Case in point.īy the last few episodes, John Walker becomes totally unhinged. This show has a lot to say about how white men and Black men are treated differently by the American government.
To be clear, John Walker is essentially a cop who murdered a guy and got let off the hook. So, yeah, the government probably should have thought twice before decorating John Walker in stars and stripes. Then when Lamar was killed, he used the shield to decapitate someone who was not responsible for his friend’s death and begged for mercy. John Walker was a privileged white man who whined about getting his butt handed to him by a Black woman in a fight with the Dora Milajae. Before he took the serum, Steve Rogers was a brave man who hated bullies and dove onto a grenade to save his fellow soldiers. Lamar Haskins said that the supersoldier serum enhances who the person already was. We’ll see if they follow suit with John Walker.The guy is clearly not cut out to be Captain America. Marvel already has plans for other characters it developed in various Disney+ shows. I’m not a part of any of this decision making, obviously. Part of the way I approached Marvel was it’s all your last time you’re going to do it…Marvel operates in a really cool way where they don’t make decisions before they see what works. But speaking to Vanity Fair, Russell didn’t seem sure of whether he’d be back in the role: The end of the show set him up for something more, with Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) recruiting him for reasons unknown. Will John Walker return to the MCU?įans will get a chance to decide if they like Walker when he turns up again, or rather, if he shows up again. He’s a divisive character among Marvel fans, but that often makes for the best kind of characters in the long run. And that makes you go, ‘Oh, he’s actually kind of damaged.’ So you kind of like him a little bit, even though then he goes on to do something horrific, but you at least understand where it comes from.”Īt the end of the day, though, do fans like him? It seems like the verdict is still out. that Medal of Honor, that was the worst day of my life.’ And we realized, ‘Oh, something happened there that he’s not proud of.’ So he’s actually got a bit of an imposter syndrome. Skogland hinted at more complexity beyond what we saw of the character. Russell did an amazing job in the role, leaving things up in the air for John Walker. That’s a tall order for any actor, especially knowing that you’re taking the place of Steve Rogers’ Cap. He was set up to play a guy who was a schmuck, taking on the mantle of Captain America even though he didn’t deserve it, and he was a political pawn to boot.
To be fair, Russell acted the heck out of the role. Now, they went through a period of not liking him at the beginning because he started out feeling like ‘Wait a second, is that the guy?’” The Falcon and the Winter Soldier director wanted people to like John Walker “Well, we left it a little vague on purpose but at the end of the day, I wanted people to like him. In an interview with io9, Skogland says that Walker’s introduction was bumpy but he figured things out along the way. Though divisive, director Kari Skogland hopes that Walker’s redemption makes him likable by the end of the first season.
It also gave us John Walker (Wyatt Russell).
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier did everything it set out to accomplish: It moved Sam and Bucky’s story forward, it gave fans Sam Wilson as Captain America, it introduced new key characters and it provided a glimpse of what’s coming in the new Captain America movie.
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