First Avengers: Doomsday Trailer Drops as Russo Brothers Reveal Why Captain America Returns
The first Avengers: Doomsday trailer just dropped, unleashing a cataclysmic new threat, massive stakes, and the most explosive look yet at what’s next for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes—watch it now.
Marvel finally stopped pretending we all hadn’t seen it already. The first teaser for Avengers: Doomsday, which started playing ahead of Avatar: Fire and Ash in theaters on Friday and then promptly leaked all over the internet, is now officially online. And yes, they went there: Captain America is back.
The teaser: what it actually shows
The quick version: Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers returns, and the man has a kid. That’s the headline. The teaser itself keeps things tight, but the implication is loud. For a character the Russos gave a clean exit in Avengers: Endgame, this is a hard pivot. Not unwelcome, just bold.
What’s next in the rollout
If the reporting shakes out, Marvel isn’t done teasing Doomsday. The Cap-centric spot is just the first salvo, with three more teases supposedly queued up:
- Thor: A follow-up teaser centered on Chris Hemsworth’s god of thunder, with leaked descriptions saying Thor is literally praying to Odin to bring back his daughter, Love.
- Doctor Doom: A character-focused piece for Robert Downey Jr.’s Victor Von Doom. Yes, that Robert Downey Jr., now playing Doom. Wild swing.
- The full tease: A fourth piece that functions as the movie’s more traditional, all-character trailer.
One other eyebrow-raiser: Doom’s fixation on Franklin Richards in The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ post-credits scene suggests Steve’s kid might not be in a great spot either. Not subtle foreshadowing, that.
The Russos finally say the quiet part out loud
After letting the internet do the talking for a week, Joe and Anthony Russo popped up on Instagram to explain why they’re reopening the Steve Rogers chapter six years after Endgame. Their message was short but pretty unmistakable:
'The character that changed our lives. The story that brought us all here together. It was always going to come back to this...'
Translation: they always planned to circle the wagons back to Cap at some point. Creative justification or strategic triage, take your pick.
The bigger picture (and the clock)
We’re now under a year out from Avengers: Doomsday hitting theaters on December 18, 2026. Marvel is clearly loading the roster: beyond the returning heavy-hitters, the film is bringing in X-Men legends Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen as Professor X and Magneto, plus the newer lineups from The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Thunderbolts*. After a few years of softer box office, this feels like the MCU’s big Hail Mary.
Before Doomsday: Spider-Man swings in
Next up on the calendar is Spider-Man: Brand New Day on July 31, 2026. That trailer has also leaked in the wild, but don’t expect Marvel to upload it anytime soon. In the meantime, the Doomsday marketing train has clearly left the station. Buckle up.