Avengers Doomsday Trailer Teases Steve Rogers Lifting Mjolnir Once More as Doctor Doom Forces Three Universes Into One Fight

Robert Downey Jr. returns to the Marvel Cinematic Universe this morning in a role no one saw coming a few years ago. He wears the metal mask of Doctor Doom in the first full trailer for Avengers Doomsday, and the footage makes clear this is no simple villain introduction. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, the film lands in theaters on December 18 and pulls together heroes from three separate universes who suddenly share the same battlefield.

Patrick Stewart’s Professor X appears in the teaser with a hushed warning, a sense that something big is about to happen that even a seasoned veteran like him may be unable to stop. By the end of the day, he warns everyone that they’ll have to make a decision they can’t even think about, and that sentence hits home since X has seen enough multiverse mayhem to know when the normal techniques won’t cut it.

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Then Chris Hemsworth’s Thor appears, delivering the trailer’s longest and most urgent speech, attempting to convey his message. He recalls men far stronger than everyone currently standing who died because the threats they faced were more terrifying to him than the one they confront today. He goes on to warn that every single sacrifice those guys made will be in vain until the current group can put aside their old feuds and come together as brothers and sisters. Then he musters the courage to state unequivocally that they will require nothing less than a miracle.

That miracle appears in the form of Chris Evans as Steve Rogers. After years on the sidelines, Captain America returns to the frame, reaches out, and lifts Thor’s hammer as if it were nothing. Thor’s astonished reaction demonstrates how much time has gone since Rogers’ departure and how little some aspects of him have truly changed.

We also get our first good look at Downey’s Dr. Doom in full armor. Then Thor smacks him with a burst of energy, leaving him immobilized. He’s already three steps ahead of any plan you can think of. That sequence underscores Doom’s dominance over all other adversaries in the MCU.

As the trailer progresses, more and more characters from different universes cross paths, with Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach appearing as the Fantastic Four and encountering people that do not belong in their reality. Then there are the original X-Men – Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn, Alan Cumming, Kelsey Grammer, and Channing Tatum – who appear alongside Anthony Mackie’s Captain America, Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes, Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man, and so on.

Tickets for the exclusive Infinity Vision screenings went on sale the same morning the trailer debuted. This is the final chapter of the Multiverse Saga before Secret Wars, and it appears to be a doozy. The trailer doesn’t explain how these three universes merged or what Doom wants to get out of it; all it does is show the scope of the problem and the unusual group of people who are now standing in his way.