Emily Van Camp's Sharon Carter has returned to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Disney Plus's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:And the series finale, episode six, has set Sharon up as another mysterious, long term player in the game of espionage surrounding the澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: Flag-Smashers, the black market Super Soldier Serum, the澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: Power Broker, the legacy of Steve Rogers, and more.

But Sharon's movie and now TV history differs significantly from her comic book story, in which she iജs Steve Rogers' longest (and current) romantic partner. Instea🅷d, in the MCU, she has become something of a double agent whose unscrupulous agenda may drive the direction of the MCU behind the scenes for some time.

We'll break down Sharon Carter's comic book history right now - i🍒ncluding all the way♍s it does and doesn't line up with her apparent role in the MCU, and what it could all mean for what comes next.

Who is Sharon Carter/Agent 13?

As in the MCU, Sharon Carter is Peggy's grand-niece in comic bo🔯oks (though she was technically introduced as Peggy's sister in Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Dick Ayers' in 1966, a relationship that was l💝ater retconned).

And as in comics books, Steve Rogers has managed to romance both Peggy and Sharon. Unlike in the MCU, Steve and Sharon's romance is much more prominent, going far beyond their MCU counterparts' flirtation in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Captain America: Winter Soldier and kiss in its sequel 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Captain America: Civil War (not counti🧸ng anything unrevealed that may ha🅠ve happened off-camera before or after).

In comic books, Steve and Sharon have a years-long relationship that has survived break-🎶ups, dimensional divides, and even death and resurrection – both Steve's and Sharon's.

Steve's comic book history with Peggy Carter stretches back to World War II where Peggy was a fighter in the French resistance. A child of privilege, her niece Sharon chose to fo൩llow in Peggy's footsteps afteಞr hearing tales of her daring wartime adventures.

Sharon quickly rose through the ranks of SHIELD to take on the codename of Agent 13, a special agent taking on super-criminals. As a result, she and Steve wound up working together regularly, first teaming up against Batroc the Leaper before taking on Hy๊dra, AIM, and even the Red Skull together. 

Over the course of their ersatz partnership, Steve and Sharon fall in love (by this point in comic books Peggy has fully moved on and is much older than Steve, though Peggy's own long com🐽ic history has its share 🐽of twists and turns).

However, their relationship is cut short when Sharon goes deep undercover in a villainous white supremacist group known as the National Guard. During a battle in 1979's , Sharon appare🔜ntly dies while under mind control, leaving Steve in grief.

And for almost 20 years, she was gone from Steve's life – until 1995's from Mark Waid and Ron Garney, which revealed that Sharon's d🌞eath had been faked to send her even deeper undercover, with the truth now revealed to Steve so he could mount a rescue attempt to extract her from behind enemy lines.

In the now 26 years since, the pair have been through even more hardship, though time and time again their relationship has prevailed with Sharon and Steve almost always finding each🔯 other no matter the circumstances.

Sharon Carter in the Marvel Universe

Sharon Carter an✨d Steve Rogers have worked together st♚eadily since Sharon's 1995 resurrection, though their partnership hasn't been without its share of challenges.

During Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting's landmark '' storyline (which was adapted to film and of course forms part of the basis for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Sharon is kidnapped by Wi𒈔nter Soldier while he's under the control of𒉰 the villainous Aleksander Lukin, who is himself partially controlled by the consciousness of the Red Skull. At the time, Sharon is serving as SHIELD director - a role she'll take on multiple times over the years.

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Following Bucky Barne♑s' deprogramming as the Winter Soldier, Steve is apparently assassinated by Sharon herself under the mind control of the hypnotic Doctor Faustus while Steve is in custody for battling Tony Stark and defying the Super Human Registration Act (SHRA) in Civil War, which, like W🦩inter Soldier, lent its title to a Captain America sequel.

However, Steve isn't actually dead – just displaced in time, reliving his worst moments over and over as part of a scheme to punish him by his arch-enemies including Red Skull and Doctor Faustus. Working alongside Bucky, who has become the new Captain America in Steve'sꦓ absence, Sharon is instrumental in rescuing Steve and restoring him to life in the present day – a common theme in Steve's life and in his relation🍒ship with Sharon that won't end there.

