Warning: Contains SPOILERS for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 6, "One World, One People."

The Falcon & the Winter Soldier ended with Sam Wilson suiting up as the new Captain America - and here's how his costume compares to Marvel Comics. Steve Rogers chose Sam Wilson as his successor in the final scenes of Avengers: Endgame, and in truth Falcon & Winter Soldier is essentially the story of how Sam came to accept the role. Falcon has been a surprisingly passive figure throughout what is ostensibly his own show, but in the finale he takes flight at last, reinventing himself as Captain America.

Sam will be a different kind of Captain America, though. He's well aware that there are millions of people who want the first Black Captain America to fail, but he's not going to stop fighting. In his view, doing so would dishonor all those who fought before him, including Isaiah Bradley - the forgotten super-soldier who Sam has brought to the public eye through a new part of the Captain America exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution. Meanwhile, Sam's fighting style doesn't just incorporate athleticism and shield-swinging; he's an airborne superhero, and often he uses his rocket-thrusters to perform impressive gymnastic feats. Enemies who thought they could take on Steve Rogers or John Walker will find Sam Wilson very difficult indeed to handle.

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Sam Wilson's MCU costume shows just how far the superhero genre has come. Marvel Studios may be a lot more willing to do comic-book-accurate costumes than Fox (whose first X-Men film back in 2000 quietly mocked superhero fans for wanting blue spandex), but even Marvel didn't feel the world was ready for a comic accurate Falcon. This time round, though, the design is lifted straight from the comics. The color scheme, the pattern of the piping, even the style of the logo is incredibly accurate; it's simplified a little over the chest, but rightly so because the patterns around the star were a little too complex in the comics.

Sam Wilson Captain America Costume Comparison

The new Captain America's goggles are the same, although they have additional sensor capacity in the MCU where the comics just treated them as eye protectors; his gloves have been turned into gauntlets, presumably to help Sam catch a heavy shield that's flying toward him at speed. It's likely they also incorporate some controls for Redwing and the other drones he's been given by the Wakandans. The belt buckle has been streamlined a little, so it doesn't dominate the costume in the same way as in the comics, instead ensuring your eye is drawn to the symbol on Sam's chest.

The wings are the big difference between Sam's comic book costume and his MCU look. Captain America: The Winter Soldier rightly abandoned the underarm wings of the comics; while Falcon & Winter Soldier could technically have brought them back courtesy of Wakanda, the designers chose to avoid doing so. That was a wise choice, because Sam's wings are both impressive and imposing, giving him such a distinctive profile in the MCU. In Falcon & Winter Soldier episode 1, Sam used these wings as a shield; he proves able to do the same with these new wings in episode 6, but they seem far more durable, probably made of Vibranium. That means the MCU's new Captain America can take a hit, even if he's thrown his shield.

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