Ty Simpkins On His Appearance In Avengers: Endgame, Whether He Would Play Iron Lad One Day?

**Endgame SPOILER Warning**

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After fans had seen Avengers: Endgame for the first time, there were tons of questions online about who the young man was at Tony Stark’s Funeral at the end. In fact, most of my friends were all contacting me to find out who this mysterious young man was, and obviously, for someone who works with the MCU every day, it was a no-brainer. By now I am sure you are all aware that this young man was actually Harley Keener, the boy who helped Tony Stark in Iron Man 3.

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Of course, the actor who plays Harley (Ty Simpkins) is a lot older now and it made it more difficult for some fans to immediately place who this character was. Simpkins is currently appearing in Tolkien, the biopic of Middle-Earth creator and fantasy godfather JRR. Tolkien. LRM Online caught up with Simpkins at the premiere of the movie and asked him some questions about his appearance in Avengers: Endgame and how it came about.

“They called me. i was just getting ready to do an audition, and my manager called me. And they said, ‘They’re thinking about bringing your character back for Avengers: Endgame,’ and I started just screaming in the car like, ‘No, no, you’re kidding!’ And my mom was right next to me, and it wasn’t confirmed at the moment, and I didn’t want to jinx anything, so I didn’t want to tell her anything. I was just like, ‘No, no, no,’ I can’t tell you now, I can’t tell you now. So I was freaking out.”

In a separate interview, IGN asked why he thinks Harley was invited to the funeral and whether he stayed in touch with Tony, he added,

“I like to think that they did and that Tony was still taking care of him, because for Harley that bond was super close and he was his kind of his only father figure. So that’s what I was thinking about in the funeral scene, about how sad Harley would have been.”

Of course, since his appearance in Endgame fans have wondered whether Keener could become Iron Lad at some point, a character who lead the Young Avengers and eventually became the villain Kang the Conqueror, or at least one of the many versions of Kang that have appeared in the comics.

“Yes, 100%. I would love that! I’d do it, I’d do it. Without a doubt.”

As far as we can tell, there seem to be no plans to introduce Iron Lad or reuse the character of Harley Keener in the MCU, but who knows what could happen further down the line? One day I’d love to see Keener come back as Kang, with possibly Morgan Stark having to become Iron Woman to stop him. The characters would have that emotional connection through Tony who was a father figure to both of them. But for right now it seems like Iron anything is taking a back seat while we explore some of the many other characters within the Marvel Universe.

Did you like the little Easter egg of Harley Keener showing up and would you be interested I seeing the Iron Lad story play out in the future of the MCU? Don your armor and hit our chat section below to dream up some possibilities for the MCU in the future.

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SOURCE: LRM Online, IGN

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