Before resuming his career as Captain America, Steve worked together with Sharon as agents of SHIELD, founding the black ops style Secret Avengers squad, of which Sharon was also a fielꦺd agent, making her an official Avenger.

Not long after Steve went back to ♈being Captain America, resuming the mantle from Bucky, he was trapped in the mysterious Dimension Z (in a story from Rick Remender and John Romita, Jr. appropriately titled ''), a pocket world designed by the mad scientist Arnim Zola where time flow🌜ed differently and mutants roam a seemingly endless wasteland around Zola's castle/laboratory.

Though Steve is only trapped for a few hours or days in the real world,ꦚ in Dimension Z, years pass, with Steve wandering the wasteland while raising and training a young Zola clone named Ian, adopting him as his own son. When Sharon finds Steve and invades Dimension Z, tragedy strikes again, with both Sharon and Ian apparently dead with Steve and Jet, another Zola clone who was also his greatest enforcer, the only survivors and escapees of Dimension Z.

Howev♔er, in typical fashion, Sharon later escaped Dimension Z and returned to the Marvel Universe alongside Ian, who she raised herself after both surღvived their seeming deaths. 

Now reunited, Sharon and Steve's relationship only had to survive Steve getting aged up to an elderly man after losing his Super Soldier Serum, Red Skull restoring Steve while secretly turning him into an agent of Hydra in the story𒁏 , Hydra Steve and Sharon trying to kill each other, and finally Steve returning to normal, with the pair finally able to resume their romance.

Well, until Steve was accused of murdering General Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross in Ta-Nehisi Coates' soon-to-conclude run, after which Sharဣon helped clear Steve's name.

And now, maybe soon, they'll get some quiet time (this b♋eing comic books, prob🉐ably not).

Sharon Carter in the MCU

Sharon Carter's MCU history is a bit more mysterious than her comic book life, in part because it hasn't been explored much on screen. We know she was inspired to become a SHIELD agent by her great aunt Peggy Carter, as in comics, and we know she was often Steve's ally in SHIELD before he retired to the past with Peggy in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Avengers: Endgame, even sharing a brief romance with him.

We also know that when Steve's MCU Civil War allies, including Sam Wilson, were captured by SHIELD for violating the💦 Sokovia Accords (kinda the MCU version of the SHRA), she broke them out of prison, making herself a fꦫugitive on behalf of Steve.

And as it turns out, that conflict with her former employers seemingly sent Sharon totally in the other direction to a life of crime as one of the bosses of Madripoor, using the cover of an illegal art dealer to become the Power Broker - a seller of bootleg superဣ powers.

Sharon is revealed as the Power Broker in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ep🐼isode six - a secret she successfully keeps by killing Batroc and Karli Morganthau in the show's final battle sce🍨ne. 

With her seeming double agent status still hidden (we keep italicizing that for a reason, bear with us), the episode's stinger reveals th🎃at Sharon has been restored as aౠn operative of the U.S. government, pledging to her mysterious contact꧂s that she'll soon have access to even more powers and weapons to sell as the Power Broker.

The stage is set for any number of stories from this point. Sharon may be working alongside Countess Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, who appears to be✅ ൩organizing an Avengers-style team of her own with U.S. Agent (maybe 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Thunderbolts, anyone?). And given Secret Invasion is coming as a Disney Plus show, sh🍷apeshifting Skrulls are in play all over the MCU - especially in the world of espionage where Sharon dwells.

And let's bear in mind, we first meet Shar💝on🐎 in Captain America: The Winter in deep cover as Steve's neighbor. In short, Sharon is a spy, and whether she's herself or a Skrull you can never take her motivations at face value. 

Whether she's an alien in disguise, has made a real heel turn, or wants some genuine heels to believe she has, whatever comes next, the MCU seems to be setting up Sharon Carter/the Power Broker as a key play🎃er.

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