Even though it releases this year, we still know very little about Avengers: Doomsday. Sure, we know that the main cast will sit in nice chairs, and we know that Steve Rogers, Thor, the X-Men, and the Wakandans will return in Doomsday, but even the teasers released last year were “stories” and “clues,” not necessarily scenes from the film. Heck, we still don’t even know which Marvel Comics will be adapted for the film.
Until now. Speaking to EW after debuting footage at CinemaCon, Kevin Feige confirmed the central storyline. “We’re not talking too much about story, but I think people know that the story of Doomsday is inspired by a very famous comic run in which universes are colliding and earths encounter one another and different timelines encounter one another,” he said.
Feige is, of course, talking about Secret Wars, the 2015 series written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by Esad Ribić. Well, technically, he’s talking about the run-up to Secret Wars, which began in earnest when Hickman began writing the series Avengers and New Avengers in 2013.
New Avengers focused on the Illuminati, a secret collection of the most influential or brilliant men in the Marvel Universe: Iron Man, Reed Richards, Namor, Black Bolt, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Professor X, and (initially) Captain America. After discovering the existence of Incursions, in which the Earths of two universes collide and eradicate those respective realities, the Illuminati worked covertly to find a way to stop it, and even destroyed another world to save their own.