DOCTOR STRANGE Franchise Star Confirms They Will Return In AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY (And It Could Be A Game-Changer)

DOCTOR STRANGE Franchise Star Confirms They Will Return In AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY (And It Could Be A Game-Changer)

Many noteworthy names are missing from the Avengers: Doomsday cast, but it appears we can now add a Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness star to the list after they teased their "powerful" return.

By JoshWilding - Aug 13, 2025 06:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Doomsday
Source: ET Online

As work continues on Avengers: Doomsday in the UK, another actor has seemingly been confirmed as part of the already-impressive ensemble. ET Online recently caught up with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness star Xochitl Gomez, and quizzed her about starring in the next Avengers movie (she wasn't part of that splashy cast reveal).

Gomez didn't deny being involved with the project, and instead talked about what she's excited to bring to the table as America Chavez when she crosses paths with more of Earth 616's Mightiest Heroes. 

"I mean, I'm excited to see her future," she started. "I think most importantly...what do you guys want to see? What are you hoping for America's future? I would love to see that. Hopefully, we'll cook up something with what y'all put out there. Manifest it!"

Asked to describe what America brings to the table in Avengers: Doomsday with three words, Gomez replied, "Bravery. Courage. And let's say, powerful."

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness established that America can travel through the Multiverse, essentially punching her way into new worlds (a power the Scarlet Witch hoped to use to track down Variants of her children, Billy and Tommy). We last saw the teenager training at Kamar-Taj, so she may have mastered those powers by now.

America is likely to play a key role in Avengers: Doomsday, and her presence in the movie will be a game-changer for Sam Wilson and Yelena Belova's respective teams as they look to stop whatever Doctor Doom is up to.

How the Fantastic Four travel from Earth 828 to Earth 616 is still a mystery to us, though we still don't know whether they were on that ship. We'd also bet on America joining whatever form the MCU's Young Avengers takes. 

Finally, Gomez was asked who she's most looking forward to sharing the screen with in Avengers: Doomsday and replied, "Oh wow, well, I hope...not to say anything, this is just vibes...I would love to work with Elizabeth Olsen again. That was my favourite experience ever."

Olsen is rumoured to return in Avengers: Doomsday, while Benedict Cumberbatch appeared confused about whether he's in the movie. Benedict Wong's status also isn't clear, and neither is Charlize Theron's after she made her MCU debut as Clea in the Doctor Strange sequel's post-credits scene. 

You can hear more from Gomez on Avengers: Doomsday by following the link below. 

Avengers: Doomsday stars Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie, Winston Duke, Tom Hiddleston, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, and Robert Downey Jr. Wyatt Russell, Simu Liu, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Florence Pugh, Danny Ramirez, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, and Lewis Pullman all make the Avengers franchise debuts in the movie. 

The Fantastic Four: First Steps leads Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn join them, as do X-Men franchise stars Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, and Deadpool & Wolverine star Channing Tatum.

The Russo Brothers direct the movie from a script by Stephen McFeely, with whom they previously collaborated on the Captain America and Avengers franchises.

Avengers: Doomsday is set to be released on December 18, 2026, with Avengers: Secret Wars scheduled to arrive on December 17, 2027.

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Yellow
Yellow - 8/13/2025, 6:44 AM
Well makes sense.
I'm not a fan of how they turned Doomsday into this massive event, since they could just go for a Age of Utron vibe instead of "going bigger and bigger"

Canyoublush
Canyoublush - 8/13/2025, 7:05 AM
@Yellow - Avengers films represent the most ambitious and significant form of storytelling that the MCU has to offer. Everything operates on a grand scale. The stakes are higher than ever. It makes sense for the heroes to face extinction or universal level threats. How else are they gonna bank from this if they don’t bring everyone together.
Yellow
Yellow - 8/13/2025, 7:08 AM
@Canyoublush - that's why I used AoU as an example, that one didnt bring every single face together at the moment, there's no need to go always bigger.

