‘Avengers: Endgame’ – Let’s Talk About the Future of Captain

(Note: Major spoilers forward for “Avengers: Endgame” and the way forward for the MCU)

In comedian books, retirement by no means lasts and demise is usually only a minor inconvenience. Characters die and are available again to life so usually the afterlife is virtually a suburb of New York, and getting back from one thing as everlasting as previous age is an easy matter of discovering the proper magic potion.

But in a movie franchise just like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, if a personality definitively leaves — particularly if their actor is able to transfer on to different roles — likelihood is that character is gonna keep gone.

Well, in case you’ve seen “Avengers: Endgame,” then you already know it’s filled with gut-punch second after gut-punch second, and one second on the very finish hits notably exhausting, as a result of it unambiguously spells out the exit of one of many sequence’ most beloved and outstanding heroes.

But the place the Marvel gods taketh away, additionally they giveth again — in abundance. Because “Endgame” additionally units up that character’s alternative in a really cool approach drawn straight from the comics.

MAJOR spoilers from right here out. Seriously, cease studying in case you don’t wish to know.

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In the ultimate moments of “Avengers: Endgame,” Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America (Chris Evans), travels again in time to return the six Infinity Stones to the time intervals from which the Avengers stole them throughout the amusing “time heist” within the movie’s second act. Though his mission is meant to final nevertheless lengthy he wants, to his buddies ready for him within the current day he’s solely speculated to be gone for just a few seconds.

Except he by no means seems again contained in the time machine. Instead, as Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Bucky (Sebastian Stan) and Sam Wilson, AKA Falcon (Anthony Mackie) stand round confused, they discover one thing new: close by, an previous man is sitting on a park bench overlooking a serene lake. Yep, it’s Steve. It appears that after he returned the Infinity Stones, he determined to retire from superheroics, and went again in time to have the sort of life he at all times needed earlier than getting frozen within the ice on the finish of “Captain America: The First Avenger.”

It’s a bit bizarre — see extra in regards to the movie’s complicated time journey guidelines right here — however principally Steve went again to the 1940s after which took the gradual route again to the long run, in any other case referred to as growing old regular. And now, as a 100-something yr previous man, he returned to the place he left his buddies behind, for him all these years in the past and for them a few minutes, to say goodbye.

But Cap additionally introduced a present — his unique vibranium defend (please don’t ask how he saved it with out altering the timeline, we don’t know), and he provides it to Sam.

“How’s it feel?” Cap asks. “Like somebody else’s,” says Sam.

“It shouldn’t,” Steve replies.

And with that, it’s Sam’s defend now; yep, he’ll be taking over the mantle of Captain America, and in a approach nearly precisely like he did within the comics.

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In 2014’s Captain America Vol 7 #21 “The Iron Nail: Part 5,” Cap misplaced his powers after the villain Iron Nail stabbed him with a dart that neutralized the super-soldier serum and trigger Cap to quickly flip into an previous man, reflecting his precise age. Though he was in a position to cease Iron Nail’s evil plan, he was nearly killed, till being barely saved by his finest pal Sam.

Four points later, after studying he’s just about going to be caught in his aged kind, Steve accepts actuality and names Sam Wilson the brand new Captain America.

Sam holds on the the Captain America moniker all through the comics for just a few years, even after Steve manages to get his super-soldier powers again. But he doesn’t simply roll as a continuation of Steve’s strategy to being Cap. For one factor, Sam adopts and very cool customized Captain America uniform that includes parts of his Falcon…