- He took Nick Fury's eye, possibly under torture, or as the result of failed assassination.
- Partially confirmed. He is behind the deaths of Howard and Maria Stark.
- Not exactly, HYDRA is behind their deaths. It is never stated exactly who killed them.
- Not until Civil War, anyway, which confirms Bucky/The Winter Soldier was the one who killed them
- Or the Russians won't be involved at all; the Winter Soldier will be part of The Reveal that HYDRA is still around in the present day.
- Hydra are still around. Red Skull wasn't seen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The Russians were responsible for the Winter Soldier.
- Confirmed. He's getting at least one new outfit based on the Commander Rogers uniform from the comics.
- Comic canon has the Winter Soldier being Black Widow's instructor/Lover before he was put back on ice. I have nothing for the movie.
- Jossed; Black Widow's only encounter with him before the movie was that he successfully assassinated someone she was guarding.
- Not quite. It's the only one she mentions, and she's not exactly famous for telling people everything. Also, she seems tad too familiar with his modus operandi and equipment for a single encounter.
- Seems to be mostly a joke but....Jossed.
- It would make a good Bittersweet Ending to have Steve free Bucky from the mind-control, only to be killed shortly after that. Steve getting killed in the beginning of the third movie is more likely (it would allow him to be in Avengers 2), but killing him at the end of this one would be better. If he dies in this one, Avengers 2 would feature SHIELD agent John Walker, who would put on Cap's costume for the final battle, but in the beginning of the third Cap movie, he would realize he doesn't deserve to be Cap.
- Chris Evans is confirmed to play Cap in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but I like the idea of Bucky becoming the new Cap in that movie (even if it means Steve dies).
- It would be nice to give Cap a happy ending for once, and what could be a more happier ending than restoring your brainwashed friend back to normal and said friend living to tell the story?
- Confirmed. The Winter Soldier's fight with Steve lets the former begin to remember his past life, which lead to this.
- And that he is a member of the world security council under the name "Dell Rusk"
- And nuclear strike on Manhattan from The Avengers was his idea.
- Jossed. Red Skull isn't in TWS at all.
- Although he is confirmed to be alive in Infinity War...but he's just hanging around on the planet Vormir, guarding the Soul Stone.
- And nuclear strike on Manhattan from The Avengers was his idea.
- This is how it played out in Sharon's first appearance in Tales of Suspense #75, so having Cap first meet her in a similar manner would be a pretty good Mythology Gag to use.
- Jossed. She's his next door neighbor in the apartment building he lives in.
- Pierce. Alexander Pierce. Alias for Aleksander Lukin.
- Unlikely. Alexander Goodwin Pierce is an established Marvel character.
- As seen with Iron Man 3, the MCU isn't afraid to make drastic changes to certain characters if need be, so merging Agent Pierce and Lukin into one character isn't probably out of the question just yet.
- Unlikely. Alexander Goodwin Pierce is an established Marvel character.
- Confirmed.
- She'll cameo as Peggy's niece, but won't have any profound connection to Cap.
- Alternatively, her significance will only be foreshadowed and be kept in the background for the most part in the movie, with said element becoming a major plot point in Captain America 3 instead.
- Jossed, she's an active SHIELD agent posing as Cap's neighbor and keeping tabs on him. She also shows up in the final battle. Still an extra, but a very important one.
- In other words, she'll simply go by Agent 13 for most of the film. This means that at the end (or near the end) of the movie, Cap (and subsequently, the audience) will find out her true identity as Sharon Carter.
- Unlikely, as SHIELD agents don't go by their codenames in the MCU. Hawkeyes and Black Widow are for the most part known as Agent Barton and Agent Romanoff.
- Maybe she will be required to keep her identity secret because no one knows how Steve would react to meet someone related to Peggy. Then, during an action scene near the end, she will be in danger and someone (Fury, Pierce, Maria Hill, Natasha,...) will yell "Carter!".
- Apparently, her identity will be concealed, but in a different way: she will use an alias (Kate).
- Jossed, but we never hear her last name so neither Steve or people unfamiliar with the character actually know she's Peggy's niece (she does mention having a "crazy aunt" at one point). She finally reveals her last name to Steve in Civil War.
- Unlikely, as SHIELD agents don't go by their codenames in the MCU. Hawkeyes and Black Widow are for the most part known as Agent Barton and Agent Romanoff.
- She's only been referred to in release notes as Agent 13, not Sharon Carter. So, unless they're trying to keep her being Peggy's relative a secret to be revealed during the film, something's fishy.
- She could be playing Sin (who was a major villain in the comics in Brubaker's run on Captain America)
- It's possible she could be playing Bobbi Morse AKA Mockingbird, previously Agent 19 of SHIELD.
- At the San Diego Comic-Con, it was confirmed that EVC is indeed playing Agent 13, so it's safe to say that this theory's jossed.
