Although the main version of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Peggy Carter died offscreen in Captain America: Civil War, Hayley Atwell has been able to revisit the role several times since then, ranging from cameoing as a past version of that Peggy in Avengers: Endgame to playing alternate versions of the character. In the latter category, 2022 saw her appearing in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Earth-838’s Peggy, a.k.a Captain Carter. Unfortunately for the actress, in comparison to when she played a different take on Captain Carter in the animated What If… ? series, what went down with her in the Doctor Strange sequel felt like a frustrating moment.
Earth-838’s Captain Carter was featured as a member of that reality’s Illuminati, with the other members including the 838 versions of Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Mordo, Lashana Lynch’s Maria Rambeau (who became Captain Marvel), Anson Mount’s Black Bolt, Patrick Stewart’s Professor X and John Krasinski’s Mister Fantastic. But we didn’t spend a lot of time with the group, as all but Mordo were slaughtered by the main version of Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff, i.e. the one from Earth-616 who became Scarlet Witch. During an interview with Josh Horowitz, Atwell had this to say about her disappointment with this Peggy’s fate in Multiverse of Madness after being asked about if she knew which characters would end up in that finished scene:
