Who is the new Captain America in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier?
TWO weeks removed from the season finale of WandaVision, Disney is back with another smash series this time centered around Captain America's close friends The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier reintroduces the world to Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes. The heroes try to place their lives back together after the Blip caused by Thanos in Avengers: Endgame.
Fans saw Wilson donate Cap's shield - which Steve Rogers handed to him at the end of Avengers: Endgame - to the Smithsonian.
However, at the end of the episode, while watching TV Wilson sees the US government official hand the shield over to a new Captain America in John Walker.
In the comics, Walker is the complete opposite of Rogers’ version of the Cap, representing dark-sided and extreme patriotism.
“Being a Black man, he knows how he’s viewed and he knows the electricity that would come from him carrying those stars and stripes.
"You meet his family, and [they] already have opinions on it - you’re hearing some of it in jokes, but it’s very pointed.
"A Black man being betrayed by his country I don’t think is a surprising thing to Sam or any of our viewers, but it is powerful because it gets to the heart of Sam’s doubt.
"And how he copes with that doubt over the series is going to determine who he is moving forward in the MCU," he added.
The premiere also featured a cameo from Rhodey aka War Machine, who raised some important questions for Wilson about where the world is right now.
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