

“You consistently make the right decisions in the heat of battle.” “Power just makes a person more of themselves, right?” Lemar Hoskins, aka Battlestar (Clé Bennett), tells Walker. Steve Rogers’ shadow looms large.Īfter he, Sam and Bucky clash with Flag Smasher leader Karli Morgenthau (Erin Kellyman), and Zemo takes the opportunity to destroy the remaining vials of Super Serum, Walker spots one on the ground and pockets it. He signs postcards of his face for passing fans but feels powerless and perhaps a bit like a fraud, lacking the Super Soldier strength to do what his predecessor could. When the Dora Milaje show up from Wakanda to arrest Zemo, he can’t hold his own in a fight. Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky refuse to team up with him. Walker is feeling the pressure to perform. Here are Variety’s biggest questions after watching Episode 4: Did Captain America really just kill a man in broad daylight? And what Walker chooses to do with the shield in the last few minutes of this week’s installation runs counter to everything we’ve been conditioned to think that circle of vibranium stands for. But this is a post-Blip, post-Steve Rogers world - one without the original Cap’s lofty moral absolutism. “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” Episode 4 raises the question again, this time with Captain America’s shield in John Walker’s (Wyatt Russell) hands. Erskine would tap on Steve’s chest and say - to bring the shield down on Tony’s face instead he uses it to lights-out Iron Man’s suit and end the fight. As Marvel’s most upstanding character, he is too pure, too solidly a “good man” - as Super Serum inventor Dr. The answer in the movie, of course, is no - despite the momentary terror we see on Tony Stark’s face at the possibility, Steve Rogers would never. The protracted fight culminates in a question, as Steve wrenches off Tony’s Iron Man mask and raises his shield high above his head, seemingly ready to bring it down on a prone, helmet-less Tony: Could Captain America actually bring himself to deliberately murder someone? After Helmut Zemo (Daniel Brühl) reveals that a brainwashed Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) had years ago murdered Tony’s parents, Tony is furious to learn that Captain America had known about it all along, pummeling Steve and blasting off Bucky’s bionic arm.
