Doctor Doom, inAvengers: Doomsdayis an assembly of A-list Marvel talent from across the cinematic universe.

And then came the news thatChanning Tatumwill officially reprise his role of Gambit fromDeadpool & WolverineinAvengers: Doomsday.

The stream then cut to a slide that said, “Avengers: Doomsdaynow in production.”

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Robert Downey Jr. at Comic-Con; Patrick Stewart as Professor X; Ian McKellen as Magneto. Stewart and McKellen are among the actors joining Downey in 2026’s ‘Avengers: Doomsday’.Credit:Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty; 20th Century Fox Film Corp. / Courtesy Everett; 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Courtesy Everett

Stewart’s Xavier was the first to be inducted withDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Cumming arrived in the next movie, 2003’sX2: X-Men United, as the teleporting, blue-skinned Nightcrawler.

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Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in 2000’s ‘X-Men’. The actors will reunite in 2026’s ‘Avengers: Doomsday’.Everett Collection

Some of these faces we haven’t technically met yet outside of trailers.

The same goes for Hiddleston.

Mackie and Ramirez starred inCaptain America: Brave New World,which came out in theaters earlier this year.