Avengers: Endgame
cobalt - director Joe Russo sheds some light with regard to the opening of Captain America ( Chris Evans ) bump the Red Skull ( Ross Marquand ) while returning the Soul Stone to Vormir inAvengers : Endgame . Debuting in Joe Johnston’sCaptain America : The First Avengeras Johann Schmidt as the chief antagonist , the former straits of HYDRA transformed to the Red Skull after using an imperfect replica of the Super Soldier Serum . The very first theatrical role in the MCU timeline to have actively sought after the elemental quartz glass , he encounter the Tesseract / Space Stone in ' XL and after touch it with his bare hands was transported into an unknown place .
Red Skull ’s whereabouts were unknown for quite a while until he made his reappearance inAvengers : Infinity War , this time , as the surprisal Soul Stone steward in Vormir - a penalization for want wield the power of the stone for personal gain . WithEndgamesending the remaining heroes back in prison term to cull out the stones from different time periods in the MCU , Natasha ( Scarlett Johansson ) and Clint ( Jeremy Renner ) collected the Soul Stone from Vormir where the former died in rules of order for the latter to produce the precious stone . After successfully take back all that ’s dusted follow Thanos ' crack , as well as ensuring that he does n’t pose a threat to the universe ever again , Steve Rogers was tasked to repay the stones to their original location so as not to create alternative timelines , leading multitude to think that Cap has also travel to Vormir to hand off the Soil Stone where he may have run across with his one-time nemesis .
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This posed a lot of interesting inquiry , some of whichRussoattempted to clear up during a Q&A forEndgamein China that was shared on Reddit . The filmmaker was asked how would Cap react upon meet Red Skull as he brought back the Soul Stone , but it deform out , there might not be any acknowledgement from the villain ’s part as he might be a"completely different entity now . "
Red Skull would plausibly put the psyche stone back to its position , and wait for the next inauspicious Isidor Feinstein Stone seeker to make sacrifice . Cap and Red Skull probably wo n’t crusade . It ’s because it ’s his mission to return the Harlan Stone to its original post . The Red Skull is also no longer the same Red Skull from FA . He is more like a ghost , you could almost say he ’s a completely unlike entity now . He only exists to hold the Isidor Feinstein Stone , his past conscious may or may not exist any longer .
As much asEndgamewas the wrapping up of the 22 - picture show arc that the MCU has been tackle for the last 11 years , it leave a lot of questions all needing to be answer . Most of those ask Cap ’s concluding mission to wreak back all the Infinity Stones to their original locations . Since all of those bump off - screen , lover were n’t really secluded to how those trips panned out with both the Soul and Reality Stone posing the cock-a-hoop mystery . At one point , the Russos implied that once the Soul Stone has been retrieved , he ’s free to leave Vormir , so he might not even be there when Steve came . That said , the mode of him really returning the crystal is interesting .
Based on Russo ’s answer , even he ’s not sure how that played out - unless , he was purposefully being coy so as not to reveal any variety of meter reading that it will be further explore down the line . He and director Anthony have been vocal about their mentality working onAvengers : Endgamewith gaze to not specifically cerebrate how thing will didder out for the MCU in the aftermath of the Thanos - debacle , although they did tease thatEvans is not donewith the dealership and thealternate timeline he ’s livedwith Peggy ( Hayley Atwell ) sounds like a great narrative opportunity for Marvel Studios .
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