Obviously, Walker's story can't play out exactly the way it did in the comics in The Falcon And The Winter Soldier. Stripped of his title, Walker was forced to do some real soul searching before he eventually took on the name US Agent and adopted a modified version of the costume Steve wore as The Captain because apparently he's genuinely never had an original thought in his life. Naturally, Walker was eventually sent in to try and stop The Captain, a fight that resulted in Steve exposing Walker for the monster he was and returning to his proper station. This is where media darling John Walker got his chance, adopting the mantle as the new Captain America while Steve was off living as a renegade hero.īut, of course, it all went very, very wrong not long after-who could have guessed that a radically patriotic supervillain would eventually make an extremely bad Captain America? This was before Steve's identity as Captain America was publicly known, so inventing a new Captain America was as easy as handing the suit and the shield over to someone else. It was a very exciting time.īut of course, simply handing the shield and the costume back to the government didn't put an end to them. He quit being Captain America, turned over the shield, and created a new identity for himself: The Captain. Naturally, this whole fiasco culminated (at least indirectly-Steve being threatened with a major tax fraud case by the government was also part of it-don't ask) into another common, recurring theme in Captain America comics: Steve Rogers becoming completely disillusioned with both the government and his mantle and deciding to give it all up and reinvent himself. By the end of Walker's first story arc, he had the media in the palm of his hand and Steve both blackballed by the public and physically on the ropes.
Getting the press on his side was one of Walker's biggest goals and something he actually had a ton of success in (the public being tricked into believing that Captain America actually sucked was a fairly common recurring theme in his ongoing comic, especially through the '60s and '70s).
Walker thought Steve was "outdated" and wanted to replace him, even going as far as to manufacture fake crises that he could act on to earn himself media attention. Originally called Super-Patriot, John Walker was introduced back in the mid '80s with a pretty simple purpose: He was, first and foremost, meant to be a supervillain that could exemplify the darker side of patriotism against Steve Rogers' heroism-someone who believed that Steve, and by extension Captain America, was espousing all the wrong values in American society. In fact, Walker looking like a knock off Steve Rogers happens to be the entire point of his character. But these overlaps aren't a coincidence and they're certainly not an accident. Fans on social media are eagerly pointing out the similarities between Walker's patriotic uniform and the many costumes worn by Steve Rogers across the MCU's phases 1 through 3. If your immediate reaction to Walker's look is "wait, isn't that just a new Captain America suit?" Don't worry-you're not alone. Wyatt Russel as John Walker/Captain America/US Agent in Falcon and the Winter Soldier!! /ALfeqOWy8d - Thomas Polito January 21, 2020
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