Captain America 4 Reveals The Avengers Missed 3 Opportunities To Fix The MCU"s Super Soldier Problem

Summary

• New footage, first-look images, and story details for Captain America: Brave New World were revealed at 2024's CinemaCon.
• Captain America: Brave New World will develop the threat posed by super soldiers in the MCU.
• The MCU's super soldier threat could have been avoided by the Avengers on many occasions in the MCU's history.

Marvel Studios' super soldier threat is set to continue in Captain America: Brave New World, but these problems could have been avoided on multiple occasions in the history of the MCU. Shortly after the release of Phase 4's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Disney+, Marvel Studios confirmed the development of Captain America: Brave New World, which will mark Anthony Mackie's theatrical debut as the MCU's new Captain America. Captain America: Brave New World's cast features the returns of Betty Ross, Samuel Sterns, Thaddeus Ross, and characters from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Joaquín Torres and Isaiah Bradley.
At 2024's CinemaCon, Marvel Studios revealed new footage, first-look images and story details for Phase 5's upcoming Captain America: Brave New World. As well as providing new looks at Sam Wilson's Captain America and Harrison Ford's President Ross, the new footage from Captain America: Brave New World revealed that the project will continue a story that dates back to the beginning of the MCU. At some point, sleeper super soldiers, including Carl Lumbly's Isaiah Bradley, will be activated with a song, transforming into mindless villains, which has been a popular theme in the MCU's history, but could have been avoided.
Your browser does not support the video tag. Related New Captain America 4 Plot Reveal Answers 1 Major Thunderbolts Cast Mystery Marvel Studios has revealed new details for Phase 5's Captain America: Brave New World, which answer a huge mystery concerning Thunderbolts*' line-up. Captain America 4's Super Soldier Plot Was Consistently Foreshadowed To The Avengers Close Super soldier antagonists have been a popular addition to the MCU since Tim Roth's Emil Blonsky was transformed into the Abomination in 2008's The Incredible Hulk. More often than not, super soldier experiments in the MCU are carried out in an effort to replicate Dr. Abraham Erskine's successful experiment on Steve Rogers, who became the super soldier Captain America in the 1940s. This storyline has been integrated into a huge number of MCU projects, with various members of the Avengers having fought super soldiers on many occasions, meaning the opportunity has repeatedly been there for this issue to be eliminated.
Earth's Mightiest Heroes could have seen how big a problem the rise of super soldiers was back in The Incredible Hulk, or in the wake of Captain America: Civil War after Baron Zemo had killed HYDRA's other Winter Soldiers and their creator, Vasily Karpov. This problem also contributed to the Extremis soldiers in Iron Man 3, the Centipede Project in Agents of SHIELD, and various experiments that created several villains in Marvel Television's Defenders Saga. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier saw a refined super soldier serum enhance Karli Morgenthau and the Flag Smashers, but this evolution was still ignored.
Super Soldiers In The MCU
Super Soldiers' Debut Projects
Bruce Banner's Hulk
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Emil Blonsky's Abomination
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Johann Schmidt's Red Skull
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Steve Rogers' Captain America
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Bucky Barnes' Winter Soldier
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
HYDRA' Winter Soldiers
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Isaiah Bradley
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
John Walker's Captain America/US Agent
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
The Flag Smashers
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
Alexei Shostakov's Red Guardian
Black Widow (2021)
Peggy Carter's Captain Carter
What If...? (2021)
Jennifer Walters' She-Hulk
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)
Captain America 4 Reveals The Avengers' Biggest Mistake Was Worse Than Infinity War The Falcon and the Winter Soldier debuted Carl Lumbly as Isaiah Bradley, an African-American soldier who was successfully given a super soldier serum during the Korean War. Fearful of the impact an African-American super soldier could have on the world, the United States government imprisoned Bradley for three decades, during which time he was experimented on, before his death was faked and he was freed in the 1980s. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier saw Sam Wilson orchestrate an exhibit memorializing Bradley's heroics at the Smithsonian, but Captain America: Brave New World will put a dangerous spin on Bradley's character.
Isaiah Bradley is one of the super soldiers awakened by the mysterious song in Captain America: Brave New World's new footage from CinemaCon. This sequence sees Bradley, as well as others in the room, attack President Ross and fight Captain America, and while this will show off his sheer power more than The Falcon and the Winter Soldier did, this could have been avoided had the Avengers not ignored the world's super soldiers. Sam Wilson discovered Isaiah Bradley was a super soldier in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but did nothing to assess the threat this could have posed.
Related The MCU's Super Soldier Origin Story Is Now Even Darker After Marvel's Canon Change Now that the Defenders are a part of MCU canon, one show in particular makes the nature of the Super Soldier Serum even darker than it was before. Captain America 4 Can Finally Address Just How Complicated The MCU Super Soldier Problem Is During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Anthony Mackie delved deeper into the themes of Captain America: Brave New World. Suggesting that the stories in the Infinity Saga were always "good versus bad," Mackie noted that Brave New World would be taking a different route. "When the bad guys reappear, in what form are they reappearing?," Mackie wonders, implying that Captain America: Brave New World will see friends become new enemies, and perhaps vice versa, suggesting the MCU's long-running super soldier problem may finally be addressed in Sam Wilson's debut feature film as the star-spangled man-with-a-plan in the MCU's Phase 5.

The title implies that there's a new, bigger enemy now; there's a new frontier that we have to conquer. From Captain America: The First Avenger to Endgame, the enemy was always good versus bad. Now that we've conquered that, where do we go from here? When the bad guys reappear, in what form are they reappearing? It is a new storyline with new characters, with new beliefs, and it creates a new idea of this new world that we're going into.

Captain America: Brave New World FantasyAdventureAction Captain America: Brave New World (formerly titled New World Order) marks Sam Wilson's first MCU big-screen appearance as Steve Rogers' successor after receiving the suit and shield in Phase 4's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Anthony Mackie returns as the titular Avenger alongside Danny Ramirez as Joaquin Torres, Carl Lumby as Isaiah Bradley, and Tim Blake Nelson as The Incredible Hulk's former ally Samuel Sterns. Harrison Ford makes his MCU debut replacing the late William Hurt as Thaddeus Ross.
Director Julius Onah Release Date February 14, 2025


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