The rumour currently making its rounds is that Avengers: Doomsday might have Steve Rogers fighting an evil version of Peggy Carter. Which sounds absolutely bonkers and honestly it’s way less dramatic than the internet wants it to be. When you actually sit down and look at what people have seen in the leaked footage? It doesn’t add up to that at all.
Firstly we are all aware of the teaser clips floating around online. Marvel’s been copyright-striking them like crazy, which usually means the footage is real and they’re pissed it got out. The main clip everyone keeps sharing is about a minute long. The first noticeable thing is that, the clip is quiet, really, really quiet. Steve Rogers shows up on a motorcycle. Parks it and walks into a house that looks exactly like the one from the end of Endgame. He goes inside, pulls his old Captain America suit out of a box. That’s it. No fighting, no multiverse chaos, nothing exploding. He stares at the suit for a second, then picks up a baby. And that’s it.
I watched that grainy footage, and honestly, it feels like Marvel’s aiming straight for the heart rather than just throwing explosions at us. At least right now. And people are split on it. Some think it’s brilliant, showing Cap trying to actually live a normal life after everything. Dealing with the weight of who he was versus who he is now. Some folks see it as a bit messy, like Marvel couldn’t choose between action or family drama, so they just… dropped this and hoped it stuck.
There’s also a Thor teaser where he’s with his daughter, talking about wanting one more fight before going back to peace. Same vibe, right? Heroes trying to figure out legacy versus family. Other teasers have shown glimpses of the X-Men coming back, some Wakandans standing around with the Thing from Fantastic Four, and Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom. That last one’s wild but it’s actually been confirmed, so we know it’s real.
So if you’re trying to tie the “evil Peggy Carter” thing to anything we’ve actually seen? There’s nothing there. Nothing in the Steve Rogers clip. Nothing in the Thor stuff or the X-Men bits. Nothing in the Wakanda crossover moments that even hints at Peggy going dark. What we do have is pretty straightforward: Steve Rogers left the war behind. He’s got a kid now. He’s living in a house like a regular person. Those are the stakes.
Right now, Marvel’s leaning way more into nostalgia and emotion than big, flashy action. That makes the whole “evil Peggy vs Steve” thing feel completely made up. Looks like, a fan idea that got repeated so much people started treating it like fact. I mean, if Marvel actually wanted to show evil Peggy punching Steve in the face, wouldn’t they have leaked that too? They’ve already shown us Cap holding a baby, Thor with his daughter, all kinds of ensemble shots. But zero evil Peggy.
So yeah. The Steve-fighting-evil-Peggy thing? Fun to speculate about, but it doesn’t match anything people have actually seen. The leaks show Steve Rogers as a dad. That’s a completely different story beat. If Peggy’s even in Doomsday, we haven’t seen proof of it yet, much less her being evil.
Until something official drops, I’d treat the “evil Peggy” angle as one of those fan theories that gets traction when people are excited and impatient and maybe reading a little too much into nothing.
