Sharon Carter (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

In February 2013, Canadian actress Emily VanCamp entered negotiations to join the cast of Captain America: The Winter Soldier as the female lead.{{Cite web |last=Fleming |first=Mike Jr. |date=February 3, 2013 |title='Revenge's Emily VanCamp Landing Lead In 'Captain America 2' - Deadline.com |url=http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/revenges-emily-vancamp-lands-lead-in-captain-america-2/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203180902/http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/revenges-emily-vancamp-lands-lead-in-captain-america-2/ |archive-date=February 3, 2013 |access-date=May 8, 2021}} On her casting, in an interview with Nylon magazine, the Russo brothers noted that they "wanted someone that [Steve] would have an immediate interest in".{{Cite web |last=Burlingame |first=Russ |date=September 7, 2017 |title=Captain America: The Winter Soldier Director Talks Emily Vancamp's Agent 13 |url=https://comicbook.com/news/captain-america-the-winter-soldier-director-talks-emily-vancamps-agent-13/ |access-date=May 8, 2021 |website=ComicBook.com |language=en}} They added that the character also "had to be a strong-willed person" noting VanCamp's work on Revenge.

Some critics voiced opinions about "how thin and slight she seems in photos and on Revenge" but the brothers defended her saying that, "She's obviously very credible with physicality, she holds the screen really well, and she even looks like the character from the comics".

File:Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter in Captain America The Winter Soldier poster.jpg (2014).]]

The character first appeared in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) which was released theatrically on April 4, 2014.{{Cite web |date=April 8, 2013 |title='Captain America: The Winter Soldier' filming begins |url=http://marvel.com/news/story/20435/captain_america_the_winter_soldier_begins_filming/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410211853/http://marvel.com/news/story/20435/captain_america_the_winter_soldier_begins_filming |archive-date=April 10, 2013 |access-date=April 8, 2013 |publisher=Marvel}}{{Cite web |date=February 14, 2014 |title='Captain America: The Winter Soldier' Character Bios, Fun Facts (Minor Spoilers) |url=http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-captain-america-fun-facts-69306 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222214624/http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-captain-america-fun-facts-69306/ |archive-date=February 22, 2014 |access-date=February 15, 2014 |publisher=Stitch Kingdom}}{{Cite news |last=Siegel |first=Lucas |date=July 20, 2013 |title=SDCC '13: Marvel Reveals Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians Cast, More |url=http://www.newsarama.com/18439-sdcc-13-marvel-studios-thor-cap-more-live.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822114224/http://www.newsarama.com/18439-sdcc-13-marvel-studios-thor-cap-more-live.html |archive-date=August 22, 2013 |access-date=July 20, 2013 |work=Newsarama}} Her full name or family history was not revealed in the film due to the character being undercover as Agent 13, a nurse with the alias Kate, protecting Steve Rogers.{{Cite web |last=Outlaw |first=Kofi |date=July 24, 2013 |title='Captain America: Winter Soldier' Comic-Con Interview: Falcon, Crossbones & Agent 13 |url=https://screenrant.com/captain-america-winter-soldier-cast-interview-anthony-mackie-emily-vancamp-frank-grillo/ |access-date=May 8, 2021 |website=Screen Rant |language=en-US}} On her character, VanCamp noted that in the film they're "introducing her" and "when we first see her, we realize she's living next to Captain America [...] they sort of have a little thing going on and as we all know in the comic books they had a love affair off and on for years. They had a very complicated relationship. It's almost as if they are planting the seeds now. Sort of leaving room to go wherever they want to go with it".

