Reported Avengers: Doomsday Role Has Thor Outshining Steve Rogers
Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans are suiting up for Avengers: Doomsday, but early buzz has Thor stealing the spotlight from Steve Rogers — reigniting the ultimate OG Avengers rivalry.
Thor vs. Cap discourse is about to spin up again, because the latest chatter says both Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans are in Avengers: Doomsday as Thor and Steve Rogers. And if a new quote making the rounds is legit, Thor might walk away with the more interesting arc this time.
The setup
A tweet from Avengers Updates (@AvengersUpdated) on December 17, 2025 dropped what it claims are Thor's lines from Avengers: Doomsday. The post even hedges that the wording could be pulled from the comics, not the final script, but either way it paints a pretty clear picture of where Thor's head is at.
The quote everyone is passing around
"Of all the crowns, the kingdoms, the pride, I ask for none.
Father, hear your son. I am not worthy of life,
but still I beg you to let the thread lengthen.
Not for thunder, not for war... let me remain long enough to see my love once more."
What that actually suggests
Strip the poetry down and Thor is not asking for more power or another big hammer moment. He thinks his time is up and is begging for just a little more of it. The obvious read is that he wants to see his love one last time — likely Jane Foster, who died in Thor: Love and Thunder. There are basically two ways fans are reading it right now: either he is bracing for a final, probably sacrificial move, or he's bargaining for a last goodbye before the end. Both are heavy, both fit a character who has lost almost everything, and both push him into genuinely tragic-hero territory.
How that stacks against Steve Rogers
Meanwhile, Steve's story ended with him staying in an alternate timeline with Peggy Carter — a choice that was romantic but, depending on how you feel about the rules of time and multiverse messiness, also pretty self-serving and potentially destabilizing. If Doom is the big bad in Doomsday (which is the working assumption), that kind of choice could ripple in ugly ways. Thor's arc here, by contrast, reads like someone willing to pay the bill himself. Add in his love for Jane and his adoptive daughter, Love, and yeah — if this line is in the movie, it already makes him look like the more selfless Avenger this time around.
Why this could be Thor's redemption
Thor: Love and Thunder did the character no favors. The tone whiplash and nonstop jokes flattened him into a bit. If Doomsday is putting him back in high-stakes mode — gods, sacrifice, Doom looming — that is exactly the course correction the character needs. It feels like Marvel aiming for emotional weight again, which is where Thor actually thrives. Doomsday might finally give him a proper landing, something Love and Thunder never figured out.
Quick refresher on Thor: Love and Thunder
- Directed by: Taika Waititi
- Cast: Christian Bale, Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman
- Release date: June 23, 2022
- IMDb rating: 6.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes score: 63%
- Worldwide box office: $760 million
- Production: Marvel Studios
- Where to watch: Disney+
When you can see if any of this is true
Avengers: Doomsday is slated to hit theaters December 18, 2026 in the U.S. If this line makes the final cut — and if both Chrises really are back — we might be looking at Thor's big, bittersweet curtain call. Think this is where his story ends?