Marvel Fans Think They Cracked the Hidden Message in the AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Teasers
The Marvel Cinematic Universe keeps finding new ways to mess with fans’ heads, and the recent Avengers: Doomsday teasers are doing exactly that.
A handful of short clips dropped online, each spotlighting a different corner of the MCU. According to Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, there’s a major clue buried in those videos.
Fans took that as a challenge, and now a theory is spreading that claims the teasers are quietly pointing back to some very specific moments from Avengers: Endgame. And it actually kind of lines up.
Hype around Avengers: Doomsday is high, mostly because Marvel is keeping its cards close to the chest. With plot details locked down, every second of footage matters.
The teasers rolled out one by one, starting with Captain America, then Thor, followed by the X-Men, and Wakanda. Each ends with a ticking countdown and that detail didn’t go unnoticed.
A report from IGN highlights a theory that started gaining traction on Reddit. The idea is that the starting numbers on those countdowns match timestamps from Avengers: Endgame. Not random timestamps either, but moments tied directly to the multiverse unraveling.
The Captain America teaser ends on 1:24:20. That timecode lands on the scene in Endgame where The Ancient One warns Hulk about the dangers of removing the Infinity Stones during the Time Heist.
She explains how pulling a stone from its timeline can fracture reality itself. Fans think that moment could be a big hint toward how Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom comes into existence and why his multiversal scheme is such a threat.
Thor’s teaser points to 1 hour, 17 minutes, and 20 seconds. That’s the exact moment Loki escapes with the Tesseract in Endgame. That single action reshaped the MCU, directly leading to the events of Loki and throwing the multiverse completely out of balance. If Doomsday is dealing with the fallout of fractured timelines, this callback makes a lot of sense.
Then there’s the Wakanda-focused teaser, which many fans associate with Black Panther. The timecode there appears to be 1 hour, 4 minutes, and 20 seconds. In Endgame, that’s when Rocket tells Ant-Man he’s taking him to space.
The interesting wrinkle here is that the teaser features The Thing. Fans believe this could be teasing the arrival of the Fantastic Four, possibly via a space-bound shuttle making its way into the larger Avengers conflict.
It’s still just a theory, and Marvel is famous for misdirection. But fans are clearly eager to understand how this massive cast collides and what the Russo Brothers are setting up next. With Marvel under pressure after a few recent box office stumbles, expectations for Doomsday are massive.
We won’t know for sure if this countdown theory holds water until Marvel shows its hand. A full trailer would definitely help. Until then, speculation is running wild, and that’s exactly how Marvel likes it.
All questions will finally be answered when Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18, 2026.