Rumour has it! Thanos may return in ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’

Avengers: Secret Wars will premiere on May 1st, 2026, so it might seem too early to trust plot leaks, however, there are rumours Marvel may show the return of Thanos.

There are more rumours that Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) will return to Secret Wars despite his Endgame death make sense. Similarly, Marvel can grab Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) from his timeline and get Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) to help. The Avengers will get these dead or retired Avengers from the past and bring them back once they beat Kang.

A Twitter account that aggregates MCU rumors without providing details about their origin claims that Josh Brolin will return as Thanos in Avengers: Secret Wars. That’s all the tweet says. It doesn’t explain whether Thanos will join Kang or whether he’ll be on the Avengers team.

However, it doesn’t make sense to see Thanos as the villain again. The Avengers beat Thanos in Endgame, and the villain’s arc is done.  Avengers: Secret Wars is an upcoming superhero film, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. The film is a sequel to The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. It is the forty-second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the final installment of Phase Six and The Multiverse Saga. The film is set to be released on May 1, 2026.