Falcon And The Winter Soldier EPISODE 2 Breakdown & Ending Explained Review | Marvel MCU Easter Eggs

welcome to the heavy spoilers show i'm your host paul aka the guy who doesn't do [ __ ] all day falcon in the winter soldier episode 2 is finally here and throughout this video we're going to be breaking down all the ins and outs of its story the marvel easter eggs you might have missed and its comic book connections before we get into the video though i want to let you know that i've just appeared on amazon prime video uk's new show the screen test to discuss the best world movie of all time i went head to head with chief film critic of the independent clarice lockery and joe kimwin from the cybernotes that's a really fun episode that you should definitely check out after this anyway episode 1 followed sam and bucky as they tried to adjust to life after the blip i forgot to mention last time that sam getting turned down by a banker is likely a reference to anchorman in which ron burgundy said the human torch was denied a bank loan now there was huge outcry on the internet last week when it was revealed that fictional character tony stark did not pay fictional characters the avengers any wages since then anthony mackie has come out and said that all the heroes did their odd jobs on the side such as vision who made an only fans to pay for that house we were also introduced to captain white privilege who looks like what happens when you order a captain america costume on wish episode 2 has cap's side chicks finally meeting up and thematically we get a lot of developments between the two both were given a mantle that they didn't really want with sam's being captain america and bucky's being the winter soldier though one is way worse than the other you really get the feeling at points that the pair could be trying to escape their pasts and what was expected for them and i feel like the series will very much be about them learning to accept who they are bucky of course will have the most things to overcome as he was a villain and arguably the character has one of the most interesting arcs in the mcu now before we get into the full breakdown i just want to talk about joaquin torres and how he is in the comics time codes will be below as always but make sure you stick around until the end to see us talking about where things could be going now in the source material torres was an immigrant that came to the us with his grandmother when he was six because he'd seen firsthand what it was like traveling to the country the character used to go and leave food and water along the mexican border for people attempting to cross it it was at this time that he was captured by the sons of the serpents who were working for the mad scientist carl melis maylis had been kidnapping people trying to cross into the country and he experimented on them transforming them into half-human animal hybrids it was a weird run where sam was turned into a wolf and as for taurus he became a falcon i'm not even kidding yeah that that's what happened now sam eventually turned back to normal but torres didn't because he had been fused with sam's bird red wing who possessed regenerative capabilities due to being vampiric anyway taurus slowly started to become sam's partner and he took up the mantle of falcon now just in the same way that monica rambo ended up having her superhero origin in one division i definitely think that this will be the case with taurus too though i can't see them carrying across the vampire bird hybrid mutant man story i think once sam eventually accepts the role of captain america that he too will become the falcon and a in episode one he was even trying to mess about with red wing so i don't don't get too close to that yeah might be a vampire it might be my fist though hey that's that's a great joke now as for episode 2 we open with ex-football captain turned captain america john walker returning to his high school he's now doing the propaganda tour that we saw steve participating in during the first avenger walker is joined firstly by who i'm guessing is the girl he left behind in order to perform his duty typically in war movies especially ones focused around the second world war soldiers had to go off and fight whilst their partners stayed at home and i very much get the feeling here that walker has had to give up on any relationships he could have in order to do the job steve sacrificing seeing peggy was something he too had to do and it does show that he and rogers are similar even if he seems like a discount version this scene is quite similar to the one that steve had before the parades in his first movie and at one point walker even talks about jumping on a grenade which rogers did to prove he was worthy joined by lamar hoskins aka battle star these two become somewhat of a double act that juxtaposes sam and bucky in the comics hoskins and walker both subjected themselves to a process known as the power broker which we also get lip service too in this entry in the source material when walker first came on the scene he used to stage attacks to seem like a hero and battle star helped to set these up during our first breakdown we discussed how we believe that walker was actually working alongside the flag smashers in order to carry out attacks and battle star's arrival here definitely helps to cement that now like walker battle star has walked the line between good and bad but he has pretty much become a hero much in the same way that walker has his introduction is a really interesting one and it's