Endgame for the first time – and we all remember our reaction to seeing Steve Rogers face off against Thanos's army all on his own. At least until those portals opened, and the blipped half of the MCU triumphantly returned to stand at his side,

In Anthony Mackie’s new cover story for Esquire, Chris Evans revealed he told his Marvel co-star that he was the next Captain America in the MCU. “I inadvertently was the one who got to tell him that he was going to be Captain America. I didn’t know that he didn’t know,” Evans, 43, said in the story published Thursday.

Anthony Mackie is winging his next outing as the star-spangled Avenger. Captain America: Brave New World pits Sam Wilson (Mackie) against an onslaught of supervillains, including the classic Cap villain Sidewinder (Giancarlo Esposito) and Hulk-related villains Samuel Sterns/the Leader (Tim Blake Nelson) from 2008’s The Incredible Hulk and U.

Captain America star Anthony Mackie has compared the upcoming Brave New World to The First Avenger in terms of how each builds towards a "massive moment" in the MCU.