Will Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson have such a run? Captain America: Brave New World opened in theaters on Friday. After all the violent confrontations with Giancarlo Esposito's Sidewinder, Tim Blake Nelson's Samuel Sterns,

Captain America can be an Asian man. Captain America can be a woman. Captain America could be anyone who stands for the ideals that Captain America stands for,” said Captain America comic book writer Mark Waid.

Four years after the release of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — which saw Anthony Mackie ‘s Sam Wilson struggling with the title bestowed on him by Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers — the star says Marvel’s latest offering finds the character as “full-fledged Captain America .”