The fact that you almost predicted Sharon's path (of course as far as we are aware she's not mind controlled & she didn't cause Steve's death) in TFATWS 3 years early, before we even knew it was going to be a thing, I applaud you sir.

Kudos on calling the falcon and winter soldier surprise villain.over 4 years in advance

With that ending if Sharon never walked out and he just said “and I had someone on the inside” could’ve started Tony’s paranoia for when the Skrull show up.

I think you might be on to something. Emily vancamp said in interviews that she plays for both team and they refer to her as a spy. So they may be referring to team avengers vs zemo however misdirecting everyone now

I️ gotta give you props that’s an awesome theory and I️m convinced. I️ actually would’ve preferred that they did that just because I️ thought she was kinda wasted in the movie bit I️ feel like they didn’t want to reveal it at the end because it would have taken away from the movies major twist which was that Bucky killed Howard stark

I’m here before the finale of Falcon & the Winter Soldier, which features both Sharon Carter and Zemo. And Sharon has been pretty sus...

Anyone Here after hearing she’s returning In falcon and the winter solider?

There's a scene in the film that doesn't just contradict this theory, it contradicts your whole premise. Zemo is in an airport and hears that Cap has escaped custody... and it makes him angry. Meaning it WASN'T his plan for Cap to escape, recruit Bucky and fight Tony in Siberia... because of course it wasn't, that's absurd. The ONLY thing Zemo needed was to find the tape of Tony's parents. That's it. He tried to get the location from the Hydra guy, but he wouldn't talk. So instead Zemo set up Bucky, triggered his conditioning, and found out the tape was in Siberia. Once in Siberia, he made the call back to Germany so the authorities would discover what he'd done, and the Avengers would come for him. Then, obviously, he would show them the tape. That isn't a crazy, 4D chess, Skyfall/Dark Knight-esque plan. It's relatively simple. The Sokovia Accords had nothing to do with Zemo's plan. Cap not signing had nothing to do with it. The airport fight had nothing to do with it, etc. Sure, a number of things went Zemo's way, but he didn't NEED them to for his plan to work. The only plot hole I've heard so far is that Bucky could have been killed instead of captured, but presumably Zemo would have just taken that in his stride and searched for another way - like he did after his Hydra plan failed at the beginning of the film. Can anyone tell me what the other plot holes are in Zemo's plan?

Mind. Blown. That was awesome.

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I'm a really big Sharon fan and honestly thought this was gonna be hate like I see on twitter or tumblr, but this was actually very interesting and thank you for sharing this!

This video aged very well taking in account the tfatws finale.... im convinced that sharon has been shady since the beginning

Revisiting this video after watching episode 6 of TFATWS. I really think that Sharon acts out of her own self interests based on what I just watched. Your theory feels relevant more than ever and I really hope they touch on this in the future.

Having seen Falcon and the Winter Soldier...nailed it!

Sharon Carter is the Power Broker! Close enough!

I’m gonna be keeping a CLOSE eye on Sharon in Falcon and the Winter Soldier

While I agree with your first point (Zemo had no guarantee that Bucky would be taken alive). The rest I'm not so sure about. Zemo's plan was to get the proof that Bucky killed Tony's parents, and then deliver that information when it would do the most damage. But that could've been at ANY time in the future. It was a lucky break that Cap, Bucky and Tony showed up in Siberia, but it wasn't essential to his plan. The argument over the Accords helped him, but his plan didn't rely on it. All that being said, Carter being revealed as a hydra sleeper agent who helped Zemo every step of the way would've been very cool to see. And it would've given Steve the same feeling of betrayal, Tony felt about Steve's keeping the truth from him. Good work!

Can we just appreciate Sharon Carter as a good supporting character. Zemo's plan wasn't actually that convoluted. He had to change a lot of things in his plan so it would work. He was patient and meticulous which made him an interesting villain. Sharon was an interesting side character who added to the plot in her own way.

This might still happen/ be revealed in The Falcon and Winter Soldier show

So did the finale of Falcon and the Winter Soldier prove this theory correct?

It looks like you might have been first on this train, big guy. Clearly she's been working for SOMEONE!

