10 MCU Storylines We’ll Never Get Closure On
9. The Red Skull Is Still Out There
One of the bigger surprises in Avengers: Infinity War was the revelation that the Tesseract - aka the Space Stone - hadn’t annihilated the evil Johann Schmidt at the climax of Captain America: The First Avenger, but had rather transported him across the cosmos to Vormir to act as the Soul Stone’s grim guardian.
Of course, when Captain America chose to return the time-heisted Infinity Stones to when and where they were snaffled from, he had no way of knowing that the Stonekeeper he’d be returning the Soul Stone to in 2014 would be his first and worst enemy: the nastiest Nazi, the claret-drenched Übermensch himself, the Red Skull.
Given that we never see the Stones returned, people have been debating ever since what might have happened when the two nemeses occupied the same premises again. Fisticuffs? Bitter recriminations? Tearful reconciliations? Probably not that last one, but still… Schmidt’s transformation into the Stonekeeper had radically altered his physiology and mental state. Would he still hold a grudge?
When asked about a potential confrontation between Captain America and his old nemesis on their many recent press tours, the Russo brothers have variously asserted that the Stonekeeper may not even remember his past life or claimed (with tongues planted firmly in cheek) that Cap might not remember Schmidt after that long.
It’s a moot point: there are no plans to ever show us Cap’s odyssey across time and space, and it’s unlikely that Chris Evans would return to do it if there were.