Though sidelined, he gets up to his old tricks meting out vigilante justice on Hydra pawns that have slipped through the bureaucratic cracks. The Winter Soldier, as he was known, has gone cold, essentially on parole. Meanwhile, Stateside, senior-citizen supersoldier and former Hydra pawn Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) undergoes routine therapy, his past decades of life as a fascistic secret society’s hitman doing no good on the ‘ol psyche. They liked the world when it was a little less crowded, evidently.
Or, perhaps, the memory of what once was is enough to keep legends alive?Īfter a headfirst dive into a relatively-arbitrary action setpiece at 1000 feet, Wilson is turned on to the Flag-Smashers, an insurrectionist organization whose ludicrous brand name endorses all sorts of anarchist and terrorist activity across Eastern Europe, all in the name of returning to the balance the world experienced during the Blip. In its new, TV-oriented phase, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to need the sort of attitude Wilson (“Falcon”) exudes if it wants to maintain the interest of its fans. In an early scene of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘s first episode, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) makes a ceremony of declining Captain America’s iconic vibranium shield, talking of casting eyes to the future, and using Cap’s legacy, rather than image, to push forward in the MCU’s “Post-Blip” (read: after Thanos dusted everyone in Infinity War) world.
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