This is my first post on CBM, so please be gentle, but I had to get some of this off my chest! Final warning!!! MAJOR SPOILERS from CA:TWS and possibly even Agents of SHIELD.
Right, so lets get to it!
First off, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, is a fantastic comic book movie and a fantastic movie in general! I'm still in my post cinema buzz, so forgive me if I exaggerate, but as of right now I genuinely feel it's comparable to the Avengers.
What I want to talk about in this article however is my general theory about the fallout from this movie where Agents of SHIELD is concerned. So, as many people already know, the lovely Mr Arnim Zola is alive and kicking in this film (well maybe not kicking). When Cap is confronted by Zola, he is confronted by a computer screen, with a huge database behind it. Zola's face appears on this screen, and he explains that while his physical body had died, HYDRA had saved his mind on the digital space. Obviously I have no pics, but these two images give the general idea of what he looked like:
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There was a square box camera (like on the image of Zola) and a computer screen showing a ghostly face (a cross between the matrix stock image and the face on Zola's chest). It looked pretty awesome, and the film also discussed the idea of "Zola's algorithm". This was an algorithm that used phone records, social security numbers, facebook info etc, to detect people that could potentially become a threat to HYDRA in the future, so that HYDRA could eliminate them before they can cause trouble. (This is where they name-dropped Dr Strange btw... a potential future threat to HYDRA).
Both of these ideas combined paint a picture of a Zola that exists digitally (and so has instant access to almost all information on the planet) and a Zola that is so clever that he can seemingly predict the future. Anyone who watches Agents of SHIELD at this point should be guessing what I am getting at.
I'm pretty sure that Arnim Zola is the CLAIRVOYANT!!!
Agents of SHIELD has clearly been building to a point where the winter soldier would change everything about the show, with the downfall of shield and everything, but I think this really ties everything together very well. If SHIELD has fallen, the question must be asked: what next for the SHIELD team?
Well I would suggest that Coulson is recruited by the now underground Nick Fury (or perhaps Maria Hill) to help hunt down HYDRA agents, and I think this will be the story arc going forward. I also believe that centipede is simply part of HYDRA, and the show runners couldn't name drop HYDRA until the movie came out. Clearly if the clairvoyant is the leader of centipede, then it would have to be someone highly ranking in HYDRA, which makes me think it must be Zola even more.
The only thing that I could foresee breaking my theory is that the database which cap came into contact with was bombed in an air strike, but it was implied that Zola had access outside of that database, and so I don't think Zola died in the airstrike.
I had a quick scan of other articles, and I don't think I had come across anyone else that had seen the movie who wrote this, but if I am repeating what other people have already said I am sorry.
Tell me what you think? Do you think Zola could be the clairvoyant? Do you think it could be Baron Von Struker, or some other HYDRA leader? Or do you think I am talking complete rubbish and should never post again???
Thanks for reading :)