It appears Peggy Carter was lying to Steve Rogers in Captain America: The Wintertime Soldier  and knew about his hereafter. Peggy and Steve'due south fourth dimension together was cut short during Earth War Ii later Steve crashed Reddish Skull'south transport, but that wasn't the end of their story. They were reunited after Steve was unfrozen, but only for a short while before Peggy passed of one-time historic period. However, Avengers: Endgame concluded with the reveal that Steve went back in time to live a full life with Peggy.

As the end to Helm America'south story, the reunion with Peggy is a perfect conclusion - but it did start a debate over how he and so returned to the present day to pass his mantle to Sam Wilson aka Falcon. The Russo brothers explained that Steve lived out this life with Peggy in an alternate reality, butAvengers: Endgame's writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely said otherwise. Their rationale is that the master MCU continuity has always had an older Steve in the shadows. As the writers most responsible for Steve's MCU journey, they say they've had the idea of Steve returning to alive with Peggy in mind for a while. Simply if this is truthful, then that means Peggy is lying to Steve inThe Winter Soldier.

In the sequel, Steve visits an aged and ill Peggy, who now appears to have lied to Steve equally she knew of his ultimate future. During the conversation, she mentions that her only regret is that Steve didn't become to live his life. This is the prevarication, as Peggy knows that Steve will live a total life with her one solar day. She goes on to say,"The world has changed and none of us can get back. All we can practise is our best and sometimes the all-time we tin do is to start over." This chat plays completely differently subsequentlyEndgame and Markus and McFeely's explanation of Cap's journey.

The confirmation that Steve did become Peggy's husband may not have come untilEndgame, just this scene inThe Wintertime Soldier is where the ready first occurred. The picture show fabricated sure not to testify any pic of Peggy with her husband. Furthermore, an archived interview with Peggy from 1958 included her saying that Steve saved the man who would become her hubby back in WWII. She fifty-fifty mentioned that "even subsequently he died, Steve was still irresolute my life." The revelation that he didn't really dice definitely falls under the life-changing category, especially since they got married.

Even if this ending was locked in stone dorsum whenThe Wintertime Soldier was made, there'due south no other option for Peggy than to lie to Steve about his future. She couldn't tell him what would happen over the next decade or so of his life, equally doing so could have likely altered Steve'due south mindset and decisions he made. The best Peggy could've done is maybe give him some communication about not pursuing a relationship with a nurse downward the hall, just and then nothing happened between him and his smashing-niece.

Withal, the implication that Peggy lied to Steve in Helm America: The Winter Soldier  is only true if Markus and McFeely's ideas about the catastrophe ofAvengers: Endgame are accurate. Nosotros already know not anybody involved with the movie feels the aforementioned style, but neither explanation has been explicitly fabricated canon so far. And, with some teasing that we could see Captain America once again one mean solar day downwards the route in this new life, perchance only then the truthful answer will come.

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