And after a conversation with Lemar, we clearly see that Walker has taken the serum. Feeling weak compared to Karli's crew, Walker keeps the one remaining serum-Zemo, hating superheroes as he always does, crushed the rest with his stylish shoes. He beats one of Karli's men to death, and only afterwards, when the Cap Vibranium shield is bloodied does he realize that all the people around him have been watching.Īnd oh yeah-Walker gets the serum in Episode 4. That arc is enunciated by the nervous, impatient Walker becoming more and more obsessed with stopping Karli Morgenthau and the Flag-Smashers when the group's fighting results in his best friend and confidant Lemar Hoskins breaking his neck and dying, Walker snaps. But the path towards Walker taking the serum-and his eventual descent-has been maybe the best part of the series so far.Īfter his winking first episode cameo, Walker has gone from confident, charming three-time Medal of Honor-winning charmer on Good Morning America, to guy yelling at civilians about his ever-so-important stature, to man-in-uniform murdering someone in cold blood for the whole world to see. As we'll get to in a little bit, Walker's origin in the Marvel Comics is fairly close to what happens in the show long story short, in both cases he winds up taking the Power Broker's super soldier serum. Walker could be a villain, and he could be a hero.Īfter Episode 4, it sure seems to be pointing in the direction of the latter, though. Agent," and has a significant history in the comics, and as we see developing in the show as well. Walker, the "New Captain America" is eventually called "U.S. This "New Captain America" is not a new character to Marvel Comics fans John F. And viewers everywhere surely feel how Sam felt when this new guy, who we soon learn is John Walker, does some Captain America cosplay and winks into the camera. But that feeling looks instead to be one of conflict at the end of the episode, when Sam, watching on TV, sees the same government official he handed the shield over to introducing "The New Captain America." Sam knows that this wasn't Steve's choice. In an early episode scene, Sam is seen paying tribute to Steve-who has either actually died or they are telling people that he died-as Cap's shield goes into government hands and onto display.Ī conversation with James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) lets us know that Sam just didn't feel right taking over for the legend who he knew for years as a friend. We heard Sam say at the time that the shield felt like it "belongs to someone else," but it appears that he really wasn't feeling up to it, apparently. Agent (Wyatt Russell)-introduced at the end of the show's first episode.Įarly on in the episode, we find out what Sam did with the shield following his talk with Steve in Endgame: turned it in. Disney+'s new series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (which is now streaming and will run for six weeks total) picks up a few months after that moment, and the path of Cap succession has never been messier-and that includes a "New Captain America," John Walker-who will eventually be known as U.S. Except this is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and things are never that easy. Everyone was on board, and things are all good to ride off into the next chapter in the sunset. As Steve told Sam the news, their third amigo, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) looked on approvingly. Agent in the wider Marvel canon, has a long and detailed history.Īt the end of Avengers: Endgame, the path of Captain America succession seemed clear: Steve Rogers' (Chris Evans) time was up, and he'd chosen his good friend Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) as next man up.
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