As his anti-terrorism views hardened, he moved to work for a corporate-owned vigilante group. In the following years, Walker continued to work for various Avengers teams like the West Coast Avengers under the moniker U.S. It’s around that time that Walker was deemed too dangerous to carry the shield, and the Captain America mantle was given back to Steve. After a terrorist group killed Walker’s family in Captain America #347, he retaliated by killing most of its members. Walker later realized his error and defeated Tarantula, but the refugees had already become afraid of Walker. For example, in Spectacular Spider-Man #138, Walker was sent on a mission to “aid democracy” in South America, but in reality he was helping the villain Tarantula hunt down and kill refugees escaping their oppressive regime. He also had a really questionable sense of judgement, often times aligning with outright villains. Notably, he was much more brutal than Steve, and his super strength combined with his uncontrollable anger made him a volatile teammate. He was later chosen to be Steve Rogers’ successor as the new Captain America, but he consistently failed to live up to Steve’s ideals - and often even publicly slandered the Captain America title. Per IGN, in the comics, Walker became the ominously named vigilante Super-Patriot after his brother was killed in action. He added that though they “shifted away” from some of the comic book storylines, Walker is still roughly “half” of who he is in the source material. "That character from the books, what he represents is extremely relevant,” head writer Malcolm Spellman told EW. He added that Falcon and The Winter Show is very much “a show about identity,” but what it means to be American means something very different “to each specific person.”īased on his comic book history, Walker is likely meant to reflect the exact type of conservatism and nationalism that’s been on the rise in the last few years. That's what drew me to him," actor Wyatt Russell told Entertainment Weekly. government has no problem bypassing Steve’s wishes and electing John Walker as the new Captain America instead. While Sam grapples with taking up his friend’s mantle, the U.S. Agent, aka John Walker, a comic book character whose own extreme patriotism often made him clash with Steve. The show follows Steve’s friends Sam and Bucky (Sebastian Stan) as they grapple with not only carrying the shield, but if they even want to represent America in the same way Steve did. When we last saw the original Captain America, Steve Rogers, he was retired and leaving his shield with Sam at the end of Avengers: Endgame. “The show is very forthright and very unapologetic about dealing with the truth of what it means to be American, Captain America, Black Captain America - and if that's even a thing," star Anthony Mackie, who plays Sam, told Entertainment Weekly in March. One of the topics Disney+’s new Marvel show The Falcon and The Winter Soldier grapples with is what it means to be American - especially when you’re a Black man like Sam Wilson.
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