San Diego Comic-Con opened its exhibit hall for Preview Night on Wednesday, and Marvel Studios wasted no time turning its booth into a shrine for Avengers: Doomsday. Costumes from the December blockbuster are now on display, giving fans their closest look yet at the heroes and villains who will collide when the film arrives in theaters on December 18.
X-Men Suits Stand Front And Center
The costume lineup leans heavily into the film’s X-Men roster. Suits for Cyclops, Gambit, and the Invisible Woman are displayed alongside Thor’s latest armor, Captain America, and Yelena Belova, confirming just how central the mutants will be to the story, and the display has kept growing throughout the convention with additions like Mister Fantastic and Ant-Man. A towering Sentinel head looms over the booth as well, sporting a design that closely echoes the classic comics and the beloved 1997 X-Men animated series rather than the machines seen in previous live action films. It also matches the menacing robots glimpsed in the first trailer that arrived five days early ahead of the convention.
First Look At A Latverian Witch
The biggest surprise is a costume identified as a Latverian Witch, a character who has never appeared on screen before. Staged against a stained glass window, the mannequin wears flowing green robes fastened with metallic clasps, a hood that partially obscures a silver face mask, silver gloves, and a green belt with a silver diamond buckle whose meaning has not been explained. The design unmistakably echoes Doctor Doom’s visual language, suggesting Victor Von Doom’s homeland of Latveria will bring more than just soldiers and Doombots to the fight, and fans have spent the day debating who could be beneath the mask.
Update: Three Robes, Three Colors
The green robes described above turned out to be only the first version. Marvel swapped the costume repeatedly across the week, and these were physically separate robes rather than one garment reading differently under the booth lights.
The order runs green, then orange, then purple. Green went up for Preview Night on Wednesday. By Thursday it had been replaced with an orange version. On Friday a deep purple robe took its place. Marvel then rolled out Doctor Doom’s own costume, and on the convention’s final day Sunday the witch reappeared beside him, back in her original green.
Worth noting that several outlets have published the sequence with purple arriving before orange. The dated photographs from the floor do not support that, and the orange swap was documented a full day before the purple one appeared.
What Fans Think The Colors Mean
Three robes rotating through a booth display over four days does not read as an accident, and the theories arrived quickly. The most popular points out that green, orange and purple are three of the six colors associated with the Infinity Stones, which matters more than usual given that the Stones are central to the Jonathan Hickman comics run the Avengers films are drawing from.
A competing reading is that the colors point at three different characters rather than one, with fans matching the palette to figures including Clea, Agatha Harkness, Lilia Calderu and Lady Death.
Then there is Wanda Maximoff. Doctor Doom manipulating the Scarlet Witch is an established comics storyline, and the presence of a masked witch tied to Latveria was always going to point that direction. The counterargument is sitting in plain sight: across three robes the costume never once turned red, the color most associated with her powers, and Wanda is not among the more than twenty-five cast members Marvel has announced.
It is also worth saying plainly that there is no such thing as a Latverian Witch in the comics. The name appears to be new, which leaves the identity underneath entirely open. A rundown of the full costume rotation is available at GamesRadar.
A Doomsday Takeover Ahead Of Hall H
Marvel is also displaying a special Avengers: Doomsday themed version of its studio logo at the booth, part of a convention-wide takeover building toward the studio’s return to Hall H on Saturday evening. Nearby sections of the booth are themed to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, complete with X-Men merchandise and a Wolverine photo opportunity tied to Insomniac Games’ upcoming release. Additional photos of the full booth can be found at LaughingPlace, and we expect plenty more reveals once the panel begins.
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