![]() Isaiah Bradley was also a retcon, used to expand on the legend and illustrate how not even Captain America is immune to the horrors of racism.īut John Walker? His run as Captain America will probably remain the most memorable due to why it existed: to explain who Captain America was by showing you what he was not. William Burnside as Captain America was a retcon to explain why there were Captain America comics published in the 1950s when Marvel canon indicated that Steve Rogers was on ice. Bucky and Falcon are the two most recent. In comic book canon, there are five major Captain America replacements throughout the years, not counting a couple minor footnotes (nobody cares about The Spirit of ’76). Instead, they wanted to hand it off to a new Captain America that they – and not Steve Rogers – had handpicked. Similarly, the first episode ended with Sam Wilson feeling incredibly betrayed to find out that the United States government was not content with leaving Captain America’s shield in a museum as promised. Even with the introduction of the Flag-Smashers as a threat, it has nothing on the emotional gut punch of Bucky trying to live with the horrors of his actions under HYDRA’s control. The first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier started off with a fun action sequence to get it out of the way so it could move on to all the dread and depression. ![]() The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 2 This The Falcon and the Winter Soldier review contains spoilers.
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