MCU Phase 4: Will Black Widow s Red Guardian Fight The New Captain America?
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has a new Captain America. Will Sam face off with his predecessor s alleged rival?
One of the most interesting tidbits in Black Widow, the long-awaited standalone movie for Scarlett Johansson s Natasha Romanoff, was the Red Guardian s assertion that he faced off with Captain America back in his prime. The Red Guardian, played by Stranger Things David Harbour, was active in the 80s, when Natasha was a child, before being imprisoned in a remote Russian gulag sometime between then and the MCU s present. Yet he claims in the movie that he and Captain America operated as contemporaries, rivals in the geopolitical conflicts of the era.