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Think the full cast is already known for Avengers: Doomsday?

Think again.

Despite containing 31 announced Marvel characters (full list below), Doomsday directors Joe and Anthony Russo say even more characters are appearing in the team-up superhero film — including, quite possibly, the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).

Speaking to Empire Online, Russo said, “[Bruce Banner] is certainly involved in the story that revolves around Doom. We will not confirm nor deny his appearance in Doomsday.” (So that sounds like a yes).

Anthony Russo then added, “The farthest we can go is to say, there are characters and actors who have not been announced, who are a part of Doomsday.”

Anthony recently told The AP: “The MCU is this massive experiment in how vast, how much scope can an ensemble really have?” The duo also confirmed they started shooting Doomsday without a completed script: “We always view the script as a living organism,” Joe said. “We’re improvisation-based, rehearsal-based directors. We like to see what the actors bring to the characters, and sometimes you don’t get the actors until a few days or a few weeks before you shoot them. And a lot of the time, that’s when the magic happens.”

The duo are currently promoting the re-release of Avengers: Endgame, which has racked up another $86 million over the weekend. The film grossed $2.8 billion back in 2019 and now includes four new end-credits scenes to help set up Doomsday. Joe Russo has previously called Endgame “required viewing for following the story in Doomsday.”

Here’s the full list of confirmed characters appearing in Doomsday:

MCU veterans: Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Sam Wilson/Captain America (Anthony Mackie), Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), Ant-Man/Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), Shuri/Black Panther (Letitia Wright), M’Baku (Winston Duke), Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejía), Falcon/Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez).

The Fantastic Four: Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm/Human Torch (Joseph Quinn), Ben Grimm/The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach).

Thunderbolts/New Avengers: Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Red Guardian/Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour), U.S. Agent/John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Ghost/Ava Starr (Hannah John-Kamen), Sentry/Bob Reynolds (Lewis Pullman).

X-Men/Fox-Era Characters: Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), Magneto/Erik Lehnsherr (Ian McKellen), Cyclops/Scott Summers (James Marsden), Beast/Hank McCoy (Kelsey Grammer), Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner (Alan Cumming), Mystique/Raven (Rebecca Romijn), Gambit/Remy LeBeau (Channing Tatum).

Plus: Doctor Doom/Victor von Doom (Robert Downey Jr.), Cassie Lang (Kathryn Newton), Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) and Namora (Mabel Cadena).

Doomsday opens in theaters Dec. 18.

What exactly Donald Trump will do once he leaves office for good is anyone’s guess, but on Monday night, Seth Meyers had a suggestion for the man. It’s a job where he can just, be himself — literally.

During his “A Closer Look” segment, the NBC host zeroed in on how Trump is quickly losing the support of his own party, as more and more Republicans split with the president before the midterms. Not all of them are jumping ship though, as one of his cabinet members just this week hailed Trump as “the energy president.”

“Sorry, what? You want us to believe this is the energy president?” Meyers questioned, playing one of the many clips where the president appears to be falling asleep in public.

“I think that’s the NyQuil president,” Meyers joked. “He looks like a wax statue. When he leaves office, he should just get a job at Madame Tussauds as himself.”

For those unfamiliar, Madame Tussauds is literally a chain of wax figure museums.

Elsewhere in his “A Closer Look” segment, Meyers dragged Trump for telling press that he rejected a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz immediately, which would help to lower gas prices, which are at record highs (This rejection is part of why Republicans are breaking with him).

“Wait, isn’t that what we want? And if they’re willing to do what we want, shouldn’t we let that happen?” Meyers questioned of the deal. “Like, why won’t you take the win?”

“For example, the hardest part of my life is getting my kids to bed. And if one of them said, ‘I’m pretty tired. I think I’m going to call it a night,’ I’d be over the moon. I wouldn’t say, ‘No, you’re not. You’re going to sit down with me and drink this Red Bull, young man.’”

You can watch Seth Meyers’ full “A Closer Look” segment in the video above.