A character from Cap's past is returning in Avengers 4 - but he's adamant it's a "flashback" instead of time travel

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Avengers: Endgame was always going to give us the chance to say hello to some long-departed friendly and, in this case, not so friendly faces. One of Captain America’s biggest MCU foes has confirmed for the first time that they’re going to be rocking up. There’s just one big sticking point: they’re dead. Time travel should so💧rt that out, right? Except it might no♑t be that obvious.

Frank Grillo, who played HYDRA operative Brock ‘Crossbones’ Rumlow in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Captain America: The Winter Soldier and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Captain America: Civil War has confirmed via the UFC Unfiltered podcast (H/T MCU Cosmic) that h🗹e’d be re💜turning for a third appearance in Avengers 4.

“[Crossbones] makes an appearance in [Avengers 4], but it’s a flashback,” Grillo reveals. While he’s probably wary of letting spoilers slip out (I’m looking at you, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Gwyneth Paltrow), there’s a very ཧpointed reference to &ldq👍uo;flashback” here rather than time travel. Which is… interesting.

Sure, it could mean Grillo is keeping his cards close to his chest, lest Marvel swoop in and take him out mid-podcast, but we could actually be getting something in the past away from time travel. Crossbow, after al🐷l, was a hugely complex character with a large amount of double-crosses on his rap sheet. May💧be he knows something no one else does?

Digging into that and setting up a moment via flashback – maybe a scene in the past between Steve Rogers and Brock - that echoes back to Cap’s big mistake in not stopping Crossbow from detonating a suicide vest during Civil War may help further flesh out both ๊Cap and Crossbow.

Or, it could jus𓂃t be plain ol’ time travel. Crossbow’s attack in Lagos helped kickstart the tension between the Avengers and, if it can be rectified, Steve Rogers is likely to do just that. Me, personally? I hope it’s just a flashback. Zipping from moment to moment in the past to clear up mistakes could mean one too many retcons – even f𓂃or the MCU.

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