Save that for Secret Wars
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 8/13/2025, 7:43 AM
@Yellow - For early/mid saga Avengers films I agree no need to go THAT big, but to setup Secret Wars you do kinda need an Infinity war for it's Endgame.

Doubly so when the whole point here is a way to clean up the continuity with merging in Fox IP's ready for a post saga soft reboot/reset.

Most the characters won't have a whole lot of screentime, specific to the character the article relates to she'll be in it for a few mins max to open a portal for whatever Avengers team they assemble to go to the Xmen timeline.
Yellow
Yellow - 8/13/2025, 8:31 AM
@Apophis71 - yeah I think one huge mistake was to stop doing team movies at the end of each phase for that early/mid saga stakes, now we are too deep with characters we only saw once
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 8/13/2025, 11:02 AM
@Yellow - Oh the lack of Avengers phase 4&5 cappers was a HUGE mistake, heck even if not specificaly Avengers some form of true crossover/teamup event movie featuring the main ones introduced in each phases should have occured.
Yellow
Yellow - 8/13/2025, 11:57 AM
@Apophis71 - exactly, even if they wanted to let the "Avengers" title rest, there were some options.

They even could easily name the movie after an event like "Original Sin" or something and don't use any team title
LenSpiderman
LenSpiderman - 8/13/2025, 1:28 PM
@Apophis71 - I honesty think if what they wanted was to give the “avengers” a break, what they should have done is completely dilute the brand (in universe) by essentially doing a reign of supermen concept. In the wake of the real avengers being devastated, Val assembles the thunderbolts and falcon or Wong or whoever, assembles the new avengers, and then throw in a young avengers, west coast avengers, and even a Great Lakes avengers reference maybe to show that the world is trying to move on, it gives us a second chance to see some of these new lesser known characters as well and then hit us with avengers doomsday and avengers secret wars where doomsday would showcase all these new teams, and secret wars could whittle that list down to the heroes who will survive going forward.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 8/13/2025, 1:47 PM
@LenSpiderman - Do think that is what they wanted, just think it was a mistake however the third option was still open as in do a crossover event film that in phase four included the likes of Yelena and Shang Chi along with the likes of Spider-Man or other remaining heroes from the Infinity Saga but WASN'T an avengers film. I mean instead of a Wakana based film they could have had some world security council type thing that had Shuri and various other heroes there that comes under attack from Namor, what you call it is another matter but you could easily find ways to include a bunch of the phase four characters alongside Infinity Saga ones in that and start the formation of multiple teams such as Excalibur or MI-13 to bring in Dane Whitman's Black Knight and Captain Britain on the back of it and an Asian based team with Shang Chi and Iron Fist etc.
LenSpiderman
LenSpiderman - 8/13/2025, 2:37 PM
@Apophis71 - yeah. My biggest complaint (aside from not diving into the multiverse more, and copping out on kang too early) is that we saw all these new characters and then they sat on the shelf mostly. Had they given them reasons to reappear in crossover and stuff so we can see them again and see how they interact with each other that would have helped. I’m also a big advocate of bringing back one shots and special presentations. The one shots are great places to keep characters relevant and give us little concentrated doses of their personalities and worlds. I’m not sure the massive expansion of the 616 universe was a good thing, when they neglected expanding the multiverse as much as they should have.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 8/13/2025, 7:39 PM
@Yellow - It's the end of the Saga. This is Infinity War.
Nemesis17then
Nemesis17then - 8/13/2025, 6:45 AM
Will this movie beat Ne Zha 2 numbers? I honestly think the only way for it to do this is if General Majors returns!🫡
dragon316
dragon316 - 8/13/2025, 7:01 AM
@Nemesis17then - avatar maybe this one need trailer decide then see movie for our self to decide if it’s goood
dragon316
dragon316 - 8/13/2025, 7:03 AM
@dragon316 - can’t depend on fans make movies successful be transformers one , fantastic four , antman and wasp , captain America brave new world all over again
Yellow
Yellow - 8/13/2025, 7:06 AM
@Nemesis17then - Will this movie or Zhe Nan 2 beat Eurovision as the non-sport event with more audience in the world?

