Chris Evans is ready to return every bit Captain America in a future MCU movie or bear witness, but just how could this happen later Steve Rogers' sendoff in Avengers: Endgame? On January 14, 2021, it was reported that Evans was in talks to render equally Captain America, although at the time of writing whatsoever farther details nigh how or when are being kept nether wraps. While anything right now is speculative, there are a few different ways for Captain America's come back to happen.

Having started his MCU journey back in 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger, Evans' time in the MCU came to an end with 2019's Avengers: Endgame. Having defeated Thanos, Steve went back through time, returning each Infinity Stone to its rightful place in order to put the close the timelines created by removing them. Rather than simply come dorsum to the nowadays, however, he decided to stay in the by, finally getting his dance with Peggy Carter, earlier returning as an onetime Steve Rogers to give Sam Wilson, aka Falcon, his shield. Whether Steve married Peggy in the primary MCU timeline or one of the branched realities created in Endgame remains a betoken of fence (fifty-fifty between the film's directors and writers), but either way there are options on the table for Curiosity.

Marvel could build on the ending to Avengers: Endgame and bring back old Steve Rogers yet again. Since that showed Cap conspicuously isn't expressionless in what was then the present of the MCU (which the upcoming Stage 4 movies and shows aren't too-far-removed from), then information technology wouldn't be a stretch to have him appear again. Phase 4 is shaping up to exist a battle for Captain America'south legacy, with the U.S. Government having its own opinion on who volition be the new Captain America (and conspicuously non choosing Falcon, at least immediately). A return in The Falcon and the Winter Solider, or some other Curiosity moving picture/testify with those characters, would work, as Evans could cameo equally old Steve to provide guidance to Sam equally he struggles to take on the drapery, without totally overshadowing everything or it being a case of the "real" Cap being back.

Of form, there are limitations to what Curiosity can do with former Steve, and it would likely limit how much audiences would see of Captain America in the future. If at that place'southward something bigger on the horizon, and so it would brand more than sense to take a younger version of Cap appear, with Evans simply appearing as he does at present, rather than needing whatever heavy prosthetics work. Phase 4 offers farther narrative possibilities for this: Black Widow takes place in between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, and Marvel has already washed a "prequel" of sorts with Helm Marvel, which took place in the 1990s. At that place's a clear precedent, then, for more new movies to fill in dissimilar points of the timeline, and with Cap'south past re-written so he wasn't frozen in water ice, then there are a lot of options in terms of when to place a pic or evidence. Ane popular selection, for case, is a Howling Commandos motion-picture show, which could take Evans render.

And then at that place are the alternate timelines, which volition continue to be explored in Phase 4. Several upcoming movies and shows will characteristic the multiverse, and Loki will definitely be set in one of Endgame'south branched realities. It's possible, so, that Evans' Captain America could render in a similar way, through an alternate universe or timeline, particularly going with the Russos' argument that his life with Peggy takes identify in a separate 1. With much of the MCU's time to come seemingly devoted to this line of storytelling, then there'd be plenty of scope for Evans to cameo or even accept a bigger advent somewhere among the multiverse. This could be every bit the same Captain America who went dorsum in fourth dimension, merely information technology could also introduce a whole new version - for case, the HYDRA version of Cap from Marvel Comics could be brought into play - because they can go in only near any direction now.

There is likewise however some other option that Captain America can render by edifice on Avengers: Endgame'southward ending, and indeed its fourth dimension travel, which is having him come up back because of Kang the Conqueror. Kang is theorized to be the villain of The Avengers 5 (after he first appears in Ant-Homo three), and equally a time travelling bad guy and a major threat, he'll not only require the full might of the MCU to cease him, but could even fight heroes at different points. That means while he could battle some heroes in the present of the MCU, he could go father back, facing Captain America at another bespeak, almost similar a reversal of Endgame's time heist. Of course, Chris Evans' return isn't yet official, but if it does happen, there are lots of means for information technology to exercise then.

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