- His refusal to comply with the the World Security Council's decisions had put him on very thin ice. SHIELD's inaction in regards to the Extremis attacks provide an excuse to fire him. He gets replaced by Alexander Pierce.
- The trailers show him still very much in charge of SHIELD, not to mention his cameo in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
- Of course, that doesn't prevent Fury from being supplanted by Pierce (or whomever else) within the movie itself.
- Jossed. He's still in SHIELD until the events of TWS.
- The trailers show him still very much in charge of SHIELD, not to mention his cameo in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
- Perhaps, he may have encountered Winter Soldier some time ago and may have lost some good men and women to the brainwashed assassin. This would give him enough of an onus to help Cap out with taking down Winter Soldier. It may also make it an It's Personal situation for Pierce, too.
- Jossed.
- He is a red herring crafted by Batroc.
- Yeah, yeah, we get it.
- This was a joke about IM3's twist but.... Jossed, obviously.
- Yeah, yeah, we get it.
- Though The Mandarin was killed during Iron Man 3, AIM is probably still around in some form or another - they are described as a think-tank, and probably have other divisions besides the ones producing Extremis. One of these divisions will be responsible for the Winter Soldier, and if/once he makes a face turn, him and Cap will team up to take them out.
- Except Bucky fell off the train 50 years before AIM was ever founded.
- Jossed. HYDRA and Zola made him.
- Except Bucky fell off the train 50 years before AIM was ever founded.
- Sometime around 2/3 into the movie, Winter Soldier will remember who he is. He will be plagued by guilt for a part of the movie, but will join Steve for the final battle against Crossbones.
- Jossed. He's a villain for the whole film basically.
- The film is set primarily in Washington DC, and the Winter Soldier is an infamous assassin, so... he could end up assassinating President Ellis, who was previously featured in Iron Man 3. It would interesting to see Captain fail to save someone that important.
- Jossed, but not for lack of trying.
- However, The President was apparently one of the targets that the Hydra-influenced SHIELD was planning on going after.
- She's already really old, that kinda just seems like a waste of time...
- Jossed. Peggy survives the film.
- Jossed. There is a lead-in which is related to The Avengers: AoU but it doesn't involve Ultron.
- Jossed. Black Widow's good the whole movie (although Steve does doubt her at the begining, so there is some trust issues).
- It's been said that Steve has issues about working for SHIELD, so I can see him quitting at the end of the film to rejoin the less morally ambiguous Avengers fulltime, setting up for Age of Ultron. It could even have some banter about who's in charge, Tony or Cap.
- And who has better support: "I have a Hulk." "Yeah? I have a bioengineered super-assassin." And Natasha just rolling her eyes.
- Jossed. The stingers don't involve Cap or Widow. One does involve Bucky but not in this context.
- And who has better support: "I have a Hulk." "Yeah? I have a bioengineered super-assassin." And Natasha just rolling her eyes.
- The man in the trailer that Steve talks to will be an Expy of Norman Osborn.
- The latest episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. shows a sign with "HAMMER" on it, which can be assumed that the organization already exists as part of SHIELD. That being said, it could very well become the name for the group that Alexander Pierce decides to take control of in the film.
- Maybe Justin Hammer wasn't locked up for good after the events of Iron Man 2 ...
- The Marvel One-Shot attached to the Thor 2 Blu-Ray shows that Hammer is indeed still in prison.
- Jossed. Going from TWS' ending we won't be seeing any organizations for a few films.
- The events of both films will be mentioned as part of their explanation.
- Confirmed, although only the New York invasion is mentioned.
- Since a major theme in this movie will be Cap mistrusting SHIELD, finding out that they hid Coulson's survival away from him and the other Avengers could be the last straw for him. Bonus points if he also finds out that Coulson Came Back Wrong.
- Maybe Coulson IS the Winter Soldier!
- Jossed. Coulson doesn't even get mentioned.
- Maybe Coulson IS the Winter Soldier!
- And Castle will be in past tense due to something 'horrible' happening and him 'going off the deep end'
- Jossed. Neither appear or get mentioned.
- While the Winter Soldier and his crew will also be villains, Cap will get so fed up with how SHIELD and the US Government operates that he'll go rogue and Nick Fury will be forced to come after him. This would continue the idea in The Avengers that the team need to become their own unit rather than SHIELD's lapdogs, because SHIELD can't be trusted to help people.
- Alternatively, given the brief shot in the trailer of Nick Fury in surgery, in seemingly-critical condition, a less-positive element takes over SHIELD and decides Cap is more of a liability than an asset.
- I recall a scene where Winter Soldier blew up Fury's car, so it seems likely.
- Confirmed, kind of. More like Cap, Black Widow, the Falcon, Fury, and Hill (and later all the non-HYDRA SHIELD members) against SHIELD infiltrators.
- He's hiring him to assassinate Fury, and maybe other SHIELD defectors.
- Confirmed.
