Five new Pops from The Infinity Saga line are on the way, and taken one by one, nothing about them stands out: two Iron Man armors, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes. Their box numbers are what catch the eye. Funko slotted them right between the Avengers: Doomsday releases, ahead of the film's mid-December opening. The past and the future of the same men sit a few numbers apart in the catalog.
The box numbers file the past next to the future
The wave comes in two drops. The Iron Man Mark 3 is #1634. The first Doomsday wave starts two numbers later, at #1636, with Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom, and runs to #1646, including the film's Bucky Barnes at #1644. The other four releases take #1671 to #1674. The second Doomsday wave starts at #1675 with the Sentinel and closes at #1679 on Steve Rogers.
Line those numbers up and you get an odd picture. The Steve Rogers chopping wood in 2015 (#1671) sits eight numbers away from the 2026 Steve Rogers (#1679). The Bucky catching the shield (#1673) has his Doomsday counterpart at #1644. And the nanotech Tony Stark (#1672) arrives while the man who played him puts on Doom's mask at #1636. Funko never comments on its numbering. Here, it speaks for itself.
Three men, and what they become on December 18
The character picks aren't random either. Marvel announced Downey as Victor von Doom at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2024: the actor who launched the MCU as Tony Stark comes back as the main antagonist. Chris Evans is back too, confirmed by a teaser that played in theaters in December 2025 ahead of Avatar: Fire and Ash: Steve rides a motorcycle to a 1950s house, packs away his suit, then appears holding a baby. Bucky joined the New Avengers at the end of Thunderbolts*.
The three men in this wave are the three whose status Doomsday changes the most. The Infinity Saga line freezes them before that: a Tony still alive, a Steve still in uniform, a Bucky still brainwashed.
What each release freezes
- Steve Rogers (Chopping Wood) – Pop! #1671: Clint Barton's farm in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). Steve is splitting logs when Tony comes to find him, and the talk quickly turns to Ultron. It is the first crack between the two men, a year before Civil War. Funko sums up the scene as "time to restock the firewood," which is one way to look at it.
- Tony Stark (Nanotech Suit) – Pop! #1672: Avengers: Infinity War (2018), in New York. Tony deploys the Mark 50 from the housing on his chest, the first armor made of nanoparticles, which forms around him in seconds.
- Winter Soldier with Captain America's Shield – Pop! #1673: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), the highway battle in Washington. The Winter Soldier catches the shield with his metal arm and sends it back. A few minutes later, his mask comes off and Steve recognizes Bucky.
- Iron Man Mark 2 (Glow) – Pop! #1674: the silver prototype from Iron Man (2008), the one from the first flight over Malibu, which ices up at altitude and pushes Tony to design the Mark 3. It is also the armor Rhodey takes in Iron Man 2 and turns into War Machine. Metallic, glow-in-the-dark deco.
- Iron Man Mark 3 – Pop! #1634: the first red-and-gold armor, in metallic deco, a retailer exclusive limited to 7,500 pieces with Octane5 authentication. The line already offered a Mark 3 in 2024 (#1406), as a black light version.
A detail nobody will notice on the shelf: the official descriptions for the Mark 2 and the Mark 3 are word-for-word identical. "It's upgrade time," for two armors, one of which is precisely the upgrade of the other.
The Mark 2 is the real find of the wave
My pick is the Mark 2, and I know it isn't the obvious one. Bucky and the shield is the spectacular moment, and Steve at the farm is the curiosity. The Mark 2 is the piece we had never logged in our database before, and it is the armor whose story reaches furthest beyond its own film: it flies before all the others, fails, then changes owner and name. A dull gray armor on a shelf where everything shines red and gold. I prefer it to the Mark 3, now on its second version in the same line in two years.
What's missing, though, jumps out once Tony, Steve and Bucky are lined up: Siberia. The final fight of Captain America: Civil War (2016) is the only moment in the saga where the three men of this wave face each other, and it ends with Steve leaving his shield at Tony's feet. Funko picked the caught shield from 2014 and the farm conversation from 2015. The dropped shield is missing, and it is exactly the scene that connects to what Doomsday is about to tell.
The Mark 3, a retailer exclusive, is already out. Funko lists the other four as coming soon, with release expected in early 2027. Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18.
