ComicBook June 15, 2026

The Russos Officially Just Confirmed The MCU Almost Killed Iron Man Before Endgame

There’s a reason that everything that has been released by Marvel Studios since Avengers: Endgame hasn’t quite reached that same level. The biggest piece of the puzzle is that audiences had already grown so attached to the characters in the MCU by the time that movie released that the story hit very

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Captain America: The First Avenger

The film that planted the MCU's moral compass into 1940s wartime establishes Steve Rogers as the franchise's only true idealist — a character whose values predate any superpower and survive every institutional betrayal. The WWII backdrop gives the conflict genuine historical weight while introducing the Tesseract, Red Skull, and HYDRA as the connective tissue for the next decade of storytelling. Chris Evans finds depth in Rogers' pre-serum determination, making the transformation feel earned rather than arbitrary. It is the franchise's most classically structured origin film: a man who is already a hero before he becomes a superhero.

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