Avengers: Endgame - 9 Huge MCU Problems It's Created

2. Captain America's Ending Makes No Sense

Though Captain America (Chris Evans) travelling back to his original era to live out his life with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) was an emotionally gratifying ending for the MCU's most heroic character, it unfortunately doesn't hold up to much scrutiny.

Above all else, are we supposed to believe that Cap, with his knowledge of all the terrible things that happened after he was frozen - namely the infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. by HYDRA - just lived a simple, quaint life with Peggy as it all took place around him?

And more to the point, given that we know Peggy had a husband and two children, are we to assume that she never met her original husband in this timeline, and those children never existed?

That's not to ignore the fact that Cap ended up marrying the aunt of his love interest from Civil War, Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp). Oof.

None of these behaviours are particularly indicative of the stand-up Captain America fans know and love, so clearly there was a hope that audiences would be so wrapped up in the swelling emotion of Cap's ending that they wouldn't question it too much.

Co-writer Stephen McFeely himself said of Cap's ending, "He’s postponed a life in order to fulfil his duty...The arc is, I finally get to put my shield down because I’ve earned that."

And while you can't really argue with the sentiment, it surely would've made more sense thematically and character-wise for Steve to move on from Peggy and start a relationship with Sharon instead. You know, rather than literally living in the past and abandoning his best pal, Bucky (Sebastian Stan).