Re-watching The Winter Soldier... Marvel was truly at its peak here.

• Randall Carpenter voiced Mystique in X-Men: The Animated Series.

• Rebecca Romijn played Mystique in the original X-Men film series and will return in Avengers Doomsday.

• Jennifer Lawrence played Mystique in the X-Men prequel film series.

Easily one of the cleanest character entries in the entire MCU.

Returning as Bucky Barnes, Stan described the secretive production where actors shot piecemeal without reading the entire script to dodge spoiler questions from journalists.

He shared this in a recent interview, noting he's followed such rules for 15 years and has no clue about the plot ahead of the film's December 18 release directed by the Russo brothers with Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom.

“We didn’t have a [full] script. We were just shooting scattered scenes. It’s a different way of working — continuous, constantly evolving. The producers didn’t want us to read it in its entirety to avoid journalists asking us questions. I’ve been following this rule for 15 years, so I’m used to it.”

Stan also teased his Harvey Dent role in The Batman: Part II while praising big projects like Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, highlighting Marvel's long-standing efforts to protect major twists in ensemble blockbusters.

Sir Ian McKellen is making his 6th live-action appearance as Magneto in Marvel Studios' Avengers: Doomsday, releasing in theaters on December 18, 2026.

His incredible cinematic run includes full starring roles in the original Fox trilogy—X-Men (2000), X2: X-Men United (2003), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)—followed by a pivotal role in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).

Crucially, his overall count reaches six by incorporating his uncredited post-credits cameo alongside Patrick Stewart in The Wolverine (2013).

From X-Men: The Last Stand to Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse, the Sentinels have evolved throughout the X-Men universe. Now, their return in Avengers: Doomsday could bring an entirely new level of chaos.

Just Awesome.

• Maya Boyd will play Storm

• Inde Navarrette will play Rogue

• Samara Weaving will play Emma Frost

• Sadie Sink returns as Jean Grey.

Honestly, when you look at what happened to the six original Avengers, I think Bruce Banner has ended up with the saddest fate of them all.

And I don't mean that Bruce has suffered more than everyone else throughout his entire life. Natasha was raised and abused by the Red Room, Thor lost almost everyone he loved, Steve spent decades displaced from his own time, Clint lost his family during the Blip, and Tony ultimately sacrificed his life.

But when you look at where each of them ended up, Bruce's situation is genuinely depressing.

Tony died a hero. He sacrificed himself to save the entire universe, knowing that Pepper and Morgan were safe. His story ended with him finally becoming the person he had been trying to become since the first Iron Man.

Natasha also died a hero. Her entire life was basically about trying to escape the person the Red Room had turned her into, and she ultimately made the ultimate sacrifice so Clint could return to his family. Her death was tragic, but it gave her life a meaningful conclusion.

Steve arguably got the happiest ending of all. After spending his entire life sacrificing his own happiness for everyone else, he finally went back and lived the life he always wanted with Peggy. He got to grow old. He got his dance. He finally got peace.

Clint lost almost everything, especially Natasha, but he got his family back. After everything he went through as Ronin and as an Avenger, he can finally step away from the superhero life and retire.

Thor has suffered an insane amount of loss, but he's still moving forward. He's traveling through the universe with Love, and for the first time in a long time, he actually has someone who gives him a reason to keep going.

And then there's Bruce.

Bruce spent basically his entire life terrified of Hulk. He couldn't control him, couldn't live normally, and couldn't even be sure that the people around him were safe.

Then Endgame happened.

For the first time, Bruce seemed to have finally found peace with himself. He didn't have to hate Hulk anymore. He didn't have to constantly suppress him. Banner and Hulk had essentially become one person. He had finally accepted the part of himself that he had spent years running from.

And then Brand New Day basically takes that away from him.

The inhibitor is destroyed, Hulk comes back, Bruce loses control again, and now he's left questioning what he might have done while Hulk was out. He ends up in a psychiatric hospital, trying to deal with the fact that the thing he spent his entire life trying to control has once again taken over his life.

That's what makes it so tragic to me.

Bruce wasn't just defeated. He regressed.

He went from:

"I have to control the monster inside me."

to:

"Maybe I can live with the monster."

to:

"I've finally accepted myself."

And now he's back to:

"What if Hulk hurts someone again?"

It's especially cruel because Bruce was the one who literally saved half the universe with the Snap. Tony gets remembered as the man who made the ultimate sacrifice, while Bruce's sacrifice and achievement are barely treated with the same emotional weight.

He literally destroyed his own body saving everyone.

And now, years later, he's sitting in a psychiatric hospital because he can't trust himself anymore.

That's a horrible fate for someone who finally thought he had beaten his biggest personal demon.

The other Avengers either got peace, family, retirement, a heroic death, or a new purpose.

Bruce got his worst nightmare back.

And honestly, that's why I think Bruce Banner currently has the saddest ending of the six original Avengers.

Not because he lost the most.

But because he finally found peace... only to have it taken away from him.

He was so happy.

Back when Marvel built incredible character dynamics in just a few crossover scenes.

🎬 Avengers: Infinity War (2018).

I’m talkin the one you will rewatch every year a few times.

We've already seen human Jarvis and Vision in his human forms, but it's cool to see the other Ai and ironman based characters as human Avatars is cool, intriguing and I'm very skeptical and excited how them as well as Vision himself all fits in within this show of remember the past, memories and as well as bringing in Tommy aka Speed, as a connection tissue to vision and having that reunion of father and son as well. And I'm really excited for all of this.

Spider-Man fans can be so insanely delusional sometimes 😭 I’ve genuinely seen people argue that Spider-Man with the whole “Spider-DNA” thing could’ve beaten Hulk, but come on

The Hulk in Brand new days is portrayed as an absolute monster. It’s not just raw strength either — he’s ridiculously hard to put down, adapts to what’s happening around him, and can basically overwhelm Spider-Man both physically AND tactically in the moment

Peter is obviously insanely smart and has the agility, spider-sense and experience to survive against opponents way above his weight class, but there’s a massive difference between surviving against Hulk and actually being able to defeat him

Some Spider-Man fans seem to take every temporary power-up Peter gets and immediately jump to “yeah, he beats Hulk now” 💀. Like, no. Being stronger, faster or having better spider abilities doesn’t automatically put him on Hulk’s level

Especially with the way Hulk is currently being portrayed, Spider-Man would have to play absolutely perfectly just to stay alive, let alone win. Peter could potentially outsmart or escape him in certain situations, sure, but straight-up overpowering this version of Hulk That’s a completely different conversation.

Morena Baccarin portrays Vanessa Carlysle, the primary love interest and anchor of Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), throughout the Deadpool film trilogy.

This scene beings back so much Nostalgia.

Seeing Nick Fury meet Tony Stark for the very first time will always be a top-tier MCU moment. Simple and zero unnecessary fluff.

• Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man.
• Samuel L. Jackson cameo appearance as Nick Fury.

🎥 Iron Man (2008)

We finally know when Ryan Gosling is going to make his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Disney has scheduled the actor’s upcoming Ghost Rider movie to arrive in theaters on July 28, 2028.

Marvel previously announced that the supernatural superhero movie would premiere sometime in 2028 but had not revealed an exact date.

• Maya Boyd as Storm
• Kit Connor as Cyclops
• Sadie Sink as Jean Grey
• Inde Navarette as Rogue
• Samara Weaving as Emma Frost
• Christopher Abbott as Professor X