John Walker’s hero was his brother
Captain America saving John Walker in a fire. Pic credit: Marvel
In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, John Walker was a soldier with multiple awards and citations for his work. He had said that it was Captain America that he looked up to when it came to being a hero.
In the comics, John Walker had a different hero. His brother was Mike, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot. John looked up to his brother and idolized him as a hero, especially after his brother saved him from a house fire, which John saw as Mike as his own Captain America.
Captain America series back in 2018, the fictional 616 universe was still reeling from the events of
Secret Empire, the comics event that transformed Steve Rogers into the embodiment of Hydra’s fascistic power, and the organization’s new leader. That same year, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Captain America arguably the most recognizable modern incarnation of the character was one of the few heroes left standing in the final moments of
Avengers: Infinity War, a Disney movie whose shockingly bleak ending was a rather unsubtle acknowledgment of the real-world despair created by the political and social climate at the time.
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Anthony Mackie as Falcon and Sebastian Shaw as Winter Soldier. Pic credit: Marvel
There will be several stories that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will tell as soon as it hits Disney+ as the next Marvel Cinematic Universe series.
Director Kari Skogland asked if there was even relevance to Captain America in the United States anymore.
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Is the idea of Captain America dead?
The idea of needing a Captain America in the world has played out in the pages of Marvel Comics for at least 46 years now, if not longer.
Random notes for the first week of March …
All of the local meteorologists keep talking about how March 1 is the start of “meteorological spring.” Okay, fine, but the rest of us won’t be putting our snow shovels away for a few weeks.
And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street, The Cat’s Quizzer, and
If I Ran the Zoo. I have nothing to add to this story, but it gives me the chance to link to the interview the
Post did with Theodor Geisel in 1957.
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