The film was originally titled "Avengers: The Kang Dynasty" and was to feature Kang the Conqueror, a time-traveller villain from Ant-Man et la Guêpe : Quantumania (2023) and who had gotten teased in Loki (2021). However, in 2023 Kang's actor Jonathan Majors was fired after facing assault charges brought by his former girlfriend. In 2024 Marvel replaced Kang with Doctor Victor von Doom as the film's antagonist and renamed the film to "Avengers: Doomsday".
Thor: [prays] Father, all my life, I have answered every call: to honor, duty, to war. Now fate has given me something I never sought: a child. A life untouched by the storm. Lend to me the strength of the All-Fathers, so that I might fight once more, defeat one more enemy and return home to her. Not as a warrior, but as warmth. To teach her not battle, but stillness, the kind I never knew, Please, Father, hear my words.
