Domain_10 Falcon And Winter Soldier Episode 5

Marvel Studios

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Explained
is our ongoing serial delving into Curiosity’s grand new bromance between Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes. In this entry, we examine The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 5 (“Truth”) and unpack a new villain’south arrival. Yeah, prepare for SPOILERS.

Afterwards the events of concluding calendar week’s episode, John Walker (Wyatt Russell) has no one bankroll him up. His sidekick is a corpse. His government is disappointed. His married woman — is clueless merely supportive. He made Captain America a murderer, and the earth doesn’t desire him carrying that shield anymore. Certainly not Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), the sometimes Avengers who tag-team crush him the moment

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Episode 5 kicks off. Walker is all jacked upwards on Super-Soldier serum with nowhere to go.

Enter surprise invitee-star
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
every bit the formidably monikered Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine. She stomps into the scene shortly later Walker is stripped of his authority. Before the fake Cap starts crying in his beer, Val (she’southward into, but not into that whole brevity thing) offers her communication and services to Walker and his wife. She assures him that “the guys in ties” are not really upset virtually the Flag-Smasher he decapitated, but it’s the eyes that are more worrisome.

Val practically swoons over Walker, confirming his actions as righteous when he injected the serum into his veins. He’southward now valuable to “the right people,” and a new life awaits him on the other end of her mysteriously bare business card. Walker should relax and prepare for her call. When he answers, information technology will exist the best decision he’s e'er made — well, tied with marrying his cute bride, of course.

And, with that, the Contessa struts from the film, and Walker, besides equally the audience, are left scratching their heads. Who was that confident and seemingly nefarious stranger? Oh, only the best-kept hole-and-corner in Marvel Studios’ history and a potentially massive new threat for the Marvel Cinematic Universe citizenry.

The Falcon and the Wintertime Soldier
Episode 5 was non supposed to be Val’south first appearance. She was originally scheduled to debut inside

Black Widow
, but plans were shattered and rearranged thanks to 2020. Nosotros still must wait and come across how Val fits into the Scarlett Johansson blockbuster. She may all the same pose a problem there or be excised completely given Curiosity’s updated strategy. Information technology is certain that Louis-Dreyfus volition non be contained inside
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘south single season.

In the comics (ah, those 3 cute words), Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine is a Soviet sleeper agent recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D. She initially impressed Nick Fury when she bested him in hand-to-hand combat, and she became a star pupil of his for a while. They had a brusk fling, but her rampant flirtations with Steve Rogers disrupted their romantic bliss.

Under President Nixon’s orders, Fury tasked Val as S.H.I.E.Fifty.D.’southward Femme Force leader. Alongside Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp
in the show) and various other female agents, Val accomplished the dirtiest of dirty work. The team never disbanded, just it quietly stopped being referenced at Marvel. I mean, that name is a big eye-roll, even in 1971 when it starting time got uttered.

What’s most of import to
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
is where Val eventually wound up. The Contessa secretly engaged the terrorist organization known as Hydra and became its figurehead, a.k.a. Madame Hydra. She is no loyalist and would somewhen beguile one villainous prison cell for some other, the Soviet group, Leviathan.

The comic book Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine is a principal manipulator. She’s on the other side of the coin from Nick Fury. With the MCU version currently scouring the spaceways, a power vacuum has immerged on World. As we saw in

Spider-Homo:


Far From Home
, Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) is struggling to fill up Fury’due south shoes … and skin. With John Walker, Val could be assembling her own soldiers to aid her clandestine global stranglehold.

For the first fourth dimension in the MCU, there are several villains still in play. Marvel Studios does non currently seem interested in killing off their baddies equally the credits ringlet on their films. Zemo (Daniel Brühl) is in Wakandan custody, certain, but he has problem staying put. South.W.O.R.D. similarly constrains

WandaVision
‘south witchy Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), simply tin mortal bonds agree her?

Toward the end of
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Episode 5, Sharon Carter once again calls Batroc the Leaper (Georges St-Pierre) to help the Flag-Smashers raid the Global Repatriation Quango conference in New York City. It’southward starting to await more and more similar Sharon is the Power Broker, eager to reclaim the Super-Soldiers for her purposes. Or, more likely, Sharon is undercover, working for the Power Broker, who is, in actuality, Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine.

Whatsoever the instance, Curiosity doesn’t phone call in Julia Louis-Dreyfus for a i-off. The studio is establishing her equally a major MCU histrion. Whether she’s the Power Broker or Madame Hydra, she’s constructing a domination scheme, and if you’re going to do that in Stage 4, you’re going to demand a helluva squad to challenge the Avengers.

Zemo’due south comic book counterpart has his Thunderbolts. They’re the anti-Avengers, a goon squad that masquerades as good guys. Val could exist their Fury to Zemo’southward Tony Stark. Heck, at a certain bespeak, Full general Thadeus Ross (The Incredible Hulk‘southward William Injure) ran a like group with the same proper name and dosed himself with gamma radiation that transformed him into a Reddish Hulk. And then, there’s your muscle.

And, yeah, John Walker is their Cap. In the
Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Episode 5 post-credits sequence, we meet Walker hammering a makeshift shield together. On its front, he solders on his three Medals of Honor. He’s gonna show Sam and Bucky that he’due south Helm America, and he’due south gonna jam that janky shield downwardly their throats.

One problem, Sam Wilson non only has the real-deal Vibranium disc, but he also at present has a Vibranium adapt gifted to him by the Wakandans. He may not have the enhanced muscle that Walker’south packing, but he’south not gonna need it either. Their brawl represents the first of many dark mirror battles to come up. The Contessa is gonna sit back and lookout man this time, but don’t await that to be her permanent posture.

Related Topics: Marvel Explained, Marvel Studios, Sebastian Stan, The Falcon and the Wintertime Soldier, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Explained