‘Avengers: Doomsday’: Jeremy Renner Confirms Hawkeye Won’t Be Appearing!!

Avengers: Doomsday will bring back many names from Marvel‘s history, but not everyone is invited to this giant superhero team-up. A few MCU stars have already confirmed their absence, but recently, another Infinity Saga cast member revealed that they won’t appear in Avengers: Doomsday, reducing the original Avengers to just a handful of people.

Avengers: Doomsday is Marvel Studios’ upcoming superhero movie, in which heroes across the multiverse team up to face Doctor Doom, played by Robert Downey Jr. In preparation for the feature’s release, Disney+ released a list of films and TV shows it claimed were “mandatory viewing,” along with a theatrical re-release of Avengers: Endgame, which featured four new post-credits scenes that connect the 2019 blockbuster to the upcoming film.

Marvel Studios revealed a huge cast list for the feature, and a handful of other characters are speculated to appear, including Tom Holland’s Spider-Man, following the post-credits scene in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. But one Marvel superhero has just confirmed his absence, and that’s Jeremy Renner, who has played Hawkeye since 2012’s The Avengers. A clip of Renner at a Q&A event surfaced on social media, where he was asked whether he would appear in Avengers: Doomsday. He said he wouldn’t and that, because of his absence, the Avengers will probably lose. This is what he had to say:

“No, no, no, no. Not in that one… Doomsday, I’m not in, so the Avengers will probably lose, just so you know. They didn’t call me, so it’s their fault they’re going to lose.”

Who Else Has Confirmed They’re Not Appearing in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’?

Aside from Renner, only a few Marvel stars have confirmed they won’t appear in Avengers: Doomsday. One of them is Scarlett Johansson, who played Black Widow. She said she wasn’t returning because it wouldn’t make sense for her story, since her character died in Avengers: Endgame. Another Marvel star who has confirmed her absence is Elizabeth Olsen, who played Wanda Maximoff. She said she was working on a different project that clashed with Avengers: Doomsday‘s production schedule. Lastly, despite his recent stunt at San Diego Comic-Con, Hugh Jackman confirmed in an interview that he, too, won’t be reprising his role as Wolverine in Doomsday after his return in 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine, but played coy about whether he would appear in the sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars.