However, until the February 2018 release of âBlack Panther,â the MCU looked mostly White. âBlack Panther,â with an overwhelmingly Black cast, brought a vision of Afro-futurism into mainstream American popular culture, which often falters when confronting the more complex and painful aspects of Black history. The move to diversify the superhero canon on screen â along with âBlack Panther,â the Black female âIronheartâ introduced in 2016 â has been emotionally thrilling, but also, to my disappointment, controversial. Enter Captain America. First introduced in 1941, Captain America â dressed proudly in red, white and blue and sporting a virtually indestructible shield â proved a popular wartime comic book, and one that was reintroduced in 1964. The character, who derived his super-strength from a serum invented by American scientists to help end the Second World War, took on additional layers of mournful complexity as por
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Ahead of
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier s premiere, Anthony Mackie admitted he was scared of being the star of the first Marvel project that sucks and having to do TV commercials for the rest of his career. Hey, you never know, man. You never know! Mackie exclaims now. I was very concerned about the idea of being the first bombing Marvel franchise.
The series Marvel Studio s second release following the zeitgeist-defining
WandaVision premiered as Disney+ s biggest debut yet, and Mackie can breathe a sigh of relief, if only based on the reaction in his own home. I watched all the episodes with my sons and their reactions were so funny, he tells ET s Nichelle Turner. I became an audience member and was able to let go of it and watch it with them. I had never had the experience of just sitting back and enjoying it as a parent instead of an actor in the show.
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For their second official television offering, Disney+ and Marvel gave fans a more traditional MCU story with
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, especially compared to the magically bonkers hijinks of
WandaVision. With a sobering look at post-Blip life for Anthony Mackie s Sam Wilson and Sebastian Stan s Bucky Barnes, the six-episode drama also took on a political edge with Erin Kellyman s Karli Morgenthau and the Flag Smashers. By and large, the series delivered plenty of enjoyable and memorable moments, but when it came time to nail the landing with its reveal-oozing finale,
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier flew far too close to the sun.
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The two Captain Americas
The big question most people likely had when they heard a Captain America 4 film was in the works was: Who will play Captain America?
It s already been reported that the film will focus on Mackie s Sam Wilson as the new Cap, but that doesn t mean fans of Chris Evan s Steve Rogers should be disappointed, as there s another Marvel project reportedly in the works that will see Evans return as Steve Rogers. It still wouldn t shock us to see Rogers make a small cameo in Captain America 4. We could even learn more about his decision to remain in a separate timeline at the conclusion of Endgame.