Chris Hemsworth's Thor Will Reportedly Be The "Second Lead" Character In AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

It sounds like the God of Thunder may have a much bigger role in Avengers: Doomsday than we realized, as Chris Hemsworth is being described as the movie's "second lead."

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By MarkCassidy - Jul 24, 2025 06:07 AM EST

Filed Under: Avengers: Doomsday

Chris Hemsworth will reprise his role as Thor for Avengers: Doomsday, and the actor recently shared a video titled "Thank You! The Legacy of Thor" video, prompting speculation that he might be preparing to hang up the hammer for good after the next big MCU event.

The video, which is actually years old, features clips, behind-the-scenes footage, and interview segments from Hemsworth's tenure as the MCU's God of Thunder, and includes shots from the four solo Thor movies as well as Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

"Playing Thor has been one of the greatest honors of my life," Hemsworth wrote. "For the last 15 years I've held Mjolnir and then Stormbreaker as the God of Thunder, but what made it truly special… was sharing it with all of you. Your passion, your cheers, and your love for this character have meant everything to me. Thank you for making my journey through the Marvel Cinematic Universe unforgettable... Next up, Doomsday!"

It certainly sounds like he's bidding farewell to the character here, but if Doomsday is to be Thor's last hurrah, the Mighty Avenger could be preparing to go out with a bang.

According to Puck News writer and The Ringer host Matt Belloni, Thor has a "major role," in Doomsday, and Hemsworth is actually considered the second lead in the massive ensemble. Who is the first? We've heard that a number of different actors/characters will take centre stage, but don't be surprised if Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom winds up being the main focus.

Hemsworth has previously suggested that it might be time to kill off the character.

"I feel like we’d probably have to close the book if I ever did it again, you know what I mean? I feel like it probably warrants that. I feel like it’d probably be the finale, but that’s not based on anything anyone’s told me or any sort of plans. You have this birth of a hero, the journey of a hero, then the death of a hero, and I don’t know... am I at that stage? Who knows?"

One man who feels that Hemsworth still has a lot more to offer the MCU is Kevin Feige, who said he believes that the actor is still "in his prime" in a recent interview, possibly indicating that he will be wielding Mjölnir for years to come.

We have also heard that a fifth Thor movie is in the works, but nothing has been confirmed.

Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars were recently hit with significant delays, with Doomsday now set to arrive in theaters on December 18, 2026, and Secret Wars positioned for December 17, 2027.

Both movies will be directed by the Russo brothers, who also make their MCU return after helming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

"Being able to create stories and explore characters within the Marvel Universe fulfilled a life-long dream of ours, and we discovered a powerful connection with audiences in each film that we made. We’re thrilled to collaborate once again with Kevin, Lou and the entire Marvel team to bring this epic adventure in storytelling to new and surprising places for both the fans and ourselves”, said The Russos in a statement after the SDCC panel.

You can check out the full (for now) Doomsday cast list below.

#AvengersDoomsday. Now in production. pic.twitter.com/G84UVU8HOc
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) March 26, 2025

• Paul Rudd as Ant-Man

• Simu Liu as Shang-Chi

• Tom Hiddleston as Loki

• Lewis Pullman as Sentry

• Florence Pugh as Yelena

• Danny Ramirez as Falcon

• Ian McKellen as Magneto

• Sebastian Stan as Bucky

• Winston Duke as M’Baku

• Chris Hemsworth as Thor

• Kelsey Grammer as Beast

• James Marsden as Cyclops

• Channing Tatum as Gambit

• Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent

• Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm

• Rebecca Romijn as Mystique

• Patrick Stewart as Professor X

• Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler

• Letitia Wright as Black Panther

• Tenoch Huerta Mejia as Namor

• Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards

• Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost

• Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm

• David Harbour as Red Guardian

• Robert Downey Jr as Doctor Doom

• Ebon Moss-Bachrach as The Thing

• Anthony Mackie as Captain America

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jasonvoorhees - 7/24/2025, 6:10 AM

Cool. Hope it happens. Its tge only character besides Doom, i care about.

RegularPoochie - 7/24/2025, 6:22 AM

Soooo they finally gonna do right for my fave comic character?

Apophis71 - 7/24/2025, 7:57 AM

@RegularPoochie - Hopefully and if Chris is done with the role killing him off in one of the Avengers movies sounds fair and can bring back a recast version using an adaption based on one or more of the Valhalla methods to bring back dead Asgardians in a Thor 5. Simply need to establish a threat in the first act that requires the God of Thunders skill set leading to the character who has, going back to the original myths, the power to take warriors to or recruit from the Norse afterlife and could even bring back her lost love too (ie the source accurate Valkyrie that was briefly shown to have fallen in battle).

