A New AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Rumor Puts Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man in Serious Trouble
New information tied to Avengers: Doomsday is making the rounds, and if it turns out to be true, it’s not going to sit well with fans who’ve been holding out hope for Tobey Maguire’s long-rumored Spider-Man 4.
Maguire’s return as Peter Parker has been one of those open secrets that Marvel Studios refuses to officially acknowledge. Still, multiple scooper reports have kept the conversation alive.
MyTimeToShineHello has previously claimed that Maguire appears in Avengers: Doomsday with a fully CGI suit and even shares screen time with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. None of this has been confirmed by Marvel, but the consistency of the chatter has made it hard to ignore.
Now a new update adds a much darker wrinkle. During a recent Nerdrotic at Night livestream, Nerdrotic shared details about the film’s opening that suggest Maguire’s Spider-Man doesn’t make it very far into the story. According to him, the reveal comes early and ends brutally:
“There’s Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man world with Tobey Maguire Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus fighting the Fox X-Men, and the Fox X-Men destroy Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man, and he dies.”
If that is even close to what Marvel has planned, it would be a shocking way to reintroduce the character. It doesn’t make sense to me to bring this beloved version of Spider-Man back just to kill him. I think this Nerdrotic guy is full of shit, but only time will tell.
Maguire was the first actor to bring Spider-Man to life on the big screen, leading Sam Raimi’s original trilogy with Spider-Man in 2002, Spider-Man 2 in 2004, and Spider-Man 3 in 2007.
A fourth film was once in development before Sony scrapped it and rebooted the franchise with The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012 starring Andrew Garfield.
Fans lost their minds when Maguire and Garfield both returned alongside Tom Holland in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. Seeing all three Spider-Men share the screen felt like long-overdue closure, but it also reignited calls for Sony to finally move forward with Spider-Man 4 and The Amazing Spider-Man 3.
If Avengers: Doomsday really opens with Maguire’s Spider-Man being killed and his universe wiped out, that dream suddenly looks a lot less likely. Sony could still make Spider-Man 4, but it would almost certainly need to be set before the events of the Avengers crossover, which limits where that story could go.
Of course, this is the multiverse we’re talking about. Nothing ever truly feels permanent. Marvel has plenty of narrative escape hatches if it wants them.
For now, it’s all speculation. Marvel Studios hasn’t confirmed Maguire’s involvement, his fate, or even the details of Avengers: Doomsday beyond its release window. Fans are going to have to wait and see when the movie hits theaters on December 18, 2026.