--- title: "Marvel’s new Avengers: Doomsday spot jokes about ‘Captains America’ as the December 18 release nears" url: https://badiyaa.com/avengers-doomsday-captains-america-tv-spot/ published: 2026-10-27T11:44:00+00:00 modified: 2026-10-27T11:44:00+00:00 section: Entertainment publisher: Badiyaa --- # Marvel’s new Avengers: Doomsday spot jokes about ‘Captains America’ as the December 18 release nears The 31-second spot went up on Marvel's YouTube channel on October 24 and passed 14 million views in under three days; the film opens in the US in 52 days, without IMAX. Marvel’s newest *Avengers: Doomsday* spot runs 31 seconds and spends about six of them on a grammar joke. “Right Cap?” one voice asks, then corrects itself, “I mean right Cap?”, before landing on the punchline: “Captains America.” Marvel Entertainment posted the spot on its official YouTube channel at 5 p.m. Pacific on Saturday, October 24, under the plain title “Avengers: Doomsday | In Theaters December 18,” and it passed 14 million views in under three days. The version trending under the name “Ant-Man jokes about both Captains America” is an upload with that title from a third-party channel, ONE Media, which appeared 47 minutes after Marvel’s and had about 167,000 views. The official clip is the one embedded here. A separate upload billed as an extended “new trailer” is also trending, but no such trailer appears among the studio’s own uploads from the past three weeks. ## Why the joke works: the shield has changed hands The gag only lands because *Doomsday* has more than one man with a claim to the title. Chris Evans returns as Steve Rogers, the first person to carry the Captain America mantle, who handed his shield to Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson at the end of *Avengers: Endgame* in 2019 and stayed in the past with Peggy Carter. Mackie is back as Wilson, now Captain America in his own right. Marvel’s cast list adds a third: Wyatt Russell’s John Walker, a former Captain America who now serves with the New Avengers as U.S. Agent. So “Captains America” is, if anything, an undercount. Evans and Mackie have both hinted that Rogers will take on the Nomad identity from the comics, which would neatly settle the naming problem, but Marvel has not confirmed it. Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang, the Ant-Man the third-party title credits with the line, is the former petty criminal of the group, which makes him the natural one to say what the others are thinking. Evans’s return has been the campaign’s main selling point since December 23, 2025, when a teaser ended on the card “Steve Rogers will return.” This spot is the first piece of marketing to treat the two Caps side by side as a running bit rather than a reveal. ## The spot itself: what it sells, and what it skips As a TV spot, it does its job efficiently. The opening line warns that something “will tear this world apart,” the middle is a blunt call to “Team up” and “stand together,” and the comedy beat follows. It closes on an exchange that sounds like the film’s real tension: “This doesn’t bother you, does it?” “You know it does.” That last line is the most interesting four seconds in the clip, because it hints that the two Captains will not be entirely comfortable sharing the job. The weakness is how little else it offers. In 31 seconds the dialogue gives no new detail about the plot, about Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom, the villain the whole film is built around, or about the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, whose arrival is the film’s other big hook. The tone is also lighter than the one the Russo brothers have been promising. When Channing Tatum explained why his Gambit would drop the thick Cajun accent he used in *Deadpool & Wolverine*, he said the directors were after a more dramatic, serious film. A spot that leads with a pun sits a little oddly next to that. Still, comedy has a commercial logic this late in a campaign. Marvel’s first full trailer, shown at CinemaCon in April and posted online in July, drew mixed responses, while an August “special look” built around Doom went down better. A 31-second spot does not need to explain the multiverse; it needs people to recognize Evans and laugh. ## The countdown From Tuesday, October 27, the US release on December 18 is 52 days away (four days left in October, 30 in November and 18 in December). UK audiences get it two days earlier, on December 16. The film is listed at about 165 minutes, will open in more than 4,000 US theaters, and will not play on US IMAX screens for at least its first three weeks because *Dune: Part Three*, opening the same day, holds that window. Advance sales had already reached $50 million by early September, 100 days out, and the sequel, *Avengers: Secret Wars*, is dated December 17, 2027. ## Further reading - [Wikipedia: Avengers: Doomsday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Doomsday) *Image: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons* *This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. [How we work](https://badiyaa.com/editorial-policy/).*