Did Ryan Reynolds simply affirm his subsequent Deadpool look within the MCU? The actor loves a tease and shared a very tease-y photograph on social media that has many Marvel followers speculating whether or not he’ll return because the Merc with a Mouth in subsequent 12 months’s occasion movie, Avengers: Doomsday.

Late Monday evening, Reynolds posted a shot to Instagram of a purple A graffitied over the official Avengers brand. Leisure Weekly reached out to each Reynolds’ private rep and Marvel Studios for remark.

Reynolds made an enormous splash within the Marvel Cinematic Universe with final 12 months’s Deadpool & Wolverine, the third Deadpool film that additionally introduced again Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, in addition to a slew of superhero castings from the defunct twentieth Century Fox period of superhero films.

Jennifer Garner’s Elektra, Wesley Snipes’ Blade, Chris Evans’ Johnny Storm of the Unbelievable 4, and a buttload of mutants (together with Aaron Stanford as Pyro) have been included within the multiverse-hopping, fourth wall-breaking jaunt.

To date, Channing Tatum, who performed card-slinging mutant Gambit, is the one Deadpool & Wolverine actor confirmed for Avengers: Doomsday. However followers have been theorizing closely about the place Deadpool’s subsequent look would possibly come.

Avengers: Doomsday is popping into an enormous X-Males get together with a number of actors from that period of superhero movie-making reprising their roles. Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier/Professor X), Ian McKellen (Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto), James Marsden (Scott Summers/Cyclops), Alan Cumming (Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler), Rebecca Romijn, and Kelsey Grammer (Beast/Hank McCoy) — who all appeared in Fox’s former X-Males franchise, which started with 2000’s flagship title — are confirmed to seem.

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If Reynolds is becoming a member of the Doomsday fray, it could possibly be a giant second for the character. In Deadpool & Wolverine, Wade Wilson seems earlier than Jon Favreau’s Joyful Hogan to see about becoming a member of the Avengers. Although, Joyful finally deems him an sick match for the job. Maybe Doomsday will lastly make it occur.

Deadpool & Wolverine dominated the field workplace in 2024, making $1.3 billion worldwide. Within the midst of our present box-office hunch, it will make sense for the studio to need that goodwill to proceed into Avengers: Doomsday. It is also directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, the filmmakers who helmed probably the most worthwhile Marvel films of all time, Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity Battle.

Avengers: Doomsday is at present filming and scheduled to open in theaters on Dec. 18, 2026.