


Wanda and Vision were both introduced in Age of Ultron, and WandaVision sometimes flashes back to Wanda’s childhood in Sokovia.Īnyway, Zemo blames the Avengers for the death of his family-which is actually fair since Tony Stark created Ultron, though Tony did not intent to make him genocidal.

Zemo’s wife and children were among the civilians killed in a country called Sokovia during the Avengers’ fight with a genocidal AI named Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron, one of the worst MCU movies but one of the most important plot-wise.

Given that Steve gave his shield to Sam, I’m hopeful that this means The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will explore the question of who gets to be a hero-the Black man who worked for it and earned the title, or the white guy who stumbled into that position.īut it seems the ultimate big bad may be Zemo. (That seems like folly: nobody else could have “America’s ass.”) Previews for the show have suggested that the government, reluctant to lose the symbol of strength and hope that is Captain America, tries to quickly replace Steve with some random white dude who vaguely looks like Steve. Then there’s someone who looks to be less a villain, and more of a rival. So The Falcon and the Winter Soldier grapples with the idea of whether the world needs a second Captain America and, if so, who that person should be. But it seems as if he has not yet done so by the time the show has begun. Sam, then, should theoretically be the one to take up the Captain America mantle. Steve hands the shield to Sam at the end of Avengers: Endgame, and tells him the shield is his. So in modern day Marvel world, Steve Rogers is quite old and not exactly in fighting shape, as much as I personally would love to see Chris Evans in old age makeup punching some Hydra goons. (Cap also briefly had a romance with Peggy’s niece Sharon Carter, which means he maybe kissed his own niece? It’s extremely gross.) But instead of returning to the present after he completes that task, he decides to remain in the past and rekindle his relationship with Peggy Carter, his love interest whom he fought alongside in World War II.
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If you missed Avengers: Infinity War and its sequel, Endgame-honestly, I don’t know why you would be seeking out this Marvel TV show featuring sidekicks from the movies if you hadn’t-know that a big, purple bad guy named Thanos snapped his fingers and made half the beings in the universe disappear-often called “the Snap.” Five years later, the Avengers figured out how to bring those “snapped” people back using time travel shenanigans to obtain these MacGuffins called Infinity Stones.Īt the end of Endgame, Captain America travels back in time (see: time travel shenanigans) to return all the Infinity Stones to their rightful owners. It’s unclear why Sam appears to be the only person in the military with this cool wing tech, but it comes in handy when he, too, becomes an Avenger in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Sam had spent his military career essentially wearing a pair of wings and swooping into countries to execute highly covert missions. Bucky then fights alongside the Avengers in Avengers: Infinity War.Īir Force veteran Sam met Steve after Steve re-awoke from his time being frozen in the 2010s. There, T’Challa’s sister, science wiz Shuri (Letitia Wright), figures out how to deprogram Bucky’s brainwashed brain. He eventually takes Bucky to Wakanda, the home of T’Challa, aka Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman). That, as you can imagine, creates some tension within the Avengers team.Ĭap fights Bucky in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and saves him in Captain America: Civil War. He murdered, among many others, the parents of Tony Stark, a.k.a. Bucky was kidnapped by a Nazi offshoot called Hydra and brainwashed, becoming killing machine. Both of them got frozen in time and reborn during the 2010s. Bucky and Steve were childhood friends who fought alongside one another during World War II in Captain America: The First Avenger.
