Is Marvel Considering Bringing Captain America's 70's Sidekick, The Falcon, To life? If So, Count Me In.

I imagine even the more peripheral comic fan can remember Captain America's pal sidekick; Bucky, but how many of you can remember Cap's coolest sidekick of the 70's? His name was Sam Wilson and he was a social worker who made his home in one of the worst neighborhood's in Harlem. He had a sidekick of his own named Redwing. Redwing was a falcon that Wilson adopted and trained. The Falcon was one of the first African-American superheroes to come down the pike and the coolest thing about him was his costume. It looked like the guy who designed it could have been making all of James Brown's threads.

Anyway, Marvel's talking about introducing him in Captain America's next movie: Captain America: The Winter Soldier. 

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Anthony Mackie Contemplates 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'

'The Hurt Locker' star would play Falcon, one of the first African-American superheroes

By Corwin Neuse 11 hours ago

Sam Wilson, also known as "The Falcon," was one of Marvel's first mainstream, African-American superheroes. Popularized in the 1970's—when he was Captain America's ostensible partner—Wilson derived his power from a special suit that enabled him to fly and gave him supernatural strength. Sound familiar? He also had the inexplicable ability to communicate telepathically with birds. Which makes him sort of like a cross between Iron Man and Namor, the Submariner, only on land and not as cool. (Communicating with birds? Really?)

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Anthony Mackie, one of the breakout stars of "The Hurt Locker," is currently in negotiations to play Wilson in Marvel's upcoming "Captain America: The Winter Soldier." Which would seemingly imply that Mackie will become Chris Evans's new sidekick, thereby helping him to defeat his old sidekick, Bucky, who inconveniently died in the first film but will presumably be resurrected and somehow turned into the evil, titular "Winter Soldier" for the Russo Brothers-directed sequel.

Does Anthony Mackie deserve a better, more dignified role than "The Falcon?" Wouldn't Luke Cage or The Black Panther have been cooler? Couldn't Mackie also convincingly play a younger Nick Fury, if Marvel ever deigned to explore that particular character's origins? And shouldn't one or more of those characters merit their own, stand-alone movie?

The Black Panther? Luke Cage, Hero for Hire? Now your talking. Those were some of my favorite superheros in the Marvel Universe. Let us not forget that both of those guys were also Avengers at one time or another, so there is an opportunity for them to land in a future sequel. Okay, geek time over. "Nuff said" (did I say that?).

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