Avengers Doomsday: Chris Evans Return Teased as Ghost Rider Blazes Into the MCU

So, the Chris Evans-back-to-the-Avengers rumor mill just redlined again. The short version: multiple insiders say Evans is a big piece of Avengers: Doomsday. The long version: nobody at Marvel or Evans himself will admit it, but the tea leaves are getting loud.

Where this is coming from

• Insider Daniel Richtman says Evans has a major role in Avengers: Doomsday.
• The Wrap previously said Evans would be involved in some capacity, but the specifics were unknown.
• Jeff Sneider hinted on The Hot Mic that the character he heard attached to Evans is Nomad.
• Richtman also claims the movie is stuffed with cameos, including Ghost Rider.
• A separate insider post says the actors teased during the recent chair-watch moment are the film's core players.

So who would Evans be?

This is where it gets fun and messy. Evans spent a decade as Captain America, bowed out, and then recently popped back up as Johnny Storm in Deadpool & Wolverine. That alone proves the multiverse is wide open, so Marvel can bring him back as Cap, Torch, a Variant, or something totally different.

Sneider dropping 'Nomad' into the chat is an inside-baseball pick that tracks with a Cap-adjacent, off-the-grid version of Steve Rogers. Meanwhile, there have been whispers that Hayley Atwell (Peggy Carter) could also be in the mix, which would only fuel the Variant speculation. None of this is official, but as far as rumors go, these are the solid, not-totally-outlandish kind.

Cameos and the Ghost Rider tease

Richtman says Doomsday will be cameo city, and specifically mentions Ghost Rider. Which one? That part is unclear. Live-action has already given us Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze and Gabriel Luna as Robbie Reyes, so Marvel has options if they want to go nostalgia, TV deep-cut, or something brand new. Call it fan service if you want; if the multiverse event movie doesn’t swing for the fences with surprises, what are we even doing here?

The hype machine

Channing Tatum, who finally got to be Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine and clearly knows some things, told Entertainment Tonight that Doomsday is going to scramble brains. His words, not mine:

I don't know how to describe it to you. It's going to make your brains ooze out of your ears. Like in the way I knew when Blade walks on screen in Deadpool & Wolverine, people are going to physically lose their actual minds. It's that, but I don't know, maybe times 50. It's gonna be one of them things.

What Evans and his MCU buddies are saying

Anthony Mackie told Esquire he straight-up asked Evans if he was coming back since, in Mackie's words, they’re bringing everyone back. Evans' answer: he's happily retired. Sure. And yet Evans continues to look very ready-for-a-suit on red carpets, which is not nothing.

When ScreenRant asked Evans about Doomsday, he got a little reflective:

I mean, it's sad to be away. It's sad to not be back with the band. But I'm sure they're doing something incredible, and I'm sure it's going to be that much harder when it comes out and you feel like you weren't invited to the party.

The bottom line

Nothing is official, but the smoke here is thick: Richtman says Evans is a major player, The Wrap says he's involved, Sneider floats Nomad, and the cameo chatter includes Ghost Rider. Add in that recent 'chair watch' roster being labeled the main lineup, and Doomsday is sounding like Marvel’s all-hands multiverse blowout.

Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18, 2026. If Evans walks out in any form of stars-and-stripes (or a Nomad stealth suit) and Ghost Rider revs in behind him, yeah, people will lose it.