And we think if Marvel Studios kept Stern’s return under wraps, a lot of Brave New World’s visceral impact might have remained. Instead, they spoiled a potentially huge twist years before the movie came out,

Brave New World. In its high-flying finale, Sam Wilson’s winged Captain America (Anthony Mackie) has just saved a Japanese fleet from mind-controlled American pilots and diffused tensions between two countries on the brink of war.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe didn’t just need a villain worthy of Captain America. It needed a smash — and that’s what Hulks are for.