FALCON & WINTER SOLDIER 1x01: Every Easter Egg + Full Marvel BREAKDOWN | New Cap EXPLAINED

[Music] welcome to screen crush i'm ryan airy and this is all the easter eggs references and little things you might have missed in falcon in the winter soldier episode one the series opens with sam wilson remembering his final conversation with steve from end game while ironing his shirt now there is a lot of this kind of thing in this episode contrasting the hero's extraordinary lives with their ordinary lives and i know for a fact that we qualify for it superheroes have a rough time with bankers don't they the human torch was denied a bank loan the penance in the background is from lsu and not to sam's new home state of louisiana because he was from harlem in the comics he also transported the shield in the same case that steve carried it in showing he hasn't really used this baby on any missions it's still meant in the wrapper near mint slight boxing around the edges we pick up with sam on a mission to stop the laf led by batroc the leaper he's a longtime captain america villain who was hired by nick fury to hijack the lemurian star back in the winter soldier it was great seeing red wing in action again i especially love that they added these little chirps for him like a droid in the comics red wing is an actual falcon that sam has a telepathic relationship with i always thought the mcu is missing out on a key part of sam's character by not giving him this animal companion the guy helping him on the ground is joaquin torres in the comics torres becomes the falcon after sam becomes captain america i'll bet you a shiny nickel that he becomes falcon at the end of this series let me know in the comments if you take that bet you coward sam uses the head scissor to take down batrock a move he probably learned from black widow and later we see that torres also learned a move from black widow this opening sequence of sam fighting laf flying squirrels was incredible absolutely stunning this was the best superhero flying sequence i've seen since iron man 3 maybe since superman 78 it made me really bummed out that i wasn't seeing this in theater this looks like a combination of cgi drone footage and actual skydivers and it's breathtaking everything has weight and the way the cg falcon gets lost out of frame makes it seem realistic and kinetic the flying squirrels he's up against are dressed in green jumpsuits with yellow stripes the uniform worn by hydra henchmen and the comics sam's suit looks different now trading the black and red for red and white much closer to his uniform in the comics torres finds an augmented reality icon used by the flag smashers now augmented reality is an actual tool used by modern day activists to organize or expose corporate misdeeds the leader of the flag smashers is carly morgenthau a gender-swapped version of carl morgenthau from the comics where he's a villain called flagsmasher basically his dad was an ambassador killed in front of a latverian embassy so then he goes on to dedicate his life to erasing all nations from the earth in fact in his very first scene he's literally smashing flags in front of the u.n now this show has made the flag smashers into a worldwide organization who takes the song imagine a little too literally [Music] torres spouts a conspiracy theory that captain america is on a secret base on the moon now this reminded me of luther from umbrella academy the captain america-like hero who lived on the moon for years but also there is a secret moon base in the comics that's the home of huatu the watcher jeffrey wright is voicing him in the what if series so i mean steve could be on the moon no one's saying that he's not in the comics nick fury also lived on this space when he became the watcher in the smithsonian sam is donating the shield to the cap exhibit that we first saw in the winter soldier it belongs in a museum where he's joined by james rhodes it'd be super cool if he suited up by the end of the series there are lots of easter eggs in this exhibit this is cap's uniform from the first avengers movie this uniform is from the howling commando named pinkerton who was a marksman the bucky section has been expanded to include his time as the winter soldier and the sokovia accords in fact this glass in the foreground even bears the emblem of the sokovian flag this newspaper headline celebrates the howling commandos destroying hydra factories like we saw in first avenger and these are all weapons that we see the howling commandos using here also i never noticed this before but sebastian stan is making duck lips in this scene and there's also cap spike and original shield from first avenger this display shows thanos a ship from infinity war with the text out of hiding meaning that this is the event that drew steve rogers into the public eye again the names of the people who were blipped are called the vanish just like they were at the san francisco memorial that we saw in endgame now this plaque that reads final mission is the most interesting the text here reads with the death of tony stark steve rogers honored his friend by laying down his shield and living the lives he fought so hard to protect this doesn't mention that the avengers use time travel so that's probably not common knowledge but it also doesn't say that steve died but the montage at the beginning of far from home heavily implies that the world thinks cap is dead i mean otherwise he would have been at the smithsonian dedication right right right but then that gets into the whole thing where the russo brothers say that steve lived his life out in another reality but endgame's writers say that he was peggy's husband secretly in the mcu all along i'm betting they avoid this question for the entire series moving on this newspaper is when steve liberated the hydra camp on his first mission this poster says his uso tour was canceled and we actually see the same poster in first avenger here this is captain america issue 1 from real life and also like we see in first avenger but you'll notice that his teen sidekick bucky is missing from the movie version because cap never had a teen sidekick in the mcu this poster calls back to cap's time as a war bond salesman here's his 4f form the photo of him that peggy had framed on