steve rogers
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Trauma, Privilege and Costumes: How Marvel Picked the Big Cornerstones of Hawkeye
There’s so much about Hawkeye the trailers aren’t telling you. The trailers have been all about Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) and Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) travelling around New York at Christmas time, firing arrows, and getting into general mayhem. Oh, and did they mention it was Christmas time? Obviously, though, that’s not all the show…
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Marvel’s What If Season 1 Finale Found a Time and Place for Everyone
Surprisingly, the season one finale of Marvel’s animated Disney+ series — “What If… the Watcher Broke His Oath?” — managed to bring the show’s debut to a satisfying close by foregoing any pretense of being about what might happen. Instead, the episode shifts focus to what’s actually happening in the moment… at a time when…
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Thank Goodness, Someone Finally Told Anthony Mackie He’s in Captain America 4
On April 26 of this year, two days after the season finale of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier debuted on Disney+, actor Anthony Mackie was buying groceries. One presumes it was a normal day… until something shocking happened. His grocery informed him of a new development in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that he’d been…
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What If’s Premiere Turned Peggy Carter Into the First Nazi-Smashing Avenger
For all the fuss there is to be made about the multiversal implications of Disney+ and Marvel’s What If, the animated series is also an anthology of self-contained stories about the infinite number of people actually living within the now-branching timelines that make up Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. At some point, the larger significance of it…