Last week’s episode of The Falcon And The Winter Soldier introduced us, in a way, to the Power Broker who will seemingly be the main villain of season one. We also saw Sharon Carter, who hasn’t been seen since 2016’s Captain America: Civil War. Carter has since gone into hiding after she became a wanted fugitive for helping Captain America and Sam Wilson locate the Winter Soldier in Civil War. Which seems off because Steve, Sam, and let alone Bucky, were exonerated after helping to save the world. Yet, Carter is forgotten about after helping them locate Buck? I’m sure that she’ll be acquitted by the end… Unless her Catwoman-like lifestyle has caused her to become the Power Broker.
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Towards the end of the episode we see Sharon get into a car as she makes some foggy remarks to the driver. The whole episode was about introducing a few villains and anti-heroes, while amplifying on a few characters from the past. Sharon and Daniel Bruhl’s now “Baron” Helmut Zemo both made their MCU return, and we get to see more about their lives post-blip or even Civil War. Sharon has since almost become a femme fatale while we see that Zemo could become an “evil” Batman.
He’s a billionaire Baron of Sokovia after-all, and he even has his very own Butler! I’d like to believe that Zemo could try to enact heroism and join the Thunderbolts, a team-up of a handful for former villains who wanted to become superheroes. But, he could end up being the Power Broker and working from his prison cell in Germany all along.
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To go back to the Thunderbolts, the man who formed the team, which was lead by Zemo in the comics, was General “Thunderbolt” Thaddeus Ross. Ross had gone on to become the Red Hulk and would fight alongside the team. With the revelation that the Super Soldier Serum is what the Power Broker is after, maybe Ross takes it, or a version altered with Gamma Radiation that causes him to become the Red Hulk. It’s interesting in the comics, because Ross takes it without giving it a second thought. Needless to say, he eventually regrets it and starts to begin to feel bad for Bruce Banner, who had no control over his own transformation in the first place.
It’s been rumored since February, 2020 by GeeksWorldWide that William Hurt would be coming back in the She-Hulk Disney+ series as Red Hulk. It’s possible that Ross taking the serum could be alluded to by the end of The Falcon And The Winter Soldier. The only issue is that the Power Broker seems like he or she could be a Mob Boss, so I’d really want to know what would make a renowned war General like Ross, who helped in creating the Sokovia Accords, turn to being a Crime Lord.
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It’s also possible that these fans theories could be wrong, yet again, and the Power Broker could be who he is in the comics. A super-powered disfigured man whose real identity is unknown. In the newer comics he’s able to manipulate energy, but in the 80s he was Curtis Jackson. It’s possible that whoever the Power Broker is, could be working with the terrorist organization the Ten Rings, and the real Mandarin. Who we will meet in this September’s Shan-Chi: And the Legend of the Ten Rings. Jackson become a mutated human-looking version of the Hulk with a metallic exoskeleton. And yes, he was also a Hulk villain. Which is why I believe Marvel Studios could use that as a twist, to make him be General Ross/Red Hulk.
You can view the first three episodes of The Falcon And The Winter Soldier now only on Disney+. Episode four airs this Friday, and with two left after that, it’s possible that we could find out the Power Broker’s secret identity sooner rather than later.