VanCamp reprised her role in Captain America: Civil War (2016).{{Cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=May 6, 2015 |title=Emily VanCamp Reprising Her Role As Agent 13 In 'Captain America: Civil War' |url=https://deadline.com/2015/05/emily-vancamp-captain-america-civil-war-revenge-sharon-carter-1201421946/ |access-date=March 29, 2023 |website=Deadline Hollywood}} During the film, Carter, now working with the CIA after the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D.,{{efn|As depicted in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.}}{{Cite web |last=Semlyen |first=Phil De |date=October 23, 2016 |title=Martin Freeman's Captain America: Civil War character revealed |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/martin-freeman-captain-america-civil-war-character-revealed/ |access-date=March 29, 2023 |website=Empire}} becomes a fugitive after assisting Rogers with defying the Sokovia Accords.{{Cite web |last=Owen |first=Phil |date=April 3, 2021 |title='The Falcon and the Winter Soldier': Steve Rogers Really Screwed Sharon Over |url=https://www.thewrap.com/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-steve-rogers-really-screwed-sharon-over/ |access-date=March 29, 2023 |website=The Wrap}} Carter and Rogers share a kiss, which received some controversy.{{Cite web |last=Behnke |first=Megan |date=April 6, 2021 |title=Falcon and Winter Soldier Star Discusses the 'Backlash' to THAT Captain America Kiss |url=https://www.cbr.com/falcon-winter-soldier-emily-vancamp-backlash-captain-america-kiss/ |access-date=January 31, 2025 |website=Comic Book Resource.}}{{Cite web |last=Wasserman |first=Ben |date=May 4, 2021 |title=VanCamp Says Captain America's Controversial Kiss Led to Falcon and Winter Soldier Series |url=https://www.cbr.com/falcon-winter-soldier-steve-sharon-kiss/ |access-date=January 31, 2025 |website=Comic Book Resource.}} VanCamp noted that while "there are die-hard fans that want to see [Rogers] with different people", she hoped fans would be happy with the outcome. Additionally, Carter reveals herself to be the great-niece of S.H.I.E.L.D. founder Peggy Carter. Until then, the MCU had not officially established that the character was Sharon Carter. Her relationship to Peggy was originally set to be explored in the cancelled third season of ABC's Agent Carter (2015–2016) where Peggy's long thought to be deceased brother, Michael Carter (Sharon Carter's grandfather; played by Max Brown in the show's second season), would have made an appearance as a villain.{{Cite web |last=David |first=Margaret |date=March 22, 2021 |title=Falcon and Winter Soldier: How Exactly Is Sharon Carter Related to Peggy? |url=https://www.cbr.com/mcu-sharon-carter-peggy-relation/ |access-date=March 29, 2023 |website=Comic Book Resources}}

While Carter did not fight with 'Team Cap' at the Leipzig/Halle Airport during the Avengers Civil War, early concept art of the film placed Carter fighting alongside the Avengers, eventually seemingly being replaced by Wanda Maximoff who was not present in any of the early art.{{Cite web |title=New Captain America: Civil War Concept Art For Airport Fight Revealed |url=https://mcuexchange.com/new-captain-america-civil-war-concept-art-for-airport-fight-revealed/ |access-date=March 29, 2023 |website=MCU Exchange}}{{Cite magazine |last=Robinson |first=Joanna |date=August 27, 2015 |title=Why ScarJo Will Battle Chris Evans in Captain America: Civil War |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/08/captain-america-civil-war-concept-art |magazine=Vanity Fair |accessdate=March 29, 2023}} Despite this, VanCamp teased her expanded role, noting that her character "is definitely Team Captain America" and that she "got to do a small fight sequence with Scarlett Johansson".{{Cite web |last=Kile |first=Meredith |date=December 10, 2015 |title=Emily VanCamp Teases 'Captain America' Love Story and Epic 'Civil War' Fight Scenes |url=https://www.etonline.com/movies/177762_emily_vancamp_teases_captain_america_love_story_and_epic_civil_war_fight_scenes |access-date=March 29, 2023 |website=Entertainment Tonight}}

{{quote box|align=right|width=30%|quote=It's hard to fit Sharon into that. She's really in Cap's world [...] I can't say anything about anything, but I will say that you know she sort of fits into the Captain America movies and that's where her story lies.|source=—Emily VanCamp on Sharon Carter's absence in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame}}

