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I'll also jump down the superhero fandom rabbit hole a bit more to complain about one other thing in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: the fight scenes. (I still don't understand why his only punishment for killing a subdued terrorist suspect in broad daylight was losing a job. Here, Walker was positioned mostly as a nightmarish example of what happens when an insecure, damaged guy chases the mantle of Captain America – and the super soldier serum – for all the wrong reasons. Walker, played by blue-eyed celebrity son Wyatt Russell, is seen in the last episode with another compelling character, Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a hint we'll see more of both. I wish the show had also spent a little more time with John Walker, the PTSD-suffering ex-soldier initially selected by clueless American officials to be the new Captain America - only to lose the title when he murdered one of the Flag Smashers.

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TV Reviews 'WandaVision' Proves Great Superhero Stories Are Just Great Stories, Period. The only power I have, is to believe we can do better." At a time when average people are risking their safety to protest police brutality, putting so much on the line for the belief that America can be made better by the hard work of earnest people, that kind of speech feels like a rallying cry. "Every time I pick this thing up, I know there are millions of people out there who are going to hate me for it," Wilson says in one poignant speech in the season finale.

We watched him become a Black hero who could shoulder Captain America's red-white-and-blue Vibranium shield, fully aware of all the issues he was taking on.

#The falcon and the winter soldier episodes movie#

Rogers' last act in that movie was to hand his legendary shield over to Sam Wilson as an old man, encouraging his former sidekick to continue its heroic legacy.īut having a Black man step up to be a symbol of America at a time when police brutality and systemic racism are front-page issues couldn't be a simple matter.Įven though the first season of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier focused on a complicated plot about super-powered freedom fighters becoming terrorists, the real purpose was to spend six episodes transforming the Falcon. As any real superhero fan knows, the original Captain America - Chris Evans' blue-eyed dreamboat Steve Rogers - decided to return to the 1940s and live out his life as a normal man at the end of Avengers: Endgame.

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The consequence of the reveal was underscored by a new series title flashed at the end of the season finale: Captain America and the Winter Soldier. The reveal came during the final episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, a Disney+ series that mixed splashy fight scenes and awesome cameos from underused Marvel movie characters with weighty talk about the nature of heroism. It's tough to imagine a better week for TV fans to meet a Black Captain America.ĭays after the world exhaled in relief as Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd, Marvel unveiled Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson as the new Captain America - in the process, making a poignant argument for why a Black hero would stand up to a defend a country that often mistreats people who look just like him. Warning: There are spoilers aplenty here regarding the final episode in the first season of Marvel's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier explores the question of whether there can be a Black Captain America.