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Bookshelf 2 captain america3/27/2023 Sam says some stuff about things, but ultimately it’s gutless and empty, a Whoopee Cushion of ideas. This show flailed at Politics in the same way a toddler might flail at a passing car. Presumably the cool suit and the shield gives him a +5 to CHA or something. The power structures of imperialism will simply bend if you harangue them about it for a little bit. And I had plenty of time to do it!- Scott Tobias April 24, 2021 I wanted to crawl under my chair in embarrassment. Holy mackerel that speech in the #FalconAndWinterSoldierFinale. Right? He got his bitchin new wings, he got the shield he’s Cap. Didn’t Nagle, our short-lived supersoldier serum scientist, tell us the CIA was backing his work at one point? Who’s to say Sharon Carter didn’t become a sort of Epstein-Maxwell nexus in Madripoor on behalf of the CIA? Okay, alright, I’ll back off, but I mean come on: her limitless wealth? Her maneuvering various terrorist groups to the benefit of imperial power? I know they’re just setting up Armor Wars or whatever with Sharon, but my headcanon gives Sharon information that could lead to the arrest of Hillar- you know, that’s a played-out meme.)Īnyway – the bad guys won. (And by the way, while I’m thinking about Sharon – the whole Power Broker/Madripoor thing felt suspiciously close to, say, an actual CIA front. Sharon slides right back into the good graces of the US government, since I guess they don’t do background checks or any sort of debrief when you’re a Main Character. before him, he’s running the family business from behind bars. Zemo may be in prison, but he’s alive and laughing. So, standing beside Captain America and the Winter Soldier, our Main Character Villains (John Walker, Sharon Carter, and Baron Zemo) overcome the radical anarchist multiracial coalition. Our titular heroes stand on the same side of the line as John Walker. When the shit hits the fan, a line is drawn in the sand. His extrajudicial killing might as well be an extrajudicial whoopsie. He even gets to trade a few barbs with Bucky in the final fight scenes. ![]() The fight choreography communicated very well just how scary someone like John could be, and Wyatt Russell’s unhinged bellows really landed for me.)Īnd John Walker walks away! In our final scene with him (in which we get the remainder of Julia Louise-Dreyfus’ one day she had available to film), he gets some new duds and a new fake name, and…that’s it! He gets to walk away and be the antihero. (I will admit, one of the scenes I actually enjoyed in this series was the fight scene where John unleashes on Sam and Bucky. A nationalist, a true-blue American supremacist with a chip on his preternaturally-beefy shoulder. But Zemo has no car bombs waiting for John Walker, despite John Walker being, you know, the exact epitome of everything Zemo claims to fear. (Transparently, it’s the writers clearing away any potential supersoldier loose ends). And so he gets the last laugh over his “supremacist” foes, a nerd exploding some jocks. Never mind the text-level power of being a Main Character. He has incredible wealth and resources, after all. ![]() Karli is merked by Sharon Carter, one of the bleakest villains we’ve seen yet in a Marvel property, and the arrested Flag-Smashers are blown up remotely by Baron Zemo, an übermensch decrying übermenschen from his gilded cage.īecause despite his protestations, his self-identified-everymanitude, Zemo is a superman. Karli Morgenthau and her fellow antifa supersoldiers get owned at the end of the story, mostly because they have become irritating to the Powers That Be. Once you threaten civilians – let alone politicians – in a Disney property, you are fucked. The Flag-Smashers became bad enough dudes that the story’s moral imperative became bent inexorably against them. The Flag-Smashers are the ostensible villains, the plot-moving antagonists, fulfilling a similar role to SWORD in WandaVision. ![]() I’m not talking about the Flag-Smashers, of course. They do! Yeah, sure, our “good guys” walk away with grins and catharsis and a veneer of self-actualization, but in the end? The bad guys won. ![]() The bad guys win at the end of Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.
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