not the only big comic book character who appears in this entry now walker also discusses how he's sick of the speeches and that he just wants to do the job hoskins says that this is the job and this is playing on a line from sam wilson captain america in which sam discussed how he thought everything would be parades and just punching bad guys however being a black man bearing the shield he realized there were far more politics involved than he'd ever considered and though this isn't reflected in walker it's clear that captain america must fit a certain narrative in order to be accepted hoskins also mentions the song star-spangled man with a plan which is something that popped up in the first avenger when steve went on parade we hear a reworking of this for the high school game with it being played by a brass band whilst the cheerleaders hype him up for his appearance on good morning america good morning america is actually tied in heavily with the mcu as it's often where clips debut and many exclusives are dropped we also see walker signing autographs and even an action figure these take months and months to create making me think that the us have been putting him through his paces for a while which is confirmed by the tests we hear discussed in the interview this shows they wanted nothing more than fassam to hand over the shield so they could give it to someone who they deemed as being cap material it was never about the shield being displayed in the smithsonian and instead all the government cared about was pushing this propaganda machine that they could easily control also shout out to wyatt russo for completely winning me wrong with his intro yeah i did enjoy his performance i think he's very much in the same vein as homelander where he's great for the cameras and he perfectly nails the persona that one must have when representing what is now a brand the entire interview is just part and parcel of taking on the role but walker demonstrates that he's more than capable when we hear his achievements listed off walker is the first person to receive the medal of honor three times and we watch his training in which he seems more than adept at doing what's needed now an interesting part is that he brings up tony stark and bruce banner before stating that he doesn't have money or super strength personally i don't buy this and not only does he have the budget of the us military behind him but i also believe that he's got super soldier serum coursing through his veins throughout the episode we see him doing feats that would be very difficult for a normal person to pull off and the plot itself centers heavily around this formula thus i do think that he was experimented on but due to the controversy surrounding the serum because of the winter soldier they've instead pretended he's just a normal guy so he's just just a normal guy like you and me that can do 25 minute breakdowns in three hours anyway cut to bucky watching tv and we see him again sitting on the floor last episode we learned that this is where he slept and it's a nod to the line in the winter soldier in which sam talks about how soldiers find it difficult sleeping because steve and sam had soft mattresses they found it almost impossible to get comfortable and this is also something that's clearly reflected in the buckster cut to sam heading out on a mission and we see him coming face to face with the kappa's back propaganda that was shown in the credits it's everywhere in the military base almost mocking him and obviously sam didn't know that the shield was going to be given to someone as he would have preferred it just to belong in the museum however he was lied to but due to the government's power there's not much he can do bucky arrives and berates him for giving up the mantle and the two head out on a mission now bucky doesn't trust redwing because as we know the guy is old school according to stereotypes of my grandma not many 106 year olds know how to use a computer and this distrust of technology is seen in him using a notepad some of the cap rather than his phone sam discusses the three big potential threats that typically tend to pop up and these include androids aliens and wizards the avengers have fought the first two but i am struggling to think of when they've clashed against a wizard outside of ebony more however as this takes place after the events of one division it could be hinting at how she's viewed in the mcu as the last anyone heard of her she was holding a town hostage walker also mentions the big three so it's likely now a military term however we do learn that he's been spying on sam through redwing so maybe he dropped this line so that they would find some commonality with him bucky talks about gandalf and how he read the hobbit when it was first published meaning that the guy is officially a nerd i love this whole argument as he drops that he read it in 1937 and if you've ever got into a dork debate then you'll know something that's very important is who discovered something first also who else googled the release date just to make sure it was right i know i did now the pair head out to munich and have a soul-searching contest which i hope becomes something that they do every episode bucky asks sam what his plan is and he replies with i have a plan before jumping out the plane this is definitely playing on the scene in the avengers in which cab asks iron man what his plan of attack is tony replies with i have a plan attack before diving out and i love how the scenes are mirrored with the tech guy in super