Secret meaning behind Avengers Doomsday countdown in teaser confirming Chris Evans return
SThe first teaser has been released for Avengers: Doomsday, and features a countdown clock with a secret meaning.
Just under a year from now the Avengers will return with an absolutely star-studded cast.
Robert Downey Jr has already been confirmed to be returning, but as Victor Von Doom instead of Iron Man, and now the first teaser for the upcoming film has confirmed that Chris Evans will seemingly be returning as the MCU’s Steve Rogers.
The teaser, being shown in cinemas before Avatar: Fire and Ash, shows Evans as Captain America once again, revealing that he has a child in the film.
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The teaser ends with a tagline saying ‘Steve Rogers will return for Avengers: Doomsday’, followed by a countdown timer.
Those watching in the cinemas though may leave a bit confused if they were on the Marvel side of social media over the course of the last week.
Early this week a version of the teaser trailer was leaked online, something which has now been confirmed to be legitimate by fans going to watch the new Avatar and reporting back.
Where things begin getting tricky is the countdown at the end of the trailer.
The secret meaning behind the countdown at the end of the teaser being shown in cinemas is fairly straightforward.
The countdown is for roughly one year, and ends upon the release of Avengers: Doomsday.
But the leaked trailer showed a far shorter countdown, set to end in March 2026 - a year on from the controversial Marvel livestream where they announced the full cast for the film.
Many fans online have speculated that this could be when we get the first full trailer for the film, and the timing makes sense.
It has been confirmed that the teaser playing before Avatar: Fire and Ash is the first of four playing over the next month.
These are reportedly going to focus on Chris Evans’ Cap, Robert Downey Jr’s Doom, and Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, with a fourth set to be a more general teaser. The marketing for Doomsday has been met with a mixed reaction so far.
Avengers: Doomsday marks a major shift from Marvel, with the film replacing Avengers: Kang Dynasty. This happened after Jonathan Majors, the actor who played Kang in multiple films in the run-up, was found guilty of two counts of assault and harassment against his ex-girlfriend, and subsequently fired.
Whilst many Marvel fans are thrilled to have Evans returning, others have accused it of being a move driven by nostalgia, stating that the return of Downey Jr and Evans undermines Avengers: Endgame and has failed to generate enough excitement for the film.
One film fan who saw the Avengers: Doomsday teaser said: “By the way. Doomsday teaser? Packed house? You could hear a f*cking pin drop.”
Another tweeted: “when the Avengers: Doomsday trailer played there wasn’t a single clap in the entire sold out IMAX theater, just total silence. when the prologue for The Odyssey played, everyone was audibly locked in, and cheered and clapped the second it ended. That’s the movies right there.”
A third fan posted: “I came across a “leaked” Doomsday trailer on this app earlier this week, but it looked so bad and unrealistic that I just wrote it off as a fan-made trailer, so you gotta imagine how surprised I was when it started playing before Avatar and it set in that it was in fact real lmao.”
On Reddit however fans were more hopeful, with one fan commenting: “All I know is I’m finally excited about the MCU again because of this and [Spider-Man] Brand New Day and that makes me happy.”
Topics: Marvel, MCU, Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr, TV and Film, Film, Avengers
Michael Slavin