I'm Sad That, Despite Avengers: Doomsday & Secret Wars’ Multiversal Plot, 1 Huge MCU Crossover Seems Like It May Still Be Impossible

Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars' multiversal premise may not be wild enough to allow an epic Marvel hero crossover to happen in the MCU.

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 60 words · Angel Friedman

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A proper Iron Man and Mister Fantastic team-up deserves a movie of its own.

Iron Man has a complex relationship with the world’s greatest minds in the souce material.

In the MCU, the only genius-level heroes Iron Man interacted with were Doctor Strange and Bruce Banner.

Cast

Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards gives a public statement in The Fantastic Four_ First Steps next to the Avengers fighting in Infinity War

Custom image by Nicolas Ayala

Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards and Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark meet each other in the MCU

Custom image by Nicolas Ayala

Iron Man Mr Fantastic Comic

Split image of Mister Fantastic and Iron Man

Headshot Of Pedro Pascal In The 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

Headshot Of Vanessa Kirby

Headshot Of Joseph Quinn In The Premiere Of A Quiet Place: Day One

Headshot of Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Thunderbolts (2025) Official Poster

Movies

The Fantastic Four: First Steps