Since Peggy's husband was never definitively named in MCU canon, fans were quick to assume it was Sousa. However, last year's Endgame flipped the script thanks to the newly discovered time travel technology. After spotting an older Peggy in the 1970s, Steve decided to travel back to the 1940s so he and Peggy could get the happily ever after they had both wanted. Reactions to this ending were decidedly mixed, as some questioned how it could be possible without erasing Peggy's achievements. It didn't help when Endgame's writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely said they always believed Steve was Peggy's mysterious husband, thus taking away Sousa's potential ending.

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There is an explanation for Steve and Peggy being together that doesn't erase Sousa's relationship with Peggy (Steve's in an alternate timeline), but regardless of that, Gjokaj isn't all that bothered by the change in Peggy's partners. While speaking with EW, Gjokaj actually insisted it made perfect sense that Peggy would end up with Steve. "To be honest, it's so clear in the writing and it's so clear in the way Hayley plays it that [Steve] was never gonna be replaced," said Gjokaj. "I think that was the beautiful tragedy of his attraction to her is that he knew that and he wanted to be with her anyway. He knew he was always going to be second place, and I think that's a little heartbreaking about Sousa."