Despite the claims that people are done with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fans tuned in for a five-hour news stream of chairs being brought out that confirmed the cast of Avengers: Doomsday. Many MCU teams were present, including The Fantastic Four and Thunderbolts, along with heroes like Captain America, Shang-Chi, Black Panther, Ant-Man, and Thor, to name a few. Yet, the biggest shock was the inclusion of so many X-Men characters.

There have been X-Men teases throughout the McU's Multiverse Saga, notably Patrick Stewart's cameo in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Kelsey Grammer as Beast at the end of The Marvels, and of course, various X-Men characters like Deadpool, Wolverine, Gambit, and X-23 in Deadpool & Wolverine. Yet Avengers: Doomsday not only confirmed that Stewart and Grammer were returning, but so would Ian McKellen as Magneto, Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, Channing Tatum as Gambit, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique,...