Despite the many Hulk-related characters set to appear in Captain America: Brave New World — from Harrison Ford’s Not Red Hulk to Tim Blake Nelson’s The Leader — Mark Ruffalo is yet to be officially confirmed for a cameo. However, the Bruce Banner actor is apparently there in spirit. By which I mean that the infamous spoiler-magnet of a star seems to have possessed the MCU’s newest addition.
Although Marvel itself had managed to keep this exciting casting under wraps, Breaking Bad and The Mandalorian vet Giancarlo Esposito has confirmed during multiple fan convention panels at this point that he’s about to join the cinematic universe in a top-secret role. And with the latest intel pointing to him appearing in Captain America 4, it looks like we know exactly how he makes his MCU debut.
Giancarlo Esposito may have already given away what happens in Brave New World’s tag scene
Clearly, those Marvel snipers we always hear about — who are supposed to sneakily follow MCU actors around in case they blab about spoilers — aren’t real, otherwise Esposito would be deader than Gus Fring right now. The Abigail actor has told us many things about his Marvel character that he probably shouldn’t have, including that it’s allegedly an “original” role that we haven’t seen on screen before.
What’s more, he’s even told us exactly how he’ll be introduced and then expanded upon. “It will be teased and there will be a series afterwards,” Esposito revealed at Phoenix Fan Fusions in late May. So it seems safe to say he’ll turn up in a post-credits scene first before landing what sounds like his very own Disney Plus series, or else appearing in one in a major role.
According to a new report, we know which post-credits scene this will occur in. Murphy’s Multiverse is claiming that Esposito will appear in Captain America: Brave New World. His role was apparently added into the narrative by screenwriter Matthew Orton, who has been brought on to zhuzh up the movie as it heads back into production for another bout of reshoots following consistently poor audience testing.
There’s still no concrete word on who he could be playing, but his role is described as an “antagonistic agent of chaos,” which pretty much sums up every character Esposito has ever portrayed in his entire career. We don’t know who, then, but we may finally know where. The money’s on the man from The Mandalorian crossing over into the MCU somewhere in the credits of Cap 4, releasing Valentine’s Day 2025.
