Marvel Stars and Their Beloved Pets: Tom Holland, Chris Evans and Others Love Their Dogs, Cats and More

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Super pets! While many of the Marvel Cinematic Universe stars are supported by super-powered sidekicks onscreen, it’s all about their four-legged companions when the cameras stop rolling.Chris Evans, who’s best known for his role as Captain America across the franchise, frequently gushes about his bond with his dog, Dodger.“It’s a far more embarrassing story that I now get to explain every time someone asks,” the Massachusetts native revealed about how he named the canine during an October 2020 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “There’s a movie called Oliver & Company, it’s a Disney movie, an animated movie, that I grew up watching. Billy Joel is the voice of Dodger and when I first saw him in the shelter, I said, ‘He looks like Dodger from Oliver & Company.

And after I decided I was taking him home with me, I went through the process of thinking of other names, and I just couldn’t get off Dodger.

So, I said, ‘Well, I am not going to overthink this one.’”Evans, who initially met his pup while filming 2017’s Gifted, didn’t waste much time before tattooing Dodger’s name on his chest — ink he’ll “never” regret.

He told Jimmy Kimmel at the time, “That’s probably the purest relationship I have!”The Knives Out actor is not the only MCU star to embrace pet parenthood. Tom Holland — who plays Spider-Man in the web-slinging films — adopted his Staffordshire bull terrier, Tessa, in 2014.“I was shooting this film called The Current War with Benedict Cumberbatch, which was a very serious movie about the invention of the light bulb.