military helped far-right Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet conduct a military coup to overthrow democratically elected socialist leader Salvador Allende. According to that line could be a reference to how the U.S. For example, points out in one of his videos that in the Episode 2 locker room scene, Battlestar/Lemar Hoskins says that he and John Walker recently performed special ops missions in Chile. Why? Because a lot of people out there who aren’t white and/or male have noticed lots of things about John Walker that subtly signal his unworthiness.Īn FB friend of mine has been sending me Marvel analysis TikTok videos from non-white and non-male creators that include and These TikTok creators all make great points about John Walker, Bucky, and the presence of the Dora Milaje in the show. I think he has what it takes to be Captain America.” And the rest of us are like, “Oh, HELL NO!” It looks like Chris Smith is a white man, and I think a lot of people who supported the idea of John Walker as a legitimate Captain America are either white men or women and minority members who align themselves with white men to become adjacent to white male power (the Battlestars of the world, basically). ![]() However, a few people, like this BGR blog’s writer, Chris Smith, seemed to give John Walker the benefit of the doubt: “Oh, he’s not so bad. We also didn’t like that he was replacing Steve Rogers, a beloved character, and that he was hand-picked by the government rather than Steve himself. A lot of the fanbase had that feeling from the beginning. Okay, if there’s one MCU character we all despise right now, it’s John Walker, the Captain America impostor on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.Ĭaptain America or Captain ‘Murica? You be the judge of that.įrom the beginning, the show has subtly let us know that John Walker is not a worthy successor for the mantle of Captain America. Please don’t attack Wyatt Russell as a person. Some people online cannot distinguish between character and actor in this case. ![]() Note: When I talk about how much we hate John Walker and why, I’m talking about the character, not his actor, Wyatt Russell. ![]() SPOILERS for The Falcon and The Winter Soldier through Episode 4, “The World is Watching.”
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