Marvel’s latest Avengers: Doomsday one-sheet has turned a routine promo drop into a full-blown mystery hunt, putting Doctor Doom’s masked “Latverian Witches” front and center and sending fans scrambling to decode who might be hiding under those hoods. Unveiled during Walt Disney Studios’ presentation at Comic-Con Málaga on October 3, the poster leans hard into eerie, Halloween-adjacent vibes, even as Marvel keeps the identities of Doom’s occult entourage locked down.
This new art is a throne-room variant on earlier convention posters, framing Robert Downey Jr.’s Doom descending the steps of his seat of power while three masked witches lurk behind him, bathed in the glow of a green stained-glass window. A stark tagline — “12.18.26 IS DOOMSDAY” — stretches across the bottom, reinforcing the December 18, 2026 release date and positioning the film as the MCU’s big winter endgame. Other physical posters handed out at San Diego Comic-Con Málaga show Doom outside his castle, with the witches lined up on the staircase in striking green, orange, and purple robes, underscoring that Marvel wants these figures burned into fans’ memories long before the movie hits theaters.
What makes the Latverian Witches such a tantalizing puzzle is that they’re not pulled directly from classic Marvel Comics lore, despite Doom’s long comic-book history with dark magic and demonic bargains. The “Latverian Witches” label appears to be a fresh MCU invention, which has many viewers convinced that the coven is actually a trio of familiar sorcerers hiding in plain sight. One convention poster featured a witch in yellow, but the officially released art now swaps that cloak for a deep scarlet, immediately sparking theories that the red-robed figure is Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch. The color coding doesn’t stop there: fans have latched onto the idea that purple could signal Clea, the sorceress recently tied to Doctor Strange, while the green robes point toward multiverse trickster Sylvie.
Marvel has been building up the witches’ presence for months. Their full costume designs reportedly first surfaced at D23 in August, where attendees got an early look at Doom flanked by his masked acolytes. At San Diego Comic-Con proper, the Avengers: Doomsday booth leaned into mystery marketing, subtly changing the display each day to gradually reveal the trio: one witch in green, one in purple, and one in orange, all carefully masked to obscure who’s actually under there. The Málaga poster rollout feels like the culmination of that slow-burn tease, finally giving fans clean, high-res art to dissect frame by frame.
Outside convention halls, the witches are already bleeding into broader marketing. Footage from a promo shoot in Spain reportedly shows Doom striding through a European cityscape alongside the Latverian Witches and a squad of Doombots, suggesting Marvel is ready to lean hard into the villain’s theatrical, warlord-magician persona in TV spots as well. Multiple outlets confirm that Robert Downey Jr. is the man beneath Doom’s mask, a casting swing that reframes the MCU around its former Iron Man star now occupying the franchise’s central antagonist role. Pairing him with an anonymous magical strike team hints that Doomsday won’t just be another multiverse mash-up, but a story where Doom arrives with his own cult, his own army, and his own rules about how magic and power work in Latveria.
For now, the Latverian Witches remain pure speculation fuel, a trio of silhouettes designed to keep Reddit threads, TikTok breakdowns, and Discord servers buzzing until Marvel decides to pull off the masks. The studio has been here before; secrecy around Sadie Sink’s role in Brand New Day proved how far Marvel will go to shield a major reveal until opening weekend. With the witches now appearing on multiple posters, in convention activations, and in reported promo shoots, it’s clear they’re central to Doom’s reign of terror — whether they turn out to be beloved MCU heavy-hitters, deep-cut magical cameos, or entirely new characters crafted to drag Earth’s Mightiest Heroes into Latveria’s shadow.
