After there’d been crickets regarding the upcoming Marvel movies aside from the ones coming out this summer, this week, Marvel Studios announced that Avengers: Doomsday is in production with a five-hour livestream announcing the cast.

Despite five hours of streamed casting announcements, there are still several characters and actors fans are surprised won’t be in Avengers: Doomsday. Some we knew about but the following omissions are notable given the cosmic cross-over nature of what’s shaping up to be an Avengers,

But numerous major stars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, who fans assumed would be in the movie, were conspicuously left off the cast list. For one, Spider-Man actor Tom Holland was not mentioned. Holland is set to lead his own "Spider-Man" film in July 2026,