Hayley Atwell debuted as Steve Rogers' love interest, Peggy Carter, in Captain America: The First Avenger, but the British actress got the opportunity to voice a very different take on the hero in the What If...? Animated series, before suiting up as "Captain Carter" for a brief appearance in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Unfortunately, Miss Carter really couldn't "do this all day," and ended up being brutally dispatched by the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) along with the rest of the Multiversal Illuminati.
Atwell has expressed her frustration with her character's treatment in the past, and continued to bemoan Peggy's fate during a recent appearance at London's For the Love of Fantasy & Sci-Fi event.
“I was so disappointed with how they positioned her and what happened in that scene. It's so small and she gets frisbee’d to death… I felt like that was a complete disservice to the character.”
We're not sure we'd call it a disservice, exactly (Atwell was only playing a variant, and Wanda killed off several other, more formidable characters as a way to demonstrate how powerful she had become), but it is easy enough to understand her disappointment.
Thankfully, Atwell will get the chance to return as Peggy (and maybe even Captain Carter) in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.
Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars were hit with significant delays last year, with Doomsday now set to arrive in theaters on December 18, 2026, and Secret Wars positioned for December 17, 2027.
Both movies will be directed by the Russo brothers, who also make their MCU return after helming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
"Universes collide and the Multiverse Saga begins its final chapter in Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday. Beloved heroes from three distinct universes will be set on a deadly collision course and ultimately face an existential threat unlike anything they’ve ever encountered. This epic film will lay the foundation for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe."
Doomsday will star:
Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Lewis Pullman as Sentry, Florence Pugh as Yelena, Danny Ramirez as Falcon, Ian McKellen as Magneto, Sebastian Stan as Bucky, Winston Duke as M’Baku, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Kelsey Grammer as Beast, James Marsden as Cyclops, Channing Tatum as Gambit, and Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent
Along with Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, Letitia Wright as Black Panther, Tenoch Huerta Mejia as Namor, Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as The Thing, Anthony Mackie as Captain America, and, of course, Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom.