@MarvelSharky Does the same go for War Machine?

@JMATIUAS Yes, why wouldn’t it?

Interesting theory for Ross but Cassie is five years older than she was in antman & the wasp.

I mean the casting change from the adult version in Endgame.

Nah

The villain of DAD had a reason for changing his appearance: to infiltrate the society he wanted to destroy. It's just part of the story. There is no in-universe explanation for multiple actual recasts for characters (including Bond himself) in the pre-reboot Bond movies.

Why take a plot from a villain from another movie and apply it to any MCU character that was recast? It would be bizarre so many characters doing that.

@Superbattleshipyamato

What's the difference? Any actor change is unrealistic, even with timeskip. Child actors don't resemble the adult versions of their characters at all.

In real life, Abby Ryder Fortson (Cassie 1) will obviously not look like Emma Fuhrmann (Cassie 2) or Kathryn Newton (Cassie 3) when she is older. Different people.

The literal physical appearance of the characters isn't really relevant to canon. What we, the audience, are seeing is just a representation. In universe or canon, things can be different. That's why a recast or redesign doesn't matter.

Sometimes I have thought the same.

@David Kaique

In a perfect world the same actor would play one character all the way.

Of course, this isn’t realistic, so I made it “one actor plays one character so unless the new actor is so similar to the old one (think Dumbledore), an explanation is needed”.

To me casting changes are plotholes (unless explained) and require solving. I understand some people do not feel the same way, but this is one idea to give me closure.

@Superbattleshipyamato Dumbledore? Except for the character's beard, the two actors are different. Different acting too. A recast is a recast, and if you think an explanation is needed, it's just inconsistent for you to be selective. Your theories could apply to everyone.

If I followed your logic, I would have to question about younger versions of MCU characters. Why doesn't Young Wanda Maximoff look like Young Elizabeth Olsen? It's just boring.

Even Christopher Nolan, "realism into superhero movies", didn't bother to explain why Rachel was played by another actress in TDK. Says a lot about the unimportant it is.

Casting changes are not plot holes because they are not part of the script, they are not on paper. We, the audience, see that it's being portrayed by a different person, but in the ficional reality nothing changed; they look the same to the characters. It is not difficult to use your imagination and understand that there was no in-universe change of face. To me it makes more sense than "characters randomly changing their DNA or something for unknown reasons". In some MCU tie-in comics, Tony Stark doesn't even look like RDJ and it doesn't matter; it's just a representation.