This isn't really entirely true. Sam agreed with Steve's reasons for being against the Accords. The shot is Steve is sitting down in the middle of the composition, reading the Accords, with Sam and Rhodey arguing behind him. Sam against and Rhodey for.(By the way I believe Steve is actually the only Avengers we are shown reading through the Accords--he has an eidetic memory and pretty sure speed reading is one of his enhancements:)--we can only assume the others read them, but we know Steve's disagreement is based on things he's seeing on the page) So Steve and Sam both basically had the same idea about the Accords and were against them from the start. Hawkeye was on Cap's team in the fight, not just because it was Cap, he never at any point shows any of that worshipful attitude towards Steve, not from their first film together. Steve asked him to break out Wanda, who was being imprisoned having not been charged with a crime but just because "hey we don't like her" basically. Clint definitely would NOT have been fine with Wanda just being locked up like that, Clint brought her into the Avengers in a way when he gave her that speech in Sokovia about "if you walk out that door, you are an Avenger). So I think it's safe to say Clint would be against any treaty that would imprison one of them with no charges or legal access, particularly ones he feels a personal obligation to(due to her brother dying to protect him). I'm pretty sure if Wanda was ever even thinking about being "for" the Accords that went out the window when she found out she was locked up without her knowledge and she came to the conclusion that the Accords side were trying to play on her own fears to get her to do what they wanted her to do. Thus her line about "I can't control others fears, only my own". So Scott Lang, Ant-man is the only who is just there because "it's Captain America"(possibly he was kind of punchy from jet lag) not any different from Peter Parker, except he is a 40 year old man making his own adult decisions and not a 15 year old kid and he didn't have one of the richest most famous men in the world in his living room, flirting with his aunt, offering him bribes of money and technology and when that didn't work threatening to tell his Aunt about what he was really doing in his spare time. :)

This is a common misconception. Zemos plan didnt rely on anything. It didnt even rely on Iron Man following Cap and if you recall, Zemo actually changed his plan mid film. If Iron hadnt have met Cap where he was, he would have simply revealed the tape later

Zemo doesn't need a team, or a plan. He is using his espionage training to go specifically for his target, which is information. After his family was killed, he scoured the released Hydra files for any cracks in the Avengers armor. He put together the data on Howard Stark and the Winter Soldier. Then he just needed proof. So he goes about trying to track down anyone involved in the Winter Soldier program. We don't know how many leads like this he has had to follow, but we catch up with him as he interrogates the Hydra agent. Its possible he has gone through many such agents to get to this one, who seems to have had reasonably high rank in the program. He doesn't get what he wants, probably because the agent only kept the most important and transportable/hide-able pieces of information, ie. the command phrases and other Winter Soldier operational data in the red book. With the book he formulates a new plan, to interrogate Barnes with the book to gain access to any relevant hardcopy archives or facilities related to the program. He engineers Bucky's capture after establishing his entry strategy. The Winter Soldier is his escape plan. Then he just needs to get to where he's going, and attract the Avengers attention. Bucky's escape jeopardizes this, but then he only has to get there BEFORE the Avengers, which he does handily. But none of it really matters, because I don't think Zemo really cared if he was captured or killed.

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Anyone here after the TF&TWS finale...?

While common folks like me are like, "Sharon Carter is a plot device done poorly," you just make everything better by saying, "no, these are all done on purpose, and this is why." Which is just brilliant! You are so awesome!!

you're really good at synching up audio cues to your visuals

This theory has picked up a LOT of steam considering Sharon's role in Falcon & Winter Soldier IMO.

Actually in Winter Soldier the Russo's replaced Sharon with Black Widow. But this was a good theory.

this just fucked my world...

Spoilers Who's back from the Power Broker reveal

Sharon is a Skrull? But seriously, Black Widow could just be saying "find Sharon and you'll find everyone else." Then offscreen Black Widow reveals she put a tracking device on Sharon's car or whatever.

The differences between why people side with Iron Man and why others side with Captain America wasn't completely accurate, though. You have Spider-Man who's just like "OH, SWEET! TONY STARK PERSONALLY ASKED FOR MY HELP TO WORK WITH THE AVENGERS! AWESOME!" And then you've got Black Panther, who just wants revenge on Bucky for what he thinks he did. They weren't all that concerned with the accords in the moment, ESPECIALLY Spider-Man. He might not have even known about them yet.

Woah dude, I like her character but this definitely fixes lot of plot holes in civil war.

I REALLY loved "Civil War"...(watched it SEVERAL times on Netflix)....and I really like this theory. More so, if this is true, I liked how sneakily Marvel pulled it off. However, If they had revealed it in-film, it definitely would've filled the major plot hole in the film for me, which was how conveniently Zimo's plan KEPT coming together. But on the other side of that token, if it was true and revealed, it would be kinda heart-wrenching. Cap loses Peggy, and his only consolation is her EXTREMELY- attractive niece. Cap has stayed committed to Peggy, and hasn't entertained any other love interests (even Black Widow), and now Peggy's gone. You want Cap to find someone, and Sharon is perfect. If she had then turned out to be scheming against him...SMH. Then again, when Cap made the comment at the elevator scene to Sharon, Claiming she was "spying" on him in "Winter Soldier", her only response was that she was "You mean when I was doing my job?'.. That response always bothered me. It always seemed kinda cold and unapologetic. With this theory, it makes sense that she was just "doing her job", but instead, under the employ of Zimo. Thanks for this!

