Avengers: Doomsday is coming to theaters on December 18 and to celebrate the widely anticipated movie, restaurants are releasing an exclusive Doomsday menu. Avengers: Doomsday is going viral even before its release because of its stacked cast, the combination of superhero teams, and the catastrophic collisions between timelines in the universe. Robert Downey Jr’s return to the blockbuster Marvel Cinematic Universe as Dr. Doom has fans screaming with excitement after the downfall of Marvel since Avengers: Endgame in 2019. The trailer for this movie shows teams such as the Avengers, The Fantastic Four, and X-Men, coming together from many different timelines to fight one of the most powerful villains in the MCU.
When it comes to widely anticipated movies fast-food restaurants are usually the first to collaborate with the movie to boost hype surrounding the release in the months leading up to the release. Avengers: Doomsday is a multi-million dollar movie which has millions of fans, so restaurants are jumping on this cultural event to use the Doomsday movie as a marketing boost to bring customers to their stores.
Dunkin’
Dunkin’ has come out with a Doomsday menu consisting of two new donuts, sprinkle munchkins, and six new drinks.
Their Doomsday Brownie Batter Donut and Avenging Cotton Candy Donut have become popular in the few days since they’ve been released. The Doomsday Brownie Batter Donut, themed after the movie’s main villain, is a brownie batter-filled donut topped in chocolate icing with green and brown sprinkles. The Avenging Cotton Candy Donut, themed after the iconic Avengers team, has a delicious cotton candy filling with vanilla icing on top and sprinkled in red, yellow, and blue sprinkles.
These donuts are paired with munchkins covered in the same colored sprinkle mixes. The Doomsday munchkin is a glazed chocolate donut holes rolled in green and brown sprinkles, whereas the Avenging munchkins are vanilla glazed donut holes rolled in the red, blue and yellow sprinkle mix.
Dunkin’ also has six Doomsday beverages. The Ice Captain’ccion is a Captain America inspired frothy iced cappuccino with caramel notes. The Doom Cloud Latte is an iced latte with a mocha swirl and sweet cold foam topped with cocoa powder. The Clobbered Cloud Latte is a white chocolate flavored espresso latte with cookie butter cold foam. Wakandan DayDreamer Refresher is a blackberry clementine based drink with raspberry oatmilk, topped with marshmallow cold foam. The Optic Blast Lemonade is a sweet but tart blue raspberry flavored lemonade. Doom’s Orders Energy drink is a green apple flavored Dunkin’ zero topped with purple cold foam.
KFC
On November 9, KFC is releasing their Doomsday meal, along with five collectible Colonel Sanders figures.
The Doomsday menu has eight new menu items including, the Doom Burger, Doom drip’d wings, Doom loaded fries, Masked Mozza Melts mozzarella sticks, Doom dust, a Doom shake, and many other Doom themed items.
The Doom burger has a fried chicken patty with a black sesame bun, smokey green mayo and sweet-and-smoky cola sauce. Their Doom bucket comes with chicken wings and a packet of Doom Dust, which is a green charred lime and chili seasoning to shake onto the chicken. The Doom Loaded Fries are topped with Smokey green mayo.
Besides the food, KFC is releasing five Colonel Sanders Cosplay Collection figurines where the KFC mascot is dressed as different Marvel Characters. These characters include The Thing from Fantastic Four, Thor, Cyclops from X-Men, Gambit, and Doctor Doom himself.
Jack in the Box
This Doomsday Dipping box comes with curly fries, mozzarella sticks, popcorn chicken, two tacos, a drink, and three dipping sauces. The sauces have fun Marvel-themed names such as Mutant Marinara, Assemble sauce, and Fantastic Buttermilk ranch. This meal includes a blind bag which contains an Avengers: Doomsday collectible magnet.
Outback
Hopping on this trend, Outback released a sneak peak of their Doomsday menu, releasing on November 10. So far, we know that they will be selling the Mjolnir Steak, modeled after Thor’s hammer. While the rest of their menu is under wraps till release, we can expect something fantastic.