Retiring Is the Reward of the Audience

"I don't know how to be Captain America anymore. I'm gonna take a break," Steve Rogers says in "Captain America: The First Avenger" Robert Downey Jr.'s character retires at the end of the film, but it's not his arc or just the reward for fans who watched him succeed and fail as Iron Man. He said he was struggling with if he could do what Tony had done so many times before. But now that they've seen each other through different eyes 'He got his one chance and he took it,' Downey added.