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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 3: Marvel and MCU Easter Eggs Guide

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This article contains The Falcon and the Winter Soldier spoilers and potential spoilers for the wider MCU.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 3 might end up being remembered as the turning point of the series. A slow burn first episode led to some bigger revelations in the second one, but the third episode of the Marvel series is a bona fide sequel to one of the biggest MCU movies of all time in Captain America: Civil War. With a truly triumphant return for Sharon Carter and the re-introduction of Baron Helmut Zemo in a form that should feel much more recognizable to fans of the comics, there’s plenty of Marvel action to be had in “The Power Broker.”

Here’s what we found…

Dr. Wilfred Nagel

Wilfred Nagel was first introduced in Truth: Red, White, and Black, the same story that introduced Isaiah Bradley to Marvel Comics canon. The comics version of Nagel worked on the super soldier project back in World War II. After Professor Abraham Erksine’s death, Nagel was the one in charge of trying to recreate the process. He was the monster who killed hundreds of Black soldiers until succeeding by turning Isaiah Bradley into a super soldier.

And while Nagel’s comics super soldier program is designed to evoke the horrors of the Tuskegee Experiments, his description of his research in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier sounds more like a different injustice perpetrated on a Black subject: Henrietta Lacks. 

Nagel describes working from “blood samples from a semi-stable test subject.” Henrietta Lacks was a young Black mother treated for cervical cancer in the early 1950s. The cancer proved fatal, but a collection of her cells sent to a tissue lab were remarkably hale, growing in the lab where other tissue samples would die out within 24 hours. The cell line cultivated from that sample would go on to be mass produced and used for a ton of biomedical research, even playing a critical role in the discovery of the polio vaccine. 

Of course, all this was done without hers or her family’s consent. They didn’t even find out the cell line existed until 1975. That has led to a fight by her descendants and medical ethicists to give her the recognition she deserves for the part she’s played in helping human society, a movement that has only really taken off in the last decade.

Captain America: Civil War

Falcon is annoyed that Bucky won’t move his seat up. Their roles were switched during Captain America: Civil War.

Of course, that’s the only reference to Captain America: Civil War this episode. Just kidding!

Baron Zemo

This is the first time we see Zemo wearing his trademark purple mask. In the comics, Helmut Zemo was horribly burned by adhesives during a fight with Captain America and would hide his mutilated face with that mask.

When Bucky first enters Zemo’s cell, there is a reprise of Henry Jackman’s Captain America: Civil War score. Zemo was the central villain of Cap’s third MCU instalment, and Jackman returned to compose the Falcon and the Winter Soldier score for Marvel.

The Russian code words Zemo immediately uses – “longing, rusted, seventeen, daybreak, furnace, nine, benign, homecoming, one, freight car” – no longer activate the Winter Soldier, but Zemo attempts to press Bucky’s psychological buttons throughout the episode in other ways, and also tries to sow doubt in Sam’s mind about just how “healed” Bucky is from his time as HYDRA’s deadly assassin.

Zemo reveals he is currently reading the works of influential Italian Renaissance diplomat, philosopher and writer Niccolò Machiavelli. This is spectacularly on the nose, as Zemo is just about the most Machiavellian Marvel Comics villain there is – known to use his powers of deception and treachery to play all sides in almost any equation. 

Wait, Marvel just dropped the entire “Zemo is royalty” backstory in there like it was nothing! The Baron has officially joined the MCU – with all that entails.

Zemo says that Sokovia has been gobbled up by neighboring states after the Avengers’ battle in Avengers: Age of Ultron left its city in rubble. He rhetorically asks whether Bucky and Sam have been to the memorial, and naturally they haven’t. We’ve seen a glimpse of Helmut standing in front of a memorial statue in trailers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, so he may go and pay his own respects at some point.

We also see that some time spent in the slammer has done nothing to change Zemo’s mind on the legacy of superheroes and super soldiers. He still believes they must be wiped out, and murders Nagel in a heartbeat when he thinks he has a chance to end the Super Serum line. Make no mistake, Bucky has a target on his back a mile wide where Zemo is concerned, and we don’t think Zemo will hesitate to kill Bucky as soon as the time is right.

