Chris Evans Returning to Captain America Would Be a Bad Idea It may or may not be accurate. Regardless, the reports make it clear that Evans would not be stepping back into the role full-time for Captain America 4. Instead, there is some suggestion that Evans could reprise the role in a minor way for a couple films (or even, presumably, a streaming series) like his cameo appearances in Thor: The Dark World or Spider-Man: Homecoming. Theoretically, this should be good news. After all, with no disrespect to Matt Salinger, Evans is the defining live-action Steve Rogers. However, it’s hard not to react to the news with some sense of trepidation. After all, Evans got his big “goodbye” sequence in