Avengers: Doomsday‘s new set pH๏τo confirms the story features an Avengers vs X-Men clash according to one fascinating MCU theory. With 7 years between the release dates of Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Endgame – and Endgame being the biggest superhero movie of all time – it’s safe to say there’s a lot of curiosity about how Doomsday will handle its story.

However, major details about what to expect for Avengers: Doomsday are still relatively few and far between – with the Avengers: Doomsday cast reveals and the revelation that Robert Downey Jr will be Doctor Doom being the main information we’ve gotten thus far. This makes Doomsday‘s newest set pH๏τo – and the major X-Men theory that’s emerged from it – even more interesting.

Avengers: Doomsday’s New Set PH๏τo Is Theorized To Confirm An Avengers Vs X-Men Conflict

Avengers: Doomsday‘s most recent update comes in the form of a set pH๏τo posted online by the Russo brothers. The image and its caption replicates a famous Avengers: Endgame set pH๏τo, which showed the 2019 movie’s own set layout in a format where “Endgame” could be read in the arrangement of the things in the picture.

Naturally, this has led eagle-eyed fans to try and see what is concealed within the Doomsday pH๏τo. Perhaps the most interesting theory that’s emerged about what this means for the upcoming MCU movie has been hit upon by those who believe the image’s layout spells “A v X” – which would here be a reference to the Avengers vs. X-Men comics.

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It’s already confirmed that many classic X-Men actors will reprise their roles in Avengers: Doomsday, and pre-existing theories about the two factions being set up for initial conflict means the “AvX” idea does hold some weight. Indeed, there are a few reasons this being a tease of an impending hero vs hero conflict would seem fitting for the film’s trajectory.

Why The MCU Adapting Avengers Vs X-Men In Avengers: Doomsday Would Make Sense

The Multiverse Saga has been building up to the idea of universes being pitted against one against for some considerable time now. While these ideas have been explored somewhat in MCU movies like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and ᴅᴇᴀᴅpool & Wolverine, ending the Multiverse Saga without some multiversal conflict would seem borderline bizarre.

Since the X-Men are set for an MCU reboot, giving the Fox X-Men actors – who’ve now been established as part of the MCU multiverse – a suitably grand send-off seems only right, and this setup looks to easily equal at least a partial adaptation of the Avengers vs X-Men story and concept.

With Avengers: Doomsday leading into Avengers: Secret Wars, this also makes sense on a comic level, as an Avengers vs X-Men conflict could loosely adapt Time Runs Out, which leads into the 2015 Secret Wars comic by seeing different worlds’ heroes face off against one another, teeing Doctor Doom up to gain further power and become God Emperor Doom.

Given there’s been much concern about whether Avengers: Doomsday can live up to Avengers: Endgame, pitting the Avengers versus the other biggest Marvel superhero team of all time would certainly help bolster its sense of spectacle in a big way – whether the Avengers: Doomsday set pH๏τo is directly teasing this possibility or not.