So Bucky Barnes appears and reunites with Sam Wilson in Captain America: Brave New World, but what happens in their one scene together? Bucky arrives to comfort Sam at one of his lowest points in the movie.

There's a very good chance the asterisk in the title of Thunderbolts* indicates a certain prominent MCU character will appear.

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).

Brave New World" then you know the movie has a post-credits scene featuring a confrontation between the titular hero (Anthony Mackie) and the gamma-irradiated Samuel Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson). If you were confused about what Sterns was referring to,

Despite featuring several predominant characters from 2008’s The Incredible Hulk, including Tim Blake Nelson’s The Leader and Liv Tyler’s Betty Ross, Captain America: Brave New World did not include Hulk (Mark Ruffalo),

Brave New World was a fine, if a bit underwhelming, entry for the MCU. Three specific issues held it back from its full potential.

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