- Regardless of what RR's character is named he will be A if not THE Bad guy if for no other reason than an Actor Allusion to all the times RR played the hero of such films
- I concur. They wouldn't bother casting such a big-name actor and feature him in all the advertising if this wasn't going to be an important part.
- Confirmed.
- I concur. They wouldn't bother casting such a big-name actor and feature him in all the advertising if this wasn't going to be an important part.
- On the topic of Natasha and Steve I wonder why it is mentioned as love interest on the main page when it was already denied by Scarlett, Evans and several filmmakers and Emily Vancamp confirmed that Kate/Sharon is Steve's love interest.
- Because shippers. Actually, Steve never properly hooks up with anyone during the movie.
- In the new UK and Ireland trailer we see Steve in jeans and a white muscle shirt appearing to be coming out of the bathroom and facing Natasha, who is on a bed in a black camisole. This troper believes they do something
- Jossed. This is after they survive an explosion that nearly kills them, necessitating the fanservice (they clean up at The Falcon's house).
- They do kiss, if that somehow pleases the OP.
- Jossed. This is after they survive an explosion that nearly kills them, necessitating the fanservice (they clean up at The Falcon's house).
- The Stingers for Phase 2 seem to be much less serious and plot-oriented than those for Phase 1, and the two of them were an Official Couple in the comics.
- If by "the stingers for Phase 2" you mean "the stinger for Iron Man 3," I agree with you. Thor: The Dark World had a killer stinger revealing the Tesseract and the Aether to be Infinity Gems.
- Jossed, neither of the post-credits scenes show Natasha and both are serious. However, the second stinger for The Dark World was a goofy scene with the Jotunheim creature chasing birds on Earth.
- There is a shot in the second trailer of a teary-eyed Natasha and Steve standing over a corpse with a blanket on it. Maria Hill is standing behind them. It can't be Nick Fury, considering that Samuel L. Jackson has signed up for more movies, and the buddy cop -attitude they are building for Steve and Sam is very likely to end in tragedy.
- Black Dude Dies First?
- It seems that Anthony Mackie has been lobbying hard for a part in Age of Ultron, which makes this unlikely (though of course, not impossible).
- They better not kill him off, we need all the minority superheroes we can get. The corpse could be of a young SHIELD agent or a civilian who got caught in the cross-fire or Peggy or someone else Steve knew back in the day.
- Jossed. Falcon survives the film, and even opts to join in with Steve on the mission to search for the Winter Soldier at the end.
- He'll go join the Science Bros in Avengers Tower, possibly bringing Natasha and memory restored!Bucky with him.
- Jossed. SHIELD in general is disbanded.
- Apparently, Hugo Weaving will not return as Red Skull, and Strucker would make a good replacement for him, especially considering that movie!Skull was already a Composite Character with him. Also, this movie is supposed to lead directly into Age of Ultron, and Strucker appears in that one.
- Jossed. It was Zola. But Strucker DOES appear in The Stinger, albeit without being explicitly named.
- Because if anyone is looking over the old tapes, it's him.
- Jossed. Coulson's not in the movie at all nor is he mentioned.
- Besides, Coulson's found out about the HYDRA infestation the hard way.
- Much like the comic, Bucky will neither die nor join up with Cap at the end of the movie. Instead he'll run off after getting his memories back, only to turn up as Deus ex Machina for Steve sometime later.
- Confirmed.
- ...an Avengers: Age of Ultron teaser. The first Cap movie came out about a year before The Avengersand had a trailer for that movie after the credits. And this movie comes out about a year before Age of Ultron...
- Seems likely. It has been said that this movie leads directly into AoU.
- Confirmed. The mid-credits stinger is directly related to AoU.
- Seems likely. It has been said that this movie leads directly into AoU.
- The trailer shows that the Winter Soldier is gunning for Fury, and doesn't care how gets killed for being in his way. Fury fakes his death to minimise the SHIELD casualties and to let him investigate who hired WS to kill him. This also explains why Maria Hill is in the film, as she'll take over as head of SHIELD while Fury is "dead"
- This would explain Cap mentioning "Fury's last words" in one of the TV spots.
- And also why in the latest Agents of Shield episode Coulson is told that Fury has gone off the grid.
- This would explain Cap mentioning "Fury's last words" in one of the TV spots.
- Confirmed.
- Alternatively, he will have an actual pet falcon named Redwing that he talks to, it just won't fight crime or have a psychic connection with him.
- Jossed. Falcon's suit is called "Falcon.".
- Confirmed in Captain America: Civil War, as Redwing is Sam's recon drone.
- "Pet him, he's cute!"
