WARNING: Major spoilers follow for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 4, "The Whole World is Watching," and Baron Zemo's fate.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 4 sees Baron Zemo escape from Sam, Bucky, and the Dora Milaje, but where he goes is a mystery. The Captain America: Civil War villain has generally been helpful to Sam and Bucky – albeit in the interest of his own agenda – and he only cuts and runs when his life is on the line. Now that he’s loose, however, it’s unclear whether he’ll continue his recent antihero trend or return to being a proper villain.
Despite being one of the MCU’s more notable antagonists, Zemo has never been duplicitous. Like Thanos, he has a clear agenda that drives all of his actions. Zemo believes that the existence of superpowered humans in any context is inherently bad and that the world is always better without such people. His goal has always been to prevent groups like the Avengers from rising up, no matter what the cost.
In Civil War, the cost was the death of Wakanda’s King T’Chaka, and in Falcon & The Winter Soldier, that makes Zemo a hated enemy of Okoye and the Dora Milaje. In a scene in episode 4, the Wakandan warriors burst in on Sam, Bucky, Zemo, John Walker and Battlestar, demand Zemo be handed over to them, and subsequently fight the others to get him. During the commotion, Zemo manages to escape – slipping down a drainpipe, presumably into the sewers.
Since Zemo doesn’t reappear in Falcon & The Winter Soldier episode 4, it's unclear what role he’ll play in the rest of the show. He could leave the whole ordeal behind him and go into hiding, but that seems unlikely as his work is still unfinished. The Flag-Smashers are still running loose with the Super-Soldier Serum in their veins, and now that John Walker has taken the serum – directly before brutally murdering an unarmed opponent for the whole world to see – he may have it out for Captain America as well.
Zemo killing Walker’s Captain America would be an odd kind of full-circle moment for his character. After all, his plan in Civil War was meant in part to destroy the original Captain America. The Dora Milaje are still on Zemo’s tail, however. Given how dedicated he is to his own cause, it’s possible that the rest of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier could see Zemo finishing his work – killing Captain America and/or the remaining Flag-Smashers – and willingly accepting punishment afterward.
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April 10, 2021 at 05:14AM
