The following contains spoilers from the Marvel Studios film Captain America: Brave New World, now in theaters. The Winter Soldier’s career has taken quite a turn since the events of TV’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

Brave New World and why it felt so strange to me. It was meant to be an espionage thriller (spoilers follow) in the vein of The Winter Soldier, and yet there was no real conspiracy (no traitors, just a guy randomly mind-controlling people) and a twist that was given away in the first trailer (Ross turning into Red Hulk in the Rose Garden).

Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes. Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan. Falcon, now Captain America and the Winter Soldier. Anyway, however you want to name this duo, it’s a pretty iconic one. In fact, Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes even had a whole MCU Disney+ show all to themselves,