- Probably won't be anyone from Steve's past. In the clip Steve, Maria, and Natasha are in the room with the corpse. Steve looks solemn, Maria looks distracted, and Natasha is the only one who looks genuinely upset. We saw what a wreck Steve was after Bucky fell off the train in the first movie, so it's unlikely he'd be that stoic after the death of someone he was close to. Also probably not Nick Fury, both because Maria doesn't seem very upset and because Samuel L. Jackson is signed up for like four more movies. So it could be:
- Coulson, with the scene being a flashback to just after The Avengers
- Hawkeye (unlikely, because Jeremy Renner isn't in this movie and is confirmed for Avengers: Age of Ultron)
- Sharon Carter (though it'd be a shame to introduce her just to kill her off.)
- The Falcon (see above WMG)
- Someone from Natasha's past (another Red Room alumnus?)
- The Winter Soldier, actually having been killed at the end of the film (again, unlikely because of Steve's stoic expression).
- The Winter Soldier, not actually dead and pulling a variation of the Trojan Prisoner gambit.
- Someone (possibly either Nick Fury or Bucky) Faking the Dead in order to disappear for a while (Steve and Maria's detached expressions could be because they're in on it.)
- Confirmed. It's Fury faking his death. The only other main character in on it was Maria.
- In the comics, his programming was broken through the use of the Cosmic Cube. In the movie, Cap doesn't have access to it, and therefore, Winter Soldier will have to be dealt with in a different way.
- Sebastian Stan has a nine-movie deal with Marvel.
- Jossed. The Winter Soldier survives the whole film.
- Sebastian Stan has a nine-movie deal with Marvel.
- Since Iron Man 3 showed that the movies are willing to depart from established Marvel canon in a big way, this would be a perfect second stage of that.
- The Iron Man thing was retconned in "All Hail The King" because the fans hated that departure and The Winter Soldier sure looks like Sebastian Stan, who played Bucky.
- Jossed. It's Bucky.
- The Iron Man thing was retconned in "All Hail The King" because the fans hated that departure and The Winter Soldier sure looks like Sebastian Stan, who played Bucky.
- In the comics, she has backstory with the Winter Soldier, so that might be carried over to the movie. When Cap figures out Winter Soldier's identity, he will find out that she knew it already. This will make Cap question SHIELD even more.
- Jossed. Black Widow didn't know who he was.
- Jossed. Not even a mention.
- Jossed. He isn't mentioned or makes an appearance.
- Agent Sitwell while being interrogated reveals that Arnim Zola ,who uploaded his mind in a computer, can predict the future through pattern recognition using various databases.
- That does seem to make sense given the "job description", but unless Zola survived the explosion (unlikely, seeing as Price noted that they lost him) it would be weird if AoS would write him off as killed outside of the show.
- Being an AI, Zola has opportunity to do Hydra's motto of "Cut off one head, two would take its place". Also it would make sense if the Insight algorithm is also an AI copy of himself.
- Jossed. The Clairvoyant is John Garret.
- That does seem to make sense given the "job description", but unless Zola survived the explosion (unlikely, seeing as Price noted that they lost him) it would be weird if AoS would write him off as killed outside of the show.
- Jossed. Agent Phil Coulson is made the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. by Nick, after the events of the Winter Soldier and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., in charge of re-establishing the agency starting with his team.
- It's not as if he did not have time to learn how to upload his mind to the Internet or backup it someplace else. Sitwell may not have been made aware of it to prevent leaks. If he needed help, Zola likely had a protege who is a specialist in robotics and transferring consciousnesses into such extremely sophisticated machines, and another member of Cap's Rogues Gallery: Samuel Saxon aka The Machinesmith.
- Alternatively, he uploads his brain into an android with a head for a body designed only for killing and/or chaos. Though this character was already in the game version of Iron Man 3 but it's unlikely that video game adaptations are canon.
- He probably uploaded himself on that flash drive Black Widow put into his computer's modem, knowing Steve and Natasha would need it later and couldn't let it be destroyed. Note that she takes it with her when they escape.
- In the original script, he was supposed to get up and walk away in his robot body before the missile hit, but this was deemed a bit much so it was cut. Still could indicate there are future plans for Zola. Such as having a hand in Ultron's Face–Heel Turn.
- Indirectly Confirmed. The animated series What If…? (2021) has Natasha and Clint finding another A.I. copy of Zola in an alternate timeline where Ultron won but the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier played out exact as it did in the Sacred Timeline. And it's stated that there were many Zola copies made but the nuclear holocaust destroyed all but one, which is enough for Zola to cooperate with the surviving Avengers out of fear. Considering that Zola shows no fear when he's about to be blown up by the missile yet is otherwise a Dirty Coward, it stands to reason he made several copies of himself hidden away in various HYDRA locations, waiting for the right time to emerge.
- Seeing as how Rumlow is alive and Frank Grillo was originally reported to play Crossbones, not to mention that Grillo has mentioned that the character will be back somehow. Frank Grill is Crossbones. Brock Rumlow is his name. It could seriously happen.
- Jossed. He shows up in the third film, but is very quickly killed.
