It's not uncommon for a comic book character to return after having been apparently killed off, but anyone hoping that might happen to a certain beloved character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe just had those hopes dashed. As part of an extensive Vanity Fair profile of Robert Downey Jr., Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, made clear that RDJ's iconic character would not be making some sort of miraculous return. Speaking of Iron Man's fate in 2019's Avengers: Endgame, Feige says, "We are going to keep that moment and not touch that moment again. We all worked very hard for many years to get to that, and we would never want to magically undo it in any way."
Feige also recalls how he and Iron Man director Jon Favreau wanted Downey for the role but, thanks to the actor's prior bad-boy reputation, Marvel Entertainment execs weren't so sure. "It purely came down to the Marvel board being nervous at putting all of their chips in their future films on somebody who famously had those legal troubles in the past," he says, so he came up with the idea of having the Oscar nominee audition—which Downey did. Years later, his final line as Tony Stark was filmed just across from the stage where the audition was held. See the full profile at Vanity Fair. (More Iron Man stories.)
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