Have you finally caught your breath after last week’s Avengers: Doomsday teaser brought some very tantalising teases of the X-Men? Well, we have good and bad news: that breath is about to be taken once again, because we have a fourth Doomsday teaser, hinting at the return of several beloved characters – Shuri, aka the Black Panther, her Wakandan people (including M’Baku, and the Dora Milaje), nefarious mutant Namor, plus one quarter of The Fantastic Four: Ben Grimm, aka The Thing. Check it out here:
There’s plenty to be excited about here: this marks our first glimpse of Letitia Wright’s Shuri since 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; same for Tenoch Huerta’s Namor. And since Namor is a character often associated with the Fantastic Four, it’s exciting to see Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s Ben Grimm in the mix here too. As for the other Fantastic three, where they are remains to be seen.
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This teaser does, as well, indicate some universe-hopping. Given that we’re in the Multiverse Saga, some reality-leaping is to be expected. But we know that the MCU’s Fantastic Four occupy a different universe to the main Sacred Timeline, so Ben Grimm meeting M'Baku and co is a particularly big deal.
Of course, in the grand scheme of things, we know vanishingly little about Avengers: Doomsday, and we’re yet to see Robert Downey Jr. as Doom himself. What we do know is that it marks the return of directors Anthony and Joe Russo, with Stephen McFeely on script duties. There is less than a year to wait for the Multiverse-smashing blockbuster, heading to cinemas on December 18.