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Well that was... not what we were expecting.

After Avengers: Doomsday directors Joe and Anthony Russo took to Instagram to tease a "surprise" happening June 2, we had to keep an eye out for what they could've been hinting at. Obviously, our minds went to the same place yours did - that is, the still-unreleased Avengers: Doomsday trailer - but what we ended up getting was, er, not that. Instead, the Russos spent their afternoon in London promoting a new bag of coffee beans, branded with Doctor Doom's motifs and roasted by his real-life avatar.

As reported over at GamesRadar, fans lined up at Flying Horse Coffee in central London to await the Russo's surprise which was supposed to be revealed at 2 PM BST (9 AM EST). About 15 minutes after the hour, Joe & Anthony themselves arrived on the scene and started handing out what I'm sure none of those fans were expecting: a bag of 'Dom Latveria' Small Batch coffee, marked as having been roasted in Doctor Doom's home nation itself. However, the real truth of the beans' origin could be found on the top left of the bag, where a sticker revealed an Avengers-themed logo for Happy, the coffee brand owned by Robert Downey Jr. 

The Russo brothers reportedly signed these coffee bags for the fans in line and handed out Doom-emblazoned Latverian flags as a secondary souvenir. And to their credit, it's pretty much bang-on for the Latverian flag you can see in Marvel Comics. But I can't help but feel like the folks in line at Flying Horse Coffee were miffed that this was the extent of their surprise, and I probably don't have to tell you that the internet is expressing their pain and much, much more. 

I'm just saying - signed by the Russos or not, I bet that first cup of coffee is going to go down just a bit bitter.

Avengers: Doomsday comes to theaters December 18.

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