Avengers: Endgame featured a not-so-hidden tease for new MCU hero
Avengers: Endgame dropped a name that no one picked up on until days after the film, and it could tease part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s future. Spoilers are ahead.
Avengers: Endgame will end one “Phase” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — not finish it entirely. There is a future beyond the events of the biggest superhero film of all time, and part of it was teased before and during the action, including Captain Marvel, any living heroes and references viewers may have heard or missed.
One of them came to fruition after Endgame‘s seismic opening weekend, and it was a name drop of Captain Britain, as ComicBookMovie.com picked up on.
Steve Rogers and Tony Stark traveled to 1970 to retrieve the Tesseract, and as they went for it, Steve saw Peggy, who was talking, through an office window. There, she mentioned someone named “Braddock,” who had not “checked in.”
Braddock is the last name of Brian Braddock, also known as Captain Britain in Marvel Comics.
Easter Eggs have been part of the MCU since its inception, so this might just be a one-off reference to Captain Britain … or not.
The MCU has increased its young superhero arsenal lately. Cassie Lang, Monica Rambeau and Lila Barton were either in Captain Marvel or Endgame and may represent part of a torch-passing process. This also happened by other means, as Steve Rogers passed the Captain America shield to Sam Wilson.
What does that mean for Captain Britain’s potential arrival? This “Braddock” could be his father since that scene took place in 1970. Plus, it keeps a character with ties to the past and allows the MCU to tell more stories based on Braddock’s interactions with Carter, Howard Stark and other figures behind SHIELD and technological industries. Without Steve and Tony, there are limited opportunities to tell older stories, otherwise, with Bucky Barnes’ past as an exception.
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So Captain Britain could keep an older part of the MCU open and refresh what viewers know of the past. Now, it’s about if or when this character joins the ever-expanding universe Marvel and Disney have formed.