A somber Thor is returning for 'Avengers: Doomsday': Watch the dread-filled teaser

Who knew Avengers: Doomsday would be such a reunion? A new teaser for the upcoming Marvel movie reveals Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is coming back, and this time around, he’s got very different priorities.

The short teaser features Hemsworth’s God of Thunder looking disturbed as he kneels in the woods, mythical Stormbreaker in hand.

“Father, all my life, I’ve answered every call to honor, duty, to war,” Thor begins. “But now, fate is giving me something I’ve never sought: a child. A life untouched by the storm.”

Yep. Just like Chris Evans’s Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, who is also returning for Doomsday, and is seen with his own baby in an earlier teaser, Thor is a dad. And he’d like to go back to being one after all the movie’s drama is resolved.

“Lend to me the strength of our fathers so I may fight once more, defeat one more enemy, and return home to her,” he pleads with his deceased father. “Not as a warrior, but as warmth. To teach her not battle, but stillness. The kind I never knew. Please, father, heed my words.”

It’s a very different Thor than the one we saw in Avengers: Endgame. That version of the character, who lost many loved ones during “the Snap” that wiped out half of Earth’s population, spent most of the film drunk and cracking jokes.

He also looked different, with long scraggly hair and a less ripped physique. (Hemsworth reportedly wore a padded body suit of about 70 pounds to embody the Norse god’s new look.) While he regained a bit of his more serious self — and his abs — for 2022’s Thor: Love and Thunder, the Avengers: Doomsday teaser shows Thor as more somber than we’ve seen him in a while.

In the YouTube comments for the teaser, fans expressed their approval of Thor’s return to form. One wrote, “A more serious Thor is always a good thing to see.” Another added, “It is refreshing to see the more serious side of Thor again.”

Some, however, saw the tone as a warning sign that things were about to get bad for our beloved superheroes. “You know it's going to rain hell when the strongest Avenger is praying to his dead dad,” one wrote.

Hemsworth and Evans aren’t the only original Avengers returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Robert Downey Jr. is returning — just not as Iron Man, aka Tony Stark. Instead, he’ll portray Doctor Doom, the film’s main villain.

Avengers: Doomsday will debut in theaters Dec. 18, 2026.