- The algorithm is explicitly stated to target anyone that might be a threat to HYDRA. This not only includes good guys but also bad guys that have their own agenda. If Aldrich Killian, Obadiah Stane, Justin Hammer, Thunderbolt Ross, and Loki were still doing their own thing on Earth, they would be targeted. Assuming it's up-to-date Stane and Killian wouldn't be on that list, on account of them being dead already.
- Unless one assumes that Stane was a mole for HYDRA.
- Instead of having Stern after the Iron Man suit for some nefarious purpose, maybe he was genuine about using it for national defense at the time. Then some rich idiot screws with him, gives him the run around, and ultimately humiliates him. This would be the perfect catalyst for a HYDRA agent to recruit him with their "we're doing what's best for the world" rhetoric. Something akin to:HYDRA Agent: Senator, the American people are backing this complete moron! We can ensure a world where screwballs like that don't exist!Stern: I'm in!
- They are doing their own version of what HYDRA did: integrating into other agencies or private businesses while waiting for a chance to re-emerge.
- SHIELD may reform with freedom of information philosophy after seeing what happened with ultimate secrecy. Unlikely, but it would be very cool to see the covert ops guys giving information over to the public, only being secretive about future or current operations to secure the lives of operatives.
- More like confirmed at this point: as of Season 4 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., it's once again an official agency.
- It might ape CA vol 7 #1, and have Steve meeting Sharon and learning she's related to Peggy, with Bucky watching from afar.
- Likely; the trailer for Captain America: Civil War includes a few quick shots of an official-looking funeral.
- She does die, but not in the beginning.
- There's a pretty big timeline gap, but it could have leaked slowly or eventually.
- Alternately, the scepter just activated and/or enhanced their powers - or this will be the explanation given if they can get the X-Men rights back and make them mutants.
- Confirmed by Age of Ultron.
- When last seen, Rumlow was barely alive and covered with third degree burns. He's not going to be fighting anybody ever again as is. . . but he's fiercely loyal to HYDRA, and should have a personal grudge against Cap. He's the perfect candidate for the SSS, if you don't care about the likelihood of the subject turning out evil. After all, what's the worst that happens, he dies?
- Jossed. Rumalow is blows himself up in an attempt to kill Steve.
- Who's to say Fury, or whoever was there in his name, didn't manage to pocket a vial of the stuff for later use? That use came after the assassination attempt on Fury's life, which they had to pretend was successful. But while he did survive, look at the condition he was in at the point of The Reveal and then look at how well he was off after he returned to headquarters.
- Fury knew full well about the extremely serious side effects of GH.325, from Coulson's report pre-memory-wipe. There's no way he'd be foolish enough to take it. Moreover, his fractured arm was still in a sling during the confrontation with Pierce. He's definitely not fully healed.
- It's possible that Lee Harvey Oswald voluntarily acted as a cover for the Winter Soldier in the name of HYDRA...
- Jossed.
- This could be caused by Tony Stark having a Sanity Slippage from The Reveal that Bucky killed his parents and that he unwittingly aided HYDRA by lending repulsor technology to SHIELD for the construction of helicarriers.
- But was Bucky responsible for staging the car accident? There's no evidence to say that it was Bucky who personally offed Howard and Maria Stark. All we know is that HYDRA somehow arranged for their car to go off the road, no doubt thanks to help from Obadiah Stane.
- Ultron coming about due to that is false. But Bucky sure as hell did cause the accident.
- Confirmed, thanks to Doctor Strange (2016).
- After Tony Stark, Hydra considers all rich, arrogant jerks to be a threat
- Jossed. Coulson's only subsequent appearance is in Captain Marvel, which is set in the 1990s.
- Specifically the scene where Tony and Pepper are in the new York, and making plans for the tower. It's why Tony isn't having PTSD issues (though he could have had a delayed reaction, and it would tie into Hydra aiming on them in New York.
- Possibly, they're even setting up for a Civil War adaptation, and this could be one of the things that turn the two heroes into enemies.
- Confirmed!!! I called this two years ago!!!
- HYDRA killing such a scientific genius that technically was working for them by proxy, could be explained by Tony's dad uncovering at least part of the conspiracy on his own. It would explain why he had turned so paranoid and suspicious of everthing (much like Cap does), that he had to hide his newly discovered element in such a contrived way (the whole diorama thingamabob) that only a mad genius on his same level could figure out.
- (As mentioned in Fridge Horror) If Howard knew HYDRA was after him that might be why he sent Tony to boarding schools, let him be raised by nannies, and generally kept his distance; Howard was trying to protect him from an enemy who clearly doesn't care about collateral damage.
- Howard did try to reverse-engineer the Pym Particles without Hank's knowledge or permission. An awfully desperate measure... perhaps he wasn't sure whom he could trust.
- First, because it was Red Skull's. Second, because it's a Cool Car.
