While there’s still no clear timetable on when the X-Men will be rebooted for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the mutant superheroes aren’t disappearing from the silver screen anytime soon. Various cast members from the original X-Men movies are reprising their roles on the 2026 release schedule for Avengers: Doomsday. However, these actors aren’t playing the exact same versions of the characters who we followed along with in the 2000s and 2010s, and a new rumor for the upcoming Marvel movie supposedly lays out the key difference between this new X-Men universe and the old one.
This started when Alex Perez from The Cosmic Circus posted on X a panel from the Ultimatum comic book event of a tsunami hitting Manhattan in the original Ultimate universe. Magneto was responsible for this, so based off that alone, one could draw a line between that panel and Ian McKellen accidentally revealing that his version of Magneto destroys New Jersey in Avengers: Doomsday. Perez then shared a follow-up X post about how this panel was a tease to reflect the theme of “legacy” in Doomsday, saying:
