Earlier this week, we learned that Chris Evans is coming back to the MCU for Avengers: Doomsday. This opened up speculation on who he would play, since Steve Rogers was old and had passed the shield to Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson. Also, with Robert Downey Jr. coming back as Doctor Doom, it just felt like Evans could be anybody. Well, maybe not anybody, but if rumors are true, he definitely won’t be Captain America.
According to Jeff Sneider on The Hot Mic, Evans will play Nomad in Avengers: Doomsday. So who is Nomad? In the page of Captain America #180, Cap learns that a high-ranking elected official (probably Tricky Dick Nixon) is actually a member of the evil Serpent Society. Growing disillusioned with the United States government, he abandons the Captain America mantle and becomes Nomad, a hero who serves no country.
Following events in Captain America: Civil War and heading into Avengers: Infinity War, fans thought Evans would be playing the Nomad version of Rogers, but the Russo Brothers said [via LRMOnline] only in “spirit.”
“Some people have suspected that he may be Nomad heading into ‘Avengers 3’ and I wouldn’t say that he is exactly Nomad, but he is the spirit of that character.”
So how could this version of Steve Rogers fit into the MCU? It’s likely to be a Multiverse thing, and if so it would create an entirely new dynamic between Rogers and Stark, whose ideologies have never quite aligned.
Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on May 1, 2026.