her desk him holding the car door after chasing the hydra agent and this is a photo of him coming out of the super soldier capsule in this scene sam explains why he didn't accept the title of captain america feels like it belongs to someone else and someone else is steve i love the framing here with the glass separating him from the shield it's showing that he's placing this legacy on a pedestal something he can see but never touch oh and we can see here that cap's world war ii uniform was returned meaning that this guy might have gotten his job back i am so fired falcon and the winter soldier is one of many marvel disney plus shows coming out this year but did you know that there's a new feature on disney plus called star that lets you access 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already paying for again visit nordvpn.com screencrush or use the code screencrush to get your free month or click the link down in the description back to the easter eggs next we check in with the winter soldier and i love how they brought back his theme in this sequence he wakes up and we see that he's still living like an assassin i'm home lying in my bed and it's like lying on a marshmallow i feel like i'm gonna sink right to the floor now just like we see glimpses of sam's mundane life we also check in with bucky's therapy session but i don't mind all of these quiet sequences and then we can renovate the kitchen ordinary life sequences like these are some of the best scenes in the movies now in this scene notice how bucky is sitting in front of a vibrant forest but he's set apart from this location he's lit darker to show that this life is out of reach he's also placed at the bottom of the frame to show that he feels diminutive in this setting even the blinds in the room look like prison bars to show that he's a prisoner of his own guilt you're alone he's also filmed with extreme close-ups on one side of his face to show that he's not revealing his full self he's still in many ways only half a man grappling with the sins that his other half has committed he talks about making amends with senator atwood who like senator stern was a hydropon buried in the government so internally bucky is cleaning hydra out of his head and literally he's clearing them out from the government he also named drops wakanda had a little calm in wakanda you'll remember that like dave chappelle he went to africa to clear his head where's the fight so i went through all the names on bucky's list and guess what there's a few easter eggs here andre rostov in the comics is the soviet villain the red guardian in the more recent comics he was bucky's warden when the russians imprisoned him in a gulag now this is during the period when bucky was making amends in the comics like he's doing now in the mcu pw hauser was the actor who starred alongside sebastian stan and i tonya great movie h zemo is helmut zemo the long time captain america villain who we saw in civil war and is returning in this series hendrickson could be a reference to how hendrickson the soldier in the comics who received the venom symbiote before flash thompson it's a long story there are two names called kaminsky which could be a reference to this kaminsky who worked with hydra agent john garrett and agents of shield and kutsanov was a soviet scientist who invented a robot called udarnic now this list actually parallels steve's list from winter soldier both he and bucky were listing ways to re-enter society but steve was trying to catch up on the present while bucky is trying to make amends for his past and i love that the show is dealing with real veterans issues like financial problems ptsd and this struggle to rejoin society these were some of the most heartfelt moments in winter soldier that grounded the movie and helped steve and sam form a bond some stuff you leave there other stuff you bring back he tells his friend i can't believe you did that there's a dance of these things you gotta warm up now dancing carries a lot of symbolic meaning for cap and bucky because after all if you wanted to have a good time in the 40s there was literally nothing else to do steve talked about never going dancing women aren't exactly lying enough to dance with the guy they might step on he and bucky were going to take their dates nancy when steve enlisted come on kind of missing the point of a double date we're taking the girls dancing bucky asked peggy to dance i might even when this is all over go dancing then what are we waiting for the right partner and of course steve ended his story by finally getting his dance with peggy and how about to reveal that bucky killed this guy's son that is absolutely brutal back on the bayou sam returns home to his family's shrimping boat business on a good day you can catch over 100 pounds of shrimp i'm sorry about that sam's sister is named sarah just like in the comics and their parents were paul and darlene also like in the comics this whole subplot about him wanting to keep the boat in his business might seem trivial but it actually has symbolic meaning sam is holding on to the past and old traditions he doesn't want to change in the same way he's unable to imagine a world with a different captain america than steve rogers this thing's gotta go we grew up on this thing when bucky goes on his date it's filmed through hazy glass just like sam looking at the shield this shows that bucky is separated from this world by socializing he's moved into a new phase of his life where the future is unclear but even when he's just hanging out with a nice woman on a date he still finds himself drawn into a war game battleship you have sank my battleship also this instruction manual says electronic battleship but this is clearly not electronic battleship just saying and she also says so have you dated much since half the fish in the sea came back a joke about dating literal fish since they're in a sushi restaurant and also since they're playing a board game on a pretend c like ogres this show has layers you get it we both have layers bucky tries to settle the waving cats another small metaphor that he's trying to quiet the restlessness inside himself oh and this line you know how we call a guy whose wife died i widower is stolen from six feet under if you lose a spouse