and here's a crazy idea, why don't they just let people watch the movie and be surprised?!

eagc72025-11-01 01:37

Not start filming until a few months after Doomsday releases, but that's not possible unless they wanna time crunch the VFX team.

Unless they push it to 2028

Effective-Fondant-162025-11-01 01:46

I’m not watching a bunch of chairs. I’ve got shit to do. I’ll decide whether or not to watch it when it hits theaters and audience reviews are out.

Matapple132025-11-01 02:05

Critics reviews have much more credibility than audience reviews.

SeekerVash2025-11-01 04:25

Generally not.

Critics reviews were always dicey, they'd give 5 stars to some arthouse movie about a man collecting pomegranates, but a blockbuster movie the general audience was excited about would get reviewed with apathy at best.

Champagnekudo2025-11-01 16:19

Lmao the shit you read on this sub

SeekerVash2025-11-01 18:17

You could go back and read decades of people complaining about the same thing if you don't like the way I described it.

I'm sure Google can turn up a few ten thousands of articles and forum posts on the topic for you.

LBIdockrat2025-11-01 01:47

They could wait until after Doomsday is released... then do some casting announcements for Secret Wars.

Firefly00312025-11-01 02:52

I don’t want to know. I think keeping the line up a secret would be the best idea. That way you won’t know why they are absent. They could play it off that missing people might have already been taken. Or heroes that might go missing during Doom might not be as dead as we thought they were. Who knows.

Endgam2025-11-01 19:37

By announcing them after Doomsday's Disney+ release.

Seems simple enough.