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Hey, brother, J, there is no doubt
that I have been having a blast going through each episode
of WandaVision over the past five weeks.
And not only am I looking forward to each new installment,
but it's even making me
that much more excited about the upcoming Falcon
and the Winter Soldier show coming in March.
And with this past weekend, Superbowl commercial,
we've been given a much clearer glimpse
of what we might expect from this show.
And I'm starting to get really excited about it.
But possibly for the first time, like for me personally,
I wasn't that in love with the idea of Sam taking over
for cap at the end of endgame
and it wasn't anything specific against Sam at all.
It just, he's kind of a character
that I don't feel like has been given that much development.
Like it was kind of like he met Steve on a run one day
and Steve thought that he was a nice guy.
And then the next thing we knew he was part of the Avengers.
And then the next thing we knew was
that he's the new Captain America.
Like, that's one
of the most iconic roles in the current timeline.
Period.
And I mean, just tell me like,
am I alone here because I don't know how
this is going to work like surely it takes more
than just merely holding the shield
to be Captain America, right?
Also on that note, where did this new shield even come from?
Is it going to grant Sam some kind of powers
that have hitherto lain dormant?
Did I just say hitherto, is it a magic shield
that like Thor's hammer Sam will have to like,
become worthy to have the powers of no
that would be ridiculous.
Or would it.
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Okay, so let's recap.
That's funny recap.
Samuel is the new cap.
Or at least that's what Stephen wants.
I guess I suddenly decided
that I wanted to be proper and use full names.
But what else?
Or should I say whatever.
As a refresher during the battle of is the battle of Earth?
I just looked it up it's literally
that's what it's called the battle of earth.
Did you know the battle in Endgame is called
the Battle of Earth anyway,
during the Battle of Earth apparently Stephen is facing off
with Thanos sorry, Thanopolis, Thanochies, you know what,
I'm gonna not Steve just Steve may cap finally reaches
the limit of his nearly indestructible Vibranium shield
which is quite literally broken in half.
And then after the battle is won,
we see Steve embark on a journey
to restore each of the Infinity Stones
to its proper place in time and space into reality.
Notably, he takes with him the case
that holds all of the stones themselves and Mjölnir
but no shield.
And yet despite missing the agreed upon five second limit
for traveling through time and space
for a very long period of time,
he does still arrive back nearby on a bench with a shield.
Just after he went and lived in entire reality with Peggy.
And it's here when he hands over the shield
and the mantle of Captain America to Sam.
And while in that moment Sam does accept the shield,
I have a feeling a significant amount
of Falcon and the Winter Soldier is going
to be revolving around the idea of what this means
and what Sam is supposed to do with it.
Because those are some really huge shoes
to fill and not for nothing.
But there are some key differences between Steve and Sam.
Like, I don't know,
the fact that Steve is quite literally a super soldier
with like, super strength
and enhanced sense of leadership and goodness.
And again, to be fair, like Steve had some
of those characteristics just like innately inside
of who he was.
But if you don't think that leadership is a superpower,
then I asked you to revisit this scene.
- (murmurs) until we can close that portal.
Our priority is containment.
Martin, I want you on that roof,
eyes on everything call out patterns and strays.
Stark, you've got the perimeter,
anything gets more than three blocks out, turn it back,
or you turn it to ash.
- It's called synergy people,
the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
They had to be a team.
The point is, it's not like Sam isn't physically fit
or anything like that.
But to say
that Steve couldn't literally run laps around him.
Well, that's how we met Sam.
- Don't say.
Don't you say, come on.
- That being said, it's certainly not a requirement
that you have superpowers to be a member of The Avengers.
I mean, take the original six, for example.
Three of them were just regular people.
I think we can all agree
that we're just a few days away at the archery range
from being Hawkeye, am I right?
Anybody could be Hawkeye.
Now, to be fair, though, I think you could almost argue
that Tony's wealth and intelligence is so extreme
that it kind of verges on just being magic.
