Avengers: Endgame may have brought back the people who disappeared when Thanos wiped out half the universe in Avengers: Infinity War, but that five-year time-jump looks set to have major consequences for the MCU. The ramifications of the "Blip" are going to have an impact on everything that happens moving forward, including in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.
During yesterday's global press conference for the upcoming Disney+ TV series ahead of its debut this Friday, showrunner and head writer Malcolm Spellman weighed in on how The Falcon and The Winter Soldier will address the fallout from Endgame.
"I think what worked out really nicely was that where Endgame leaves off, dispatching Thanos has created a situation where the entire world is dealing with one single issue...which is very familiar to what's going on today," he explained. "Everything is born from that. The villains in this series are responding to that. In fact, every villain in this series would tell you that he or she is a hero."
"The heroes are responding to that in their personal lives, and that A-Story plot is all born from one single organic thing in this continuum from what happened after Endgame," Spellman continued. "That galvanizes and affects everyone on the planet at the same time and creates a nice cohesion and direct lineage to the MCU."
The consequences of Thanos' attack are clearly going to play into this show in a huge way, and this may go some way towards explaining why Zemo is again determined to take out the Avengers. Assuming he was around for those five years, perhaps the villain believes the world was better off without them? (that might explain the purple, Thanos-like mask in the context of the MCU).
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier premieres on Disney+ this Friday, March 19th!
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