MCU OG Avengers recast slammed by fans, and we get it

With The Avengers: DOOMSDAY bearing down on us, and Kevin Feige discussing a reset for the MCU, fans are worried what will happen to the legacy actors who’ve been with us from the start.

Will Marvel end up recasting the OG Avengers when they pivot to new stories with those characters front and centre?

Fans are rightly concerned to see people like Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. replaced by younger talent, and this is being expressed on social media and Reddit.

One Redditor notes, “recasting Steve Rogers and Tony Stark after Secret Wars seems kind of dumb to me unless you reset the entire universe.”

They go on to say that it will be weird for new actors to reprise the roles and have to share scenes with characters who knew the old version.

“When they recast Tony and Steve, it will be in a universe that always had those actors as those guys, and Ant-Man and Sam will be Ant-Man and Sam of that universe, so it won’t feel weird to them,” explains mastyrwerk.

It’s an understandable concern, however, this isn’t new to films, and it’s certainly not new in comics.

James Bond has been recast many times, as has Superman and Batman. We’ve just been very lucky that Marvel has managed to hang onto so many actors for so long.

Another user tries to explain it a different way, saying, “A half-decent but still pretty good metaphor is the canon reset for Star Wars after Disney bought Lucasfilm. Technically, anything that was published before is now “Legends” and not strictly canon any more.”

The worry is there, with someone else noting, “It’s so ridiculous to want to recast characters who have already lived their time in the universe.”

But, we have no context for how these new actors will arrive, and as this Redditor says, “just sit back and enjoy the ride.”