Chris Evans is making his return for Avengers: Doomsday, and both he and his character have seemingly achieved the same major milestone.
Marvel dropped the teaser for the highly anticipated superhero film online on Tuesday, December 23, after it played over the weekend in theaters. In the first look, Evans, who has played Steve Rogers/Captain America in the franchise for nearly a decade, can be seen riding a motorcycle in the countryside and heading to a cozy farmhouse. As Steve gets off his bike, he is wearing a wedding band.
While in what appears to be his home, Steve is going through his personal items and finds his Captain America suit, which has been tucked away. The scene then cuts to Steve holding a newborn baby, whom he looks down at in awe.
The screen then fades to black as it reads, “Steve Rogers will return in Avengers: Doomsday.” Avengers: Doomsday will be released in theaters on December 18, 2026.
Joe and Anthony Russo, who make up the directing duo the Russo Brothers, gushed about their excitement to have Evans, 44, return for the upcoming Marvel movie.
“The character that changed our lives,” the pair — who got their start in Marvel on Captain America: The Winter Soldier — wrote via Instagram on Tuesday alongside a clip of the teaser. “The story that brought us all here together. It was always going to come back to this … ”
Evans’ return will mark his first Marvel appearance since the events of Avengers: Endgame. In the 2019 movie, Steve and the other Avengers traveled through time to stop Thanos (Josh Brolin). After successfully completing the mission, Steve used the infinity stones to travel back to his previous time period and be with the love of his life, Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell). Steve, who returned to the present time as an elderly man, passed down his Captain America shield to pal Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie).
Steve isn’t the only one whose life has changed in the past six years. Evans, 44, married wife Alba Baptista in 2023. Several of Evans’ Marvel costars — including Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth and Jeremy Renner — were present for the couple’s nuptials.
In October 2023, Evans revealed that he and Baptista, 29, had two weddings — one in the United States and another in the actress’ home country.
“It was really, really great. We kinda had two ceremonies,” he said during a panel at New York Comic Con. “We had one on the East Coast. We did one in Portugal.”
Evans later revealed that he popped the question to Baptista in her native tongue.
“I proposed to my wife in Portuguese,” Evans told The Knot in June. “She’s Portuguese, so I learned how to say, ‘Will you marry me?’ in Portuguese. I had practiced it all week. I had practiced it so much that while I’d be making breakfast [I’d] almost just start saying it out loud.”
Earlier this year, Evans and Baptista welcomed their first baby, a daughter named Alma Grace.
Prior to becoming a dad, Evans always shared his desire to start a family. In a November 2024 interview with Access Hollywood, Evans shared that he hoped to be a “superhero” father just like his Red One costar Dwayne Johnson’s character.
“Yeah, I hope so. Yeah, absolutely,” he said. “The title of dad is an exciting one.”
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