But nonetheless, Tony, Natasha,
and Clint are all just highly skilled humans,
which is basically where Sam is and to be fair,
it hasn't really slowed him down that much.
I mean, after all,
he was at the Battle of Earth.
- On your left.
- Oh, my gosh, on your left, I just got that.
No, I'm kidding. I cried in the theater.
But still point is Sam has like more
than held his own against a bunch of powerful opponents,
like super powered or not,
and he's clearly an immensely skilled aerial fighter.
But then there's the shield.
The tagline for the show Falcon and the Winter Soldier is
who will wield the shield?
Oh, it rhymes.
This line alone draws a ton of attention to the shield
and who it belongs to and who it should belong to.
It kind of suggests that whoever is allowed
to have the shield is the true successor to Captain America
and just straight up I am extremely certain
that it is going to change hands a lot.
Obviously, Sam is going to be the one to start with it
but even just from the trailers,
it looks like he's gonna have some trouble mastering it.
The other obvious candidate
would be the shows other headliner one Buckingham Barnes,
who we've seen hold the shield before
and is capable of like cap level blows and throws
with the one arm
and we literally see him like holding it in the trailer.
So and I can already very much see a situation
where Sam is already trying and failing to live up
to the standards of Steve Rogers, Captain America.
Only to also see Steve's other best friend,
like easily wield the shield with success
and then be all but certain that Steve made the wrong choice
and entrusting it to him.
And of course, it's not a mistake,
but I can see this criticism not only coming, you know,
internally, from Sam, but also maybe externally
from the world at large as well.
Like maybe the citizens of the MCU universe kind of having
this feeling of like this cap isn't quite the same, is he?
Do we really think he's worthy of that shield?
And you wanna know
what I think is gonna make matters like way, way worse.
This guy, this guy, who is creatively named USA-gent,
based purely on looks alone is kind
of the second coming of Steve Rogers.
I mean, look through even honoring him at a football game.
Oh, you were in a commercial at the Superbowl Falcon.
I am being honored at a high school football game,
in real life.
No, but the point is, he looks the part
and we can already even see him holding
the shield right here on the poster.
And while he may be what the public
and possibly even Sam feels like is the proper successor
to cap himself.
Rest assured by the end of this show,
that dude is gonna be the villain.
Maybe even just by the beginning of the show.
In fact, it wouldn't surprise me at all if part
of Sam's journey of discovering or embracing the idea
of being cap has nothing at all to do
with even wielding the shield.
I would even go so far as to say
that he is going to defeat someone else
who is holding the shield in that process.
But before that, Sam himself is going to be struggling
with the idea of whether
or not he thinks he deserves this mantle.
It's going to be a quest of overcoming self doubt
and achieving a new level of self actualization.
Finally, seeing himself the way that Steve saw him
and understanding that Steve didn't pick him
for his power or fighting ability.
And most importantly, he didn't pick Sam.
To be Steve, he picked Sam because of who he already is,
who will wield the shield, it doesn't matter.
It's just a symbol.
Except it's also a super powerful tool,
and I'm fairly certain Sam's gonna end up using it,
which is where things get interesting
because it's not the shield that makes the man.
But it's also not gonna hurt like Thor learns in Ragnarok.
Like he doesn't need the hammer
to have the powers of Thor.
But also, he's not going to turn it down if it's available.
And I honestly think
that Sam shields might be a little bit more like Mueller
than we even realize.
Not in the like, only if you're worthy,
can you pick it up kind of way,
because we already know that's not true.
Other people pick it up.
But if you are capital W worthy,
then it might unlock some new powers.
It's a very he who be worthy to possess
this shield will unlock the powers of Captain America type
of thing, or that's our theory anyway.
Which brings us back to one of our first questions anyway,
where did the new shield even come from?
Again, cap breaks his and then leaves without it
and then returns with a new one.
How do?
Well, we know he's about to go time hopping
through other timelines.
