No, Reed Richards Will not Lead the Avengers in ‘Doomsday’

We could not know a lot about Avengers: Doomsday proper now, however we’ve recognized for months the Fantastic Four will probably be a core a part of it. Now, we all know one thing else about it: Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards isn’t taking of the whichever Avengers workforce he winds up assembly.

Earlier in July, Unbelievable 4: First Steps director Matt Shakman described Reed to Variety as a person who “goes from being a nerdy scientist to the husband and father who’d do something to guard his household, to the man who’s main the Avengers.” That kicked up a hornet’s nest on-line, since in Earth-616 (the MCU model), Sam Wilson and Yelena Belova lead the two separate teams. Shakman later clarified that he wasn’t chatting with Reed’s particular arc in Doomsday particularly, and now it’s Pascal’s flip to chime in.

The actor gently referred to as Shakman’s authentic feedback “a little bit of a mislead. One thing occurs within the comics the place Reed’s type of drawn in by the Avengers household and requested to be put right into a management place. It isn’t essentially one thing that my character’s future entails.” The actor burdened he was being fully trustworthy in what he’s saying, (and isn’t attempting to duck spoilers), and if we take him at his phrase, he’s appropriate.

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Comics-wise, Reed and different members of the Unbelievable 4 have joined the Avengers sooner or later all through the many years, simply as some Avengers have been within the 4. In current historical past, his Avengers tenure was as a member of the Illuminati to assist resolve the bigger Incursion drawback all through the multiverse in Jonathan Hickman and Mike Deodato Jr.’s New Avengers. The Incursion plotline is being tailored for Doomsday and its sequel Secret Wars, and fellow Illuminati members Professor X and Beast are slated to look within the first movie. With Beast and Charles with the X-Males, it falls to Reed to lend his experience on the Avengers facet of issues—and we’ll see if he’s as much as the duty when Avengers: Doomsday releases December 18, 2026.

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