As anticipation for Avengers: Doomsday continues to build, new rumors are offering insight into one of the film’s biggest plot drivers: why the X-Men fight the Avengers. A recent report shared by a known scooper suggests the clash stems from misunderstanding, multiversal trauma, and the fallout of repeated Incursions.
Rumor reveals why X-Men fight the Avengers in Doomsday
The central reason the X-Men fight the Avengers in Avengers: Doomsday is rooted in survival. The X-Men’s universe has already endured multiple Incursions, leaving mutants wary of outsiders. When the Avengers and the Fantastic Four arrive, claiming they want to help, the X-Men reportedly believe their universe is about to be destroyed.
“In Avengers Doomsday the X-Men been through many Incursions so when the Avengers and F4 come to their universe to try and help them they assume they came there to destroy them and that’s why they fight,” My Time to Shine Hello posted on X.
This narrative thread connects to another major rumor involving Steve Rogers. According to the scooper, after Avengers: Endgame but before the end of Loki Season 2, Loki relocates Steve and his family to a safe universe, which is later revealed to be the Fantastic Four’s reality. They live there peacefully until the events of Doomsday, when Doctor Doom arrives to warn the FF about the Incursions. Reed Richards and Doom subsequently track down Steve, explain the crisis, and ask for his help returning to the MCU to rally heroes.
This plot serves to bridge the original MCU heroes with the incoming Marvel legacy characters, setting the arc for a massive, multi-faction alliance. However, as The Cosmic Circus’ Alex Perez elaborated, the X-Men universe we see will be a variant for simplicity, one that has become a “utopia for humans and mutants” after events similar to the original Fox films. Perez noted the film’s central motif asks, “What would you be willing to sacrifice to gain what you want? To succeed? To save the ones you love?”
Directed by The Russo Brothers, Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18.
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on SuperHeroHype.com.
