This way, both things are true at the same time. He just didn’t fight Steve Rogers (and didn’t know it wasn’t him). While it could be Sam Wilson or, heaven forbid, John Walker, what matters is that Alexei is honest when he says he fought Captain America.
What if Alexei really did fight Captain America, who for whatever reason is lost or traveling in time? There is a new time-traveling Captain AmericaĪ second explanation could be set up for a future story that’s yet to be revealed. Here is where I put my fan theory hat on and offer up two possible explanations:ĭoes Sam Wilson go back in time in Phase 4 to fight the Red Guardian? Does John Walker? Marvel Studios 2. But is it true that Captain America was out of action when Alexei was Red Guardian? Also yes. Does Alexei believe he fought Captain America? Yes. While Harbour and Shortland are resistant to give a canonical answer - for now - the question is arguably more interesting. He lives this reality completely independent of what other people have seen or heard.” What this means for the MCU I think Alexei is very much the same way. “There’s a thing, confabulation, where people actually just believe their lies to such a degree that even when confronted with reality, they can’t process it,” he explains. Harbour adds that Alexei is prone to confabulation, for reasons that remain unknown. You’d find this little boy in the corner crying his eyes out.” I don’t want to see Alexei poo his pants. “If we saw them together now, I think we know what would happen. “I wanna see Alexei and Captain America together,” Shortland says. Shortland hides whether there is a real canonical answer. Is Alexei Shostakov aka Red Guardian lying about fighting Captain America in Black Widow? Marvel Studiosĭirector Cate Shortland believes “both” are true: Both that Alexei is lying, and that he’s telling the truth. He was not Natasha’s fake father on an undercover assignment, which is the story told in the MCU.Īnd yes, he did fight Captain America in the comics, notably in his second comic book appearance in Avengers issue #44. Unlike in the movie, Alexei was a test pilot and KGB agent who was trained to become Red Guardian and was married to Natasha (aka, Black Widow). The “second” Red Guardian was Alexei Shostakov. However, his stories were published much later in 1991 ( Namor, The Submariner Annual #1) as a retcon by Marvel’s writers to add more backstory to its history. In a confusing bit of canon, the character Aleksey Lebedev held the mantle first during World War II where he fought alongside Captain America ( not Steve Rogers, but Steve’s replacement William Naslund). He was created in 1967 by comic book heavyweights Roy Thomas and John Buscema to be a Russian rival to Captain America with similar powers. Red Guardian isn’t an invention of Black Widow.
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Who is the Red Guardian?Ī Black Widow movie poster for the Red Guardian. So who was it that Red Guardian tussled with in the ‘70s and ‘80s? Was it really Captain America, or is the Red Guardian a big red liar? David Harbour and director Cate Shortland each have their own answers, and they revealed them in interviews with Inverse. ( Captain America: The First Avenger, where Steve wakes up in the 21st century, was released in 2011.) “I will say they are absolutely true, 100 percent.” After all, Captain America spent decades frozen in ice, going under in 1945 only to wake up in 2011, according to the timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If one were to do the math - as one other prisoner in Black Widow does - it’s clear Alexei could never have traded fists with Steve Rogers. And these days, he is prone to sharing tall tales of fighting the one and only sentinel of liberty - but did he? Introduced in the new Marvel movie Black Widow, this loyal patriot served as Russia’s own version of Captain America, known as the Red Guardian.īut unlike Steve Rogers, who is memorialized and celebrated in national museums, the Red Guardian is a faded relic of the Soviet Union. Rotting away in a Russian prison is how the arrogant, oversized Alexei Shostakov, played by Stranger Things star David Harbour, has spent the last few years of life.
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