soldier one repeating the same motif you know it's like poetry they rhyme now buggy jumps out of the plane without a parachute and this is something that we saw steve doing at the start of the winter soldier sam also mocks him and says he got it on camera which could be a reference to shuri doing it to t'challa in black panther though that might be a reach now the pair head out to a disused factory and we also see that sam has a red visor on over his face now you know who also has a red face yeah red hulk sampai's lip service to bucky spending time in wakanda and becoming the white panther which bucky corrects to the white wolf this was a nickname given to him in the post-credits scene for bp showing how he's adopted the moniker they get caught and have to chase the flag smashes which allows bucky to bust out the super fast running that we saw him pulling off in civil war i don't know why this always kills me whenever i see it and i don't know why yet it just looks so funny now he makes it to the semi truck which is where we're introduced to carly morgenthau now this is somewhat of a gender swap as in the comics flag smasher was called call this could potentially be his daughter or perhaps they've gone all out and decided to change the character up and paint her in a different light flag smasher was always a villain but here the group are seen as freedom fighters and they're even helped by regular people referred to as robin hood they operate much in the same way that anonymous do and are a masked organization that are attempting to take down the corrupt structures of society the group was snap survivors and from what they say they were likely people that were overlooked before the cataclysmic event with the population dwindled the government probably put more focus on things like homelessness and poverty and thus they may have been treated better however with everyone coming back due to the blip they've likely been forgotten about so you can see where their anger arises thus they are somewhat sympathetic figures but one thing i can't forgive is that cauli destroys red wing just made me mad and now i want them dead i want their families dead now a big fight breaks out on the truck but walkers and hoskins arrive to save the day this is very similar to the comics in which the pair used to set up attacks and then shove out of the blue to show how great they were now we also learned that they tracked sam through redwing showing that the government are indeed keeping tabs on him sam could be a big embarrassment for them as he's the rightful captain america and thus i think that walker is keeping a close eye on the character in sam wilson captain america when sam started to make a name for himself walker was actually hired to publicly embarrass the character which is what could be going on here they pretty much sideline them and bucky and sam end up on top of each other making me think that joss whedon probably directed this scene walker also uses a gun which very much juxtaposes the meaning of captain america in the comics when selecting what iconography the character would have the us tried to push him into using a firearm but he settled on his shield because he wanted to be seen as a defender and not an attacker this is why when sam uses his wings like a shield you very much get the feeling that he's fit for the role whereas something is just not right about walker although i do accept that cap used guns when he first started out which this moment could be playing on don't just don't at me yeah just don't have me now the flag smashers get away and they pick simon bucky up on the road where they discuss their ideals you get the feeling that walker wants to really work with them but they don't trust him and therefore i don't trust him i know it's you that's been disliking the videos now walker also somewhat insults sam by suggesting that he could be his wingman meaning that he's pretty much putting him in his place and letting him know that's all he could ever beat sam rejects this and aware that super soldier serum is now out in the world the pair head out to meet isaiah bradley elsewhere we see the flag smashers settling into a refuge and carly gets a text message threatening her life so the worst one i've ever seen as once the wife went out and told me to take the pizza out of the oven and i forgot but it's it's almost as menacing as that one now i'm guessing that this is the power broker that we get reference to at the end however it could indeed be anyone maybe they did a switch up and walker isn't working with the flag smashes and instead he just wants to take the serum from them it's likely that he wasn't the only candidate to be capped and it is possible that the other flag smashers were in the running and that they were experimented on by the government this would explain their abilities and why they also want to get even but that's a very thin theory i just want to go through all the possibilities now they say after tomorrow there's no going back meaning that the next episode they will likely be launching an attack it has been said that the show is going to focus on a pandemic and they may be using bio weapons which is why they also had vaccines either way lots of possibilities so let me know your thoughts below on the plane sam and bucky have a heart to heart and throughout the episode we learn that buck isn't mad he's just disappointed he believes that if steve was wrong about sam that he's wrong about him and it cements the doubts he has within himself because of his past now