Avengers: Endgame
Old Steve Rogers ' cuticle inAvengers : Endgameappears to be a plot hole , since the shield was destroy by Thanos and he did n’t pick up a new one - at least on - screen . avenger : Endgamenever excuse how Captain America ( Chris Evans ) had the shield repaired prior to hand it off to Falcon ( Anthony Mackie ) at the conclusion of the movie .
In thefinal conflict ofAvengers : Endgame , Cap has an epical showdown with Thanos . gird with both Mjolnir and his shield , Steve Rogers puts on an impressive show . For a while , Steve is even able to pose a significant challenge to Thanos . Unfortunately , he is n’t able to keep it up and is eventually vote down . Thanos strikes his shell repeatedly with his sword , breaking it into piece . The cuticle is later seen intact and in ostensibly perfect status at the end of the moving picture when Steve returns from an alternate timeline as an elderly man . After spend thelast several decades with Peggy Carter ( Hayley Atwell ) , Steve returns to the present and gives the shield to his paw - foot successor , Falcon .
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WhatAvengers : Endgamefails to explain is how Captain America acquired a rendering of his shield that ’s apparently in perfect condition . Tony Stark ( Robert Downey , Jr. ) is numb , so he could n’t have rebuild it for him . Also , the buckler bears one striking difference to the pilot : there ’s a fragile stripe in the midriff of the big silver stripe on the shield . This mean that it ’s not the same as any other version of the shell wielded by Steve at any point in the MCU . Surprisingly , Avengers : Endgamemakes no effort to explain where this shield came from or how it come to be in the possession of Steve Rogers .
Steve could have had the cuticle rebuilt while he was survive in the past , of trend . The new shield could have been made by Howard Stark , or perhaps bysomeone associated with Wakandain some way of life or another . Either way , it had to come from someone who had access to a cache ofvibranium . irrespective , it ’s an important query that deserves an solution since it ’s neither explained nor research in any way , form , or descriptor at the end ofAvengers : Endgame .
Old Steve Rogers ' cuticle will remain a secret plan mess until Marvel finds a mode to make it gibe into the timeline of events . It is possible that an explanation will finally be offer inThe Falcon and the Winter Soldierwhen the cuticle make its next visual aspect , whether be in the hands of Falcon or evenU.S. Agent ( Wyatt Russell ) . But until then , it ’ll be a whodunit .
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