Morgan Stark only appeared in Avengers: Endgame, but she managed to be an integral emotional anchor for Tony Stark and the entire plot.
Though she has mostly been forgotten since the events of the last Avengers film, there is a chance she could be coming back to the MCU—and Marvel already has an actress in mind.
Is Morgan Stark Returning to the MCU?
Insider @MyTimeToShineH (via @update_marvel) reports that Morgan Stark could be returning to the MCU. She would be played by 13 Reasons Why star Katherine Langford.
Admittedly, Lexi Rabe played Morgan in Avengers: Endgame, but anyone who pays attention to deleted scenes knows that Langford was originally cast as an adult Morgan Stark who visits Tony during his vision after he uses the Infinity Gauntlet—not unlike the scene where Thanos snaps his fingers and has a vision of a younger Gamora.
When it came to the scene with Langford, test audiences apparently couldn’t connect that she was playing an adult version of Tony’s daughter, so her scene ultimately ended up being cut. From that point, the last scene fans ever saw of Morgan was during Stark’s funeral when she asked Happy Hogan to go out and eat some cheeseburgers.
How could Morgan Come Back?
Though Marvel may not have dropped any hints that Morgan Stark would come back, the casting of Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom could have something to do with re-introducing Stark’s daughter.
In the comics—via some convoluted plot—Doom has a daughter with the Invisible Woman named Valeria. As it turns out, Valeria was actually Sue Storm and Reed Richards’ daughter, but it is considered that Doom is Valeria’s adoptive father.
Since it’s still not clear what drives RDJ’s version of Doctor Doom, it’s possible that the movie could emotionally ground him by giving him a daughter played by Katherine Langford. She could either be a Morgan Stark variant or Valeria, but as far as Marvel is concerned, the general audience is just meeting Langford’s character for the first time.
Only the fans who know the behind-the-scenes details understand that Langford playing the daughter of RDJ’s character was a form of meta-casting.
Doctor Doom’s Connection to the Fantastic Four
It’s been rumored that RDJ’s Doom actually comes from the same universe as the Fantastic Four that audiences will meet in First Steps. The main guess is that Galactus will destroy their world, and the Four and Doom will have to make do with having to survive in Universe 616.
It’s possible that Doom’s motivation to hate Reed is that he would be the reason he loses his daughter, but if Marvel is really going for comic accuracy, he should have hated Richards beforehand. It would just be the loss of his daughter that would be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
Until Marvel reveals more, all fans can really do is guess.
A Morgan Stark return hasn’t been officially announced by Marvel, but RDJ’s Doom is expected to make a cameo in Fantastic Four: First Steps, which releases in theatres on July 25, 2025.
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