{"id":348680,"date":"2026-03-16T07:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348680\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:34:13","slug":"chris-evans-rdj-reunite-at-oscars-2026-ahead-of-avengers-doomsday-its-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348680\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Evans & RDJ Reunite at Oscars 2026 Ahead of Avengers: Doomsday (& It’s Perfect)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine months before Steve Rogers faces off with Victor von Doom in Avengers: Doomsday<\/a>, Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. are back together at the Oscars 2026<\/a>. The two MCU actors, who last appeared together in the MCU in 2019\u2019s Avengers: Endgame, reunited on stage to present the Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay.<\/p>\n

For Marvel fans, it was nice to see some fun banter between the pair, with Evans joking that Downey hadn\u2019t got him a gift for the 14th anniversary of their first MCU movie together, The Avengers. After the first prize, Downey Jr. briefly disappeared from stage, only to return with a gift for Evans: Channing Tatum\u2019s \u2013 though he called him \u201cTanning Chatum\u201d \u2013 thong from Magic Mike. Tatum, who will also appear with the pair in Doomsday as Gambit<\/a>, was in the crowd and joked he\u2019ll \u201cneed that back.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also worth noting that Downey was wearing a green suit: that hardly seems like a coincidence, given it\u2019s the color of Doctor Doom. The actor wearing a tux inspired by the villain might not count as a first look at him in a Doctor Doom suit<\/a>, but it\u2019s a neat touch all the same. It was also quite fitting to have them on stage for Original Screenplay, because that went to another member of the extended MCU family: Ryan Coogler for Sinners.<\/p>\n

Chris Evans & Robert Downey Jr\u2019s Reunion Is One Of Avengers: Doomsday\u2019s Biggest Selling Points<\/p>\n

The reunion between the two actors at the Oscars 2026 continues the marketing for Avengers: Doomsday, even without having them in costume. Marvel is very clearly banking on nostalgia \u2013 and, above all else, the return of the two defining stars of the Infinity Saga coming back \u2013 to help turn Doomsday into the kind of event that the previous Avengers movies have been. <\/p>\n

While we haven\u2019t yet seen Downey in a teaser (Evans returned as Steve Rogers in the first Doomsday trailer<\/a>), the presence of the two actors on one of the biggest movie stages, ahead of one of the year\u2019s biggest movies, highlights how much of a sell them coming back is designed to be.<\/p>\n

Still, things will be quite different this time around. While Steve and Tony Stark had their differences, and came to blows in Captain America: Civil War, they were able to put them aside for the Avengers movies. Now Downey Jr. is taking on the role of Doctor Doom, they\u2019re going to be even more directly opposed.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it\u2019s been theorized that one of the reasons Doom attacks<\/a> is that Steve going back in time in Avengers: Endgame caused on incursion that killed Doom\u2019s family in his universe, and that the villain is out for revenge. Whether that\u2019s true or not remains to be seen, but it\u2019s almost certain we\u2019ll be getting another face off between the pair, so the Oscars was just the start.<\/p>\n

Avengers: Doomsday will be released on December 18th, 2026.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and join the conversation now in the ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine months before Steve Rogers faces off with Victor von Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, Chris Evans and Robert…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2561,93,61,60,2701,270,57251],"class_list":["post-348680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-movies","tag-regular-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}