Captain America: Brave New World will partly take us back to when the Marvel Cinematic Universe was still at its growing stages. More precisely, to The Incredible Hulk days. Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross at least got some screen time in four more movies, including cameos in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame but then the passing away of William Hurt put Harrison Ford into the character’s shoes, but handling Tim Blake’s Samuel Sterns is what will make a significant difference to the film.
The buildup is missing and all we know is that his brain mutated with Banner’s blood on his open wound the last time we saw him. And he gave that evil smile, so that’s all we have got for now. But know this: Sterns didn’t have grudges against Banner but Ross and Emil Blonsky. So the Leader might be up to something against the former as the latter isn’t a part of the film as far as we know.
That’s One Curious Case For Captain America: Brave New World
The Incredible Hulk actually had plans for a sequel but 17 years later, we still don’t have another Hulk movie. We do have a TV series, She-Hulk, where we got this organization called Intelligencia, which the Leader created in comics. But then this one’s included more fools than intelligent ones, particularly internet trolls. Captain America: Brave New World has a more serious tone to it, so it’s unlikely we see them here, but what this movie can do is give Tim Blake’s character that screen time, as he was intended to be the main villain for The Incredible Hulk sequel that never happened.
In fact, Nelson signed up for a couple of sequels for it. However, if the Leader is in the story, the creators need to have something they can give to their audience that’ll fit the story perfectly. Let’s say that this could be another beginning for the character if a standalone Hulk film is planned for the future. Of course, that’ll only happen if Sterns stays alive. Complete comic accuracy aside, we don’t think The Punisher will end up in the film, as he was the one who killed him after he came to know Ross’s evil plans. Chances of that happening are near zero.
There’s a Small Bridge Connecting the Leader and Brave New World
There’s a tie-in comic book called Marvel’s The Avengers Prelude: Fury’s Big Week that may serve as a story bridge leading to the events we are about to witness in the next Captain America film. This particular comic story fills us in on Fury and his team’s work that brought the concept of The Avengers to life. Though we would still need some fillers that’ll add to that much-needed support to this bridge, or it may succumb to the loopholes that the fans are quick to find.
Romanoff, during the Fury’s Big Week storyline, is assigned to monitor Bruce Banner while staying undercover at Culver University, where she also witnesses him turn into the Hulk. She later witnesses him being taken into custody but then resorts to finding Sterns. This is happening around the same time Emil Blonsky transforms into Abomination and knocks Sterns out in a fit of rage.
She finds him lying on the floor and confronts him, but by this time, he has become the Leader with a mega brain. They had a brief chat too but Natasha ended up shooting him in the leg before taking him into custody. And that’s it; what happens afterwards is up to Captain America: Brave New World‘s creators and how they are going to fill us in.
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Anurag Batham is a Writer at Thumb Wars zeroed in on video games but will also throw himself up on anything in association with anime and cinema. As with his favorite video games, give him anything with a linear story, be it Call of Duty or Braid, and he will be happy. He think of stories as food and wants to feed his readers something nutritious, food for thought.
