Ryan Reynolds Will Officially Return As DEADPOOL For AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY - But Not As Part Of The Team!

We now have confirmation that Ryan Reynolds will return as the Merc With a Mouth for Marvel Studios' Avengers: Doomsday, but Deadpool won't be suiting up with Earth's Mightiest Heroes...

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By MarkCassidy - Aug 15, 2025 06:08 PM EST

Filed Under: Avengers: Doomsday

Earlier this week, Ryan Reynolds sent speculation into overdrive when he shared an Avengers logo that had been vandalized with graffiti, and we now have confirmation that Deadpool will indeed return to the MCU for Avengers: Doomsday.

THR reports that Reynolds will reprise his role as the Merc With a Mouth for Marvel Studios' highly-anticipated event film, but he won't actually be suiting-up with Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

"Sources tell Heat Vision that yes, Deadpool will appear in Avengers: Doomsday. (Don't expect him to actually be joining the Avengers team, though.)"

So, what role will Wade Wilson play in the movie if he's not going to be part of the Avengers? Rumor has it that Doomsday will feature several different factions: Sam Wilson's Avengers, the New Avengers (formerly known as the Thunderbolts), The X-Men, The Fantastic Four, Team Loki, and Doctor Doom's villainous group.

Assuming Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is also set to return, the most logical team for this mutant pair to side with is The X-Men - unless Wade decides to break out on his own and shake things up a bit. Deadpool and Doom on the same side, perhaps? It could certainly make for an intriguing dynamic.

It will also be interesting to see how Wilson's fourth wall-breaking antics are incorporated into this movie. There's always a chance this aspect of the character will be toned down somewhat, of course.

What do you make of this news? Do you think adding Deadpool to Doomsday is a good idea?

Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars were recently hit with significant delays, with Doomsday now set to arrive in theaters on December 18, 2026, and Secret Wars positioned for December 17, 2027.

Both movies will be directed by the Russo brothers, who also make their MCU return after helming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

"Being able to create stories and explore characters within the Marvel Universe fulfilled a life-long dream of ours, and we discovered a powerful connection with audiences in each film that we made. We’re thrilled to collaborate once again with Kevin, Lou and the entire Marvel team to bring this epic adventure in storytelling to new and surprising places for both the fans and ourselves”, said The Russos in a statement after the SDCC panel.

You can check out the full (for now) Doomsday cast list below.

#AvengersDoomsday. Now in production. pic.twitter.com/G84UVU8HOc
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) March 26, 2025

• Paul Rudd as Ant-Man

• Simu Liu as Shang-Chi

• Tom Hiddleston as Loki

• Lewis Pullman as Sentry

• Florence Pugh as Yelena

• Danny Ramirez as Falcon

• Ian McKellen as Magneto

• Sebastian Stan as Bucky

• Winston Duke as M’Baku

• Chris Hemsworth as Thor

• Kelsey Grammer as Beast

• James Marsden as Cyclops

• Channing Tatum as Gambit

• Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent

• Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm

• Rebecca Romijn as Mystique

• Patrick Stewart as Professor X

• Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler

• Letitia Wright as Black Panther

• Tenoch Huerta Mejia as Namor

• Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards

• Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost

• Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm

• David Harbour as Red Guardian

• Robert Downey Jr as Doctor Doom

• Ebon Moss-Bachrach as The Thing

• Anthony Mackie as Captain America

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39 Comments

ShimmyShimmyYA - 8/15/2025, 6:16 PM

Gonna say he’s team Loki aka team TVA aka team multiverse

SonOfAGif - 8/15/2025, 6:24 PM

@ShimmyShimmyYA - I keep saying that the TVA will form a Multiversal team and that team should be X-Force. And it should consist of Deadpool, Wolverine, X-23, Cable, Domino, and Psylocke.

Jackraow21 - 8/15/2025, 6:30 PM

@SonOfAGif - Perfection!

