“Avengers: Doomsday” Trailer Confirms Chris Evans Returning to the MCU as Steve Rogers

Well, well, well…just when you thought 2025 couldn’t possibly have any more tricks up its sleeve, the Russo Brothers have revealed, a few days before Christmas, that Chris Evans is returning to the MCU in Avengers: Doomsday. The new teaser is all Evans as Steve Rogers, arriving at a bucolic home on a motorcycle, the camera making sure you note his wedding band, and then following him into the house to a baby. Presumably, his baby, by the look on his face as he cradles the infant.  Then, we get this text: “Steve Rogers will return in Avengers: Doomsday.” Please note that it decidedly does not say “Captain America.”

While the reveal that Evans was returning as Rogers in Avengers: Doomsday has been public (due to some ne’er-do-wells filming the teaser at screenings of Avatar: Fire and Ash—something we do not condone), it’s now official, and confirms that the Russo Brothers are assembling many of the cohort they deployed to rousing success in their blockbuster Avengers films, Infinity War and Endgame. Evans is, of course, now going to be pitted against his old comrade, Robert Downey Jr., who has also returned to the MCU fold, but not as Tony Stark (who perished heroically at the end of Endgame), but as the Marvel supervillain Dr. Doom.

Evans and Downey Jr. are hardly the only old MCU hands who will be battling it out in Doomsday. If you recall, fans watched chairs—yes, chairs—for hours on end when the Russos revealed the sprawling cast, which includes Chris Hemsworths’ Thor, Letitia Wright’s Black Panther, Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man, Anthony Mackie’s Captain America (complicating Steve Rogers’ return, one assumes), Sebastian Stan’s Winter Soldier, Simu Liu’s Shang-Chi, Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, Winston Duke’s M’Baku, and Tom Hiddleston’s Loki. That’s not even the half of it—also included are the new Fantastic Four, the retro X-Men, the rest of the New Avengers* (really, the Thunderbolts, which includes Pugh’s Belova, Hannah John-Kamen’s Ghost, and David Harbour’s Alexei Shostakov), and, yes, even more.

Needless to say, the Russos are leaving very little to chance, and very few members of the broader MCU are unaccounted for, as they return for their epic, two-part Avengers extravaganza.

Check out the teaser for Avengers: Doomsday below. The epic event hits theaters on December 18, 2026.

Featured image: Marvel Studios’ AVENGERS: ENDGAME. L to R: Nebula (Karen Gillan) and Captain America/Steve Rogers (Chris Evans). Photo: Film Frame. ©Marvel Studios 2019