Several alternate versions of Rogers appear in the animated series What If...?, in which he is voiced by Josh Keaton. In an alternate 1943, Rogers gets shot by a Hydra agent before he can receive the Super Soldier Serum. Instead, Peggy Carter receives the serum, transforming into Captain Carter.
In this parallel universe, Captain Peggy Carter once again crossed paths with her lover, Steve, whom she knew to have died in 1953. However, Steve turned out to be living inside the armor of a Hydra Stomper, under the control of someone more sinister and powerful.
What happened to Steve Rogers in What If episode 1?
During World War II, Steve Rogers is chosen to become the world's first super-soldier, but is wounded by a Hydra spy before he can receive the super-soldier serum. Having stayed in the operating theater, SSR agent Peggy Carter kills the spy and receives the serum instead.
The Avengers: Endgame ending saw Steve Rogers use Pym particles to venture through the Quantum realm and travel through time in order to return all the Infinity Stones to their original place in the timeline. Then, instead of returning to the present, he chose to stay in the past and spend his life with Peggy Carter.
In the episode "What If... Captain Carter Fought the Hydra Stomper?," Bucky Barnes' Winter Soldier isn't the one turned into a brainwashed assassin by notorious spy groups. Instead, it's Steve Rogers in his HYDRA Stomper armor.
Marvel Finally Confirms What Happened To Steve Rogers At The End Of Avengers: Endgame
Was Captain Marvel in What If?
As of 2023, Danvers has appeared in four MCU films, as well as in the miniseries Ms. Marvel (2022). Alternate versions within the MCU multiverse appear in the animated series What If...? (2021), voiced by Alexandra Daniels.
In 1942, while attending the Stark Expo with his best friend, James Barnes, Rogers again attempts to enlist. Dr. Abraham Erskine overhears Rogers speaking with Barnes and approves his enlistment due to his continued efforts to serve his country despite his physical handicaps.
Bucky Barnes, like Steve Rogers, has lived for several decades due to cryogenic freezing and the super-soldier serum. Bucky's life expectancy could potentially surpass Steve's 116 years, depending on circumstances. Despite outwardly aging at the same rate as Steve, Bucky can still live for at least another 80 years.
As the rules of Endgame would have us believe - "Changing the past doesn't change the future" - which means if Steve changed history to be with Peggy, it would exist in a different timeline. However, we see Steve exist in the main timeline, so that would mean that Steve was always the husband.
According to showrunner AC Bradley, the season was supposed to be 10 episodes long, but got cut short one due to COVID slowing things down. This Sakaar episode had to be sacrificed, but will indeed show up in season 2.
In the episode's alternate storyline, Peggy Carter takes the Super Soldier Serum instead of Steve Rogers. Carter becomes the hero known as Captain Carter, with Rogers donning a suit of armor designed by Howard Stark.
A big change in Steve's life due to not getting the Super Soldier Serum was the fact that he actually got a life. As a result of his battle with the Red Skull, Captain America ended up frozen in suspended animation for several decades until he was revived by S.H.I.E.L.D.
However, Peggy almost certainly knew about the presence/existence of another Steve somewhere. He would have needed to explain to her how he returned to her, and needed to explain the whole alternate timeline and time travel.
Stephen Strange is a master of surgical skills in the beginning of the episode. After he tragically loses the love of his life, he seeks answers in the mystic arts and eventually he becomes the Sorcerer Supreme.
Their reunion in Captain America: The Winter Soldier was seemingly the final interaction between the two, and the final years of Peggy's life were spent in the knowledge that Steve was just slightly out of reach.
The writers of "Avengers: Endgame" confirmed that Steve is the father of Peggy's children and that they likely have super soldier DNA. While Steve's children have not appeared in the MCU, in alternate universes he has a son named James Rogers and a daughter named Sarah, both of whom inherit his superhero abilities.
What is the age difference between Peggy and Steve?
Margaret Peggy Carter was born in 1921. That would've made her twenty three when she met Steve Rogers. She was three years younger than Steve Rogers when they met in 1943. Peggy Carter was obviously an intelligence prodigy.
Due to what Thanos did and the discovery of time-travel by the Avengers, the world of MCU branched itself into many other realities. So Cap travelled back to another reality in which he did not spend 66 years unconscious and frozen in ice until he was discovered found by S.H.I.E.L.D. in 21st century.
Bucky owes his youthful appearance to repeated cryo-freezes orchestrated by the Russians. He possesses no super powers and never received a form of the Super Soldier Serum as many assume, but continues to operate at peak human ability.
Why did Captain America choose Falcon and not Bucky?
The Steve of the MCU would never choose Bucky to replace him as Captain America. This is not because of Bucky's past nor because Steve doesn't think he could do well. Rather, as his best friend, Steve knows that the last thing Bucky needs is another mission and codename to live up to.
Who becomes Captain America after Steve Rogers dies?
Steve Rogers' longtime partner Bucky Barnes assumed the role of Captain America following Steve Rogers' death in the 2007 storyline "The Death of Captain America".
By far the most famous wielder of the hammer other than Thor was Chris Evans' Captain America, who lifted the hammer against Thanos in Avengers: Endgame.
He most definitely loved both Peggy and Bucky, with the latter considered to be in a romantic sense as well for many fans. While Peggy was his actual love interest, Steve's love for Bucky was such that they can be considered each other's true loves, even if it's seen in a platonic context.