So it's possible that he just literally plucks one from one
of those timelines and brings it back,
although that would probably mean
that he took that shield from a different Captain America
which doesn't feel like a very Captain America thing
to do if you ask me,
but I don't actually think that's what happened.
Because if you look carefully at Sam's shield,
it is very different from any other cap shield
that we've seen before.
So it's also possible that he had another shield made
by the people of Wakanda, before he even left
or possibly even while he was out there, time hopping,
but bear in mind before the Battle of Wakanda,
they quite literally do give him shields and
they look nothing like the original Captain America shield.
In fact, they didn't even make
the original Captain America shield.
that was Howard Stark and part of what made the shield
so unique to begin with is
because it came from a very limited resource of Vibranium.
It was all they had left.
So even if Steve had access to a different Howard Stark,
they still wouldn't have the additional resources
to make another Vibranium shield.
So then there's kind of a question
how do we even know the new ones made of Vibranium
so consider this not only is kept going through all
these other timelines
to return all the different Infinity Stones.
But he also needs to return Mjölnir
which would mean returning it back to Thor during the time
of Thor two or dark world.
That Thor would very much already know cap at that point,
and would also probably very much noticed the fact
that Steve is carrying his hammer
and now true cap totally could have returned
to that timeline, just set the hammer down
and let Thor re-summon it to his hand however,
and whenever he chose fit,
let's face it Thor is the kind of guy
to just like leave things sitting places,
but I have news for you.
I have scrubbed through just about all of dark world
and there is not a single moment where Thor is not
with Jane or else by himself and not with his hammer,
meaning that when Thor is summoning
his hammer right here in endgame,
he might literally be summoning it out of his own hands,
meaning if Steve puts it right back where it came from,
he's putting it right back in Thor's hands.
So he's gonna talk to Thor
and explain the whole situation missing shield and all.
Guys let me ask you this question,
why do you think Loki specifically chooses Captain America
to transform into when he's trying to convince Thor things?
Because he's on that day.
That's not how time travel works in this universe,
but I had to throw the joke in there.
Anyway, Thor is pretty busy that day
with like dark elves invading and his mom dying
so maybe cap helps him out of a mind.
Either way, you might be like Ben,
where are you going with this?
Get there now.
- I would very much like to go that please.
- Exactly Rocket, Thor has access to a forge
that makes super powerful weapons,
the kind of weapons that he might only entrust someone
who is worthy of wielding Mjölnir.
That forge is of course Nidavellir
and where they make Stormbreaker in Infinity War.
Also the place where Mjölnir was forged,
and the Infinity Gauntlet,
and I'm pretty sure a new shield for Sam.
And in case you're having trouble remembering Nidavellir,
it's a star that has a bunch of rings around it.
I use this as an example.
But here's the thing,
cap leaves with the Infinity Stones in Mjölnir.
And I genuinely believe that his game plan is to go
and have that life that Tony insisted he have.
Just hang up the hero life and grow old with Peggy.
So then the question of course arises,
why would he need a new shield?
And I think the answer is it's for Sam,
it's always been for Sam.
- To feel like it's someone else's.
- It isn't?
- What will it be able to do?
I'm so glad you asked.
I don't know maybe he'll have some kind of like psychic link
with the shield itself like he does redwing in the comics
and that's what allows him
to bring the shield back to himself.
Or maybe you'll shoot lightning and give him super strength.
Who knows?
Probably not lightning.
But maybe, but specifically, not until Sam is willing
to embrace the role of Sam Wilson and not Steve Rogers,
and that is when he becomes worthy.
It's like he has to get to 10 by himself,
but if he does, he gets an extra two
and I am here to tell you that 12 out of 10 is pretty good.
Guys for my question of the day, what do you think,
will the shield have powers?
Will we go from a Captain America
who was a super powered man with a good weapon
to a good man with a super powered weapon?
Leave your thoughts in the towel section down below.
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