you're called a widow or a widower if you're a child and your parents die you're an orphan but what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child because it's like the worst thing that could happen i guess that's just too [ __ ] awful to even have a name now over in switzerland torres is infiltrating the flag smashers and oh my god look there that's a hexagon just like the hexagons in one division and and space travel and the bee guy and and the bees not the bees sorry everyone look i spent eight weeks spotting hexagons everywhere even doug helped me out i feel like bucky i have to purge all that out of my mind moving on you'll notice that the flag smashers appear to be super strong now there's an explanation for that from the comics that could link the new captain america to this evil group but i'll get into that when we talk about the new cap the loan officer asks a question i've wondered about for a while how do you guys make a living and he even name drops tony stark is there some kind of fun for heroes or did stark pay you when he was around since in the comics stark did bankroll the avengers shout out to the production design team for subtly surrounding sam's family home with touches that reinforce who he is there is the child's drawing of a jet reflecting his time in the air force the eagle inside the snow globe because he's the falcon and this ichthu's fish perhaps implying that he comes from a religious home when torrez shows sam the footage he says wait you don't think he could be uh i'll circle back to you now i wonder who he's talking about my guess is either zemo some unknown villain or maybe bucky it could be that sam still distrusts bucky and think he's going to snap and become the winter soldier remember that in winter soldier he said i don't think he's the kind you save he's the kind you stop the episode ends with them watching whih this is the news network inside the mcu that also created the in-universe social videos during phase 2 and 3. tony stark's got enough money to fix new york 10 times over and then the government introduces their brand new captain america john walker so much to unpack here first a very brief history from the comics back in the 80s the government insisted that captain america follow their orders and so steve walked away from the shield the government then chose this ultra-conservative guy named john walker to be the new cap it didn't go so well he went nuts and started killing guys until steve took over again but walker had super strength that he got from a villain called the power broker he was kind of like viagra charging people for male enhancement i'm wondering if the flag smashers in this show have also been augmented by the power broker this could create a link between john walker and this terrorist group maybe in future episodes winter soldier and falcon will actually team up with zemo to stop the power broker since zemo's whole deal is that he wants to rid the earth of super powered people did you really think i wanted more of you now you'll notice that walker's uniform looks very different from captain america's it's actually based on the uniform that steve wore while he wasn't captain america and that john walker would later use as the hero us agent now bringing john walker into the story is a huge opportunity to make a political commentary on the dichotomy of two americas in the red state blue state divide i seriously doubt disney will do that in the show but you never know after all winter soldier was a commentary on the surveillance state that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security some of you might be wondering why didn't they ask sam to be the new cap if he was steve's choice and then why lie to him well first of all they wanted someone they could control and sam had already defied the sokovia courts plus he had already turned down the shield but i also think that race was a factor when walker is chosen in the comics one of the characters just flat out says that america wasn't ready for a black captain america there's a terrific comic series called truth red white and black it's about isaiah bradley the black gi who the army experimented on during world war ii who became the black captain america briefly there's a hint that this might be a story told in this series in the credits we see this form that says name subject 09656 and this looks like carl lumbley who's rumored to be playing isaiah bradley in this series so let's go through these credits which are loaded with easter eggs and hints about future episodes we see cap shield inside a bomb showing that the title of captain america can be used to incite terrorism and violence like the flag smashers i love that there's all this fine print text like its history slowly being unredacted in front of our eyes this says shadow group pulls off weapons heists i'm betting that refers to the flag smashers information on enhanced individuals being reported to a major donovan for a special unit now this is interesting is there a secret military unit of superpowered people could this actually be a group of villains like the abomination organized by thunderbolt ross that he turns into the thunderbolts in the comics these were a group of villains who were disguised as heroes forces from neighboring magipore this is the fictional asian country that we've seen in the trailers there's also a mention of agent 13 that sharon carter who's going to appear in a later episode and a masked man causing chaos in prague where they filmed much of this show december 16 1991 is the date winter soldier killed stark's parents five years lost and found refers to the snap and the blip where do we go now that they're gone is the poster of the support group that steve was hosting an endgame world is in our hands now this language is actually russian but i ran it through google translate and it turns out this is actually a reference to your mom and finally these are the words used to activate the winter soldier in civil war well that's all the easter eggs i found but if you found any let me know in the comments below or at me on twitter and if it's your first time here please subscribe for screen crush i'm ryan airy [Music] you

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Published: Fri Mar 19 2021