It's time to do your Marvel homework. Whether you're a lapsed fan of the MCU jumping back on board for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Captain America: Brave New World or want to catch up on all things Sam Wilson as he continues to make the 🤪shield his own, there's a collection of movies and shows to consider before even making your way into the cinema for the fourth Captain America instalment.
While we anticipate Brave New World to very much stand on its own two feet as a standalone politically-charged thriller, there are several plot details and characters tucked away in other projects that will provide some much-needed context moving forward – especially as several characters from one of the MCU'ꦍs most forgotten movies return.
With that in mind, we've put together a spoiler-free guide on the Marvel movies and shows to watch before Captain America: Brave New World. So, join us as we take flight and go on a whistlestop tour of everything you need to watch before the latest 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Phase 5 feature.
The 7 Marvel movies and shows to watch before Captain America: Brave New World
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Alongside The Incredible Hulk (more on that below), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is the essential🎃 MCU project to binge bef🌺ore Captain America: Brave New World.
The second Disney Plus Marvel series, which aired in 2021, sees Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson struggling to come to terms with the harsh realities of being a superhero and the newfound 🔯responsibility of handling Captain America's iconic shield.
Soon, Sam enters the orbit of Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan). The pair set about dismantling The Flag Smashers, a radical group that wants the world to return to how it was during The Blip – a feeling further intensified by the commodified launch of a 'new' Captaౠin America, John Walker (Wyatt Russell).
To understand ho🅷w Sam made Captain America his own and transitioned away from the Falcon moniker (along with the introduction of his replacement, Joaquin Torres, who will also appear in Brave New World), then this should be your first port of call.
The Incredible Hulk
It's now time to head back to 200♏8 and smash your way through one of the MCU's most divisive entries.
Previously, its place in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Studios canon was as part of an odd limbo: the events of the Phase 1 movie all happened in-universe, but were rarely, if ever brought up again. That's largely due to the departure of Bruce Banner actor Edward Norton, who🐠 was ultimately replaced in the gamma-radiating role by Mark Ruffalo.
Now, it's more important than ever. That's down to Brave New World incorporating several elements and characters from The Incredible Hulk. That includes Harrison Ford's Thaddeus Ross (previously portrayed by the late William Hurt), Tim Blake Nelson's The Leader, and Liv Tyler's Betty Ross. It's not quite The Incredible Hulk 1.5, but Brave New World feels more of a stealth crossov𓆉er than expected – so it's worth catching up on the story so far to understand how much of a threat several of Bruce Banner's supporting cast were (and are).
Eternals
You can stop raising those eyebrows. Eternals may not be integral to Captain America's history, but one event in the 2021 movie is actually a major catalyst to the eꦺvents of Brave New World.
For those catching up: The Eternals are, essentially, an alien race of superpowered humanoids created by cosmic beings known as the Celestials. But they're not the important part here. It's actuall♐y one of their creators that we're focusing on.
One of those Celestials, Tiamut, waไs embedded in the Earth and – through its birth – would have brought abou𓃲t the destruction of the planet through an event called the Emergence. It was originally postponed, ironically, due to The Blip. But the return of an overflowing population necessitated its arrival.
Ultimately, the Eternals stopped the cataclysmic eve𝓰nt, with Tiamut being turned to stone by Sersi. His body, though, now appears as a major landmark in the Indian Ocean – and has long been a running joke by Marvel fans thanks to subsequent MCU pr🔯ojects' failure to address the major change to the planet.
Yet, Brave New World is about to answer those calls. In 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a recently-released TV spot, it's revealed that Tiamut is home to adamantium, the "world's most versatile element." X-Men fans will also instantly recognize it as the alloy used in Wolverine's claws and skeletons. While that's a story for (seemingly) another day, it appears that the discovery🌼 of adamantium has kickstarted an arms race, one at which President Ross and Captain America are at the centre of by the tiꦅme Brave New World rolls around.
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