- Marvel loves the Mad Scientist trope, both when applied to good and evil characters... Howard, Tony, Killian, Selvig, Banner, Pym, etc... Zola had nailed Disintegrator guns, figured out the Tesseract, and perfected Brain Uploading decades before anyone else. He's almost Doctor Doom level at this point.
- And his first name is Bob.
- Putting Jules's Ezekiel quote on his fake headstone was a reference to Nick Fury's time in the 90s as a hitman, before going straight. He left the military and SHIELD for a time, becoming a criminal. The mysterious glowing item in the briefcase was HYDRA tech or something else made from the Tesseract, and he managed to recover it and turn it in to SHIELD, at which point they re-hired him.
- Pulp Fiction took place in the same universe as Inglourious Basterds where the European theatre of WW2 ended almost one year earlier than reality. But in Cap. America:TFA, the Allies were still fighting the Nazis in 1945. Therefore, Nick Fury is not the same guy as Jules in Pulp Fiction. But he may be a different version of Jules in a reality where the Basterds failed in their mission to destroy the German High Command.
- Another option is that Nick Fury was never really a hitman, but Jules Winnfield was actually an alias while he was on an undercover operation to recover the tech in the suitcase. Vincent Vega was either another agent or a random criminal that "Jules" was hooked up with for the job.
- Both to have access to the advanced weaponry developed and to keep an eye on Tony in case he becomes a potential threat to HYDRA like his parents were.
- Probably the way repulsor technology was arranged for the helicarrier engines.
- Jane Foster, Erik Selvig, Darcy Lewis, and Ian Boothby
- Black Bolt
- General Thunderbolt Ross, Betty Ross
- Pepper Potts, Harold "Happy" Hogan, and Colonel James Rhodes
- Charles Xavier. (If they are in the same universe)
- Peter Parker
- His parents were SHIELD agents, and they were killed when they discovered HYDRA is secretly controlling SHIELD.
- Jossed since that incarnation of Spiderman doesn't exist in the MCU; see Spiderman Homecoming.
- His parents were SHIELD agents, and they were killed when they discovered HYDRA is secretly controlling SHIELD.
- Phil Coulson and his team.
- Peter Quill (if he ever returns to Earth)
- T'Challa
- Reed Richards
- Magneto
- Doctor Doom
- Scott Summers
- Frank Castle
- Johnny Blaze
- James ''Logan'' Howlett
- The true Mandarin
- The Mandarin is a terrorist who instills chaos, of the kind HYDRA likes to make, so I'd think the Mandarin would be more like a HYDRA agent than a potential HYDRA target.
- No, the Ten Rings would be more of a rival to HYDRA.
- The Mandarin is a terrorist who instills chaos, of the kind HYDRA likes to make, so I'd think the Mandarin would be more like a HYDRA agent than a potential HYDRA target.
- Blade
- Hank Pym, Hope Van Dyne, and Scott Lang
- Maria and Monica Ramabeau
- The camotech Natasha uses was Bobbi Morse's favorite toy in Secret Avengers and she used it in a very similar way — pull out a last second whammy in order to throw someone off or win when it looked like you were down and out.
- Further backed up by Man-Thing being confirmed to exist in the MCU. Bobbi Morse worked on the project that turned Ted Sallis into Man-Thing.
- Confirmed at SDCC, and it looks like she will be joining Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
- Further backed up by Man-Thing being confirmed to exist in the MCU. Bobbi Morse worked on the project that turned Ted Sallis into Man-Thing.
- The chemistry between Steve and Natasha has proven to be quite popular. Jury's out if they'll get a relationship upgrade, but the third film will likely continue to focus on Natasha, Bucky, and then Sam.
- Confirmed. She is an ally in the third film, but not a main plot point.
- Considering the one is owned by HYDRA and the other by Centipede——a subsidiary of HYDRA, and it has been stated the latter machine has been used to brainwash Raina. Not to mention the process for both are clearly painful for their respective subjects.
- Secretly undermining SHIELD operations by playing video games on the clock.
- Wasn't he Wendell Vaughn? That would be quite a twist, making Quasar a bad guy.
- Alluding to Thomas Kreschmann's tendency to play Nazis (Kreschmman has played, as of 2014, fourteen Nazi roles), it turns out Von Strucker was a Nazi equivalent of Nick Fury and had a billion other identities. Strucker was both Fegelein, Hans Von Witzland, Peter Kahn, Wilm Hosenfield, Ludwig Cremer, Franz Bietrich, Adolf Eichmann, Ernst Remer, Admiral Donitz and probably more. Turns out 70% of Nazi Germany's high ranking members were Von Strucker in disguise.
- Since Fury is currently faking his death, he will attempt to look different than he usually does, which may include growing hair, shaving his face and using a fake eye.
- Confirmed for his appearance on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. He's sporting sunglasses and a hat, and a different outfit than his usual one. Still hasn't shaved though.
- We know that he exists in the MCU and that Thor briefly used his identity in front of SHIELD agents, some of whom could have been working for HYDRA (We know Sitwell was there). Some of them might still believe the two to be the same person.
