Gary Buechler, better known on YouTube as Nerdrotic, said in a pair of posts on X that neither Tatiana Maslany’s She-Hulk nor Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel will be in Avengers: Doomsday. With nearly 30 major and MCU characters already confirmed for the upcoming entry in the massive franchise, the absence of others might be, as Thanos would say, inevitable.
There is no She-Hulk in Avengers: Doomsday
— Nerdrotic (@Nerdrotics) October 22, 2025
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Assuming Buechler’s sources are correct, the question is why didn’t She-Hulk and Captain Marvel make the cut for Avengers: Doomsday?
She-Hulk Benched
Tatiana Maslany played the green-hued Jennifer Walters aka She-Hulk in the nine-episode Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. That show proved highly unpopular, with The Critical Drinker calling it “an affront to the very concept of entertainment.” The show has a 13% Heinous score on Criticless, and similarly low audience scores on other platforms.
I honestly don’t know if I’m going to make it to the end of She-Hulk. That show is an affront to the very concept of entertainment.
— The Critical Drinker (@TheCriticalDri2) September 8, 2022
From the infamous twerking scene to objections of the treatment of male characters, both the show and the character were routinely criticized. Maslany, for her part, called out “toxic fans” for the show’s poor reception.
However, rumors have circulated since last spring that Maslany would reprise the role in Doomsday. Given that the head of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, has been saying since 2018 that he’d like to see “more than half” of the MCU’s heroes be women, many were unsurprised.
Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer “Jen” Walters/She-Hulk in Marvel Studios‘ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. © 2022 MARVEL.
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But Maslany may have inadvertently pushed herself out of the movie. After the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel for his remarks regarding the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk, she publicly joined the boycott of Disney+ and encouraged her Instagram followers to do the same. Given that much of the backlash to Kimmel came from audiences and advertisers, aligning herself with him may not be advantageous to her career.
Brie Larson, on the other hand, has notably backed away from political and social activism in recent years, making her absence more curious.
Captain Marvel MIA
While 2019’s Captain Marvel was a major financial success for Disney, bringing in over $1 billion worldwide, many felt that it was a bait and switch. Released between Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, it turned out not to be as essential to the plot of the Endgame finale as they’d been led to believe. The Captain Marvel follow-up, 2023’s The Marvels, was the lowest-grossing MCU movie to that point.
Brie Larson as Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers in Marvel Studios’ THE MARVELS. Photo by Laura Radford. © 2023 MARVEL.
Larson herself seemed to doubt her character’s appeal. When asked after The Marvels if she’d return to playing the character, she famously said, “I don’t know, does anyone want me to do it again?”
It’s almost as if there was really never a point to the character to begin with.
— Space Wizard Cowboy (Ryan) ✝️🎮 (@SpaceWzrdCowboy) October 23, 2025
Given the comments on Nerdrotic’s post, his followers are none too upset about Captain Marvel not coming back for Doomsday.
Marvel’s Strategy
When Marvel announced that Robert Downey Jr. was returning to the MCU, not as Iron Man but Doctor Doom, many saw it as a desperate move. Downey Jr., arguably the most popular actor in the MCU, would clearly generate interest in Doomsday. How audiences would respond to him playing a different character — a villain, no less — was beside the point.
Robert Downey Jr. revealed to be Doctor Doom at Marvel Studios’ Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con via OnTheRedCarpet YouTube
If Marvel’s objective in bringing back actors like Downey Jr. is to draw an audience, perhaps we can assume that Marvel also took into consideration which personalities might drive them away. Between Maslany’s antagonist relationship with fans, to Larson’s failure to connect, Marvel may have decided She-Hulk and Captain Marvel were more liabilities than assets for Avengers: Doomsday.
Are you disappointed that She-Hulk and Captain Marvel probably won’t be in Avengers: Doomsday? Why do you think they weren’t invited to the party? Let us know in the comments!
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I can’t believe these two even thought they’d be welcomed by anyone except a certain (deluded) population in C-Suites, Hollywood writers rooms, liberal arts degree holding hopefuls, and DEI offices in the US.
That said, I think Larson hasn’t looked as good as she did in The Marvels since she was in Scott Pilgrim.
The other chick? I lived in LA, close to West Hollywood, and within spitting distance to half-a-dozen major studios. How a bag’n’tag like Maslany ever found success with the competition out there is beyond me. And the lack of personal awareness to ignore how she makes herself radioactive should be in a warning pamphlet given out to every wanna-be starlet who comes off the bus at the Magnolia Blvd station.
lmao this is so embarrassing. You’re an embarrassing person.
Speaking of sheer embarrassment…..
Brilliant.
This is site is so funny. An entire article based around what a fake insider, Nerdronic, is saying. He has no sources. He is not an insider. He is a right-wing grifter whose entire content slate is based around anger, hate and bigotry. Even funnier is that you then try to claim that She-Hulk didn’t receive mostly positive reviews by sourcing some random loser on Twitter saying it was bad and linking to a site called Criticless that NO ONE has ever heard of. You even mention that it has a 13% “heinous” score, despite the fact that comes from just 41 user reviews over the course of 3 years. No one uses that site. No one knows what it is. Meanwhile, actual critics have the show at 80% on RottenTomatoes and a 67 average (normal for superhero stuff — Infinity War is around that average) on Metacritic.
How do y’all not wake up every day completely embarrassed that this is your lives?
Y’all… look at the teenager trying to get a rise out of people. You just know that when this slug catches a glimpse of mirror , it’s thrown into the fetal position due to sheer ugliness. Yuck.
Missing – No
Lacking – of course.
“Tu es une cochonne“
You’re a dirty girl.