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Warning! Potential spoiler for Avengers: Doomsday follows:
X-Men histrion Ian McKellen appears to person accidentally confirmed the demolition of New Jersey successful Avengers: Doomsday.
Speaking to YouTube transmission Jake's Takes, McKellen dropped the evident spoiler portion musing astir however his carnal workload had eased implicit the years, pursuing immoderate of the stunts performed successful the X-Men movies.
"Two constabulary cars successful beforehand of maine were raised up by cranes," McKellen recalled of the memorable series successful 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand. "These were not peculiar effects. Nowadays I deliberation things volition go a small spot easier — though I did destruct New Jersey the different day." At this point, the histrion appears to recognize helium has said excessively much, saying: "Oooh, I possibly shouldn't person said that..."
Of course, Marvel fans person pounced connected the punctuation — and the speculation has rapidly begun arsenic to what this could each mean. But for starters, here's what we cognize of McKellen's instrumentality arsenic the iconic X-Men villain for definite.
Marvel's X-Men-focused Avengers: Doomsday trailer (that's seemingly not really a trailer) shows Magneto and Patrick Stewart's Professor X sitting broadside by broadside successful the X-Mansion, playing what appears to beryllium 1 last crippled of chess. The feeling present is that thing precise atrocious is astir to hap — presumably the accomplishment of Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom — arsenic we besides spot the schoolhouse reduced to rubble, and James Marsden's Cyclops letting escaped successful beforehand of what look similar Sentinels.
Fan speculation has wide centered connected the X-Men being brought into Doomsday's communicative arsenic a effect of the multiverse collapsing, via the "incursions" of realities crashing into each different arsenic seen successful Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness and Captain Marvel (which ends with an X-Men cameo). Does McKellen bash thing to avert an incursion successful the X-Men universe, astatine the outgo of destroying New Jersey? Whatever's going down, the authorities is lone a abbreviated region from that of the X-Mansion, which is situated successful Westchester County, New York.
Alternatively, could this beryllium the demolition of New Jersey successful the main MCU reality? This would perchance beryllium a immense communicative infinitesimal for the saga, depending connected however everything apt gets reset astatine the extremity of Avengers: Secret Wars. It would besides surely bring successful Jersey City nonmigratory Kamala Khan (and perchance the remainder of her increasing radical of young Avengers). And finally, if this was the case, it would mean Magneto (and perchance different X-Men) past the X-Mansion onslaught and permission their beingness to instrumentality the conflict elsewhere.
All volition beryllium revealed this December 18, erstwhile Avengers: Doomsday arrives successful theaters. On the upside, for erstwhile successful the Marvel beingness it seems similar Manhatten yet gets a time off.
Image credit: Joe Maher/WireImage via Getty Images.
Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
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