An eye-opening leak from the set of Avengers: Doomsday has spilled the return of a major location in the Marvel universe — and with it, the likely reappearance of a character from earlier MCU films and TV series.
Warning! Potential spoilers for Avengers: Doomsday follow:
Over the weekend, Instagram user theyneversawitcoming posted footage apparently gained from accessing the Avengers: Doomsday film set at Pinewood Studios. Within it, several glimpses of a set featuring the fictional location of Madripoor can be seen.
In Marvel comics, Madripoor is a crime-ridden city-state in Southeast Asia, home to various rogues and villains (and also Wolverine, who has spent time there). More relevantly, however, Madripoor has also featured within the MCU, in the so-so TV series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
The last time we saw the city, Sam Wilson (Antony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) were being helped there by Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp), whose character had started a life in the island’s underworld after the events of Captain America: Civil War.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s finale revealed to audiences that Carter had secretly become the supervillain Power Broker, Madripoor’s defacto ruler — though she has not reappeared in the MCU since.
A return to Madripoor in Avengers: Doomsday strongly suggests Carter’s arc will now continue, however, as it seems impossible that the film will feature the city without also picking up the story of its key character, more than five years later.
Hopefully this means MCU fans will now get more backstory for Carter, who has featured as a side-character in projects as far back as 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, though always as a more minor player. (Remember when Carter was being lined up as a love interest for Steve Rogers, despite being Peggy Carter’s grand-niece? If so, Marvel would probably like you to forget that happened.)
Avengers: Doomsday is set for release on May 1, 2026 and feature one of the largest casts ever (Avengers) assembled for an MCU film, including the return of Robert Downey Jr., now in the iconic role of Victor Von Doom.
This latest leak follows an apparent Avengers: Doomsday set photo that revealed what looked like the grounds of the X-Mansion, also known as Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, as it appears in the Fox X-Men films, with mini-craters suggesting a big battle was taking place. It begs the question: is Avengers: Doomsday secretly an Avengers vs. X-Men movie?
