The rumours of the return of Robert Downey Jr and Chris Evans in Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Avengers: Secret Wars has been gaining wide and going viral on the internet. However, now Marvel Studios executive Stephen Broussard has shared his take on it all. The return of Downey Jr and Evans have been on fans’ demand list to pick up the mantle for one last time, in fact felling MCU actors including Jonathan Majors also expressed his desire to have the former back as Iron Man and take on Kang in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.
Broussard negated the rumours and revealed why the character and actor may not return said, “If you look at, like, Cassie (Lang in Quantumania) getting a suit and Kate Bishop (in Hawkeye), new characters being introduced like Jack (in Werewolf by Night). After these first 10 years of Marvel storytelling, torches are being passed, like with Robert Downey Jr. no longer being (on the) table and stuff like that. So it was kind of like a new generation stepping to the forefront which, again, has always happened in the comics."
He also said that Phase 4 of the MCU was about inducting new characters and using the upcoming films to tell those stories and said, “Now that those players are on the board and there’s a big bad coming (in the form of Kang the Conqueror), it’s about like, 'What are they going to do with that? What are they going to do with this power?' Because as you know, perhaps you’ve heard. With great power…(comes great responsibility.)"
He also spoke about Anthony Mackie’s character who picked up the shield of Captain America at the end of Avengers: Endgame and said, “Sam is the only character without superpowers,” and added that he is ‘just a regular dude’ unlike the other super-powered heroes.
(Source: io9)
