![]() The Falcon and the Winter Soldier made a short pitstop in Madripoor, a fictional island where basically every bad guy in the MCU hangs out and does evil stuff like taking shots of snake guts. It’s possible that a villainous Thunderbolts super-group could be in the works. In the comics, the Raft has acted as both a prison and the home base for a super-villains group that Zemo creates called the Thunderbolts. Loki, who killed what was probably thousands of innocent people when he attacked New York City in Avengers, is now getting his own TV show.Īt the end of episode 5, the Dora Milaje capture Zemo and tell Bucky they are taking him to The Raft, a prison in the middle of the sea where Bucky, Sam and Cap’s other allies were once held during Captain America: Civil War. ![]() This is not the first time that Marvel would have transformed one of its most popular and eccentric villains into an anti-hero. Zemo has a sympathetic backstory-the Avengers accidentally murdered his family-and plenty of charm. Even Thanos has a point about the environment, though he could have used the Infinity Stones to double the resources in the universe rather than cutting the number of living beings in half. In Black Panther, Killmonger is right about Wakanda’s imperative to help those impacted by a long history of colonialism and racism-it’s his violent means to that end that are the problem. But Marvel has a way of swaying our sympathies toward villains who speak truth to power. ![]() And it’s not totally clear how Marvel might help Zemo win the audience over again. Yes, Zemo murdered Black Panther’s father, T’Chaka. ![]() Well, that’s an argument he would make, anyway. And while he did kill people in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, he arguably only killed “bad guys,” the scientist who created the supersoldier serum and a group of Red Hand flunkies. We found out that he is, basically, Marvel’s Batman, an immensely wealthy loner with a faithful old butler. Daniel Bruhl got some of the quippiest lines and craziest outfits in Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Marvel seems interested in exploring a new arc for Zemo. Agent will likely be an agent of chaosĪlmost certainly not. They will likely supplant the now mostly-defunct HYDRA as the villainous presence in the future Captain America stories. Given Val’s connections, it seems that, like HYDRA, Leviathan has infiltrated the U.S. We can even speculate that perhaps Natasha used to work for Leviathan or for Val. Val’s Russian origins would explain how she might play into the Black Widow plot since Natasha Romanoff was also trained as a covert Russian agent before defecting to the U.S. Leviathan was a rival of HYDRA and briefly showed up onscreen in the short-lived MCU TV series Agent Carter. But it’s eventually revealed that she is a double agent and in fact works for the Russian spy ring Leviathan. But that movie was delayed for over a year because of the pandemic-it’s now releasing in July-and it’s unclear whether Dreyfus will appear in it at all.īut we do meet her in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as a mysterious figure eager to fund the further adventures of the erratic John Walker after he’s stripped of his Captain America title. Louis-Drefyus’ Contessa Valentina de Fontaine was supposed to make her big Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Black Widow. To the surprise and delight of many Marvel fans, it looks like the Seinfeld and Veep vet will be a major villain in future MCU movies. You don’t hire Julia Louis-Drefyus for a small cameo in a TV show.
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