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There’s a running joke amongst the cast for Marvel Studios projects that the studio is so concerned about actors spoiling future movies that they’ll send snipers out to stop them. Chris Evans joked about it on the Tonight Show back in 2017, for example, although Wyatt Russell suggested it was more of a knife to the throat kind of threat when supporting 2025’s Thunderbolts*. Nonetheless; Marvel Studios takes the threat of spoilers very seriously, by all accounts.

Marvel Comics… perhaps less so, at least according to one creator.

“It’s not Marvel having snipers on us, it’s me having snipers on Marvel,” Chip Zdarsky joked during an appearance on the Owen Loves Comics podcast. His reason? “They’d rather spoil a few things that I wouldn’t want spoiled,” he explained, in reference to the upcoming Avengers: Armageddon storyline.

To be fair, Marvel Comics hasn’t revealed too much about what’s to come beyond what’s been announced in promotional material about upcoming comics between now and April. Admittedly, that does include a surprisingly spoiler-filled synopsis that was tucked away in a recent press release explicitly confirming the return of Weapon X, the threat of all-out war in Doctor Doom’s former kingdom of Latveria, and the promise of “new heroes” and “the new era of Avengers” coming from the origin boxes introduced as part of the new Ultimate Universe… Okay, maybe Zdarsky has a bit of a point. After all, Armageddon isn’t slated to arrive until June 2026.

Still, now we know that Marvel isn’t entirely spoiler-phobic — and that, perhaps someone should tell Tom Holland that it’s probably safe if he wants to talk Spider-Man comics, all things considered.

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