“Avengers: Doomsday” first look at Robert Downey Jr. revealed
“Avengers: Doomsday” first look at Robert Downey Jr. revealed
Nick RomanoThu, April 16, 2026 at 11:45 PM UTC
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Robert Downey Jr. will play Victor von Doom in 'Avengers: Doomsday'Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty
Doom has arrived!
Marvel unveiled the first look at Robert Downey Jr. in the CinemaCon trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, marking the Iron Man veteran's return to the MCU — this time as supervillain Victor von Doom.
The trailer opens with the sign for Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters covered in rubble. Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) cowers in fear as he sees a huge fire out of his window.
We then see Downey's Doom in profile, with his green cloak covering part of his face. Later, we see Chris Hemsworth's Thor swing his ax Stormbreaker at the villain, who casually stops the attack with the palm of his hand. This moment gives us the first clear look at Doom's iconic metallic mask.
The character was teased in a post-credits sequence at the end of last summer's The Fantastic Four: First Steps, though the camera never showed the actor's face beneath the green cloak. That film further teased Doom's arrival when a camera panned across the United Nations to reveal a vacant seat for the country of Latveria, the character's home turf.
Downey's Doom, first announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2024, is the latest Thanos-level threat for the comic book characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one that will span the multiverse. Figures from different realities will mingle together, including members of the X-Men, when the film arrives in theaters Dec. 18, 2026.
The Downey/Doom reveal follows four different teasers that screened in theaters in front of Avatar: Fire and Ash before releasing online. The first confirmed the return of Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, despite the actor's earlier insistence that he was not coming back. The second featured Hemsworth as Thor and Hemsworth's daughter, India Rose, as Love, the god of Thunder's adopted daughter.
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The third gave us the first look at former X-Men stars Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, and James Marsden back in action as Professor Xavier, Magneto, and Cyclops. The fourth and final of those early teasers then delivered a meeting of the Wakandans, Talokans, and Fantastic Four with Shuri (Letitia Wright), Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejia), M'Baku (Winston Duke), and Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach).
This is but the tip of the larger Avengers: Doomsday cast. The roster will include the other Fantastic Four costars, Pedro Pascal (Reed Richards), Vanessa Kirby (Sue Storm), and Joseph Quinn (Johnny Storm), as well as members from Thunderbolts*/The New Avengers, including Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova), Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes), Wyatt Russell (John Walker), Lewis Pullman (Bob), David Harbour (Alexei Shostakov), and Hannah John-Kamen (Ava Starr).
Robert Downey Jr. unveiled as 'Avengers: Doomsday' supervillain at Comic-Con 2024Credit: Jesse Grant/Getty
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Additional MCU veterans Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Anthony Mackie (Sam Wilson), Danny Ramirez (Joaquin Torres), Simu Liu (Shang-Chi), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), and Channing Tatum (Gambit) are also back.
And joining Stewart, McKellen, and Marsden from the 20th Century Fox era of X-Men movies are Alan Cumming (Kurt Wagner), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), and Kelsey Grammer (Hank McCoy).
Joe and Anthony Russo, the brotherly filmmaking duo who gave us some of the MCU's biggest hits (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame), are back directing Doomsday, as well as the follow-up Avengers: Secret Wars (Dec. 17, 2027).
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