‘Falcon And the Winter Soldier’ ​​replicates the ‘Solo’ pirate director, with the same actress

This week in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, we got a much closer and more personal look at the Flag-Smashers, the new villain group for this season, and something quickly drawn from the comics. But he seems to be playing outdoors in a very different way.

And what took me away from this week ‘s program is that the Flag-Smashers, at least this particular group, aren’t sure they look like the real lies of the story here.

Yes, they steal things, money and supplies, yes, they punch hell out of superheroes, Falcon, Bucky, Fake Captain America and Fake Bucky, but are they… bad?

Destroyers follow.

I was very pleased that Falcon and the Winter Soldier did the same trick with the the same actress which they used for a similar moment on Solo: A Star Wars Story. That’s the story of Erin Kellyman, who plays Karli Morgenthau here and played Enfys Nest in Solo, both directors of seemingly vicious pirate groups where she appears to be the young girl who looks at them instead of some badass muscle dude. big surprise.

In Solo, Enfys Nest and its band of Cloud-Rider pirates became the types of freedom fighters that were eventually used for good. In Falcon and the Winter Soldier, we certainly seem to be on the same path, with the Flag-Smashers largely trying to steal things like vaccines to help the needy, and of course they are dubbed “Robin Hood” in the episode.

I just find it… hilarious that two different Disney buildings execute the same story using the same actress in every situation. I mean, I probably wouldn’t have noticed the full connection between the two plots if it wasn’t for Erin Kellyman’s memorable face appearing in every situation. It’s particularly unique to be a typecast as a “gold-hearted-pirate-director-who-is younger than you might think” but here we are (Kellyman is 22 now, 19 when Solo mach).

Again, I believe it hasn’t been proven yet that the Flag-Smashers are good guys, but I don’t know why the show would go out of their way to show them shelter from someone- a grateful follow-up, to steal the vaccines, of all things, and then Karli gets a threatening text from a bigger threat that seems to want her dead.

My theory is that, without digging into the full history of the Flag-Smasher comic, this group was a kind of superhero experiment, possibly executed by a group of Hydra , but they decided to use those powers to be good pirates instead of murderers or whatever they should have been doing in the first place. Or they stole the serum from Hydra in the first place. I guess there is a greater threat looming behind Karli and that she will turn out to be an ally, despite the initial brawling with our main heroes. And yes, it seems pretty clear that our new deceptive Captain America, John Walker, is going to turn from a hero to a half-villain pretty quickly here.

Anyway, I just thought this was weird. Good event all around though.

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