Marvel’s Plan to Honor Iron Man’s Legacy After Avengers: Endgame

Anything can happen with flashbacks or the multiverse, but Marvel head Kevin Feige has assured MCU fans that the team never wants to “magically reverse” Iron Man’s death in Avengers: Endgame.

Speaking with Vanity Fair about Robert Downey Jr., Feige emphasized the significance of Tony Stark’s sacrifice for the MCU and how they are committed to not retcon it to bring Downey Jr. back.

“We are going to keep that moment and not touch it again,” Feige states. “We all worked very hard for years to get to that, and we would never want to magically reverse it in any way.”

While this may not completely close the door on a return for Downey Jr. through flashback or the multiverse, it certainly seems like the MCU’s Tony Stark from the main timeline is gone for good.

The directors of Avengers: Endgame, Joe and Anthony Russo, also commented on Downey Jr.’s final moments in the MCU, and how even a single reshoot was profoundly difficult to do.

“We’d already said tearful farewells on the last day of shooting. Everyone had moved on emotionally,” Joe Russo says. “We promised him it would be the last time we made him do it– ever.”

“That was a tough thing for him to do, to come back to get that line,” Anthony Russo adds. “When he did return, we were shooting on a stage directly opposite where he auditioned for Tony Stark. His last line as Tony Stark was shot really a couple hundred feet from his original audition that got him the role.”

For more, check out a report from November that stated Marvel was considering reviving the original Avengers cast for a new film, Feige’s comments on how they “wouldn’t have a studio” without Robert Downey Jr., how Jon Favreau tried to save Iron Man in Avengers: Endgame, and why Iron Man 3 is still the best Tony Stark film 10 years later.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

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