“Captain America: Brave New World” is finally upon us and introduces MCU’s new Captain America, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) properly. But if you’re here, you might be wondering: What happened to Chris Evans?
The fourth part of the CAP franchise looks fully in his track as the hero, with both Shield and his reliable Falcon wings to help him in battle. After all, he is not a super soldier as Steve Rogers was. Sam is just a normal guy who goes into a super role.
And really, there are a few to answer why it is. But don’t worry, it’s nothing outrageous. The change is simply the natural development of character and occurred during two previous MCU projects.
When did Chris Evans stop being Captain America?
At the end of “Avengers: Endgame” Steve Rogers was dropped to go back in time to return Infinity Stones to their correct timelines. It was supposed to be a quick trip that he would almost immediately return from. But he didn’t.
Instead, in the final minutes of the film, Bucky (Sebastian Stan) and Sam notice an old man sitting nearby. When they go over, they realize that the old man is actually Steve. When he stopped returning the stones, he stopped earlier to have a life with his long -standing love, Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell).
He returned to that place at the right moment to assure his friends that he was ok-and to make a hand-off.
During the conversation, Steve is enough for his shield to Sam and asks him how it feels. Sam replies “as if it belongs to someone else” but CAP cheekly shoots back that “it doesn’t.” In short, this is Captain America who names its own successor.
Falcon and the winter soldier
The thing is that Sam Wilson will not immediately become Captain America after that. In fact, he rejects the role, which leads to the US government choosing his own Captain America in the Disney+ series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.”
Their choice is John Walker (Wyatt Russell) who, just like Sam, is just an ordinary military man without superpowers – at first. Eventually, John takes Super Serum, and when Dr. Erskine (Stanley Tucci) warned far back in “Captain America: The First Avenger”, it reinforced the worst in him.
So, Sam and Bucky sat on a mission to take John Walker in custody and take back the shield. In the end, Sam finally accepts to become CAP himself, learn to fight with the shield, but also integrate some of his Falcon technology.
At the end of the series, he fits up as Captain America as we see in “Brave New World.”
“Captain America: Brave New World” meets theaters on February 14.
