Walker Scobell Says X-Men Battling Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man Is ‘the Coolest Thing’ He’s Heard About Avengers Doomsday
The Marvel multiverse machine has been running overtime lately, and few actors have found themselves swept up in it quite like Walker Scobell. The ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ star has spent the past few years balancing his own growing franchise while watching from the sidelines as the MCU builds toward its biggest crossover yet.
That crossover is ‘Avengers Doomsday’, and lately the conversation around it has centered on one particularly wild theory involving Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man. Fans have spent weeks piecing together leaks suggesting Maguire’s version of the wall crawler could face off against the Fox era X-Men, with some accounts even claiming the battle could end in his death.
Scobell addressed the rumor directly during a recent appearance, and his reaction is what has fans buzzing. Speaking at D23, The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, the young actor admitted he had gotten caught up in the same speculation as everyone else, saying he had even seen footage suggesting Maguire’s involvement in the film. According to a post shared by the fan account Cosmic Marvel, Scobell called the idea “the coolest thing I’ve ever heard” before adding “I don’t want him to die,” a reaction that captures exactly how fans have felt watching this saga unfold.
The leak itself has taken on a life of its own. According to Scobell’s own retelling, the theory holds that the Fox X-Men are forced to fight Maguire’s Spider-Man because he is the last hero standing in his universe, meaning the mutants have to take him on collectively just to keep his reality from unraveling. It is a dramatic setup that would give Maguire’s Peter Parker one final, emotionally loaded moment in the spotlight.
Other reports have only added fuel to the fire. An industry Q&A tied to The Cosmic Circus claimed Marvel originally intended for the film’s opening sequence to show Spider-Man and his rogues gallery clashing directly with the X-Men, though it remains unclear whether that concept survived into the finished cut. Separate reporting has suggested the confrontation involves Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine specifically, with the two Earths said to be on a collision course as the fight breaks out.
Whether Maguire’s Spider-Man actually meets his end remains hotly contested. One livestream report claimed the Fox X-Men ultimately destroy his character, while Cosmic Circus insider Alex Perez has pushed back on that account, maintaining that Spider-Man survives the encounter. Marvel Studios has never officially confirmed Maguire’s involvement in ‘Avengers Doomsday’ at all, despite the mountain of circumstantial evidence fans have assembled.
‘Avengers Doomsday’ is set to hit theaters on December 18, 2026, and with the X-Men cast confirmed to include Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, and Channing Tatum among others, the appetite for a Spider-Man showdown has never been higher. Do you think Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man survives his brush with the Fox X-Men, or is this the multiverse send-off fans should be bracing for?
