CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD: New Character Details Emerge As Sabra Confirmed To Lose Her Codename

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD: New Character Details Emerge As Sabra Confirmed To Lose Her Codename

Some new Captain America: Brave New World details have been revealed, including plans for the MCU's first Super Soldier, Isaiah Bradley, to don a costume and the fact Sabra won't use her divisive codename.

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By JoshWilding - Jul 13, 2024 01:07 PM EST

Captain America: Brave New World has dominated headlines for months thanks to pretty extensive-sounding reshoots and some wild claims about the movie's massive budget (which have since been debunked). 

The teaser trailer arrived yesterday and includes plenty of talking points; however, one of the biggest has been the inclusion of Shira Haas'  Ruth Bat-Seraph, a character better known in the comics as Sabra. 

She's long been considered problematic, dating back to her debut in the pages of The Incredible Hulk in 1980. At the time, Ruth was frequently portrayed fighting Arabic terrorist tropes, while the "Sabra" name has several meanings, some of which are now considered offensive. 

Then, there's the fact that both pro and anti-Israel parties have issues with the character, a headache for Disney given current world events! 

We told you yesterday that Marvel Studios is changing Sabra's backstory so that she's now a former Black Widow turned U.S. official, and The Hollywood Reporter now brings word that the "Sabra" codename will not be used in any way, shape, or form in Captain America: Brave New World. 

In other news, The Cosmic Circus' Alex Perez brings word that Shogun star Takehiro Hira is playing the Prime Minister of Japan in the movie. 

He also reveals that Isaiah Bradley will wear a costume which pays homage to his comic book counterpart. We'd bet on it being a makeshift uniform he creates and, if Marvel Studios plans to follow the comics, that may be what inspires his grandson Eli to become Patriot! 

Let us know your thoughts on these latest Captain America: Brave New World details in the comments section.

After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, played by Harrison Ford in his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

Captain America: Brave New World stars Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Xosha Roquemore, Carl Lumbly, with Giancarlo Esposito, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, and Harrison Ford.

The movie is directed by Julius Onah and produced by Kevin Feige and Nate Moore. Louis D’Esposito and Charles Newirth serve as executive producers.

Captain America: Brave New World opens in U.S. theaters on February 14, 2025.

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Matchesz
Matchesz - 7/13/2024, 1:48 PM
Funny, Steve lost his name too
JobinJ
JobinJ - 7/13/2024, 1:51 PM
We need an Isaiah Bradley Captain America film set in the Korean War. It would be epic.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 7/13/2024, 1:53 PM
@JobinJ - i dont hate Mackie but I think I would have rather seen that over falcon america
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 7/13/2024, 2:24 PM
@JobinJ - do we know how long his Captain America has operated? Because I kinda wanna see him interact with characters like Red Guardian, Ant-Man, Howard Stark and a bunch of others that ran around in the 60s-80s
mountainman
mountainman - 7/13/2024, 2:28 PM
@bkmeijer1 - The 50s would have likely been his most active times but I agree that it should be set later to incorporate other characters who weren’t active until at least the 70s. The Cold War lasted for a long time so I feel like there is a lot to do in that era. Young Hank and Janet at least!
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/13/2024, 2:47 PM
@bkmeijer1 - In the comics think is was around the 40's (he was certainly in jail between 1943 thru to being pardoned in 1960) but don't think it has been stated with the MCU version.

As Lumbly is 72 I would guess they will go for him getting the serum at least 50yrs ago as likely to pick test subjects in their early 20's but if it slows ageing then could easily be way earlier than that...

...the actor who play Eli is 21 and his Dad would probably have been concieved prior to Gramps getting the serum which again suggests it was about 50yrs ago not back in the 60's...

...as such I'd say they may connect it to somewhere towards the end of the Vietnam War.
JobinJ
JobinJ - 7/13/2024, 3:30 PM
@Matchesz - Falcon American is just not interesting. Mackie can't carry a movie. Sorry.
JobinJ
JobinJ - 7/13/2024, 3:31 PM
@bkmeijer1 - I don't think there was a Cap in the MCU after Isaiah in the Korean War. We surely would have known about him. So no, I don't think there was.

Red Guardian was lying about fighting him, I think.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/13/2024, 3:42 PM
@JobinJ - Red Guardian came across as the sort to fabricate...

...although not impossible the the US government had a non-Super Serum guy decked out as a sort of patriotic mascot during the Korean war or part of propoganda to make the enemy think a legendary Supe was being sent in against them...

