A Main MCU Return Would possibly Have Simply Been Confirmed For Avengers: Doomsday

Avengers: Doomsday is seemingly set to function a shock Marvel Cinematic Universe return. The solid of the subsequent Avengers film was formally introduced by Marvel in March, when the studio got here up with a 5-hour-plus live-stream that slowly revealed chairs with actors’ names. Main franchise gamers, comparable to Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, and Sebastian Stan, have been a part of the announcement.

Avengers: Doomsday‘s story was additionally revealed to incorporate a number of actors from Fox’s X-Males motion pictures, comparable to Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, in addition to stars who joined the MCU’s slate of initiatives throughout the Multiverse Saga, like Florence Pugh, Pedro Pascal, and David Harbour. Now, plainly an actor not revealed to return within the occasion is coming again for Avengers: Doomsday.

On her Instagram Tales (by way of @alexschlerf/Twitter), Kathryn Newton shared a photograph of her carrying an Avengers: Doomsday crew hat at Disneyland.

Newton performed the grown-up model of Cassie Lang, the daughter of Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man, in 2023’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The character was one of many heroes who took down Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror, the preliminary important villain of the Multiverse Saga, earlier than Robert Downey Jr.’s Physician Doom entered the image.

Cassie Lang was first performed by Abby Ryder Fortson within the Ant-Man franchise. When the MCU aged up the character, Emma Fuhrmann took over the position for Avengers: Endgame. Nevertheless, when the time got here for Cassie to grow to be a hero herself, the MCU selected to recast the position with the extra skilled Newton.

Newton’s Cassie Lang is a part of the MCU’s plan for the Younger Avengers. The workforce nonetheless has to obtain an official title within the franchise, however Iman Vellani’s Ms. Marvel began the recruitment course of in The Marvels. The 2023 MCU film noticed Kamala Khan recruit Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop. It additionally teased Cassie’s position, which Daredevil: Born Once more bolstered.

Kamala’s father, Yusuf Khan, informed Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock that his daughter was in California to go to pals. Cassie lives in San Francisco, which suggests the MCU was teasing that she was being recruited, following up on The Marvels‘ tease the place Ms. Marvel requested Kate Bishop if she knew that Ant-Man had a daughter.

Whereas Avengers: Doomsday‘s solid was introduced with no point out of Newton, Kevin Feige confirmed on April third that it was not the entire solid of the Avengers film. That has already been adopted up by the primary two Avengers: Doomsday trailers, which included Steve Rogers and Love, beforehand unconfirmed characters. As such, Cassie Lang may really be again in Avengers: Doomsday.