After a series of leaks and a week-long run exclusively in front of Avatar: Fire and Ash in theaters, the Avengers: Doomsday teaser trailer confirming Steve Rogers / Captain America’s return is online.
Marvel officially released the teaser trailer today, December 23, with a Thor teaser trailer set to replace it in theaters this week. (The Thor teaser trailer leaked overnight, as this Captain America trailer had last week.)
December 18, 2026. #AvengersDoomsdaypic.twitter.com/HaForXhq3W
— Avengers (@Avengers) December 23, 2025
As IGN had reported last week, the trailer begins with a figure on a motorbike pulling up to a familiar-looking 1950s house, which Marvel fans may recognize from Avengers: Endgame’s closing scene. Inside the house, the figure is revealed to be Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers, as he folds away his Captain America uniform and picks up a young baby. On-screen text then reads: “Steve Rogers will return in Avengers: Doomsday.”
Steve Rogers was last seen living happily in the 1950s with Peggy Carter, having presumably completed his final mission of returning the Infinity Stones to their original places in the timeline. Doomsday may explain how Rogers managed to get back to the main MCU reality in order to hand his shield over (according to MCU time-travel rules, he should technically be in a new branch of reality instead).
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