ShimmyShimmyYA - 8/15/2025, 6:50 PM

@SonOfAGif - exiles * but close enough

movieguy18 - 8/15/2025, 6:54 PM

@SonOfAGif - This is such a great idea!

TheVisionary25 - 8/15/2025, 7:02 PM

@ShimmyShimmyYA - I like that!!.

TheShellyMan - 8/15/2025, 7:29 PM

@SonOfAGif - Nah, it's gonna be the same team we saw in D&W.

bkmeijer1 - 8/16/2025, 3:47 AM

@SonOfAGif - I could see that happening. Wouldn't be surprised if Binary and Photon will be on that tean too

AllsGood - 8/15/2025, 6:17 PM

It just Dawned on me why Spider-Man and the Hulk will NOT be in Avengers: Doomsday.

Both Very Busy Filming Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Missing Persons

AllsGood - 8/15/2025, 6:29 PM

@AllsGood - Spider-Man and Hulk Cameos in Doomsday might be Possible.

Malatrova15 - 8/15/2025, 7:11 PM

@AllsGood - god i hate Those techno underpants they gave Hulk in the Hickman era...they look like something he would wear in the MCU

lazlodaytona - 8/15/2025, 7:34 PM

@AllsGood - so do you normally talk and reply to yourself often?

Ryguy88 - 8/15/2025, 7:59 PM

@AllsGood - Spiderman was rumored to be the lead of Kang dynasty, would be weird if the replacement movie axed Spiderman completely.

bobevanz - 8/15/2025, 8:31 PM

@AllsGood - gotta love the MCU (Marvel Callback Universe)

Wahhvacado - 8/15/2025, 6:17 PM

MisterBones - 8/15/2025, 6:29 PM

And the movie just became lesser for it

Bucky74 - 8/15/2025, 6:33 PM

Great, now give us Jackman and Tobey!
X Force is the most likely team, I’d say

gambgel - 8/15/2025, 6:43 PM

hope he has a very small role, lets say an extended cameo or so. And some actual X-Men get their moment to shine, like Cyclops, Gambit, Nightcrawler and co. They are much more important and should have better roles.

and I dont care how much money Deadpool makes. The X-Men should always be bigger roles than Deadpool. period.

WeaponXCII - 8/15/2025, 6:50 PM

Exciting news! The wording that he won't "actually be joining the Avengers" seems a bit... odd. He's with the Avengers, but not... actually? Maybe a sort of Spider-Man dynamic, or something? Ultimately, though, I'm just looking forward to the X-Men corner becoming more integrated.

OrgasmicPotatoe - 8/15/2025, 10:01 PM

@WeaponXCII -

Canyoublush - 8/16/2025, 5:58 AM

@WeaponXCII - Deadpool has his own scenes in the movie.

Laridian - 8/15/2025, 6:56 PM

It's soooooo Deadpool to spread contradicting rumors about his return.

RockReigns - 8/15/2025, 7:05 PM

When all else fails, release the Reynolds.

grif - 8/15/2025, 7:29 PM

not watching this

lazlodaytona - 8/15/2025, 7:40 PM

Add yet another highly paid actor to a movie with a TON of other highly paid actors who most of them have large, uncooperative egos.

Seriously, I hope someone finds out how much this whole thing is truly costing Disney to do and not the lie of the amount the company says it will cost.

vectorsigma - 8/15/2025, 10:33 PM

@lazlodaytona - and in a landscape of 1B being difficult to achieve, good luck to marvel. This is what happens when story is not a priority. They are basically putting all these characters together without proper set up.

lazlodaytona - 8/16/2025, 2:29 AM

@vectorsigma - where MARVEL is at right now, having all these characters together in a film, ... it's basically a requirement now or it won't make much of a profit.
And let's say by some miracle MARVEL/Disney pulls the next Avengers event off with a decent story, good reviews, and it takes in $800 million. Then what? They'll have to keep having characters-overload in a every film just to keep people's attention.

