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After watching Captain America: Civil War,
we now have a very good idea exactly where this thing is going to be going over
the next few years as the MCU ramps up for the Infinity War in 2018 and
2019. Each hero who appeared in Civil
War received a satisfying arc, and at the end of the movie each of them had
a definite trajectory of where their next appearances will come from. So let’s talk about where these heroes will
be going from here!
Obviously, there are spoilers ahead!
I’m going to break this down into
three articles based on the teams that we see established by the end of
the movie, with a couple extras thrown in for good measure. First we will deal with the members of the
“Secret Avengers” (more on the name in a bit).
Next week I will talk about the members of the “Mighty Avengers” (I’ll
explain that name next week), followed by an article dealing with the special
matter of the shield. I will discuss the
couple characters that don’t fit into either category the following week. Finally this will conclude (maybe) the week
after with an article about Zemo.
First up is Cap’s team of “Secret
Avengers.”
The Secret Avengers
Before going any further, why am
I calling them the “Secret Avengers”? In
the comic book “Civil War” arc, two teams of heroes emerge from the
conflict: the pro-Registration “Mighty
Avengers” and the anti-Registration “New Avengers.” The two teams come into conflict repeatedly
as the Mighty Avengers attempt to bring the New Avengers in for violating the
law.
However, we already kind of used
the name “New Avengers” to refer to the team which assembled at the end of Avengers:
Age of Ultron and started off Civil War, so instead I’m going to use
the “Secret Avengers,” a team which Captain America brought together following
the “Dark Reign” storyline to operate in secret independently from the main
Avengers team. It’s not a perfect
correlation, but it will do for now.
With that out of the way, let’s
talk about the team.
The Secret Avengers team will
likely be operating as unsanctioned heroes doing things that the Mighty
Avengers will not do. Based on the
mid-credits tag in Wakanda it is possible that Black Panther will unofficially
support them and perhaps provide Wakandan resources for them, but I doubt that
he will officially join the team. The
Secret Avengers are essentially Cap’s team from the movie: Steve Rogers, Falcon, Scarlet Witch, Ant-Man,
and Hawkeye. I won’t talk in detail
about all of them, but there are a couple to highlight.
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Steve Rogers
At the end of Civil War,
Steve voluntarily surrendered his shield to Tony Stark (more on that next
week). As such, he will no longer be
operating as “Captain America.” Instead,
I predict that he will take on a different codename and wear an entirely
different suit, at least until Avengers: Infinity War. If I had to guess, I think Steve will start
calling himself “The Captain,” following a storyline from the 1980s in which
Steve refuses to work as a government-sanctioned agent, resigns his position,
and takes the name, “The Captain.” He
may begin wearing a black costume reminiscent of the “Nomad” and “Captain”
suits from the comics, but that’s just wild speculation. I do think that he will get a new shield from
Black Panther, and I would guess a triangular one to distinguish it from his
round Captain America shield.
Over the next several years I
suspect that Steve will continue leading his team and make at most a couple
appearances in movies like Black Panther and Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Ant-Man
Ant-Man is the only member of the
Secret Avengers with a solo movie scheduled for the next few years. As such, I could see one or two of the Secret
Avengers making a small cameo there (just enough to remind everyone that they
are a team). In the meantime, Ant-Man
will continue fighting alongside the Secret Avengers while working with Hank
and Hope Pym to improve his suit and find Janet.
When Ant-Man and the Wasp
comes out, we will finally get to see Hope suit up as the Wasp and the two of
them team up to find Janet and perhaps also stop a Hydra plot involving the
Black Ant (Hydra using the Pym Particles they stole).
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Scarlet Witch, Falcon, and
Hawkeye
When Steve broke his team out of
the Raft, he rescued everyone, so the whole team will be together between Civil
War and Infinity War. Where
they will appear between those two movies is somewhat unclear, but we can make
some guesses. For example, one of the
other Secret Avengers could appear in Ant-Man and the Wasp, perhaps in a
mission against Hydra.
My guess is that Scarlet Witch
will not appear in any movies between now and Infinity War—she’s a
somewhat over-powered character along the lines of the Hulk or Vision who may
overshadow the other heroes in whatever other movie she is in. However, depending on how Infinity War
turns out, I’d love to see a Vision and the Scarlet Witch movie in Phase
4!
If Steve/“The Captain” appears in
any movies between now and Infinity War, I would not be surprised to
also see Falcon. Alternatively, Falcon
or Hawkeye could fit into Ant-Man and the Wasp quite well.
The upshot with these three
heroes is that I expect them to continue as a team with the Secret Avengers,
and they will all fight together as a team in one of the Infinity War
movies.
Conclusion
This is where I see the
characters on Cap’s Secret Avengers going in Phase 3. There isn’t all that much to say about
several of them; the most exciting area for speculation revolves around Captain
America’s shield and where Steve Rogers will go without it. I am very curious to see how this team will
be incorporated into the rest of Phase 3; hopefully we will get to see more of
them in some of the movies.
Where do you think Steve and the
rest will be going moving forward? What codename
do you think Steve should use? Let me
know in the comments!
If you’re looking for my review of the Agents
of S.H.I.E.L.D. season finale, you’ll have to wait until tomorrow. Tuesday night was graduation at our school,
and both last night and tonight were pretty busy also. Hopefully I will get to it tomorrow.
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