I’ve actually got a poster of the above art that I bought at the BFI IMAX in London, which features Sharon Carter as part of Team Cap with Steve, Bucky, and Sam, and Agent 13 is also included in a LEGO set of the famous airport battle. As small as her role is, it is certainly true to the spirit of the comics iteration.Ĭaptain America: Civil War is a very different story. Her brief scenes demonstrate that Agent 13 doesn’t blindly follow her superiors-but she does stand up for what’s good and right. She has less than ten minutes of screentime, but nonetheless proves herself to be a competent agent who is trusted by Fury, admired by the Black Widow, and good enough to be recruited by the CIA after SHIELD’s fall.
In the end, Sharon’s role in Captain America: The Winter Soldier was minimal, but arguably memorable. Concept art from Captain America: Civil War (2015). Perhaps they got it wrong, or perhaps Sharon Carter was the female lead at one point-certainly, there is some convincing fan speculation that much of her role was later subsumed for Black Widow, who turned out to be the female lead in the version of the film that made it to cinemas. Back in 2013, Deadline reported that the character’s actress, Emily VanCamp, was up for the female lead of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It’s difficult to say for sure what Marvel had originally intended for Sharon in the films.
The problem is that ultimately, we still saw too little of her outside of that kiss, and not at all after it. Romance is not her motivation in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and it’s not her motivation in Captain America: Civil War. Most of the fan discourse around her seems to involve mockery, revulsion, jokes about incest, or discussions about how Marvel Studios failed her by reducing her to a love interest role.īut if we go ahead and eliminate that five-second kiss between Captain America and Sharon Carter in Captain America: Civil War, we are still left with a few scenes-not a lot, admittedly, but a few nonetheless-where Agent 13 contributes to the plot and moves the story forward. I can’t think of any other minor Marvel character who has inspired quite the level of negativity that she has, from dedicated hate blogs to petitions against her inclusion in the films. Sharon Carter is, arguably, not one of those characters. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has turned many comics characters into pop culture darlings, from Iron Man to Groot to Shuri.
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