What Ty Simpkins Has Been Up To Since His MCU Role

 What Ty Simpkins Has Been Up To Since His MCU Role

We know that Ty Simpkins eventually landed his Avengers: Endgame role in 2017, back when it was being filmed back to back with Avengers: Infinity War. However, in the gap between Marvel Studios gigs, Simpkins continued to act, with a couple of huge franchises landing on his resume. Not only did the Insidious star reprise his role as Dalton Lambert in Insidious 2, but he would also land a young lead role in the Jurassic World franchise as Grey Mitchell.

Oh, and he managed to reunite with his Iron Man 3 director Shane Black, thanks to a brief, but pivotal role in 2016’s The Nice Guys. Ty Simpkins’ post-Endgame career has been pretty eventful, as he was seen as a featured lead in Darren Aronofsky’s 2023 Academy Award nominee The Whale. Plus, earlier in 2023, Insidious: The Red Door would close out its titular franchise thanks to one final performance of Ty as Dalton Lambert.

Clearly, Mr. Simpkins has done well for himself on both sides of his Marvel Studios timeline. At the same time, I still firmly believe the studio missed out big time by not using Harley Keener more often in The Infinity Saga and its successors.

Ty Simpkins stands in the middle of the funeral scene of Avengers: Endgame.

Why Marvel Missed A Big Opportunity With Harley Keener

If you haven’t learned of the massive deaths contained in Avengers: Endgame, use your Disney+ subscription to milk some tears. That having been said, we only ever saw Harley Keener one more time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it was at Tony Stark’s funeral. That's a huge disappointment considering how integral his character was in Iron Man 3.

After having a life-changing adventure that undoubtedly stuck with him throughout his adult years, we never got to see Harley growing up in the aftermath of those events. You could have very easily had this young inventor become a classmate to Tom Holland's Peter Parker, or even worked as an intern at Stark Industries who may have popped up in either Spider-Man: Homecoming or Avengers: Infinity War.