Bucky as Captain America

This is the first time Bucky has suggested that he wield the shield. Not only has this happened in the comics for a time (with Zemo being part of his downfall), but previous Captain America movies have planted the seeds by regularly having Bucky wield the shield in the heat of battle.

So Bucky doesn’t just have a notebook like Steve’s, it IS Steve’s. Wonder if Zemo saw his own name in there?

Sharon Carter

The Sharon Carter we catch up with in episode 3 is much, MUCH closer to her Marvel Comics counterpart – in that she’s badass af – but this Sharon is also extremely jaded after going on the run, and is clearly involved in some other murky business that us viewers are being kept in the dark about, for now.

This is the first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier written by John Wick franchise creator Derek Kolstad, and Sharon Carter becomes the MCU’s version of Wick. Just when she thought she was out, they pull her back in, and she has the unenviable job of fighting a series of Madripoor’s most eager assassins single handedly. 

The Power Broker

In case there’s any doubt who holds a lot of influence in Madripoor’s Low Town, there’s some prominent graffiti that promises “The Power Broker is Watching”.

The Power Broker wants that Super Soldier Serum pretty bad, and with Nagel now dead thanks to Zemo, Karli Morgenthau is suddenly holding a lot of bargaining chips.

Any guesses on who the Power Broker might be? There are still three blank slots during the end credits. One of them is surely for whoever is playing the Power Broker. Who could the other two be for?

John Walker

We don’t spend a ton of time with John Walker in this episode, but we see the character’s harder edge increasingly creeping through. His “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM” feels very much like how the character used to behave during his early post-Captain America days as the U.S. Agent in the comics. John has a bit more nuance here on the screen than he did in the comics, but they clearly aren’t going to shy away from this aspect of the character.

Madripoor

Madripoor is one of the most famous fictional locations in all of Marvel Comics history, first appearing back in New Mutants #32 in 1985. It has pretty much always been primarily associated with the X-Men throughout its history (especially Wolverine, who liked to use Madripoor as his favorite personal vacation spot), but plenty of other Marvel heroes have found trouble in Madripoor through the years (including both the Clint Barton and Kate Bishop versions of Hawkeye, so don’t be surprised if we return here during their series). Of course, there are still no firm plans about how mutants will eventually be introduced into the MCU, this would be a fine place to start looking for clues.

The monkey sign was probably the entrance to the Brass/Bronze Monkey Saloon, a bar we visited back in the very influential Gruenwald Captain America run. Crossbones took Cap’s kidnapped girlfriend, Diamondback, there as he was running from the hero. 

When talking about Madripoor, Falcon compares its ominous description to Skull Island, home to King Kong. Funny to drop that reference on the week of Godzilla vs. Kong‘s release. Unless this is referencing a totally different Skull Island. Did the Red Skull have his own island in the MCU?

The Princess Bar

If you’re looking for any big X-Men mutant clues, you should probably start with The Princess Bar itself, which in the comics is owned by Wolverine. But other than that, we didn’t get much in the way of mutant stuff out of these scenes.

Introduced in Chris Claremont and John Buscema’s story in 1988’s Marvel Comics Presents #1, The Princess Bar is owned by a man named O’Donnell and home to a bunch of Wolverine espionage shenanigans. At some point, Wolverine bought a silent partnership in the bar under his Madripoori alias Patch (Wolverine in a white tux with a patch over one eye, in the worst cover identity since that time Zooey Deschanel got rid of her bangs). These days in the comics it’s owned by Krakoa generally, as Captain Kate Pryde and her crew of Marauders are putting in quite a bit of work in Madripoor.

Snap Wilson

Falcon is annoyed because his Madripoor outfit makes him look like “a pimp.” For a time, Marvel retconned it so that when Steve Rogers met Sam Wilson originally, he was actually a pimp named Snap Wilson. Some time later, Marvel decided that this was in bad taste and undid the retcon. It has since been explained away as Red Skull trying to alter time and space with the Cosmic Cube, as he has been known to do.

Anyway, Sam’s “pimp” outfit is because he’s supposed to be masquerading as…

Smiling Tiger (Conrad Mack)

Smiling Tiger (Conrad Mack) is an archnemesis of the New Warriors who has, for a time, helped run the criminal underworld of Madripoor. Fittingly, while people may see Madripoor as the first step in seeing Wolverine show up in the MCU, Smiling Tiger’s comic incarnation has a noticeable resemblance to the famed X-Men member.

