![]() Despite the Avengers assembling with Black Panther's (Chadwick Boseman) army in Wakanda and defeating the Black Order, the heroes still lost against Thanos himself, who killed Vision (Paul Bettany), took the Mind Stone to complete the Infinity Gauntlet, and killed half of all life in the universe at the end of Avengers: Infinity War. Despite now being a fugitive from the Sokovia Accords, Steve sent Tony a pager and a letter apologizing and promising he would be there for him if Iron Man called.Īgainst Thanos, Captain America was forced to swallow the most bitter pill: learning to deal with losing. But in his conflict with Tony, Steve learned he was wrong to keep the truth about his parents' murder from Stark. At the HYDRA Siberian Facility, Zemo revealed to Stark that the Winter Soldier murdered his parents - a fact that Steve Rogers was already aware of, and Cap still chose to protect Bucky and fight Iron Man, which broke the Avengers apart for the next two years. However, Steve Rogers only fleetingly confronted Zemo during Captain America: Civil War, and he learned Zemo's intention to see "an empire fall".ĭespite Zemo's villainy, Captain America's true opposition in Civil War was Iron Man, although Zemo's machinations are what put them at odds. The main villain of Captain America: Civil War was Helmut Zemo (Daniel Bruhl), a Sokovian national who enacted an elaborate plot to destroy the Avengers by framing the Winter Soldier for assassinating the king of Wakanda. In Lagos, Captain America faced Brock Rumlow AKA Crossbones (Frank Grillo), who taunted him about Bucky before his death. ![]() It was a glimpse of Steve's secret desires something Rogers would never forget and would act upon to fulfill years later in Avengers: Endgame. But before their change of heart, Wanda used her powers to probe the Avengers' minds, and Steve flashed back to World War II and the dance with Peggy Carter he promised her but never delivered. Wanda and her brother Pietro (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) were in league with Ultron before they betrayed him and switched sides to the Avengers. Instead, Steve learned from the vision Wanda Maximoff showed him. Rogers' difference of opinion with Stark did flare up at Clint Barton's (Jeremy Renner) family farm and that was a harbinger of things to come. But Rogers didn't learn much from Ultron, who was focused on his hatred of his "father" Tony Stark, and instead, the war against Ultron only enhanced Cap's skills as the leader of the Avengers. Captain America battled Ultron in South Korea and he faced a legion of Ultrons alongside the Avengers in Sokovia. Ultron (James Spader) was a major threat and the android planned to crash Sokovia into the Earth to create an extinction-level event that would wipe out organic life so he could replace people with machines like himself. ![]() Related: Every Version of Captain America Who Could Return From facing Pierce and Hydra, Rogers learned to distrust government agendas and put his faith in people, and that included Bucky Barnes, who he wanted to redeem. Throughout The Winter Soldier, Captain America questioned the high price for global security SHIELD was willing to pay and his instincts proved correct when Hydra's hostile takeover of SHIELD happened and the true purpose of the Project Insight Helicarriers was revealed. His friendship with Bucky mattered more than anything to Steve, and he and Sam Wilson continued the hunt to find and help Bucky after he disappeared at the end of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.īut the real villains of the film were Hydra and their leader Secretary Alexander Pierce (Robert Redford). When Steve Rogers realized that his best friend Bucky Barnes was the Winter Soldier, he was single-minded in trying to save Bucky, and he ultimately succeeded in breaking the decades of brainwashing Hydra subjected Barnes to. The Avengers failed to stop Thanos from wiping out half of all life in the universe, and Captain America had to live with this defeat for the next five years. Half of the Avengers followed Captain America to become outcasts from the law, but they returned to fight the invasion of Thanos (Josh Brolin) and the Black Order, who were collecting the Infinity Stones. Steve refused to sign the Accords and became a fugitive in order to track down Bucky Barnes, who was framed for the murder of Wakanda's King T'Chaka (John Kani). Rogers remained as leader of a new lineup of the Avengers until an accident caused by Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) in Lagos led to the United Nations implementing the Sokovia Accords. ![]() After Captain America helped bring SHIELD down, he led the Avengers against Ultron and saved the Eastern European nation of Sokovia. Related: Every Captain America Movie RankedĪs Rogers tried to acclimate in the 21st century, he served as an Agent of SHIELD before the global spy agency was revealed to be a front for Hydra, which employed his brainwashed, lifelong friend Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) as the Winter Soldier.
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