Copyright Takedowns Issued After What Looks to Be a Leaked Avengers: Doomsday Trailer Posted Online

Copyright takedowns are targeting what appears to beryllium a leaked mentation of Marvel's archetypal Avengers: Doomsday trailer, which is present being snapped retired of beingness crossed societal media.

Uploads of the video record began yesterday, and were initially casual to find crossed societal media. But today, copyright notices person replaced galore instances of the record connected X and reddit, and the archetypal video is obscurity to beryllium seen YouTube.

Warning! Potential spoiler for the Avengers: Doomsday trailers follows:

As for the video itself, it features a blurry archetypal glimpse astatine a returning quality not seen since the past Avengers movie: Steve Rogers, the archetypal Captain America, played erstwhile again by Chris Evans.

The trailer begins with a fig connected a motorbike pulling up to a familiar-looking 1950s house, which Marvel fans whitethorn admit from Avengers: Endgame's closing scene. Inside the house, the fig is revealed to beryllium Steve Rogers, arsenic helium folds distant his Captain America azygous and picks up a young baby. On-screen substance past reads: "Steve Rogers volition instrumentality successful Avengers: Doomsday."

Marvel is, of course, yet to formally denote that Steve Rogers volition beryllium portion of Doomsday's story. But filming reports from this summertime appeared to amusement this aforesaid location being secretly constructed, sparking speculation of the character's return. Fans besides spent a bully woody of clip analysing caller photos of Evans' real-life arms, and noted that helium appeared to person gotten his physique Captain America ready.

When asked astir not being portion of Doomsday filming, Evans antecedently offered the pursuing reply which did not specifically contradict helium was portion of the movie: "Yeah, I speech to [the cast] each the time," Evans told ScreenRant successful June this year. "It's wherever Pedro [Pascal] is close now. I mean, it's bittersweet to beryllium away. It's bittersweet to not beryllium backmost with the band, but I'm definite they're doing thing incredible, and I'm definite it's going to beryllium that overmuch harder erstwhile it comes retired and you consciousness similar you weren't invited to the party."

Narratively, Rogers' instrumentality would marque sense. The quality was past seen surviving happily successful the 1950s with Peggy Carter, having presumably completed his last ngo of returning the Infinity Stones to their archetypal places successful the timeline. Unpicking this blessed ending mightiness beryllium controversial, but story-wise there's surely country for Rogers to beryllium progressive successful years of further adventures earlier helium hands implicit his shield arsenic an aged antheral — thing Endgame besides showed.

Rogers' ngo of returning the Infinity Stones whitethorn besides explicate wherefore he's successful Doomsday, the finale of Marvel's Multiverse Saga which has seen galore heroes repeatedly meddle with parallel universes contempt dire warnings of the consequences (looking astatine you, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Wanda, Captain Marvel, Loki...). It's casual to spot however Cap's antics could enactment him into fixing a larger multiversal occupation helium unwittingly contributed to.

Doomsday could besides beryllium utilized to explicate however Rogers managed to get backmost to the main MCU world successful bid to manus his shield implicit (according to MCU time-travel rules, helium should technically beryllium successful a caller subdivision of world instead). It's a insignificant crippled constituent successful the expansive strategy of things, but 1 that Avengers manager Joe Russo hinted backmost successful 2021 that helium and his member Anthony had considered arsenic a wide thought for much communicative featuring Steve Rogers.

"One happening that's wide that Anthony and I person discussed, I don't cognize that we've discussed this publically astatine all, Cap would person had to person travelled backmost to the main timeline," Joe Russo said. "That's thing that, yes, helium would person been successful a subdivision reality, but helium would person to question backmost to the main timeline to springiness that shield to Sam Wilson."

Of course, determination are besides acold much straightforward reasons for Steve Rogers' return. The quality was 1 of the archetypal Avengers and played a cardinal portion successful the $2.7 billion-grossing Avengers: Endgame. Having the archetypal Captain America backmost volition undoubtedly beryllium a immense assemblage draw, particularly for those who person mislaid involvement successful Marvel implicit the past fewer years amid a drawstring of underwhelming entries successful its Multiverse Saga (and immoderate highlights, looking astatine you Thunderbolts*).

Having Evans backmost alongside his erstwhile co-stars Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Hemsworth (Thor) would undoubtedly assistance cement Doomsday arsenic an Avengers-level movie lawsuit (while besides simultaneously highlighting Disney's nonaccomplishment to regenerate its erstwhile leads with likewise beloved stars successful the years since).

Disney is expected to officially merchandise the archetypal Avengers: Doomsday trailer this week, attached to its latest blockbuster Avatar: Fire and Ash. A caller study suggested that 4 abstracted trailers would motorboat implicit 4 weeks, successful a determination designed to promote repetition viewings of Avatar and support audiences entertained with a bid of large reveals. Confirmation of Steve Rogers' instrumentality would surely beryllium a beardown start.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social