AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Reportedly a “Literal” Adaptation of Jonathan Hickman’s Epic Marvel Comics Runs
A new report claims that Avengers: Doomsday isn’t just borrowing ideas from the comics, it’s going full-on adaptation mode.
If the latest intel is legit, Marvel Studios is diving straight into one of the most intense, morally brutal Avengers stories ever put on the page, pulling heavily from Jonathan Hickman’s New Avengers and Secret Wars runs. If you know those stories, you already know things get wild.
According to reliable runtime and trailer leaker @Cryptic4KQual, who appears to have gotten a look at some major plot details, this movie isn’t playing it safe. T
he insider described the film’s plot as “amazing,” adding, “It's literally [Jonathan Hickman's] New Avengers/Secret Wars run with the MCU's mainline story [woven] in.”
If that’s accurate, the Russo Bros. might be cooking up something that makes Avengers: Endgame look restrained.
In Hickman’s New Avengers, the Illuminati takes center stage. This isn’t just a secret club of geniuses trading secrets. It’s Iron Man, Mister Fantastic, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt, Beast, and Namor facing an impossible reality.
Entire universes are colliding in catastrophic events known as Incursions. Every collision means one Earth survives and the other is completely annihilated.
The catch? Saving your world means destroying another.
That moral nightmare fractures the team. Some members cross lines they never thought they would. Others refuse, alliances crumble, trust evaporates, and while the Illuminati argues about ethics, the Multiverse keeps collapsing.
Strange eventually aligns himself with Doctor Doom, and things spiral even further. Doom defeats the Beyonders, steals their power, and reshapes what’s left of existence into Battleworld.
Hickman also introduces Rabum Alal, a future version of Doom worshipped as a god after trying to save the Multiverse in a way the Illuminati couldn’t. It’s operatic, tragic, and massive in scope.
New Avengers ends with the Final Incursion between Earth-616 and Earth-1610. Reed Richards constructs a “Life Raft” to preserve a small group of survivors as both universes die. Meanwhile, Captain America and Iron Man are locked in a brutal fight, their friendship shattered over Stark’s decisions while “protecting” reality. The universe collapses around them.
If Avengers: Doomsday really is adapting that material “literally,” we could be looking at an MCU story where heroes are forced to make catastrophic choices, longtime alliances implode, and Doctor Doom rises not just as a villain, but as a godlike architect of a broken Multiverse.
Incursions were introduced in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and the Multiverse saga has been escalating. Now it sounds like Marvel is ready to pull the trigger on complete epic craziness.
The Russo Brothers returning to the MCU for this chapter makes even more sense in that context. They’ve already proven they can juggle massive character ensembles and emotionally devastating stakes. T
ranslating Hickman’s morally heavy, high-concept saga into live-action would be a huge swing, but it’s exactly the kind of high-stakes storytelling that could redefine the Avengers for the next era.
Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18, with Avengers: Secret Wars set to arrive on December 17, 2027.
What do you think? Would you want to see a near-direct adaptation of Hickman’s run, or are you hoping Marvel remixes it into something completely different?