Marvel’s Biggest Star Predicted Avengers: Doomsday 13 Years Ago

By Chris Snellgrove
| Published 35 seconds ago

Even after all these years, Hugh Jackman is arguably still the biggest Marvel star: after all, his performance as Wolverine was so iconic that the mutant was brought (kicking and screaming, no less) into the MCU with Deadpool & Wolverine. Longtime comics fans were particularly excited for these films because the Marvel Cinematic Universe was once forbidden from using X-Men characters. As cool as it was to see the Avengers assemble onscreen, many of us were sad that everyone’s favorite band of merry mutants couldn’t join them

Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox finally made that crossover popular, and we’re going to see the rest of the X-Men join the MCU in the upcoming film Avengers: Doomsday. It’s a movie that execs like Kevin Feige have presented as a bold new take on the world of superhero cinema, but this film isn’t as innovative as they imagine. After all, Hugh Jackman basically predicted Avengers: Doomsday 13 years ago!

The Mutant Who Knew Too Much

Back then, Jackman was promoting a different Marvel movie altogether: The Wolverine, the surprisingly solid sequel to the disappointing X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This was way before Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, so there was no way for his beloved character to pop up in the MCU. However, The Avengers had premiered just one year before, and many could now see the potential of ambitious onscreen team-ups between different kinds of heroes.

This included Hugh Jackman. In a recently resurfaced promotional clip for The Wolverine, he discussed how he’s “maybe…optimistic” that Marvel, which has “a lot of big things going on,” couldn’t find some way to bring the characters owned by different studios into one film. “I find it almost impossible that there’s not a way [to take] Iron Man, all the Avengers characters, Wolverine, the X-Men characters, Spider-Man, and somehow get them in all together,” he said.

Now that the movie is set to premiere later this year, many Marvel fans are amazed that Hugh Jackman essentially predicted Avengers: Doomsday 13 years ago. So far, we know that this movie will feature the Avengers, the X-Men, Spider-Man, and Iron Man (or at least, Doomsday wearing Iron Man’s face). While he hasn’t yet confirmed he will be in it, many assume that Jackman’s Wolverine will make an appearance, especially after Deadpool & Wolverine made him part of the MCU and prominently joked about how the actor would be playing the same character for many years to come.

Finally Giving The Fans What They Want

If nothing else, Jackman gets points for knowing exactly what his audience wants to see onscreen. In that same interview, he said, “I’m totally in” for such a crossover “because that would be really exciting for fans across the board.” This is, of course, what Kevin Feige is hoping for: that the sheer excitement of seeing all these different characters onscreen will be enough to overcome the superhero fatigue that is threatening to destroy the MCU altogether.

Fans of Hugh Jackman are busy giving the mutant actor his props for predicting the biggest superhero film ever made over 13 years before its release date. Cynics, however, claim that he merely stated the obvious and that every Marvel fan worth their salt has wanted all these characters onscreen together since the beginning. But there’s one thing that both these groups can agree on: that the success or failure of Avengers: Doomsday will determine whether these epic team-ups are the new norm or just one last bit of “maximum effort” before the tights-and-flights genre finally flies off into the sunset.