Raise them kiddos up with confidence and strong willpower for good..

vectorsigma - 8/16/2025, 3:28 AM

@lazlodaytona - i dont know how the thinking process is on this production.

On one hand, getting Reynolds will surely be interesting to people because of D&W. But with a lot of big names here, the casting budget itself will be too big. Ive seen on reddit, based on recent numbers that casting alone will hit 300M.

On the other end, they couldvw polished the story really well and just stick with a decent number of actors. Less cost and a focus on story normally results to good things. But the big cast that they already announced will make this hard to do. No proper setup on most of them and those that did have did not resonate with the audience

One desperate move after another. And the bad thing is every move costs a lot.

lazlodaytona - 8/16/2025, 6:10 AM

@vectorsigma - I do hope they succeed. Am not wishing them ill-will mostly because if this ensemble movie fails then any DC large ensemble won't be as nearly anticipated; it'll be old-hat and a mindset of expected failure right off the bat.
I also think MARVEL using the previous regimes of FOX and SONY actors is a very cool plan and trying to wrap up those versions' is respectful.

I'm just blown away that no one is talking about the cost of just the actors alone. Are they only using most of them briefly to save cost? Or, will they each have a lengthier amount of time on screen?

There's just a lot to ponder and unanswered questions at the moment.

vectorsigma - 8/16/2025, 7:18 AM

@lazlodaytona - i think it is a cool plan if theyve planted seeds here and there since phase 4 started. The lack of any plan will be the determining factor on why i cant see anything positive, at least in the narrativr sense. The cameos and nostalgia are already a given to entertain.

And i think DC will not be affected in a negative way if this fails. It will become very apparent that not having a concrete plan/good script and with DCs current process, it wont have the same entertainment value.

As for the cost, yeah i havent seen any articles mentioning that. The marketing optics is that it should look cool because of this big and known cast. And i expect Disney/Marvel to lie about the budget as is the usual thing studios do. And im guessing these actors wont sign up if its just pennies. So i expect them to ask for a considerable amount even if they are just there for 3-5 min

TheVisionary25 - 8/15/2025, 8:12 PM

If true (which given it comes from a reliable trade like THR , it could be) then I honestly expect him to be a part a team of heroes assembled by the TVA…

I could Deadpool being on there with Wolverine , Captain Carter and MCU Steve Rogers amongst others.

Anyway , will be interesting to see how they dial him down for an Avengers film…

My guess is less to none profanity or fourth wall breaks , more plain wisecracking.

Timerider - 8/15/2025, 8:46 PM

Deadpool meeting She-Hulk breaking 4th walls together.

FusionWarrior - 8/15/2025, 10:10 PM

The mystery of why is Thor 😢

vectorsigma - 8/15/2025, 10:40 PM

Oh great. Reynolds will try to take over this production until Secret Wars and maybe beyond. A matter of time his antics will loose steam

OrgasmicPotatoe - 8/16/2025, 12:41 AM

@vectorsigma - The hierarchy of power at Marvel is about to change

vectorsigma - 8/16/2025, 3:31 AM

@OrgasmicPotatoe - and historically, this did not bode well for the other studio. I tend to see similarities on his and the Rock's approach on things.

OrgasmicPotatoe - 8/16/2025, 9:21 AM

@vectorsigma - Yeah, you can sleep tight, that's not happening.

dragon316 - 8/16/2025, 7:11 AM

Great Deadpool r rated will be kid friendly Disney version Deadpool no swearing involved no middle finger no adult jokes

dragon316 - 8/16/2025, 7:13 AM

@dragon316 - if this is true what people say about venom give it back marvel /Disney they do better justice to characters there characters are pg13 not r rated

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Ryan Reynolds Will Officially Return As DEADPOOL For AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY - But Not As Part Of The Team!

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