Why Sharon Carter Became The Power Broker (& What She Wants Now)

Why Sharon Carter Became The Power Broker (& What She Wants Now)

What drove Sharon Carter to become the Power Broker and an MCU villain? We look at the clues Falcon and Winter Soldier dropped and what they mean.

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Why Sharon Carter Became The Power Broker (& What She Wants Now)

Warning: SPOILERS for The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Finale – “One World, One People”.

Why did Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp) become the Power Broker in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier and what does she want? The series dropped a few clues so that Agent Carter’s ultimate goals can be extrapolated. Sharon was finally pardoned by the U.S. Government in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier’s finale but she immediately parlayed her status as a U.S. citizen in good standing to further her shadowy aims to steal government secrets and technology.

Sharon Carter was introduced in Captain America: The Winter Soldier as an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. who was also Steve Rogers’ (Chris Evans) love interest. Sharon stood with S.H.I.E.L.D. against Hydra’s hostile takeover, but she quit and joined the CIA before the events of Captain America: Civil War. Sharon willingly violated the Sokovia Accords to help Steve and Team Cap by illegally procuring Captain America’s shield and the Falcon’s (Anthony Mackie) “bird costume”. Sharon wasn’t seen again until The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, which took place 8 years later and revealed that Carter was now based in Madripoor posing as a high-end art dealer while working for the island nation’s mysterious ruler, the Power Broker. However, Sharon was obviously hiding the truth from Sam Wilson, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), and Baron Zemo (Daniel Bruhl), and it wasn’t hard to deduce that Carter was actually the Power Broker.

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But why did Sharon take on the Power Broker persona and why did she become a clandestine kingpin of international crime? The fateful conversation Carter had at gunpoint with her one-time protege, Karli Morgenthau (Erin Kellyman), holds some of the answers. When Sharon asked Karli to come back to work for her, the leader of the Flag-Smashers refused, “Because you wanted to control a world that hurt you… I’m not interested in power or an empire.” In this brief interaction before Sharon shot Karli dead after Captain America Sam Wilson intervened, it was evident that Carter and Morgenthau were once close and the teenage super-soldier understood what drives the Power Broker. Sharon felt deeply betrayed by S.H.I.E.L.D. and the U.S. Government for making her an international fugitive, so becoming the Power Broker allowed her to assert control over Madripoor and build a secure base for herself. Karli admitted she wished to change the world, but Sharon seems to also share that dream, just in a very different way.

As the Power Broker, Carter financed the development of a new Super Soldier Serum and she intended to sell super-soldiers to the highest bidder. So the accumulation of wealth is one aspect of Sharon Carter’s goals, and her pending access to the United States’ secrets and technology gives her a new avenue to profit from the global black market. But what Karli said about Carter wanting “an empire” is the real tip-off: Sharon could be masterminding a shadow government that answers only to her, one that will ensure she’s never a victim of fickle global politics or the interference of superheroes again.

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If Carter is building her own Secret Empire, the Marvel Cinematic Universe could be en route to adapting the Marvel Comics event about Hydra taking control of the government with their own Captain America. This could also tie into why Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfuss) recruited John Walker (Wyatt Russell) as the U.S. Agent. This plot would go far beyond Sharon ‘getting back’ at Steve Rogers for abandoning her after Captain America: Civil War. As the Power Broker, Sharon could be creating her own secret empire to run the world from the shadows.

Sharon Carter is the great-niece of Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), the legendary founder of S.H.I.E.L.D. (and Steve Rogers’ one true love). Sharon has professed to love and admire Peggy, but inside she must be seething that the organization her great-aunt built hung her out to dry, as did the heroes she gave up everything to help. As the Power Broker, Sharon Carter is on the verge of building something bigger and more insidiously powerful than S.H.I.E.L.D. or Hydra was, and the new Agent Carter is poised to become a global threat in Captain America 4 and to MCU Phase 4.

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