Warning: Major spoilers ahead for “Captain America: Brave New World.”
If you head to the theater to watch “Captain America: Brave New World” this weekend, you may want to stick around until the very end.
The fourth “Captain America” movie stars Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America after Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) passed the shield to him in “Avengers: Endgame.”
Sam accepted the position and got a Cap suit of his own in the 2021 Disney+ miniseries “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” But in “Brave New World,” Sam is still grappling with his role as a hero without superpowers — while also ending up in the crosshairs of an international incident.
After all the credits roll, the movie concludes with a scene that teases action to come in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
Sam Wilson pays the villain, Samuel Sterns, a visit at the Raft
In the MCU, the Raft is a maximum security prison where super-powered or enhanced individuals are incarcerated. Thaddeus Ross (then played by late actor William Hurt) previously locked up Sam and some of the Avengers at the Raft after the events of “Captain America: Civil War.”
But by the end of “Brave New World,” the tables are turned, and Ross (now played by Harrison Ford) is imprisoned inside the Raft after he transforms into Red Hulk and causes destruction in Washington, D.C.
Samuel Sterns/the Leader (Tim Blake Nelson), the antagonist who orchestrated a string of events to destroy Ross’ legacy, is also sent to the Raft for his actions.
In the end-credits scene, Sam visits Sterns at the prison and tells the brainiac character that he’s not in the mood for his jokes.
“You killed a lot of good men trying to get your revenge,” Sam tells him. “Trust me, we don’t share the same sense of humor.”
Sterns, who can predict what will happen by calculating statistical odds, then shares a warning for the hero.
“We share the same world, don’t we? This world you would die to save, it’s coming,” Sterns says. “I’ve seen it in the probabilities, seen it plain as day — all you heroes protecting this world. You think you’re the only ones? You think this is the only world? We’ll see what happens when you have to protect this place from the others.”
The scene ends with text that reads: “Captain America will return.”
The next Avengers team-up is coming
Near the end of “Brave New World,” Sam tells Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez), his mentee and the new Falcon, that Ross was right about one thing: the world needs the Avengers. The end-credits scene reiterates this point without offering much else.
Plus, Sterns’ tease about the next superhero team-up isn’t brand-new information to fans.
Since “Endgame,” the MCU has been expanding the storylines for the more recent additions to the Avengers lineup and introducing new characters to rebuild the team in the absence of people like Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Steve Rogers, and Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson).
It’ll culminate in the next two “Avengers” movies, which are part of the MCU’s Multiverse Saga: “Avengers: Doomsday,” set for release on May 1, 2026, and “Avengers: Secret Wars,” scheduled for May 7, 2027. Both will be codirected by sibling duo Joe and Anthony Russo, who directed the last two “Avengers” movies.
Details about the “Doomsday” plot are unknown, but the ensemble film will star Mackie, Downey Jr. as the villainous Doctor Doom, maybe (or maybe not) Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange, and the cast of the upcoming “Fantastic Four” reboot.
Evans will reportedly appear in “Doomsday,” though he denied his involvement in a recent interview with Esquire.
“Captain America: Brave New World” is now playing in theaters.
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