Avengers: Doomsday Fans Aren't Ready For How Hard Doctor Doom Schools Wolverine

Published Nov 14, 2026, 8:30 AM EST

The Avengers: Doomsday trailers have already shown Downey’s Doctor Doom to be one of the MCU’s most powerful characters yet, as evidenced by how he easily stops Thor from attacking him with the magical battleaxe Stormbreaker. Yet, with rumblings that Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine will also appear in the upcoming Marvel movie, there could potentially be a clash between him and Doom as well. As such, it’s worth going over how the Latverian masked menace once brutally defeated Wolverine, and then continued to humiliate him even after he died.

Doctor Doom Once Inhabited Wolverine’s Skeleton

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Before the modern version of the Guardians of the Galaxy was introduced to the mainstream Marvel continuity in 2008 and adapted for the MCU six years later, the classic version of the team had been active in a different universe since 1969. Yondu, Vance Astro, Martinex, Charlie-27, and these other classic Guardians hail from Earth-691’s 31st century, meaning most of this reality’s more familiar Marvel characters are long dead. Doctor Doom, however, is still alive by this point later thanks to Wolverine’s indestructible body.

It was revealed in Issue #39 of the Guardians of the Galaxy series that ran from 1990 to 1995 that Doom was one of the few characters who survived the war against the Martian Masters when they invaded Earth-691 in the present day. Sometime after that, he negated Wolverine’s healing factor through unspecified means and killed him, then transferred his mind into the mutant’s adamantium skeleton. Along with this making Doom functionally immortal, he also became nearly incredibly durable and was still able to pop out Wolverine’s claws.

Doctor Doom Taking Wolverine’s Corpse Would Be A Wild MCU Twist

While not as graphic as when Magneto ripped the adamanitum from Wolverine’s skeleton, Doom taking control of his corpse after killing him is still one of the most brutal things that’s ever happened to the popular X-Men character. Thankfully, the future events of Earth-691 don’t dictate what will happen in the main Marvel universe’s future. So while Wolverine and Doom will still occasionally battle during crossover storylines, fans don’t need to worry about him meeting this fate within the central continuity.

Marvel Studios hasn’t confirmed whether Jackman is in the cast of Avengers: Doomsday and/or 2027's Avengers: Secret Wars. However, with the X-Men reboot slated for release in May 2028, it’s possible these movies could serve as Jackman’s final hurrah as Wolverine. Granted, the same was said after Logan, but then several years later, the actor changed his mind and agreed to play a variant of Logan in Deadpool & Wolverine. That’s the Logan who’s rumored to make a comeback, along with Ryan Reynolds’ Wade Wilson.

If that’s the case, then having Downey’s Doom kill Jackman’s Wolverine and leave nothing but his skeleton would be a shocking sight. While this Doom possessing Wolverine’s corpse like his Earth-691 counterpart is less likely to happen, he could still do something like keep it displayed in one of his lairs like a trophy. This would be the most disturbing thing to happen to Wolverine’s skeleton since Deadpool used it to kill dozens of Time Variance Authority agents as NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” was playing.

Avengers: Doomsday will be released in theaters on December 18.

Release Date December 18, 2026

Runtime 165 Minutes

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