Warning: This article contains spoilers about Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Episode 5 “Truth”.
There was a buzz in the penultimate season 1 episode of The falcon and the winter soldier that a new character we had not previously met in the MCU would emerge, and what she did.
Eleven-Primetime Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus made her Marvel debut as the enigmatic Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, and appeared before the recently ousted Captain America John Walker as a saving grace to resurrect his fallen superhero career.
“You can call me Val, but do not call me Val, just keep it in your head,” she instructed Walker in Episode 5.
“I would have killed the bastard too,” the Contessa Walker tells of the Flag Smasher he smashed with The Shield, “You did the right thing to take the serum. It has made you valuable to certain people. ”
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She also instructs Walker to “pick up the phone when I call you” and that “she will make contact.”
And just because the US government wants to take away Walker’s The Shield, they technically can not: Per Contessa, they do not own it and it’s a legal gray area ‘.
So who is the Contessa and what does she want anyway?
Chances are she’s not the big bad Power Broker we’m waiting for.
What She Can Be is a point person for General “Thunderbolt” Ross (played by William Hurt in the Hulk films) and the looming anti-Avengers Thunderbolts team he puts together. According to Marvel canon, she is not connected to him, but MCU always twists the history of the comics so that fans do not quite know what will be next. Disney + has not yet officially released a Thunderbolts series, but there are rumors that a Thunderbolts team will include Zemo (Daniel Bruhl’s character), Walker and Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh’s). Black widow character). In Marvel Battle, Walker technically fought the Thunderbolts as part of the Jury, an armored group of vigilantes. The Jury was ordered to take down the Thunderbolts (led by Hawkeye) but lost the group.
Contessa is a Russian double agent, a former agent of SHIELD, a veterinarian of the attacking team Femme Force, and at one point named Madame Hydra. She was also at one point a love interest of Nick Fury. It’s plausible that she could hire Walker to work with Fury on the upcoming Disney + Secret invasion.
Falcon and the Winter Soldier The EP Malcolm Spellman apparently also hinted that he would like to see Contessa (who he did not specifically mention) work with Thor.
We’ll just have to wait and see. Next Friday is the final episode of Marvel’s Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Marvel’s Loki hits the streaming service on June 11th.