Ryguy88 - 7/24/2025, 8:58 AM

@Apophis71 - if they kill him off will the reunite a different version of him with other versions of the original avengers in Secret Wars?

Gabimaru - 7/24/2025, 6:30 AM

I still remember kevin feige told us that brie larson will lead the avengers going forward 😜

Apophis71 - 7/24/2025, 8:16 AM

@Gabimaru - Still could if one of the teams is facing mutants as could result in what half this site has been demanding since forever thus giving Rogue her upgrade although I would TEND to have preferred they kept that for a new recast Rogue who starts out adopted daughter of a recast Mystique and Destiny and thus part of the brotherhood.

However AS Danvers WILL have been looking for ways to save her sorta niece she is very likely to be one of those who deffo goes to the Xmen world we saw her on. So it kinda depends how many teams we will have as we're looking at three worlds.

As in defensive team on 616, recruited by F4 to cross over to 828 maybe and the mutant world ones and if past is prologue not all will make it out of Doomsday alive.

Starting out with even as many as four team isn't impossible the survivors of whom join forces for the final act which allows for upto FIVE leaders at varying point theoreticaly speaking.

Does that sound messy on paper, sure, but lets look back at Infinity war where you had a team fight in Glasgow, the Thor/Loki/Hulk group trying to take down Thanos in space, the GotG team too, a team fight in NYC, then a couple merged up teams on Titan and in Wakanda which is a LOT of teams and somehow worked :D

As long as the resulting film turns out great we ultimately will mostly overlook any less preferable team leader choices end of the day as even the least popular ones going with a good creative team could still be made to work within the context of the Avengers films we are getting even if they fell short doing so in solo projects :D

RegularPoochie - 7/24/2025, 9:08 AM

@Gabimaru - I hope she is, so we can see Rogue take away her powers and never hear about her ever again

Nate212 - 7/24/2025, 11:13 AM

@RegularPoochie - Never hear about her again? You're the one bringing her up you donut. She clearly lives rent free in your head.

RegularPoochie - 7/24/2025, 11:20 AM

@Nate212 - shut up sausage

HashTagSwagg - 7/24/2025, 6:46 AM

Good, hopefully he's given the Infinity war treatmeant and taken serious again.

IAmAHoot - 7/24/2025, 6:47 AM

He was one of the top main players in Infinity War, and one of the real MVP's at that, so it's not surprising the Russos would utilize him again. Plus he's one of the still remaining OG 6, regardless of opinions on Love & Thunder; he deserves justice... preferably of the Infinity War variety more so than Endgame (which is not to diminish *some* of the great character work he got in the latter).

Apophis71 - 7/24/2025, 8:20 AM

@IAmAHoot - Plus being a Dad in universe for however many years it works out as being is suffice that he could easily have matured a lot by the time we see him. Sure a change offscreen is never ideal, esp becoming a drunk slob offscreen in the 5yr jump of Endgame, and odd to say maturing for a characters hundreds of years old but...

SteviesRightFoo - 7/24/2025, 7:14 AM

Hopefully the character is not utterly embarrassed again

Juicebox316 - 7/24/2025, 7:20 AM

Maybe we're just being worked here... But didn't Feige just say in last weekend's interview that he anticipates Hemsworth staying on as Thor for quite some time yet?

RitoRevolto - 7/24/2025, 7:33 AM

@Juicebox316 - Could be a cover. If this really is Hemsworth's lasting outing as Thunder Bro then Feige isn't gonna say as much in an interview.

MarkCassidy - 7/24/2025, 7:34 AM

@Juicebox316 - Yes, I meant to include his quotes and completely forgot.

TheFinestSmack - 7/24/2025, 7:24 AM

Wasn't another Thor movie all but confirmed though? Hemsworth was pushing for the Extraction director to helm.

RitoRevolto - 7/24/2025, 7:38 AM

I'm open to and ready for new faces for the MCU founding Avengers members, if this really is Hemsworth's last time. Well, I guess Doomsday and Secret Wars. Until then, it's all hearsay.

AllsGood - 7/24/2025, 7:39 AM

Don't sound good for Chris Hemsworth Thor the God of Thunder. Already said lots of people will die in Doomsday.

TheVisionary25 - 7/24/2025, 7:42 AM

Interesting if true , I’m sure Victor himself will be the lead of Doomsday while others are secondary or so..

Still , I’m taking this with a grain of salt for now since we originally had reports that Spider Man would be the lead hero of Doomsday before the main cast was revealed while other scoopers have said it is Reed so we’ll see.

