Published Oct 8, 2026, 7:45 PM EDT
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It is now just over two months until ***Doomsday ***strikes and the world takes its seat for the biggest theatrical event in recent memory. Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three (a partnership lovingly dubbed ‘Dunesday’) both debut in theaters on December 18, 2026, and it is predicted to be one of the highest-grossing days of all time. Between the two films, it seems no Hollywood actor has been left out, with *Doomsday *doing most of the heavy lifting.
Robert Downey Jr. is the most headline-grabbing of the cast, as he returns to the MCU in a new role as Doctor Doom rather than Iron Man. Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie, Tom Hiddleston, Florence Pugh, and more join the new Fantastic Four (Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Joseph Quinn, Vanessa Kirby, and Pedro Pascal) and some original X-Men in a stacked cast that is bursting at the seams with talent. Among them is Sebastian Stan, who is returning following 2025’s *Thunderbolts* *as Bucky Barnes in Doomsday.
In a recent interview with Decider, Stan admitted that he hadn’t “seen the movie, and I don’t know how it turned out.” But as a contributor to the film, he is sure to have some idea about what happens in a potential plot that has the whole of social media speculating. “I’m sure it’s going to be probably heartbreaking, in a lot of ways,” Stan teased, even hinting that some major characters might meet their demise: “We’ll see who makes it to the next level.”
For Doomsday, as he mentioned in the interview, Stan got to “reunite with everyone” on the set for the film, adding, “It was very nostalgic to look back and think about all of these years that we’ve known each other and grew up together. It’s incredible in that way. It’s been a family, and it never stops being that way.”
Four teams, four completely different reasons to put yourself in danger for strangers. This is the roster you actually belong on, what they would want from you, and what it would cost you to stay.
You belong where the stakes are largest and the personalities are loudest. This is a team of people who are all used to being the most important person in the room, which is exactly why it works and exactly why it keeps nearly falling apart.
You have never had the luxury of being thanked for this. The X-Men protect a world that has never once been comfortable with them existing, and something in you understands exactly why they keep doing it anyway.
You do not want colleagues, you want your people. The Titans are the team where the friendship came first and the world-saving turned up afterwards as an inconvenient side effect.
You are not asking who to trust. You worked out the answer a while ago and it was nobody in a cape. This is where you go once you have decided the people in charge need watching, and that nobody else is going to do it.
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