Sam Wilson (Captain America)
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2015, Cinematic: Sam is recruited into the Avengers after Ultron's defeat, and in August he is bested by Ant-Man at the Avengers Compound.
Cinematic
Sam Wilson is a former Air Force pararescue pilot who flew the EXO-7 Falcon wingsuit and left service after his wingman died. He helped Steve Rogers break Hydra's hold on S.H.I.E.L.D., joined the Avengers, was jailed on the Raft over the Sokovia Accords, vanished in Thanos's Snap, and returned in 2023. Given Rogers's shield, he first donated it, then took the mantle in 2024 and later foiled Samuel Sterns's plot against President Ross.
Comics
A Harlem social worker and bird lover who became the hero Falcon after teaming with Captain America. He gained a psychic bond with his falcon Redwing, joined the Avengers several times, and later took up the Captain America mantle himself. His story centers on Harlem and the wider United States, with a few excursions through Limbo, Counter-Earth and Wakanda.
The Avengers: United They Stand
Winged hero inspired by Iron Man and Thor, based at Avengers Mansion in New York. He rescues the president and her daughter in Central Park during the Vision's attack, then is injured outside Madison Square Garden after saving his nephew.
Super Hero Squad Show
A flying hero on wings of pure light, accompanied by his pet falcon Redwing. He serves on the Super Hero Squad and the Avengers from the Helicarrier and can communicate with animals.
Marvel Animated Universe (2012 to 2018)
Harlem-born S.H.I.E.L.D. trainee who works secretly with Tony Stark and leaves training to join the Avengers. He saves the team from Space Phantoms in Limbo and later gets scattered across time, spending years in a future where Kang rules New York. He trains under Kang, helps Vision and Wasp stop a singularity, and returns to find Loki ruling an iced-over Earth.
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
Sam Wilson, an Avenger who flies as the Falcon with the drone Redwing and later uses the Captain America codename in the LEGO Marvel reality. Red Skull once kidnapped him and Steve Rogers saved him. He helps with the Project Insight Helicarriers, joins the new Avengers roster after Ultron, and appears in the Code Red and Mission Demolition stories.
Timeline 30 events
- Silver · Comics: On a Caribbean island he meets Captain America, becomes the Falcon, and is later bonded to Redwing through the Cosmic Cube.
- Bronze · Comics: The Black Panther builds him mechanical glider wings in Wakanda.
- Bronze · Comics: The Red Skull uses the Cosmic Cube to give him a false criminal past as Snap and mind-controls him.
- Bronze · Comics: He is dragged to the alternate dimension of Zero Street by the Night People cult.
- Bronze · Comics: He is pressed onto the Avengers roster to meet government membership rules, then resigns in 1980.
- Bronze · Comics: He runs for Congress, reveals his identity, retires the Falcon name and then returns to the skies of Harlem.
- Modern · Comics: He is the first hero to side with Captain America in the Civil War.
- Modern · Comics: After Captain America is assassinated he helps Bucky and works to save Sharon Carter.
- Modern · Comics: As an Avenger he flies into space to fight the Builders alongside the Shi'ar Imperial Guard.
- Modern · Comics: Steve Rogers passes him the shield and he becomes Captain America.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Kang casts the Avengers into Limbo, where Wilson rallies the team across time to depose him.
- Secret Wars · Comics: In the Secret Empire crisis he leads the Underground, recovers the Cosmic Cube shards and helps topple Hydra.
- Secret Wars · Comics: He is pulled to Counter-Earth during the High Evolutionary's attack and later helps stop a collision with Earth.
- Fresh Start · Comics: As Captain America he follows a Vibranium smuggling trail from the Southwest to Latveria and Wakanda.
- Fresh Start · Comics: He joins Captain Marvel's Avengers, which makes the orbital Impossible City their base.
- 1978 · Cinematic: Sam is born in Harlem and raised in Louisiana, where his family runs a seafood business near Delacroix.
- 2014 · Cinematic: Sam meets Steve Rogers on a jog in Washington, D.C., volunteers to help him, and fights at the Triskelion as Hydra's Project Insight is stopped.
- 2015 · Cinematic: Sam is recruited into the Avengers after Ultron's defeat, and in August he is bested by Ant-Man at the Avengers Compound.
- 2016 · Cinematic: After the Lagos mission, Sam refuses to sign the Sokovia Accords and is discharged, then helps Rogers shield Bucky Barnes from Zemo's frame-up.
- 2016 · Cinematic: Captured after the clash at Leipzig-Halle Airport, Sam is imprisoned on the Raft until Rogers breaks in and frees him.
- 2018 · Cinematic: Sam helps defend Vision in Edinburgh and fights in Wakanda, then turns to ash in Thanos's Snap.
- 2023 · Cinematic: Restored after five years, Sam joins the Battle of Earth against Thanos's army and attends Tony Stark's funeral.
- 2023 · Cinematic: Rogers returns old from the past and gives Sam his shield and the Captain America mantle.
- 2024 · Cinematic: Working for the Air Force, Sam rescues Captain Vassant from Georges Batroc's group over Tunisian and Libyan airspace.
- 2024 · Cinematic: Sam donates the shield to the Smithsonian, then visits Delacroix to help his sister Sarah keep the family boat.
- 2024 · Cinematic: Sam, Barnes and Zemo trace Flag Smasher super-soldier serum to Madripoor and Riga, and Sam takes the shield back from John Walker after Walker kills a Flag Smasher.
- 2024 · Cinematic: Wearing a Wakandan-made suit as Captain America, Sam defeats the Flag Smashers in New York and persuades the GRC to drop the Patch Act.
- 2027 · Cinematic: Sam leads the response to SERPENT at Catedral de Santo Ramos and is invited to the White House by President Ross.
- 2027 · Cinematic: Sam uncovers Samuel Sterns's plot, helps prevent war with Japan at Celestial Island, and calms Ross after he becomes Red Hulk.
- 2027 · Cinematic: Sam visits Ross and Sterns in their cells on the Raft, then sets out to rebuild the Avengers with Torres as the first recruit.
allied with
Iron Man, Steve Rogers, Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Sharon Carter, Isaiah Bradley, T'Challa, Misty Knight, Vision, Winter Soldier, Ant-Man (Scott Lang), Peggy Carter, Tigra
enemy of
Thanos, Red Skull, High Evolutionary, Kang the Conqueror, Blackheart, Vision, Loki Laufeyson, Doctor Doom, Winter Soldier, Taneleer Tivan (Collector), Corvus Glaive, Crossbones, Ghost, Karli Morgenthau
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