at isaiah's we also meet his grandson eli bradley in the comics he became a hero known as patriot who was part of the young avengers i think that he will definitely end up becoming a hero in the series too and along with wiccan and speed ms marvel and hawkeye it seems like disney are forming the group i would absolutely love to see them and they could make for a stop gap in between the avengers movies that allows us to you know keep keep the threat high who knows we may even get a disney plus series at some point with them all coming together and i think that this would work really really well now through isaiah we see that he has super soldier serum still coursing through his veins and is possible that it's passed on genetically which would explain how his grandson gets his powers as for isaiah he has a long and sad history that very much comments on how black soldiers are treated his origins were heavily inspired by the tuskegee syphilis experiments which were a horrendous point in human history this involved the us government pretending to treat syphilis and black people however they were simply administering placebos in order to study the long-term effects of the disease this involved countless deaths and the government simply enlisted people from the black community to watch them die and this is mirrored in bradley's story after steve went missing they tried to recreate the super soldier serum and experimented on several black people in order to make the formula once more in the case of isaiah this worked and he was made into captain america however the project was swept under the rug because the government didn't want the public to believe that they were giving black people any advantages isaiah in the show talks about her running with bucky and we also learned that he managed to beat the character taking his arm in the process the government imprisoned bradley and ran experiments on him tried to take his blood and he was very much stripped of his rights and kept secret furious over this sam and bucky argue in the streets and the police arrive though they're both as bad as each other it's very clear that the police view bucky as an innocent bystander and see sam as the issue speaking to their racial prejudice even though there's a warrant out for bucky's arrest they treat him far better than they do sam and it's arguably one of the biggest bits of social commentary in the mcu barnes hands himself in and at the station we see how the police treat walker which juxtaposes what they did with sam even though they were both captain america at one point the pair are viewed in different ways and the police want to take selfies with one whilst they will happily harass the other bucky's therapist is brought in and walker announces that he's pretty much cleared him with the police showing how much power and privilege he possesses sam and bucky then go through a therapy session in which the pair at their differences bucky has so much self-doubt in this moment and the acting by sebastian stan is absolutely superb i think leading to this being a great scene sam really imparts that even if bucky disagrees with him it was his choice to do with the shield what he wanted to and rather than having people force him down a certain path like they did with bradley he'd rather make his own way outside walker and hoskins try to get the pair to team up with them but they refuse and walker wants them to stay out of his way this is the first time we've seen his darker side and it's setting up the path in which he will likely become us agent he definitely has a temper and would be threatening if it wasn't so close to something from the michael jackson video beat it in bratislava we see the power brokers men descending on the flag smashes now bratislava is a location in the marvel universe that is home to a hero known as the unicorn located in slokovia this location also seemed to pop up at the end of one division due to the markings on the cabin wonder was in but we don't have that confirmed yet now what's interesting is that someone gives them a warning that the brokers are coming and this could indeed be walker who would be aware of the government's plan a flag smasher remains behind to buy them time and we see an agent telling his boss they got away the power broker in marvel is actually the name of carl melis who we discussed earlier on in the video the mad scientist was not only linked in with taurus but he also gave us agent his strength potentially explaining how the character is able to do what he does maelys is a madman that has caused lots of issues in the marvel universe so definitely expect to see him showing up at some point especially with how linkedin he is with the rest of the characters that appear here bucky realizes that zemo is the key to everything and we occur to him in his cell now an interesting detail is that there's a door panel that looks like hal from 2001 a space odyssey semo will clearly be a big part of the next episode and we know from the trailers that he does get free he was also on bucky's list so expect to see the character making right with him we also saw in the trailer bucky emptying a gun on him meaning that zemo probably tries to use the mind control words but he shows that he no longer has power over him now we didn't cover the credits last week but there are some notable things in them that i thought i'd go over here this isn't scene by scene but it should go over the main things that were revealed firstly we get lip service paid to the enhanced humans act to the