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Marvel Studios' current Captain America just speculated how Avengers: Doomsday is bringing Steve Rogers back
Can you bring Steve Rogers back without replacing Sam Wilson's Captain America? Marvel Studios has a plan - straight from Marvel Comics
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Just because Steve Rogers is coming back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe doesn’t mean that he’s going to be asking for his shield back.
In an interview with Variety following Marvel Studios’ Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, current MCU Captain America Anthony Mackie teased that Steve Rogers will have an all-new identity when he returns in December’s Avengers: Doomsday. Well, all-new unless you’re a fan of comic book Captain America stories, that is.
When asked, “Steve Rogers is returning, not Captain America,” Mackie responded, “Steve Rogers in the comic book — there is a comic book, you say you're a nerd, read the comic book. Don't be a nerd by trade, be a nerd by fact. So, in the comic book, Steve Rogers becomes Nomad.”
Pressed on whether or not that could happen in the MCU, he jokes, “I don’t know! I don’t even watch movies!”
In Marvel comic book lore, Nomad is the costumed identity Steve Rogers adopts after quitting as Captain America in the wake of discovering that the President of the United States of America was the head of the villainous organization the Secret Empire. (This was written, drawn, and published in the immediate aftermath of the Watergate scandal, not coincidentally.) Disillusioned by the establishment, Steve quits as Captain America and, eventually, adopts the identity of Nomad, the “man without a country,” as he called himself.
Steve’s comic book Nomad career only lasted months, as he reclaimed the Captain America identity after the death of his replacement. Here’s hoping that particular detail won’t repeat itself onscreen, whether in Avengers: Doomsday or 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars.
Avengers: Doomsday will be released December 18, 2026.
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