AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Concept Art Reveals a Wild X-Men MCU Connection with Doop!
Recently leaked concept art from Avengers: Doomsday has set the internet on fire as it teases some really cool things that we can expect from the Marvel movie. One of them also features one of the strangest X-Men characters, one I never expected to to see in the MCU… Doop.
The green, floating, gibberish-speaking anomaly from X-Force and X-Statix may have found his way into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and if the concept art is any indication, he might even be rolling with the Young Avengers.
While Marvel Studios has remained tight-lipped about Avengers: Doomsday, a batch of concept art recently surfaced online before the concept artist behind them removed them. But not before fans saved and shared them.
The images teased a lot including Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom, Star-Lord with White Vision, a new Black Panther, and a medieval-style setting featuring Hulk and She-Hulk alongside other Hulks.
But Doop was a wild card that I didn’t see coming. The leaked art shows the green blob in what appears to be a bar or restaurant, surrounded by the Young Avengers. The group includes Ms. Marvel, Kate Bishop’s Hawkeye, Cassie Lang, Wiccan, and Speed. They are accompanied by Wong and Star-Lord.
Doop isn’t exactly a household name among Marvel fans as it’s a pretty obscure character. Created by writer Peter Milligan and artist Mike Allred, he first appeared in X-Force #116 in 2001.
This wasn’t the classic X-Men-affiliated X-Force, but a revamped, media-driven mutant team that was later rebranded as X-Statix. Doop served as their cameraman, capturing their wild and crazy adventures.
Doop’s origins are murky, with some stories suggesting he was a Cold War-era government experiment, while others hint that he hails from an entirely different dimension called Marginalia.
What we do know is that he’s absurdly powerful, boasting abilities like flight, energy projection, enhanced durability, and even a pocket universe inside his own body. Oh, and he speaks in a strange language that only a few characters can understand.
Over the years, Doop has drifted through various Marvel stories, popping up in Wolverine and the X-Men as an administrator at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning and taking part in multiple crossover events.
While concept art doesn’t always guarantee a character’s inclusion in the final film, Marvel doesn’t just throw in random designs for no reason. Given the multiversal chaos currently unfolding in the MCU, there are plenty of ways Doop could fit in.
Maybe he’s from another universe. Maybe his pocket dimension plays a role in introducing more mutants. Or, maybe it’s just a character Marvel wanted to throw in the film for fun.
