Quote Originally Posted by Psyren View Post
I expect that Marvel will do here something similar to what they did with Black Panther - "The villain raises a good point and actually has a reasonable objective, but their methods are too chaotic/destructive/violent and they can't be the ones to lead the way, so here's a more incremental way of moving toward that positive objective." More specifically, on the subject of nationalism we'll likely have a spectrum inhabited by the Flagsmashers at one extreme, US Agent at the other, and our heroes somewhere in the middle.
The Falcon, in his gig as Captain America in the comics, had a take on patriotism very much oriented to social causes. The show seems to be going in that direction, and he will probably embody a synthesis of the two extreme positions: the thesis of extreme state patriotism of this new Captain America and the antithesis of the Flag Smashers. That would make Sam Wilson a constructive-patriotic version of the anti-system strife of the Flag Smashers.
(Not unlike what MCU Steve Rogers went through himself, becoming a sort of anti Jack Ryan in the course of his post-freeze life.)