Trouble Man

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Sam once again brings up Marvin Gaye’s Trouble Man soundtrack album, which he has been talking about literally from his first minutes onscreen in the MCU. He’s right, by the way, this album rules. Funny enough, this episode airs on April 2, which would have been Marvin’s 82nd birthday. Go listen to this album specifically or Marvin in general in honor of the man.

Black Panther

Bucky follows a trail of tech breadcrumbs at the end of the episode after previously warning Sam that Wakanda hasn’t forgotten the killing of King T’Chaka during an attack orchestrated by Zemo in Captain America: Civil War. Waiting for him in a quiet side street is Ayo (Florence Kasumba) second-in-command of the Dora Milaje from Black Panther, who is less than happy about Zemo’s freedom. We wrote more about what this is gonna mean for Sam, Bucky, and Zemo here.

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Lighting lights with water of Shirdi Sai Baba

A long time before Sai Baba's reputation spread, he was inclined toward gobbling up lights in his Masjid and various Temples. Notwithstanding, for the oil required in those little stoneware lights that he lit, he depended upon the philanthropy of the sustenance shippers of Shirdi. He had made it a standard to light pottery age lights in the masjid reliably and he would approach the vendors for little blessings. In any case, there came when the sustenance merchants wound up exhausted of giving oil permitted to Sai Baba and one day they tenaciously would not oblige him, saying they had no new stocks. Without an announcement of test Sai Baba returned to the masjid. Into those innovative lights, he poured water and lit the wicks. The lights kept gobbling up basic into the 12 PM. The issue went to the notice of the sellers who beginning at now came to Sai Baba with sufficient helping assessments. Wouldn't Sai Baba liberally pardon them? Sai Baba absolved them, yet he scolded them never to lie again. "You could have would not give me the oil, yet did you have to express that you didn't have new stocks?" he reproached them. Regardless, he had met up at his tremendous decision. You can furthermore shower on you the favors of sai baba with our Shirdi tour Package in any event costly cost.

Stopping the tempest

There is the record of one Rao Bahadur Moreshwar Pradhan who had come to Shirdi to take Sai Baba's darshan near his worshipped one. As the couple was going to leave, it began to rain energetically. Thunder and lightning rent the air. As the Pradhan couple looked round with fear, Sai Baba inquired. "Unselfish Allah!" he verbalized, "let the storms stop. My youths are returning home. Discharge them satisfactorily!" The tornado quickly halted, the ocean storm diminished to slight shower and the Pradhans had the decision to get in contact at their objective safely.

The hunch of debilitating fields

Once, gathering in Shirdi tours had been done and the foodgrains of the entire town had been attested in a yard. The mid-year was on. The brightness was extraordinary as essentially the people who have lived in Shirdi know. One night Sai Baba brought Kondaji Sutar and said to him: "Go, your field is on fire" Frightened, Kondaji raced to his field and. brutally scanned for any sign of fire. There wasn't any. He returned to the masjid and instructed Sai Baba that he had looked any place regardless had found no trace of fire and for what reason did Baba need to astound him? Courageous, Baba said : "You better turn back and research again." Baba was truly everything considered. Kondaji saw that a heap of corn was totally expending and smoke was flooding from it. A strong breeze was supporting the fire and word had gone round to the tenants who before long came hustling to the scene. "Sai Baba," the people shouted, "help us, help us put the fire out!" Thereupon, Sai Baba walked sufficiently towards the yard, sprinkled some water on a store of packs and presented: " There now! The fire will cloud away!" And so it happened. In Our Shirdi tours, all the Miracle checks and all of those spots will be appeared to you by our Shirdi tour package.

Saving a juvenile from smothering

One report has it that word had spread that the 3-year old juvenile of a poor man called Babu Kirwandikar had fallen into the well and had been smothered. Right, when the townspeople rushed to the well they saw the pre-adult suspended in mid-air correspondingly as some unpretentious hand was holding her up! She was conveniently pulled out. Sai Baba was shocked with that tyke who was routinely heard to state: I am Baba's sister!" After this scene, close to people confided in her. "it is all Baba's Leela", the people would state incredibly. They could offer no other explanation.

