Leave it up to Marvel Studios to choose the most agonizing way imaginable to announce the official Avengers: Doomsday cast list.
At around 11am EST on March 26, the studio launched a livestream on YouTube and X that only showed a director’s chair emblazoned with Chris Hemsworth’s name. Hemsworth immediately began trending, prompting assumptions that Marvel was about to make some kind of upcoming release reveal, perhaps even about Thor 5. Roughly 15 minutes later, the camera panned to a new chair featuring Vanessa Kirby’s name. This led to speculation that Marvel was, in fact, officially unveiling its Doomsday cast list. And it was.
Despite the announcement moving at a snail’s pace, it drew over 10 million curious onlookers as well as a fair share of hilarious GIFs and memes. Fans were understandably itching for the full list, but had to wait nearly five hours for the satisfying ending (and a gorgeous little cameo from the film’s biggest star). This curious form of torture had many wondering what was worse: waiting to see names like Tom Holland appear, or watching paint dry. Thankfully, the announcement’s satisfying ending confirmed what many of us knew all along.
Who has officially been cast in Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday?
The nearly five-and-a-half-hour stunt revealed a spectrum of colorful casting announcements ⏤ many of which were expected, but others of which were a complete surprise. Marvel has also confirmed that Doomsday is officially in production, and with the following mind-blowing names attached (in order of how they were revealed):
- Chris Hemsworth
- Vanessa Kirby
- Anthony Mackie
- Sebastian Stan
- Letitia Wright
- Paul Rudd
- Wyatt Russell
- Tenoch Huerta Mejia
- Ebon Moss-Bachrach
- Simu Liu
- Florence Pugh
- Kelsey Grammer
- Lewis Pullman
- Danny Ramirez
- Joseph Quinn
- David Harbour
- Winston Duke
- Hannah John-Kamen
- Tom Hiddleston
- Patrick Stewart
- Ian McKellen
- Alan Cumming
- Rebecca Romijn
- James Marsden
- CHANNING TATUM (sorry, excited beyond measure)
- Pedro Pascal
- ……and, of course, Robert Downey Jr., whose cameo can be seen above!
The biggest delights were easily the crew of former X-Men, including Grammer, Stewart, McKellen, Cumming, Romijn, and Marsden. The biggest surprise, however? Channing Tatum’s Gambit! The Deadpool & Wolverine breakout became an instant fan fave, requiring that Marvel resurrect him again in the very near future. (Though I’ll admit, the accent needs work). This influx of talent, combined with the returns of Wright, Pugh, Liu, and the new Fantastic Four: First Steps cast, is already suggesting that Doomsday will be a cinematic event only previously topped by Avengers: Endgame. The time to mentally and emotionally prepare is now, kittens. This one is going to be the ride of a multiversal lifetime.
Marvel’s painfully slow announcement prompts hilarious reactions
As MCU fans patiently waited for Marvel to finish its announcement, GIFs and memes landed on X faster than Anthony Mackie with a broken wing. While many poked fun at how old we’d be by the time the full cast was revealed, some wondered if there would be any mind-blowing surprises. And as we now know, there were.
No one could deny how painful Hump Day became as a result of the announcement’s glacial pace.
Feelings of despair ran rampant as we waited for a new name to drop every 15 minutes (why, Marvel?!).
It was quite literally as if the Zootopia sloth had decided this was the best way to share the news with the masses.
Would we be alive by the time this thing was done? It was anyone’s guess.
Obligatory Rose DeWitt Bukater drop.
It was indeed the most random day for this to be happening.
And Scarlet Witch fans wasted no time screaming about the potential lack of an Elizabeth Olsen chair.
As expected, Olsen’s chair did not appear, which is why the internet did not burst into flame before day’s end.
Although it came close when Kelsey Grammer’s name was announced!
And you could literally hear the screams when the X-Men ’97 theme played and Charles Xavier himself was revealed.
Sadly, Chris Evans’ was not.
Nor was Ariana Grande.
While there were so many names left off the official list ⏤ Tom Holland, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire, and Hugh Jackman among them ⏤ sweethearts, there’s still time. If nothing else, we were given a juicy glimpse of just how insane this movie is going to be ⏤ and now May 1, 2026 cannot come soon enough.
Published: Mar 26, 2025 03:49 pm