Zemo did get stunned a bit by Sam saying "isn't that how Gods talk" in response to his worldview being hypocritical and had no response to that tbf. But overall his purpose in the show mid-season was to steer our heroes down the wrong path and wrong conclusions with his confident beliefs, imo. And Daniel Bruhl did that excellently.
he only got knocked out when Steve pushed him past the door and yeeted him hard af in the face but I guess you can argue Steve wasn't trying earlier on
Yeah, I remember that. I thought that was a solid touch. For me personally, I love when there are villainous and even sometimes heroic characters with a bit of hypocrisy, enough to create interesting dynamics and also flaws that their opposition can point out and generate a possibility for character growth/regression in the process, but not enough so that it's annoying and so frequent that you can't take the character's message seriously at all (looking at you Naruto, saying "hard work and determination" after using the Nine Tails you got from birth from your Hokage dad...). So that was a great touch, imo.
Not as useless as Valentina.
Agreed. That would have made sense.
I disagree. Like I mentioned earlier, she kind of functioned as Zemo's "exhibit A" for some of the points he made, and showed more of the negatives that resulted from actions the heroes would do (Civil War, which came as a by-product of the Sokovia Accords, which came as a by-product of Age of Ultron, with Ultron being something of the heroes' - specifically Iron Man's - own creation). I do wish they would have done more with her, though.
OK, Valentina didn't really do much. She just kind of functioned as John Walker's hype man, if I'm keeping it a buck-50 with y'all.
True. I'd also like to see Sam/Bucky/both confront Sharon at some point and find out she's the Power Broker. Heck, we could even have Zemo kind of take over the position afterwards and add to his resources.
I don't think so, Karli was manhandling him when Falcon wasn't using the wings.
Yeah, he did refuse to fight but he still actively tried to defend himself as much as possible while also trying to not hit Karli.
Oooh.
To be fair, U.S. Agent in the comics is more along the lines of an anti-hero: right goals, wrong methods. Walker never felt inherently evil to me. Even when he killed the Flag Smasher in broad daylight (not his best moment as Captain America), what did you expect from someone who literally has the black American flag on the arm of their uniform? It literally means to show no mercy and take no prisoners.
Yeah I think that's definitely the case especially for the she's not a terrorist line to work. You have to still make her keep a moral compass and not go beyond killing and just sending messages I think that would've worked a lot better
Imagine if Spider-Man: No Way Home threw in Venom somehow.
