Avengers: Endgame gave closure to Steve Rogers’ arc by having him go back in time to return the Infinity Stones to their rightful places and staying in the past to have the life he always wanted – but that didn’t make much sense. Steve returned at the end of Endgame to pass the shield to Sam Wilson, but could that actually be a Skrull instead of the real Steve? The Marvel Cinematic Universe built its Infinity Gauntlet arc for over ten years, introducing Thanos (Josh Brolin) and his plans and the heroes that would save the universe from them. The MCU reached its peak with Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, which saw all of its heroes joining forces for the first time.
Avengers: Infinity War was all about Thanos getting the infinity stones and using them to wipe out half of life in the universe, with Avengers: Endgame following the surviving heroes on a mission to travel back in time to get the Stones before Thanos did and bring back all those who disappeared in the snap. Once the Battle of Earth came to an end with Iron Man’s snap, the Avengers sent Steve Rogers back in time once more to return the Stones to the time and place where they were retrieved, but he decided to stay in the past with Peggy Carter, and returned to the present day as an old man, ready to pass on the mantle of Captain America to Sam Wilson.
As emotional as that moment was, it has been questioned since Avengers: Endgame came out as it seems out of character for Steve to do that and because his return as old Captain America doesn’t fit with what the movie established about time travel. All this, along with the announcement of a Secret Invasion TV show, could point at old Captain America actually being a Skrull, which would explain some things the MCU has planned for the future.
Captain America’s Return Made No Sense
Time travel is not a new concept in the entertainment industry, but every movie and TV show that has dealt with it has created its own rules. The MCU was no exception, and the characters in Avengers: Endgame even addressed that by saying that traveling back in time is not like what movies like Back to the Future show. When the remaining heroes traveled to different points and places in the past to retrieve the Infinity Stones, instead of changing their present through their actions in the past, they created new timelines, meaning that when they returned to their timeline, nothing had changed.
It’s because of this that the appearance of old Captain America at the end of Avengers: Endgame didn’t make sense. By choosing to stay in the past and live the rest of his days alongside Peggy Carter, Steve Rogers would have created a new timeline, and it wouldn’t have been possible for him to return as an old man in his original timeline. This would have only been possible had he returned to his present through the time machine the Hulk and Tony Stark built, but that wasn’t the case. This inconsistency in the MCU’s time travel logic has drawn a lot of criticism and sparked debate among fans, as well as various explanations on how old man Steve could have returned.
Theory: Old Cap Was A Skrull Imposter
The Skrulls were introduced to the MCU in Captain Marvel, but instead of being a menace they ended up being allies, so much that they lent a hand to Nick Fury in Spider-Man: Far From Home – but that doesn’t mean all of them have harmless intentions. Among the future plans of the MCU is a Secret Invasion TV show, based on the comic book event of the same name. In the comics, the Skrulls are a race of extraterrestrial shapeshifters who form one of the biggest intergalactic empires in the Marvel universe, with a mastery over science and warfare, and their long-time enemies are the Kree and humankind. They were at the front and center of the comic book crossover Secret Invasion, where the Skrulls silently and slowly took over Earth, using their shapeshifting abilities to secretly replace many superheroes.
Now, as mentioned above, the Skrulls are already part of the MCU and their existence is no secret, so much that they have been working closely with Captain Marvel and Nick Fury. Within the MCU timeline, Skrulls have been around since (at least) 1995, and by 2024 they were still close to Fury, so by 2023, the year Avengers: Endgame is set in, the Skrulls and Fury were working together. A Skrull posing as old Steve Rogers could have happened in two ways: either Fury, Carol Danvers, or someone else asked the Skrulls to do so, or some not-so-kind Skrulls with a future invasion in mind decided to do so as part of a bigger plan.
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