Why should the ‘Thunderbolts *’ have to make Sam Wilson’s Captain America like that?

After missing as many brands in recent years, Thunderbolts * It really looks like a return to the form of the Marvel cinematographic universe. He even sets up a new Avengers team, right? But this is the only problem with a differently ideal moment in the cinema. When the stage of final credits arrives, The Fantastic Four: First steps Immediately the attention of everyone, but before that, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) and Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) The kind of demotion for the best hero of Marvel, Captain America.

It is because in Captain America: Brave New WorldSam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) decides to reject the Avengers itself, and, NOW, Thunderbolt* use this to shoot a tip on the cap, but it does not come out as fun as the film thinks it.

The “Thunderbolts *” credits scene retrograde the role of Sam Wilson as Captain America

Thunderbolts * ends with the ragtag group of not dysfunctional becoming real heroes, like Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) Names their own version of Avengers. In the stage of final credits, Yelena mentions that the government recognizes them as “the” Avengers (probably thanks to Valentina pulling the strings), but that They cannot use the name because Sam had it protects it since he has reached the team Brave New World. Bucky tells his partners that he tried to convince Sam, but finally failed.

As light as Thunderbolts * is, this last piece on the property of the name of the Avengers feels a little absent. This has nothing to do with the fact that they won it or not, but rather with the type of treatment that Sam Wilson obtains as a character in the MCU. I feel like they are actively trying to undermine Sam and downgradeAs if he was not really “the” Captain America, and, therefore, his Avengers would not really be “the” Avengers either. For a character whose leadership power and capacities have been questioned for so long, he does not seem reasonable for the global account of the MCU to keep this for the third time after The Falcon and the Winter Soldier And Brave New World.

There is no doubt that, between Brave New World And Thunderbolts *The latter is the best film (and we mean no lack of respect for the first, of course), but, given the difference between critics and the public, This blow on Sam Wilson even has the impression that Marvel is trying to tell us not to take Brave New World seriouslyAs if it didn’t matter. There is no doubt that it was not the intention on the part of Marvel (at least we hope), but could not have chosen better jokes to fill the scene of the final credits of Thunderbolts * with?

More than the Captain America’s coat, the shield is also a leadership on the Avengers

Another particularly confusing part of this debacle is that leadership on Avengers is a very practical question. In the MCU, there are two heroes who can claim leadership on the team: Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America. A case can even be made for Thor (Chris Hemsworth), since he is one of the “big three” too, but, seeing how Iron Man has gone and Thor has been out of the world for so long, Captain America can direct the Avengers, no matter who took this coat. In Avengers: end of gameSteve Rogers (Chris Evans) Give the shield to Sam Wilson, so Sam Wilson is the chief of the Avengers.

It is particularly strange to see Bucky take sides with the “new” Avengers, Because he knows everything Sam has experienced to become the role of Captain America. He also knows Steve Rogers better than anyone and, although they may not have talked about the technical details of who can lead the Avengers, the conclusion that we have just drawn in the above paragraph is not so difficult to reach, either. At the start of Thunderbolts * Scene of final credits, he mentions in Yelena that Sam “has the shield”, so why did he even try to convince Sam to give up Avengers?

Narratively speaking, Bucky was an embarrassing character for the MCU in the years following the end of the game. He received strange scenarios, in particular by being elected member of the Congress, but, apart from Sam and Steve, No one in the MCU understands what Captain America represents better than him, the leadership of the Avengers included. And, taking into account his friendship with Sam and Steve, he is very out of the point of acting like that Thunderbolts *.

The rivalry between Sam’s Avengers and the new Avengers will certainly be a point in the plot in the next “Avengers” films

With Anthony Mackie and the cast of Thunderbolts * all confirmed to present themselves in the next Avengers: DoomsdayIt is obvious that this “rivalry” between the new Avengers and the Avengers of Sam Wilson will play a role there, even if it is satisfied with laughter before the multiverse collapses and forces them to work together until Avengers: secret wars. This does not mean that there are no rather embarrassing implications to minimize Sam’s position several times as Captain America in the priority of these two films. If it was made Captain America to continue to be questioned by everyone around him, then simply pull multifiverse shenanigans to recover Steve Rogers and end it.

Sam is the first black man to wear Captain America’s coat, and that means something, even if Marvel does not know what to do with it, as Brave New World shows. In this sense, Facing it in the leadership on the avengers is like eliminating its legitimacy to be even Captain AmericaAnd, in our current socio -political climate, everything you need is a malicious anonymous profile on the internet to think that it is a kind of dog whistle and / or to continue with hate speech around a character who is really great, but who has not had the chance to correctly respect his potential. Did Sam really go through all of this to be questioned several times like that?

Thunderbolts * is currently in theaters. Captain America: Brave New World Begins to broadcast on Disney + on May 28.

Thunderbolts *

Release date

May 2, 2025

Execution time

127 minutes

Director

Jake Schreier

Writers

Eric Pearson, Joanna Calo