The Falcon and the Winter Soldier finally unmasked the Power Broker and — gasp! — it’s none other than Sharon Carter. Fans have suspected this for weeks, but it’s still pretty cool to see a woman revealed as the master villain, given Marvel’s poor history with both female characters and antagonists. Based on Phase 4 so far, the Marvel Cinematic Universe might finally be on track to solve both issues.
At the dawn of the MCU, women were love interests, plain and simple. The films’ depictions of women have mostly held up — an impressive feat for media dating back to 2008 — but the casts were still overwhelmingly male. It was a deliberate move by Marvel brass: a way to point at Natasha or Peggy or Pepper and say “but look, we have great female characters” while still ordering Shane Black to rewrite Iron Man 3 without Maya as the chief antagonist. Read more…
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