Thor Dreads Loss in the Latest ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Trailer
Chris Hemsworth returns as the god of thunder in our latest look at the next 'Avengers' movie.
The Avengers: Doomsday teaser train keeps on moving. After a week of rampant leaks and speculation led to the arrival of the first look at the next Avengers movie hitting online (after a brief stint in theaters with Avatar: Fire and Ash), a similar cycle has now occurred for the second rapid teaser for the movie: this one focusing on the return of an Avenger we already knew was coming.
After the first teaser dropped the “surprise” news that Chris Evans would return to the MCU for the first time since Avengers: Endgame to reprise his role as Steve Rogers, the second Doomsday teaser instead focuses on Chris Hemsworth’s return as Thor Odinson, which was first confirmed in Doomsday‘s massive chair-based cast reveal event earlier this year.
Unlike the Steve teaser, Thor’s contains some dialogue—as well as an updated look, bringing back his short hairstyle from _Thor: Ragnarok—_as the god of thunder beseeches his father’s mercy to return from his latest battle to the child he now raises. That child is, of course, Love, the adopted daughter Thor took in at the end of Thor: Love and Thunder after his battle with her biological father, Gorr the God Butcher.
The trailer also followed suit in leaking early online before hitting theaters and ultimately being released officially digitally. Part of the initial dam that broke on a bevy of leaks around Doomsday‘s marketing campaign ramping up suggested that more trailers could come, presumably attached to Avatar‘s ongoing theatrical release, so there’s still time for even more to come out.
Could more founding Avengers be on the way? A glimpse of the X-Men’s return? Or will we finally see Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom in the flesh? We’ll have to wait and see. Whatever it ends up being, if the recent past is anything to go by, we’ll be seeing blurry phone camera recordings of it all well before we see the nice, shiny version drop online.
Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters December 18, 2026.
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