Chris Evans gives fans a journey to remember with Steve Rogers
That was always Captain America’s promise.
In the end, he didn’t have to sacrifice his life.
He turned out to be one of the lucky soldiers, who gets to go home.
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But Cap is only supposed to be gone for five seconds in their timeline.
(Directors Anthony and Joe Russo have a tantalizing explanation for this.
“How can I?
You’re taking all the stupid with you,” his friend replies.
That means Cap at least as they knew him isn’t returning at all.
The Falcon (Anthony Mackie) is enraged, demanding Hulk do something.
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But Bucky is calm.
He points Falcon toward a figure sitting on a ridge, overlooking the water.
“Sam…” Bucky says.
They approach, and find Steve Rogers decades and decades older.
He’s at the end of the line.
“So did something go wrong, or did something go right?”
Falcon asks the elderly man.
“I put the stones back,” Old Man Cap says.
“And I thought maybe I should try some of that life Tony was telling me to get.”
“How did that work out for you?”
“It was beautiful.”
“I’m happy for you,” Sam tells him.
Cap whispers, “Thank you.”
He has his old red, white, and blue shield, fully restored.
“How’s it feel?”
“Like it’s someone else’s,” Falcon answers.
“It isn’t,” Cap tells him.
That’s when Falcon notices the gold band on the old man’s finger.
“You want to tell me about her?”
“No,” Steve Rogers says softly, keeping some secrets for himself.
“No, I don’t think I will.”
Inside the living room, two people are dancing.
It’s Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell).
Then he vanished into the ice.
Then she passed away inCivil War, and Steve didn’t even have that shadow of her anymore.
A man no longer out of time.
Cap had a life, and perhaps some adventures.
But no, we don’t get to find out what they were.
Somehow, and it’s probably more than just intuition.
He was aware that Cap was going to live in the past.
Maybe he had run into that older Cap before.
The Falcon certainly hadn’t.
So how did Old Cap jump back into the main timeline for this goodbye with his friends?
There’s aDisney+ streaming series calledFalcon and Winter Soldier.
Maybe we’ll find out more then.