- The targets were all selected by Zola's algorithm not by people. If the real Donald Blake was a target, it would be because the algorithm determined he would be a potential threat, not because somebody thought he might be Thor in disguise.
- Yes, but Zola's algorithm works with existing data, and Thor's SHIELD file probably mentions that he once used the alias 'Donald Blake'. Even if it knew that the two aren't the same person, the algorithm would still see a possible connection between Thor and Blake, which would be enough to make Blake a potential threat.
- The targets were all selected by Zola's algorithm not by people. If the real Donald Blake was a target, it would be because the algorithm determined he would be a potential threat, not because somebody thought he might be Thor in disguise.
- Considering how the major plot twist of Captain America: The Winter Soldier was pretty much taken from Secret Warriors, what are the odds that she doesn't exist? After all, she and Fury did have a (admittedly-tense, but still) relationship in that storyline. Maybe in fact the reason "[his] wife kicked him out" was precisely because she IS among HYDRA's moles in S.H.I.E.L.D. What better way to play the tables against the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. more than becoming that deep for a deep penetration agent. Of course, let's acknowledge the Unfortunate Implications of that too.
- It could also be Monica Chang.
- Or could be an original character played by La Tanya Richardson (Sam's Wife in real life)
- I just figured he was married to his job. Getting kicked out by his 'wife' is an excellent way to describe what just happened to him.
- Nick knows perfectly well that SHIELD's bugged Steve's apartment. If he's not wondering how many people he can trust at that point, where are the rest of his concussion symptoms? If I were him, I'd lie about why I'm there too.
- The "my wife kicked me out" line was supposed to be code for "SHIELD has turned on me".
- In 2021, Julia Louis Dreyfuss was secretly casted as Valentina in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Black Widow (2021), which adds fuel to this old theory.
- After his trick with Coulson's badge, I'd be surprised if this wasn't true.
- will be a Whole Episode Flashback to Steve and Bucky's childhood.
- Alternately, it will be Agent 13, working for the CIA. It'll be a spiritual sequel to Agent Carter, but instead of contending with misogyny, she'll face the stigma of having once served SHIELD/HYDRA.
- Unfortunately, it will be neither: Marvel is not releasing a One-Shot with this movie.
- There already is.
- No, I think you're mistaken. Because we would remember it.
- No, hes right Nick Fury did have his own movie.
- Good sir, I insist such thing never happened.
- I'm pretty sure it did, but lets agree to disagree.
- Word of God is that she's Sharon Carter, but God has the right to change his mind, and nothing in the movie itself, even the credits, indicates she's a Carter. She'll be Sharon Smith, or perhaps Sharon Dugan, or Sharon anyone but Carter, to avoid the potential squick.
- She does say something about her "crazy aunt" though, and it would be weird if they threw in something like that and then made her not Peggy's niece.
- "Insomniac aunt", actually. Lots of people have insomniac aunts. It's hardly a detail that would stick out if future movies decide to remove the link with Peggy.
- She does say something about her "crazy aunt" though, and it would be weird if they threw in something like that and then made her not Peggy's niece.
- Jossed. She is Peggy's great-niece.
- Winter Soldier is a shoot ya, stab ya, blow ya up kind of guy. Those he kills turn up having clearly been terminated with extreme prejudice, or they don't turn up at all. Cutting the brake lines on Howard's car just isn't his style.
- This Troper was just on her way her to suggest the same thing. While the Winter Soldier doing the deed would be a useful way to put a wedge between Tony and Steve, those two don't need help disagreeing as we saw in Avengers and Age of Ultron. Plus, there's no reason for HYDRA to get the Soldier back out of cryo just to have him cut a brake line, and blowing up the car would attract too much attention.
- Jossed. He did it.
- This might also explain how his bodyguards were able to subdue Raza's without making any noise to alert Raza inside the tent - I imagine HYDRA agents would find that easy.
- In general, selling Stark's weapons to terrorists supports HYDRA's goal of increasing world chaos.
- Jossed.
- He mentioned a daughter, too...
- Iron Man not showing up at her birthday party is her Start of Darkness.
- Jossed. It's Aida who becomes Madame Hydra.
- He gave orders in Russian during the bridge scene, and it was explicitly a Russian soldier that retrieved him after his "death" in WW2, so this seems pretty likely.
- Semi-Confirmed. There were HYDRA moles in the Soviet government too, and they were in charge of creating multiple Winter Soldiers.
- If this is true, as of All Hail the King, the real Mandarin pulling Trevor Slattery out of jail could mean that the Mandarin is working with or for HYDRA.
- Like the comic, the Winter Soldier and Natasha met when they were both training to be Soviet operatives (going with the WMG above about him still having Soviet origins). Like in the comics, they have an affair, and when their handlers found out about it both of them had their memories wiped. This is why they don't recognize each other in the modern day.