I wouldn’t be surprised though if Thor does have a big part and could see him potentially sacrifice himself alongside Hiddleston’s Loki to save his loved ones , the other heroes & the multiverse akin to the former’s comic counterpart and Hyperion in the comics…

I think it would be a satisfying ending for him to fight alongside his brother as a heroic last stand which could act as a proper goodbye to the MCU version while Hemsworth could perhaps play variants in Secret Wars.

Apophis71 - 7/24/2025, 8:27 AM

@TheVisionary25 - Be too much work for Holland to do being a lead in Doomsday, and in SM4 and in Secret Wars and in The Odyssey all within about one year plus how would somebody nobody currently knows the identity of and one of the youngest realisticaly be a leader in Doomsday. As such at most I'm expecting a very small role for his character in Doomsday not more than Captain Marvel had in Endgame if that and we may never see his face in it, Secret Wars will be more likely where he steps up as a major character again IMO.

TheVisionary25 - 7/24/2025, 8:52 AM

@Apophis71 - I get yeah , that makes sense….

However him being the lead wouldn’t have meant he’s a leader necessarily.

Apophis71 - 7/24/2025, 9:12 AM

@TheVisionary25 - True, but even then that would be being A lead even if not leader in upto four BIG films in one year which I can't see being true.

AnthonyVonGeek - 7/24/2025, 7:54 AM

Please no more comedic goofy Thor.

Matador - 7/24/2025, 7:56 AM

So if Thor is second lead that means their making Reed/Pascal main lead?

Simonsonrules - 7/24/2025, 8:21 AM

@Matador - The lead will be RDJ

Matador - 7/24/2025, 8:29 AM

@Simonsonrules - Not what was said in another post on this website it didn't, his the antagonist.

WEAPONXOXOXO - 7/24/2025, 7:58 AM

So I guess this is going to be a comedy?

MyCoolYoung - 7/24/2025, 8:19 AM

As he should

TheVisionary25 - 7/24/2025, 8:52 AM

@MyCoolYoung - if it’s his last time or one of them playing the character then I agree

MyCoolYoung - 7/24/2025, 10:15 AM

@TheVisionary25 - Even without that, he was a part of the big three. He's one of Marvel's heavy hitters in the entire universe. He's a big gun who's earned the right to be front and center.

TheVisionary25 - 7/24/2025, 10:44 AM

@MyCoolYoung - that’s true aswell.

I just hope Sam isn’t given the shaft.

MyCoolYoung - 7/24/2025, 11:23 AM

@TheVisionary25 - Same. Sam is Cap. He should be front and center as the leader of the team, and if he isn't, it's an overreaction to the people talking down on him.

I will say though, Chris Cap was the leader of the Avengers, but he wasn't given a whole lot to do in Infinity War.

The MVPs were Doctor Strange, Thanos, Thor, Ironman, and Gamora. In my opinion though, he still wasn't shafted.

jasonvoorhees - 7/24/2025, 2:28 PM

@MyCoolYoung - Nobody cares about this wannabe Cap. That's why he haven't to be the leader, or center. He needs to be killed early in Avengers 5, so rela leaders can take over.

MyCoolYoung - 7/24/2025, 2:37 PM

@jasonvoorhees - thanks Jason. No one likes your ms voorhees either

cubichy - 7/24/2025, 4:15 PM

@MyCoolYoung - Sam will never be CAP, he is supporting character with no powers. Steve Rogers, i don't care about the actor is Cap and only Steve rogers, Evans killed it as CAP, bring him back along with Tony Stark and you get a 2-billion-dollar movie, its easy!

MyCoolYoung - 7/24/2025, 10:30 PM

@cubichy - he’s cap. Get over it cry somewhere else

cubichy - 7/24/2025, 10:36 PM

@MyCoolYoung - sams movie tanked, so NO, he is not cap, cause some marvel execs say he is, he'll no. There's only 1 cap and his name is Steve rogers.

MyCoolYoung - 7/24/2025, 10:57 PM

@cubichy - who cares about box office numbers. Are you going to cite it being number 1 on Disney plus? Probably not.

You don’t have the rights to say who’s cap. If he isn’t cap to you don’t watch idc. He’s still captain America

cubichy - 7/25/2025, 12:23 AM

@MyCoolYoung - dude, your data is olddddd, just checked my Disney and it's no longer even in the top 10. my version, i stopped it at 30 percent, because it looked like a cross between xena and power rangers, travesty, never should have been made and no one watched it, except you and it tanked big. Only steve rogers is Cap, dude read a comic book, its canon.

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Chris Hemsworth's Thor Will Reportedly Be The "Second Lead" Character In AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

It sounds like the God of Thunder may have a much bigger role in Avengers: Doomsday than we realized, as Chris Hemsworth is being described as the movie's "second lead."

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