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Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is missing from the Avengers: Doomsday line-up

My guy has barely spent ten minutes in those blue and yellows! Is Logan really gone for good after Deadpool & Wolverine?

A promotional still of Hugh Jackman in Deadpool & Wolverine
Image credit: Marvel Studios

He’s the best there is at what he does, bub, and what he does is… not return to the MCU, apparently?

After today's hours-long Marvel Studios livestream of the Avengers: Doomsday cast reveal, it appears Hugh Jackman will not be in the next Marvel Cinematic Universe event, despite his return as Wolverine in 2024’s smash-hit R-Rated MCU entry, Deadpool & Wolverine.

Who did appear in that cast list were a ton of his fellow X-Men stars, including Kelsey Grammer (Hank McCoy/Beast), Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler), and James Marsden (Cyclops). Jackman's absence was notable from the list, especially since it ended with the reveal that Channing Tatum, who played Gambit for a very cameo-specific role in the third Deadpool movie, ended up on there. For that matter, Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool was also curiously absent from the Doomsday cast. Apparently, you have to save something for the following year's Avengers: Secret Wars.

"Til you’re 90," Deadpool told Wolverine in his last cinematic outing. Maybe he was wrong?

Avengers: Doomsday snikts its way into theaters May 1, 2026. 


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Grant DeArmitt

Grant DeArmitt: Grant DeArmitt (he/him) likes horror, comics, and the unholy union of the two. As Popverse's Staff Writer, he criss-crosses the pop culture landscape bringing you the news and opinions about the big things (and the next big things). In the past, and despite their better judgment, he has written for Nightmare on Film Street and Newsarama. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Kingsley, and corgi, Legs.

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