Shuri and The Thing featured in Disney's fourth teaser for "Avengers: Doomsday"

Reel Perspectives

January 13, 2026

Disney released a fourth teaser on Tuesday for the highly anticipated Marvel film Avengers: Doomsday. This teaser sparked excitement online once again, featuring beloved characters from Wakanda and The Fantastic Four. Last year's Thunderbolts movie hinted at the arrival of the Fantastic Four in the main Marvel Cinematic Universe. Previous teasers featured Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), and the X-Men's Cyclops (James Marsden), along with Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Magneto (Ian McKellen).

Scheduled for release on December 18, the new teaser features Shuri, the new Black Panther (Letitia Wright) from Wakanda, who courageously stepped into the role following the death of her brother T'Challa (the late Chadwick Boseman).

Robert Downey Jr

M'Baku (Winston Duke), who makes his fifth appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, introduces himself as the King of Wakanda to Ben Grimm, aka The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach). The teaser also featured Namor (Tenoch Huerta), who first appeared in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Expectations for the film remain extremely high as Robert Downey Jr returns to the MCU as Dr. Doom, after playing the legendary Tony Stark since 2008, before calling it quits in 2019's Avengers: Endgame. The new film will be a nostalgic delight featuring many beloved characters from previous Avengers films and Marvel favorites. Confirmed returns include Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, Winston Duke, Hannah John-Kamen, Tom Hiddleston, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, Channing Tatum, Tom Holland, and Pedro Pascal.

While details around the storyline continue to remain top secret, we can expect many of these returns from alternate timelines across the multiverse to be a crowd-pleaser.

Avengers: Secret Wars will be released a year after Doomsday, but for now, excitement remains at a fever pitch for the first installment, which will see all the Avengers reunited since Avengers: Endgame.