- Well if you count him shooting her threw the stomach to kill a nuclear scientist she was protecting, yes they have history.
- Zola's algorithm was designed to seek out anyone who was a threat to Hydra. Hydra (in its own delusional and twisted way) was devoted to world peace through absolute order. Ultron has the same principles, but comes to the conclusion that litterally EVERY HUMAN BEING can be a potential threat to that goal.
- The current speculation is Tony Stark will somehow contribute to Ultron's creation but there are good odds that the USB drive that contained the algorithm is a Chekhov's Gun (hence the camera focus placed on removing it from the port as Steve and Natasha made their escape but otherwise not revisiting it for the rest of the movie). So the possibility definitely seems high. Whether or not you want to buy into the Stark side of the theory and how to bridge that to the USB drive is on you.
- Jossed, it isn't. Tony and Bruce make Ultron.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. The Civil War is about Bucky Being framed for a UN bombing.
- Early scenes in both Cap movies have Steve's BFF try to set him up with someone. Sam will continue the pattern, likely with as much success.
- Jossed.
- Because he's semi-immortal like the comics version.
- Why would Nick Fury be a lift operator? He had to make money somehow before joining SHIELD.
- Why would he distance himself from this story? "His secrets have secrets".
- Jossed. He's noticeably younger and more naive in Captain Marvel.
- The Baron calls them "the twins", and they aren't going to be mutants. And their origins (genetic manipulation) resemble those of the von Strucker twins from the comics.
- Jossed, it's still Pietro and Wanda Maximoff.
- Their long-term plan was for Steve to pass his Super Soldier genes on to his children, who SHIELD would be able to keep a close eye on.
- Jossed.
- Bucky: Take my arm.Steve: What?Bucky: Take it!Steve: You want me to fight HYDRA with your arm?Bucky: YES!Steve: Fine.*Cue Cap kicking ass with an arm while Bucky chills out and watches.*
- Jossed.
- Not only that, but how did we miss the obvious "Need a hand?" joke?
Of course, this still doesn't make Fury unkillable, since the assassination attempt does almost manage to kill him. The unseen bodyguard might be busy handling those fake cops (possibly driving them away from Fury by any means necessary), so the unseen bodyguard wasn't there when the Winter Soldier attacked Fury.
During the only memory-wipe seen in the film, Hydra programmed The Winter Soldier to respond in a hostile, violent manner whenever Steve brought up his past and/or his true identity. They saw a threat in the fact that they might "lose him" if Steve was able to make him remember, so they tried to make sure he would kill/incapacitate Steve before he got a chance to get in The Winter Soldier's head.
- Keep in mind that The Winter Soldier was already pretty mad. He had roared while charging at Steve several times in the fight beforehand so he wasn't really in "calm assassin" mode at the moment.
Now go back to Iron Man and think about Obadiah Stane and his motivations, then go back to the death of Tony Stark's parents: the easiest way for HYDRA to set up a murder as an accident would be to plant a mole on the inside, preferably someone that Howard Stark trusted. And given that Obadiah Stane is also secretly selling weapons to the Ten Rings and possibly lots of other terrorist organizations around the world, which is exactly the kind of thing HYDRA would do to sow disorder and fear as part of their agenda, the idea that Stane was a mole for HYDRA looks very appealing.
1.After the failure of Heinz Kruger to acquire a sample of the Super Soldier Serum, Schmidt assigned Arnim Zola with developing a derivative by studying his own blood. Zola begins testing his formulas on P.O.W.s, most of whom likely were killed in the process, with Bucky Barnes as his last victim. Bucky is rescued by Rogers, but unbeknownst to Zola, the serum used when operating on Bucky is somewhat successful, giving him a slow working healing factor (but lacking vita-rays, no superhuman strength).
2. Bucky is presumed dead after falling off the train and into a ravine near a HYDRA base. He is actually found alive but wounded by Russian soldiers attached to Leviathan, a Soviet organization dedicated to understanding advanced HYDRA tech, who were scouting the base. A Leviathan medic amputates Bucky's arm and is astonished to see how quickly he is healing. Realizing the scientific potential, Leviathan takes Bucky back to the USSR for experiments. It is during this time that Leviathan scientist Dr. Johann Fenhoff uses hypnosis to erase Bucky's identity and memories.
3. After the war, Dr. Fenhoff is incarcerated by the SSR along with Zola, who befriends him in prison. Exchanging information, Zola realizes that Bucky survived his injuries and that his experimentation was a success. Zola is released from prison and joins SHIELD, using his influence to have Fenhoff released and repatriated to Russia, where he begins to convert Leviathan into a HYDRA front as Zola does the same with SHIELD.
4. Sometime in the 1950's Zola secretly travels to Russia at Fenhoff's behest, completing his experiments on Bucky and giving him a cybernetic arm, transforming him into a full-fledged super-soldier and "the new fist of HYDRA."