Well this video aged well 😂

Who else watching it after Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

after watching this video, you do have some valid points for sure. however, zemos plan wasnt as bad as people think. once zemo got ahold of the tape, he literally couldve done anything with it. he couldve put it on tony starks twitter if he wanted. the fact iron man showed up WITH cap and bucky was the happiest of accidents. well for zemo at least. all zemo wanted to do, was destroy the Avengers from the inside. he wanted to frame bucky, and get him arrested so he can get close to him and turn him into the winter soldier, and from there, he could get the information he needed to find out about tonys parents. so once he does, he immediately leaves for siberia.. also, when cap shows up to bucky, cap was probably just saying "they arent planning on taking you alive..." because thats what cap was told, when in reality that could never have been true because they wouldve shot and killed cap bucky and falcon instead of arresting them, and maybe war machines presence there stopped that from happening, but i highly doubt they wouldve shot bucky on site if he surrendered, and he would have surrendered if surrounded. it wasnt about "hmm cow can i get cap and tony to hate eachother and bring down the avengers?" it was about using bucky as a catalyst. he knew *the winter soldier* killed tonys parents, and knew the winter soldier was james barnes, and also knew James barnes was caps best friend, and so he used that. its actually really simple and quite genius actually. there are some small holes here and there, but nothing like some other movies. this was at least plausible, and there are many different reasons and events that cause certain things to go one way or the other, so i personally believe its up to interpretation. if you think zemos plan wouldve fallen apart, i respectfully disagree, but that is okay, because after all, its just a movie.

I've been pretty disappointed with how they've treated MCU's Sharon Carter. She's been a core part of Cap's side characters but when it comes to the movies there's barely anything to the character. I've loved what the Russo's have done with Black Widow in their movies but it feels like her parts in them should've always gone to Sharon.

This fixes a lot of plot holes

I've watched just about all of your videos and goddamn your ideas are brilliant and compelling

I'm just binging my way through all your vids, great stuff man!

His plan changes. He got lucky in a few ways, but it was mostly his plan.

I still find it creepy that Steve is dating or wants to date his former flames much much younger niece even though Cap is physically and mentally closer to her age. Being frozen for decades makes most sexual relationships creepy.

Sharon Carter has become so interesting since F&WS

Been watching all you Marvel and SW vids all day and love your take and reasons behind these. Absolutely fantastic work

I didn't know what to expect when I clicked on this video, but everything you said is very convincing. The theory that she's secretly a double agent also explains why she's suddenly so important after being nothing more than a SHIELD agent Fury asked to watch Steve in TWS.

Maybe Sharon is skrull and they wil reveal that later.Also mind blown

Came here after watching ep 6 and WOW... you called it

I don't know. Hawkeye definitely seems to agree with Steve on a philosophical level. His speech to Stark in The Raft definitely puts him squarely against government oversight. Which is definitely in line with Clint as a Character.

I agree. During the Zemo interrogates Bucky scene, Natasha took note of the fact the Sharon had turned on the restricted audio and was allowing Steve and Sam to hear the interrogation. So, Sharon was clearly helping (manipulating?) Cap. That was how Natasha knew to follow Sharon to find Cap and Bucky.

ITS BEEN SHARON ALL ALONG

The worst bit of the now-common issue with 'brilliant' villains having ridiculously complicated plots that rely heavily on luck - is that you can easily fix that in script-writing: by writing the story, then adding needed bits to the opening retroactively to fill in gaps in the villain. When having a clever villain is this fucking important to a plot - when the entire movie hinges on the villains competency to build up the hero's ability and accomplishment - it's worth reading your script again and adding a couple lines to the villain development at the start. A good example of where this is also true, but interestingly exempt - is The Dark Knight. On a regular viewing, a lot of Jokers plan hinged heavily on luck. But they actually fixed that with very important scene - Joker creating Two Face. With that, they not only showed Joker doing the background dirty work of 'making coincidences happen', but they also used the scene to explain that this was Joker's design all along - make your own luck - but make it appear like luck. From that point onward, it's clear that everything that appears to be lucky for Joker - was actually probably the result of him setting up pieces off-screen. All the plot holes that might have otherwise been explained by luck? Actually Joker's elaborate design, meticulous planning, super-power charisma, etc. He pretends he leaves thing to chance - because chance sells his narrative that the world is a shit place and Batman is lying to himself that people are ultimately good. Without the hospital bed scene, I think the Dark Knight would actually have felt a lot more sloppy - and particularly Joker as a villain - but with that scene - the audiences mind exploding occurs in perfect sequence with the hospital exploding. The Joker is drawing cards from a stacked deck: appearing random, but carefully counted.

