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Such is the force that the Flag Smasher uses on Torres, it’s possible that the group have some form of superpowers of their own. Torres, who sees an officer violently kicked towards a pillar, attempts to arrest the robber in question, but is easily overpowered and injured by the suspect. In the ensuing panic, the bank’s police force are prevented from stopping the robbery by other Flag Smasher members.

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The meeting quickly turns on its head when one of its members escapes a Swiss bank with two bags full of cash. Karli is portrayed by Erin Kellyman and, if you’ve seen any of Falcon and the Winter Soldier trailers, you will have seen her face already.īack to the show.

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Marvel has switched up Karl’s gender for the Disney Plus show and, rather than install Karli as the sole Flag Smasher, she is the de facto leader of the group despite what Sam and Torres claim in the episode’s closing scene. While we don’t see her face during this scene, the masked individual is Karli Morgenthau.

Not long after, we see a masked figure handing out similar face coverings to the assembled crowd, and this is where the show makes one of its other major changes from the source material. In this sequence, Torres goes undercover to infiltrate a Flag Smashers meet-up in Switzerland which, as we know, is Karl Morgenthau’s nation of birth in the comics. We only see the Flag Smashers in action once in episode 1. Sam Wilson’s army contact Joaquin Torres states as much during one of their interactions in episode 1, and he explains that the Flag Smashers want a world that’s unified without borders.

The Flag Smashers, much like their comic counterpart, are an anti-patriotic group who believe that Earth was a better place during the Blip. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: How the Flag Smashers affect the show’s plot With Cap an old man following the events of Avengers: Endgame in the MCU, however, it’ll be up to Falcon and the Winter Soldier to put an end to the Flag Smashers in the Disney Plus series. However, his stint wasn’t as long as his predecessor’s, and Thierrault was slaughtered alongside his Ultimatum forces in Deadpool #45.įlag Smasher has long been a thorn in Captain America’s side, but the villain is yet to get one over his adversary. After that event, Canadian Ultimatum member Guy Theirrault took over Morgenthau’s mantle for a while. Karl held on to the Flag Smasher pseudonym until his apparent assassination by X-Force member Domino.

Believing humanity needs to let go of the idea of countries separated by borders, Karl adopted the Flag Smasher title to destroy nations that view themselves as superior to other countries, including the US. After his father is killed during a riot in the fictional Marvel city of Latveria, Karl vows to bring an end to the concept of nationalism. The first was Karl Morgenthau, who was the son of a wealthy Swiss banker-turned-diplomat. There have been two incarnations of Flag Smasher in the comics. Flag Smasher is also the founder and self-installed Supreme Commander of the terrorist group called Ultimatum, which may be the group that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Flag Smashers are based on. A gifted hand-to-hand combatant, Flag Smasher is also a master strategist and fluent in seven languages. Created by writer Mark Gruenwald and artist Paul Neary, Flag Smasher was a terrorist who used anti-American rhetoric and actions to spread panic across the US. Flag Smasher first appeared in Captain America #312 in December 1985.

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