Sebastian Stan’s Bucky was a bit of a non-entity in the otherwise underrated Captain America: The First Avenger, which is why his do-over as the brainwashed Winter Soldier in the sequel three years later injected the character with some much needed intrigue.
Read more: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Easter egg you may have missed in episode one The result is probably the coolest and smoothest Avenger yet, and someone we very much look forward to seeing again in Thor: Love and Thunder. Introduced in Thor: Ragnarok, Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie has the swagger of Han Solo and the powers of Wonder Woman.