Obligatory Cap's Beard is in this episode joke! It's been a long time since we last saw Sharon Carter in the MCU – Civil War, to be precise. That’s the Big Question covered, but there was plenty elsewhere in the episode to discuss – with more X-Men references, and the return of a former friend of Cap's. Wilfred Nagel has managed to recreate the super-soldier serum. It's in Madripoor where the mysterious Power Broker wields their, well, power – and it's in a hidden lab in the city's port that scientist Dr. Like its paper version, the show's Madripoor is modeled on Singapore (with a dash of Hong Kong), and features the rich district of Hightown and the impoverished Lowtown. Wolverine also spent a fair amount of time there. As the title suggests, the city has been more closely linked with the X-Men world on the page, ruled by a mutant named Viper. In an unsurprising move, Madripoor does of course originate in the comics – the city was created by Chris Claremont and Steve Leialoha, and first appeared in New Mutants #32 in October 1985. It's also, we see, a booming party city and the place where an on-the-run Sharon Carter (more on her later) has reinvented herself after becoming one of America's most-wanted. It is – to borrow a phrase from the Star Wars universe – a wretched hive of scum and villainy, a lawless place that used to be a popular pirate port, where all kinds of ne'er-do-wells can get away with their less-than-legal business, and nobody is to be trusted at face value. The capital city, which we see here, is also called Madripoor. Nestled in Southeast Asia, located in the southern portion of the Strait of Malacca, it's southwest of Singapore. The Big Question: What Is Madripoor?įreshly broken out of prison, Zemo – who, it is revealed, is the wealthy son of a Baron (which finally gives him his comic book moniker on screen) – brings our main pair to the island nation of Madripoor.
She's not exactly thrilled to see our heroes, but she can certainly still handle herself in a fight. We also finally get to catch up with Emily VanCamp's Sharon Carter, the other main character who had yet to make an appearance.
Oh, and there are mutant references ahoy, which feels like Marvel laying the seeds for the X-Men. Plus, following on from the revelation that our heroes are going to talk to Helmut Zemo ( Daniel Brühl) about tracking down both the Flag Smashers and their super serum supplier, we also learn something new about the troublesome Sokovian – including the fact he has his own take on Jarvis (the human butler version from the comics, not Paul Bettany's AI). While the first episode of The Falcon And The Winter Soldier re-introduced us to the titular heroes separately and the second got them together and expanded on other elements such as Wyatt Russell's John Walker, AKA the new Captain America and the motives of the Flag Smashers, now the show is really building out the world.Įpisode 3, 'Power Broker' doesn't actually have us meet the titular character, but their fingerprints are all over it.
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