backdrop of captain america propaganda this discusses the classification of the experiments which were carried out by thaddeus ross in the comics ross was connected to the group the thunderbolts who will likely show up in the mcu at some point the character also experimented on himself to create the red hulk and thus this enhanced humans act could be setting that up we also learn that the flag smashers carried out an attack in tokyo which we know is to stabilize after the snap because hawkeye had to unleash vigilante justice there there's also a node to the brass monkey saloon which is a bar that's a local madrapa and a picture of the illuminati symbol in the comics the illuminati was a group made up of some prominent members of the avengers x-men inhumans and jay-z there's also the nod to the experimentation on black people that was carried out by the government after steve was frozen when cat was put on ice several black recruits were put forward for testing whilst the government attempted to recreate the super soldier formula now as for the episode itself i absolutely love how much balance there is in this show you can have your action scenes one minute and then in the next have some close-up character studies that really develop and flesh out the psychology of those within the cast i have a confession to make yeah i've been pretty preoccupied with watching zack snyder's justice league six times this week but this show snuck up on my left out of nowhere and i really enjoyed these 50 minute long looks at the characters overall another great episode i couldn't believe that next week we're gonna be halfway through the series i feel like pure [ __ ] i just want the mcu back and hopefully things stay at this level of quality going way into the future if you're enjoying the video then please hit the thumbs up button and make sure you subscribe to the channel for breakdowns on the series week by week before we get into a cool first look at sam's captain america costume i also want to give a thank you for getting the channel to the point that i was asked to be on the new movie broadcaster screen test on prime video uk's youtube channel hosted by that handsome devil jack howard the show has three guests fighted out every week to decide which movie a tv show is the best of the best in its genre we talked save in private ryan which was my choice the hill locker and apocalypse now and broke down each movie with their most memorable scenes what had the biggest impact and a lot more it was a really really fun episode and you need to go over there right now and say i won otherwise i'm gonna kick off yeah i swear god yeah i'm gonna kick off don't make me do it now the episode's released every wednesday at 5 p.m and it's on the prime video uk channel which is linked in the description right below if you want to listen to it while you walk it's also on amazon music or wherever you get your podcasts at so i'll see you over there after this okay so if you are following our one division breakdowns then you'll know that the costumes of wicked and speed were leaked because of some funko pop releases a similar sort of thing has happened with sam wilson's new suit which if you don't want anything spoiled then i recommend that you turn off in five four three two one romeo done okay so this was posted on the disney store and it shows the marvel select figure for fat wits with sam donning his white red and blue costume the name of the figure is also captain america cementing that sam will end up in the role during the series we often go on about how marvel will need to keep the mcu movies accessible to people who only watch the films and therefore everything in these spin-offs will likely end up the way that things were at the end of end game so sam will become cap and then you can just go from end game into the next avengers movie without having to learn about the subplot in which he became iron man for a bit as for the costume itself it looks extremely similar to his uniform in the comics and i absolutely love how they've managed to recapture the look of that there's also the shield that comes as part of the pack so it's pretty likely that sam will end up holding it on his arm as he flies like a falcon let my spirit carry me come on anyway that pretty much sums everything up and obviously i'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode so make sure you comment below and let me know as a thank you for interacting with the video you'll be entered into a prize through on the 31st of march in which you're giving away three copies of a marvel 4k boxer of your choice all you have to do to be on the chance of winning is like the video make sure you subscribe with notifications on and drop a comment below with your thoughts on the episode the winners of last month's competition are on screen right now so if that's you then message me on twitter heavyspoilers if you want something else to watch then make sure you check out our breakdown of the best easter eggs in zack snyder's justice league which will be linked on screen right now i've also part of the episode of the screen test if you want to see me debating why saving private ryan is the best war movie ever made and i'd massively appreciate the support as it opens up a lot more opportunities like that anyway without the way thank you for sticking through the video i've been paul i'll see you next time take care peace

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Length: 24min 28sec (1468 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 26 2021