...I mean just cos something has never been mentioned doesn't mean it never occured...

...but most likely Alexei was lying and TBH can't recall if Bradley stated when and where he saw combat as a super soldier.
JobinJ
JobinJ - 7/13/2024, 3:44 PM
@Apophis71 - he was in The Korean War only then Sent to prison. He explains that in FATWS
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/13/2024, 3:45 PM
@JobinJ - @bkmeijer1 - Figured I'd go check...

...Isaiah Bradley is a Korean War veteran who was unwillingly subjected to human testings of the Super Soldier Serum in the 1950s. A survivor of the trials, he was assigned by the United States military to eliminate Winter Soldier in South Korea, although he failed. When the government feared the ramifications of an African-American super soldier, Bradley spent three decades incarcerated in prison, during which he was experimented on by the U.S. government and HYDRA. In the 1980s, he was freed and was relocated to Baltimore after his death was faked, during which he raised a grandson. In 2024, when Sam Wilson became the new Captain America, Bradley's heroics were memorialized at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
JobinJ
JobinJ - 7/13/2024, 3:46 PM
@Apophis71 - yup. I’d love to see a movie about that.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/13/2024, 3:50 PM
@JobinJ - Me too, I did recall he said something about being in Jail etc after seeing active duty but simply couldn't recall which conflict, lol.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/13/2024, 3:55 PM
@JobinJ - Also checked up on Red Guardians lie, as couldn't recall when other than it was before the 90's when he had his fake family, says it was the 80's
Arthorious
Arthorious - 7/13/2024, 4:50 PM
@Matchesz - don’t you mean captain Falcon. I can’t help myself with that one
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 7/13/2024, 6:15 PM
@JobinJ @Apophis71 - maybe the USA put Isaiah on ice the same way the Russians did with the Winter Soldier?

Either way, I do wanna see a project focused on Cold War Avengers, and not the What If kind. Howard, Peggy, Ant-Man, Wasp, Goliath, Thor, a Black Panther & Isaiah's Captain teaming up against the Winter Soldier & Red Guardian in the Sacred Timeline around 1970 would be so cool.
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 7/14/2024, 2:52 AM
@JobinJ - That's entirely too smart for current MCU. We need something far less interesting.

Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/14/2024, 7:27 AM
@bkmeijer1 - It would and whatever the current history is when the universe gets a reboot with a couple timelines merged it could be possible some aspects of the past are changed such as Isaiah Bradley not having been jailed meaning he was still active in the 60's and 80's.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 7/14/2024, 7:52 AM
@Apophis71 - I kinda doubt they reboot the history of the MCU. It's too unique of a history to just flush away.

If there is gonna be a reboot, I'm guessing it's only a few multiverse heroes entering the Sacred Timeline.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/14/2024, 8:15 AM
@bkmeijer1 - Doubt it too TBH, certainly most the established major stuff that has occured in the MCU will remain canon.

However I could see them changing low impact stuff like that window between Steve going into the ice and Captain Marvel's first film so that the merged in characters like a new Wolverine have history without it being considered a plothole it wasn't know prior or contradicts any established canon.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 7/14/2024, 9:37 AM
@Apophis71 - in case of minor continuity discrepancies, I could see them pull the same trick as in the Official Timeline Book. There they play it like the TVA/Miss Minutes is just an unreliable narrator, so any error isn't actually an error at all.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 7/13/2024, 1:56 PM
If the Leader has perfected a Hulk Serum he may also have made MGH for Patriot to start taking too although would be fine if they skip that bit of Eli's origin and go straight for a blood transfusion from Grampa.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 7/13/2024, 2:25 PM
@Apophis71 - never thought about that, but I could see the mutant growth hormone play into future projects as well with the X-Men about to enter the MCU
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 7/13/2024, 2:18 PM
She will be always Sabra to me. Tje hero of my childhood back at my occupied home in the West Bank
Origame
Origame - 7/13/2024, 2:32 PM
If she's so problematic, why even adapt her? Are they that desperate for representation?

It's like when they made a Chinese focused film and made it about the son of fu manchu.
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/13/2024, 2:45 PM
@Origame - Because they shot the footage and couldn't cut her out.
Origame
Origame - 7/13/2024, 2:48 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - I mean, even without the conflict going on they could've still found that she was offensive to different cultures. Ffs, is there no focus testing to see if people actually are interested in these things?
Origame
Origame - 7/13/2024, 2:48 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - not to mention, all that time filming new scenes and they couldn't just reshoot to remove her?
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