Alex Perez is again for one more Patreon/Discord Q&A! Partially 1 of the December 2025 Q&A, Alex solutions questions from our Discord members about what’s taking place in Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday, Secret Wars, and plans for the way forward for the MCU after these movies.
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[Questions and answers below may have been lightly edited below for brevity, grammar, and spelling.]
Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars
laser_gum: Hiya Alex and Lizzie, thanks for all the time doing these. Will Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars be the final two Avengers motion pictures?
Alex Perez: Completely not. The Avengers model will probably be retooled shifting ahead, post-Secret Wars. The very first thing is that each Disney and Marvel perceive the worth of the “Avengers” title of their productions, because the movies have develop into huge box-office hits. The issue is that they don’t wish to have to attend so lengthy in between productions, primarily as a result of setting these productions up takes numerous prep time, particularly when it’s a must to convey collectively over 70+ actors and attempt to coordinate everybody’s busy schedule to shoot with one another.
So, apart from utilizing the Avengers motion pictures for large, world-ending blockbuster team-up tales that includes totally different teams and factions, they’ll additionally use the Avengers title for Avengers adventures and tales with an precise group, much like The Avengers (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).
The second factor is that they’re already, as we communicate, planning the subsequent Avengers storyline. The present rumor I’ve been listening to for the previous two years factors to a different cosmic storyline, with many alternative routes they will take.
One route they initially deliberate was the huge blockbuster team-up movie tying into Judgement Day, that includes the Eternals, the Celestials, and the Horde. A more recent route they plan to take contains a smaller-scale story with Annihulus and the Annihilation Wave, who will function the principle antagonist of the movie and be launched in an upcoming Disney+ mission as a secondary antagonist for the Nova Corps. The villains of that present could be high-ranking members of his military, probably Admiral Salo or one among his concubines, Eradica, Extirpia, or Extermina.
Xekshek: Hello Alex, as all the time, thanks for doing this! Are you able to tease Sentry’s function in Doomsday? Looks like a Sentry vs. Doom scene is inevitable (I hope!).
Alex Perez: Sentry is… Bob. He’s simply attempting to be relaxed and be chill all through the film. It isn’t till Yelena is in a precarious scenario that he’s compelled to convey out Sentry.
Vinny: Hello Alex, thanks for taking the time right here. I used to be questioning when you might present some readability on Physician Unusual’s function in Avengers: Doomsday and the way Unusual matches into the story?
Alex Perez: Physician Unusual will examine incursions with Clea and discover methods to repair them earlier than the Multiverse collapses.
Vinny: One thing that I don’t perceive is why aren’t James Rhodes or Clint Barton on Sam’s Avengers group, and are there plans for both character to be in Doomsday or Secret Wars?
Alex Perez: Rhodey is at present in restoration for the reason that occasions of Secret Invasion, and Marvel remains to be reeling with that fallout. And Clint is retired. I don’t know in the event that they’ll be again.
Vexster: Hello Alex and Lizzie! From the Disney promo occasion for Doomsday, the groups proven—can we count on them to be the principle groups for Doomsday? We by no means actually obtained affirmation on what the Avengers group will seem like.
Alex Perez: They’ll be the principle groups, however there isn’t a established core Avengers group but.
megandcheese: Hello Alex and Lizzie, hope all is properly! Completely satisfied holidays to you each! I really feel like Bucky has been underutilized in the previous few initiatives, however he retains getting positioned pretty high-up in solid lists for Doomsday. Are they lastly giving him a much bigger function, or is that simply Marvel banking on Sebastian Stan’s identify recognition?
Alex Perez: Sebastian Stan goes to be one of many essential core gamers in relation to attempting to be the mediator between the Avengers and the Thunderbolts*
eme: Hey Alex and Lizzie! Thanks for internet hosting as regular. And blissful holidays!
Is Peggy going to take part within the motion for Doomsday or she goes to remain behind?
Alex Perez: Hayley Atwell will probably be part of the motion for Doomsday. Discover the wording of this sentence.
eme: Is Steve’s function in Doomsday vital, or is it extra like a cameo?
Alex Perez: It’s pretty vital. Doom is after him.
chance3225: Hey Alex and Lizzie, thanks for this! This query was requested earlier than filming, however after filming, what’s Shuri’s function and significance to the story, and the way does she come to play? (story being Doomsday)
Alex Perez: She’ll be interesting to Namor and the Atlanteans to assist in the struggle in opposition to Doom.
walker (or rayne): Hey guys! Thanks guys for doing this! Any likelihood the Beyonders play a job in Doomsday? Particularly with Doom’s motivations, or will Loki take their place as type of why Doom is so hellbent on his mission?
Alex Perez: Loki takes their place. The Beyonders usually are not on this film.
walker (or rayne): What can we count on from Deadpool within the subsequent two Avengers motion pictures? Simply cameos or perhaps a small function in Doomsday and one thing larger in Secret Wars?
Alex Perez: We’ll get to be taught why Thor was crying. (Laughs). No, however in all seriousness, most of those cameos can have an element to play within the story. A kind of issues will probably be to see the consequences of the incursions of their respective universes and be known as upon by a “increased authority” for the struggle.
After Avengers: Secret Wars
icast05: Hey Alex, hope all is properly! Can we count on any variants launched in Doomsday and/or Secret Wars to hold over to the 616 post-SW timeline?
Alex Perez: Sure and no. It’s a really complicated circumstance. If the 616 universe submit Secret Wars timeline we see is the “authentic model” of that timeline, so to talk, are any of these characters variants, or are the variants the characters we’re seeing now within the MCU motion pictures?
qncycharles: Hey Alex and Lizzie. Completely satisfied holidays to you each. Will Steve Roger’s story be retold for the reset of the MCU?
Alex Perez: I haven’t heard that would be the case.
chance3225: What would you be your Avengers lineup submit Secret Wars?
Alex Perez:
- Captain America (Sam Wilson)
- The Falcon (Danny Ramirez)
- The Imaginative and prescient
- Captain Marvel
- Shang-Chi
- Black Panther
- Ant-Man
- Hulk
FanOfNuance: Alex/Lizzie! Hope you’re doing properly and might benefit from the vacation season! Query: Apart from Doomsday, which upcoming initiatives do you suppose are crucial to arrange the Secret Wars story? There have been rumors that maybe there could be movies releasing AFTER that might truly find yourself being prequels, so perhaps these?
Alex Perez: Spider-Man: Model New Day & VisionQuest
FootlongSlinky: Hello Alex. Who’re some villains thought-about for future Avengers motion pictures?
Alex Perez: Fascinating query. Celestials are a giant antagonist. Mephisto as properly, however he’s being saved up for Midnight Sons. I additionally heard in regards to the Masters of Evil being executed at one level, with each Zemo and The Chief as members.
daofeiboy: Hey Lizzie and Alex! By the point SW is over and the reboot occurs—have you learnt if there are any plans to have a number of established Avengers groups? Like The West Coast Avengers, the YA, the New Avengers, the Nice Lakes ones, and others perhaps.
Alex Perez: Younger Avengers undoubtedly. Unsure about the remainder although.
That’s it for half 1 of Alex Perez’s December 2025 Q&A!
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