THAT'S the real question.
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 8/13/2025, 7:10 AM
@Nemesis17then

In no world is Jonathan Majors a bigger draw than Robert Downey Jr.
JobinJ
JobinJ - 8/13/2025, 8:29 AM
@Nemesis17then - oh god the Ne Zha mega fan is back bringing that movie up for no reason.
Laridian
Laridian - 8/13/2025, 8:39 AM
@Nemesis17then - I don't even know what Ne Zha 2 is, but why does that even matter?
SATW42
SATW42 - 8/13/2025, 9:36 AM
@Laridian - it's a chinese animated film that did absolutely BONKERS numbers, mainly in China. It's made 2.2 billion dollars.
SATW42
SATW42 - 8/13/2025, 9:38 AM
@Laridian - you haven't heard of it because it did about 20,000 in the U.S. Not a typo. the rest of that 2.2 billion is worldwide.
Nemesis17then
Nemesis17then - 8/13/2025, 10:18 AM
@regularmovieguy - thats why the multiverse exists!
Nemesis17then
Nemesis17then - 8/13/2025, 10:18 AM
@JobinJ - Saddly thats not me
Laridian
Laridian - 8/13/2025, 10:42 AM
@SATW42 - That still ignores my question. Why does that matter?
SATW42
SATW42 - 8/13/2025, 11:42 AM
@Laridian - it doesn't at all, other than asking the question of if it will be one of the biggest box offices of all time, and that's a current example
Nonameforme
Nonameforme - 8/13/2025, 6:59 AM
Not sure why anyone should care about this
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 8/13/2025, 7:46 AM
@Nonameforme - Shouldn't matter if they don't, she will be in it for a couple mins max to open a portal and that's it, like her or love her and everything inbetween she will be as much a part of this film as a door handle is to enter a building in a film.
thedrudo
thedrudo - 8/13/2025, 8:21 AM
@Apophis71 - Exactly.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 8/13/2025, 9:32 AM
@Nonameforme - She will be in this for the exact same reason modern Marvel created the character. Three letters describe why she’s in this…
SATW42
SATW42 - 8/13/2025, 9:39 AM
@Bucky74 - YAI?
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 8/13/2025, 9:48 AM
@SATW42 - Not the letters I was thinking about. I personally found her to be a grating character in Dr. Strange. Marvel is committed to the message though so that always comes first
SATW42
SATW42 - 8/13/2025, 10:32 AM
@Bucky74 - I was debating letting you know but It stands for "You're an Asshole"
SATW42
SATW42 - 8/13/2025, 10:33 AM
it's actually "You're an idiot" but in the moment, I felt like changing it up
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 8/13/2025, 10:44 AM
@SATW42 - Those who speak the truth often are
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 8/13/2025, 10:45 AM
@SATW42 - The idiot is the guy who denies facts and puts feelings first.
Nonameforme
Nonameforme - 8/13/2025, 4:12 PM
@Bucky74 - zqm right?
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 8/13/2025, 7:16 AM
That’s not a confirmation , my guy lol…

Anyway , America was alright in MOM but I wouldn’t mind seeing her again and how she’s grown studying in Kamar Taj.

Honestly , I hope she joins the Champions in the future since I think she would fit in well with the rest (I could also see her in that Strange Academy show rumored to be in development)!!.

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bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 8/13/2025, 8:58 AM
@TheVisionary25 - I really doubt we'll see Strange Academy happen. Instead I think should just merge it with Champions into Avengers Academy. Think America could play off Riri in an interesting way
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 8/13/2025, 9:04 AM
@bkmeijer1 - maybe not since Winderbaum has said they are developing more then they would likely end up making like every other television studio does
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 8/13/2025, 9:53 AM
@TheVisionary25 - so much is said I can't keep track. Either way, I'm always up for more daredevil
BeyondtheFuture
BeyondtheFuture - 8/13/2025, 7:25 AM
Didn’t one of the leaks say she appears in one scene to open a portal? I realise it’s still being written though.
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