Bringing the water level up in well

Definitively when Sai Baba from the earliest starting point came to Shirdi packages it had of no focal workplaces. There was an especially set unusually in the name. It had no standard spring water and if at whatever point there had been one, it ought to a long time in the past have dissipated. Water must be brought from a division. At whatever point, thusly, Sai Baba gave his agree to neighborhood people to compliment the Ram Navami Fair, (Baba's Birthday) the gigantic issue going toward the organizers was one of water supply. So What may it be a stunning thought for them to do at any rate go to Sai Baba with their weight? "'Goodness yes," said Sai Baba, 'so you need an enormous measure of water, isn't that right? Here, take this and drop it in the well and kick back and watch." "'This," went up to be a platter of sprouts on which some prasad (favored sustenance) had been set close to the bits of responsibilities Baba had gotten before in the day. Neighborhood people had no ditherings about doing as they were doing. Their trust in Sai Baba was full scale. No sooner had that platter of leaves been dropped in the well, it is passed on, the water moved from the base correspondingly as by mind-blowing course and completely filled it. Likewise, unfathomable was the celebrating of the people.

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Shirgaon

Shirgaon is totally known as Prati-Shirdi among Sai fans. Shirgaon is administered off old Bombay-Pune road. It's around 32 Km from Pune railroad station. Shri Saibaba asylum was set up here on eleventh June 2003 by Mr. Prakash Keshavrao Dole. The structure work was done in nine months with the endowments of Shri Saibaba. This was viewed as one of the marvels. The individuals working at the sanctuary site experienced evident Chamatkaras during these nine months. A little while later Shirgaon is known for the Sai safe house. There is a dash of closeness in Shirgaon and Shirdi package. The name itself looks like to Shirdi to a grand degree.

Shri Sai Baba is viewed as possibly the best-cleansed individual at whatever point found in India gave striking forces and is adored as a God on a fundamental level. (SAI meaning Sakshaat Ishwar) – GOD THE ABSOLUTE

This mystery Fakir beginning late showed up in Shirdi as an adolescent and stayed there all through his long life. HE changed the lives of the individuals who met him and dependably is doing in that cutoff even after his Samadhi in 1918 for those whose hearts are moved by his adoration and who ask and call him at any crisis in life for his favors.

Baba showed that his a central goal is to "Give Blessings" without imperative to all, and he demonstrates it in pack ways by recouping the got out, sparing lives, checking the defenseless, dodging inconveniences, yielding family, ameliorating budgetary impeccable position, bringing individuals into gratefulness inside themselves and with one another and, unequivocally, in affecting the basic development and change of the individuals who came to him if all else fails.

Baba is, as one of his contemporary sweethearts put it, "The embodiment of the Supreme Spirit lighting the sadhaka's (searchers') course by His every word and development".

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"I look at all with a near-eye"

A striking bit of Sai Baba is that he is past purposes of imprisonment of religion, rank or standard. He epitomized all religions and paid extraordinary personality to the Universal the religion of Love.

Enthusiast of all suppositions discovers their social gathering point in Sai and individuals from all structures and changing establishments are joined by the eminent love and love Baba prompts in them. Baba had dazzling thankfulness for his Hindu fans and their Gurus and he reacted to their needs and allowed love as appeared by the Hindu and clear religious shows. At the same time, his home a Masjid (Mosque) and the name of Allah was ever on his lips. HE delineated himself as in Service to GOD (ALLAH) and as a spirit dependably researching ALLAH - (YAD – A – HAKKA)

Individuals today run Shirdi is reliably making numbers to pay statement to the Divine and to encounter truth of Baba's attestation that He would be dynamic in watching fans' petitions even from his tomb. Like Ten Commandments BABA has given eleven associates with humankind for welfare.

Baba said that he was a slave in the relationship of the individuals who loved him that he was consistently living to engage the individuals to go to him and that he needs to deal with his adolescents day and night. He by then exhibited estimations of novel idea up to the Almighty Master (ALLAH MALIK EK-The unmatched one) and experience his perfection.

In leaving to Baba's Shirdi His tyke's experience reality how BABA unfailingly satisfies his commitments to his sweethearts by acting the legend in the midst of an emergency.

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