In the world of comics, nobody is ever really gone. So it was inevitable that, one day, Steve Rogers would return to the MCU. It looks like it is happening. According to a report in The Wrap, Chris Evans is to return for Avengers: Doomsday.
There is no further information about the exact nature of the return.
As you will no doubt remember, Steve Rogers got to use the time heist reversal from Avengers: Endgame to finally live the life he wanted with his one true love, then retired as a happy, fulfilled, elderly man.
As far as endings for comic book heroes go, it was pretty damn magnificent and men all over the world left the movie theater with something in their eye. Damn dusty cinemas. They really should clean them.
After three Captain America movies and four Avengers outings from 2011-2019, Steve Rogers’s retirement was well-earned. Robert Downey Jr. also returns, but he will be playing the new role of Doctor Doom and nobody is quite sure how this is going to work, either.
Meanwhile, it seems like another Deadpool movie won’t be happening any time soon, but Ryan Reynolds is open to Deadpool appearing in other MCU movies. In an interview with Variety he said he feels that Deadpool works well because of “scarcity and surprise” so a new movie every two years would spoil that. Of cameo appearances he said:
“I see Deadpool as a supporting character much more than he is a main [character] or at the center. We center him sometimes because they want, that’s what they want. But you can’t center him unless you take everything away from him. You have to create a situation where he’s so much the underdog.
I don’t think I can do that again. If he comes back, I think he’s going to be in someone else’s movie. Channing Tatum is so excited to play Gambit, I would happily be the fifth banana in his movie or anybody else’s.”
Could we see Deadpool turn up in some capacity alongside the Avengers? Avengers: Doomsday shoots early next year and will be released on May 1st, 2026.