‘Falcon and Winter Soldier’ Easter Egg Could Mean Wolverine Is Already in the MCU
The name of a certain bar might mean Logan is lurking the Sam and Bucky's shadow.
The new Marvel shows on Disney+loveteasing us withX-Men references, which, duringWandaVision, even meant thestunt-castingof a former X-man as Wanda’s fake brother. So far, none of these Easter eggs have meant the X-Men have actually been incorporated into the MCU (not even Quicksilver!) but that doesn’t stop us from noticing when strange X-Men Easter eggs pop up. And the latest tiny X-Men referencecouldend up being pretty big.Mild spoilers ahead forThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier, episode 3, “Power Broker.”
Followinga credits tease在第一集中,巴基Sam head to the city of Madripoor withZemoto figure out who made released the super-soldier serum and empowered theFlash Smashers. While in the lowdown district of Madripoor, we see Bucky, Sam, and Zemo pass by something called “The Princess Bar.” This is adeep-cutto X-Men comic book continuity. Basically, in some of the comics, Logan (Wolverine) kept a low profile at thePrincess Barunder the alias of “Patch.” To be clear,Falcon and Winter Soldierdoes not mention Patch or the bar’s mysterious owner, “O’Donnell,” but just the fact that the Princess Barexistsin the MCU, which means that the powers-that-be at Marvel want some of us to be thinking about the X-Men.
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Some fans even believe that the entire super-serum plot inFalcon and Wintersoldier could lead to an explanation about various mutants running around in the MCU unaccounted for. Then again, who knows, maybe after Tony Stark undid the Thanos “snap” he brought backmorethan just all the people from the old Marvel universe. What if he brought back the X-Men, too?
InFalcon and Winter Soldier, we still don’t know who Power Brokerreallyis but the underworld contact we met in this episode, Selby, is a非常deep-cut character from X-Men, comics, too. (She only appearedin ONE issue.)
Based on what happened inWandaVision,people obsessed with Marvel crossovers shouldn’t get their hopes up too much forFalcon and Winter Soldier. Then again, because this episode ended with a surprise appearance from Ayo (Florence Kasumba) fromBlack Panther, it seems like this Marvel series is intersecting with a lot of Marvel continuity at the same time. Does that mean Bucky and Sam will end-up doing shots with Wolverine at the Princess Bar when this is all over? We can only hope!
The Falcon and the Winter Soldierairsnew episodes on Disney+ on Fridays.At this point, we’re halfway through the season.
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