MCU Fans Want Kevin Feige to One-Up Tobey Maguire and Hugh Jackman in Avengers: Doomsday
With buzz building around Tobey Maguire and Hugh Jackman in Avengers: Doomsday, fans have a new rallying cry: unleash Nicolas Cage as Ghost Rider in the Multiverse Saga — and the heat is on Kevin Feige to make it happen.
Marvel rumor roulette keeps spinning, and the latest fan campaign is a fun one: bring Nicolas Cage back as Ghost Rider for Avengers: Doomsday. With chatter already swirling about Tobey Maguire and Hugh Jackman showing up again, fans want Cage riding in alongside the other legacy faces from past Marvel universes under the Disney umbrella.
Why Cage, and why now?
Cage is a longtime Marvel diehard who went all-in on playing Johnny Blaze back in the day. Before he ever put on the flaming skull, he actually chased a different gig: Green Goblin in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. He spoke with Raimi, but scheduling got in the way and the role went to Willem Dafoe. Even Stan Lee liked the idea.
'He'd be a great Green Goblin.'
The Marvel parts didn’t immediately line up for him, but the guy’s superhero resume is wild either way. He almost headlined Tim Burton’s never-made Superman Lives, and now he’s leading Sony’s live-action Spider-Man Noir series. As for Ghost Rider, Cage’s take didn’t hit Dafoe-level pop culture saturation, but it absolutely found its fans.
The Deadpool & Wolverine near-miss
Ryan Reynolds told Entertainment Weekly that he tried to get Cage’s Ghost Rider into Deadpool & Wolverine for a team-up against Emma Corrin’s Cassandra Nova. Conversations happened; it didn’t land. So Cage hasn’t been Blaze since 2011’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.
In the meantime, Marvel brought a different Ghost Rider to screen on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Robbie Reyes, played by Gabriel Luna. Different character, same title, no overlap with Cage’s Johnny Blaze.
The current rumor stack
Industry watcher Daniel Richtman says on his Patreon that Cage will return as Johnny Blaze in an upcoming MCU project. Fans are aiming big: slot him into Avengers: Doomsday or even Avengers: Secret Wars. None of that is confirmed by Marvel, but the drumbeat is there.
Maguire vs. Jackman... in a fight?
Richtman also claims Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine will throw down in Avengers: Doomsday. He hyped it on X on December 28, 2025, and teased an image implying Spidey won’t be an easy mark for adamantium claws.
For a minute, the fan guess was that Maguire would play a major role in Tom Holland’s next Spider-Man, rumored as Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but recent updates around that movie suggest neither Maguire nor Andrew Garfield is suiting up alongside Holland there. Maguire’s own Spider-Man 4 remains up in the air; Richtman’s line is that he’d instead pop up in Doomsday with Jackman.
How we got here
Way back in 2023, when Marvel was still planning The Kang Dynasty, the buzz was that Maguire and Jackman would lead the TVA’s multiversal army against Kang. Now, Richtman’s latest spin says they won’t be teaming up in the next MCU movie, which he claims stars Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom. Again: that’s the rumor mill talking, not Marvel PR.
- Fans want Nicolas Cage back as Ghost Rider in Avengers: Doomsday, alongside other returning legacy characters.
- Cage once chased Green Goblin in Raimi’s Spider-Man; Stan Lee even vouched for him. He’s now leading Sony’s live-action Spider-Man Noir.
- Ryan Reynolds says he tried to get Cage’s Ghost Rider into Deadpool & Wolverine; talks happened, but it didn’t come together.
- Cage hasn’t played Johnny Blaze since 2011; Gabriel Luna played Robbie Reyes’s Ghost Rider on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Daniel Richtman claims Cage will return as Johnny Blaze in a future MCU project; fans hope that means Doomsday or Secret Wars.
- Richtman also pushes that Maguire’s Spider-Man will fight Jackman’s Wolverine in Doomsday; he teased it on X on Dec 28, 2025.
- The old rumor had Maguire and Jackman leading a TVA army in what used to be The Kang Dynasty; the new rumor says no team-up, and floats RDJ as Doctor Doom.
Bottom line
If Marvel is really packing the Multiverse Saga endgame with familiar faces, Cage’s Ghost Rider is an easy crowd-pleaser. Until Marvel actually announces something, treat all of this as what it is: well-sourced whispers and very enthusiastic wishful thinking.
Want a refresher? Ghost Rider is streaming on Starz via Apple TV.
Would you want Cage back as Johnny Blaze? I’m not opposed to a flaming skull crashing the party.