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Interesting... fixes a lot of plot holes that’s for sure.

The biggest thing Zemo relied on was Cap not telling Iron Man about the tape. That to me is his biggest potential mistake, because what if Cap told Tony way in the beginning? Zemo relied heavily on something he hoped hadn't happened and it paid off, but if cap had been a good friend and told tony from the stark then the siberia scene would be very different

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I watched 3 videos and I couldnt walk out without subscribing ! :D Thank you for making these videos !!

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I hate that I love this... especially since...I was actually expecting the movie to maybe go this route originally... I was on the team of *side eyes Sharon Carter every time she appears on screen...don't you hurt my baby*

You did it again, Nando. Bravo!

You are probably the best film related channel I’ve seen.

Maybe not a secret Nazi, but what about....a secret Skrull?

Okay. I'm mindblown. I think they'll reveal this in one of the infinity war movies. Red Skull shows up. Sharon betrays Cap. And everyone will be in shock for the reveal. That alone, it will already make these two movies phenomenal.

Wow! This was so good! Insightful and teased out!

Very good points, and a very plausible theory. Thank you for the great insights!

Welp Mr. Nando, you got your wish.

The Falcon and Winter Soilder kinnda gives some validity to this Theory or Argument.

Love it. I hope they explore this in future movies, and fill in those holes!

Wow, dude. Nando. You really have something here. GREAT VIDEO! Thanks!

These are brilliant edits.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW, my jaw won't get back up.

Love this. Great work bud!

This video is worth rewatching with Zemo and Sharon both showing up in "Falcon and the winter soldier". Just noticed that the actress who plays Karli Morgenthau in the show looks a lot like the character that activates Sharon as a sleeper agent in the comics.

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I have a feeling Sharon Carter is a Skrull.

This is seriously a nice theory!! Love it, thank you so much!

2:13 I think thats the point though. Neither side is looking for a fight. Tony needs a team to capture Caps team to get them to sign the accords. Cap needs a team that can forget about the accords and stop Zemo from unleashing the winter soldiers. The airport fight happens because they have no choice but to fight each other to achieve their goals.

Well this is checking out!

Sooo... This aged well

What a great amount of research and thought went into this theory! Nicely done! I think that it would have made Zemo's "luck" more plausible, too. And a better story, with a real zinger shocker at the end. I do not buy it, however. To explain Sharon's kindness towards Steve, loyalty to SHIELD, and not switching sides by saying that (like with Bucky) Hydra hadn't "turned the mind control back on" yet, is weak. Zemo had to go through SO many steps to be able to get close enough to Bucky to "reactivate" him. When did he get close to Sharon to do so? Nope. But I loved the vid and will share it with many!

This is a phenomenal theory. Adds more to an already amazing film. Thanks for sharing.

Well... I guess that wasn't just a theory

I love it as head cannon but I think it would have actually interfered with the story if they had revealed it in the movie. It would have made it feel somewhat cheap and lessened the crux of the movie, that this fight would probably have happened anyway. Zemo, an ordinary man with a special set of skills, just gave them a push. It would be an awesome reveal for the future though

Every time I watch one of your videos, I see the title and I think I may not like it, but I end up loving it and wishing that the alterations that u come up with were how the movies were.

I love this theory, it made me see this movie in a whole different light! Plus, I have a reason to watch Civil War again, so thank you!

holy shit ?

I agree

That's a terrific theory and goes a long way towards explaining how Zemo's plan fell in to place so perfectly in Civil War.

excellent video , great editing, pretty cool theory.

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Well, Sharon Cater is now the Power Broker so this video makes perfect sense to me.

Amazing theory! I absolutely agree that it would've made Zemo a way better villain and it would played out to wonderful effect in the actual movie.

After rewatching Civil War and TFAWS I think Zemo's original plan was really about finding the siberia base and eliminating the other super soldiers and the other stuff was just luck

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Dude, you're a fucking genius.

It makes so much sense !! Framing Bucky and make sure that Cap would keep him alive is definitely the Key !! Thanks man !

"You're Captain America. I'll help you beat up Iron Man. You're great." These are very valid reasons to side with Steve Rodgers. Ijs.