Between 2014 and 2016, VanCamp was set to reprise her role in ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. but was unable to do so due to "scheduling conflicts" with Revenge.{{Cite web |last=Raymond |first=Charles |date=August 3, 2017 |title=Agents of SHIELD Tried To Bring Back Sharon Carter |url=https://screenrant.com/agents-shield-sharon-carter-agent-13/ |access-date=March 29, 2023 |website=Screen Rant}} In 2016, two new Avengers films were announced to arrive in 2018 and 2019 (eventually being titled Infinity War and Endgame) but Carter was not present in either, despite the film being a union of "the majority of the shared universe's biggest characters".{{Cite web |last=Chichizola |first=Corey |date=January 28, 2018 |title=Why Sharon Carter Isn't In Avengers: Infinity War, According To The Actress |url=https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2302911/why-sharon-carter-isnt-in-avengers-infinity-war-according-to-the-actress |access-date=March 29, 2023 |website=CinemaBlend}}

VanCamp reprised her role in the Disney+ miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021).{{Cite web |last=Kaye |first=Doye |date=April 30, 2021 |title=Falcon and The Winter Soldier: Sharon Carter Arc Explained by Head Writer |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-sharon-carter-arc-explained-by-head-writer/ |access-date=March 29, 2023 |website=Den of Geek}} At the start of the series, Carter is in a "pretty dark place", and VanCamp noted that she was interested to explore new sides of Carter such as her anger, adding Carter had "a bit more edge" and a "chip on her shoulder".{{Cite web |title="The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Production Brief" |url=https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/documents/the_falcon_and_the_winter_soldier_production_brief_fina_875edcc9.pdf}} In the series, Carter is revealed to be the Power Broker, and had "resorted to a life of crime when she had no other options available", after the events of Civil War where she was branded a terrorist for helping Rogers.{{Cite web |last=Craig |first=David |date=April 23, 2021 |title=Who is Sharon Carter? Falcon and Winter Soldier character explained |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/sharon-carter-falcon-and-winter-soldier-explained/ |access-date=March 29, 2023 |website=Radio Times}} TheWrap writer Phil Owen noted that while heroes after the third and fourth Avengers films were pardoned for their crimes (such as Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes), Carter was not, which he felt was "ridiculous on multiple levels" and that it "tarnishes Steve's legacy even further". In the series finale's mid-credits scene, Carter was revealed to have turned full supervillain, contacting potential buyers about selling government secrets from her new position.{{Cite web |last=Shaw-Williams |first=Hannah |date=April 23, 2021 |title=Power Broker Twist: Why Sharon Carter Is An MCU Villain Now |url=https://screenrant.com/falcon-winter-soldier-sharon-carter-power-broker-twist-explained/ |access-date=April 28, 2021 |website=Screen Rant |language=en-US}}

Though the series does not explain much of what Carter went through since she was last seen,{{Cite web |last=Vary |first=Adam B. |date=May 4, 2021 |title=Emily VanCamp on Sharon Carter's Return in 'Falcon and Winter Soldier' and the Mysterious Power Broker |url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/emily-vancamp-falcon-and-winter-soldier-power-broker-1234944318/ |access-date=May 8, 2021 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} co-executive producer Zoie Nagelhout noted that the character had an arc offscreen.{{Cite web |last=Dinh |first=Christine |date=April 26, 2021 |title=The Falcon and The Winter Soldier: Emily VanCamp and Erin Kellyman on Sharon Carter's Role as the Power Broker |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/falcon-winter-soldier-emily-vancamp-erin-kellyman-sharon-carter-power-broker |access-date=May 8, 2021 |website=Marvel Entertainment |language=en}} Executive producer and writer Malcolm Spellman stated the writers chose not to "be fake" by simply saying she had been in hiding, but rather, since she previously had "a very youthful quality to her", Carter was able to "[grow] up" because of being scorned by the intelligence community.{{Cite web |last=Romano |first=Nick |date=April 28, 2021 |title='The Falcon and the Winter Soldier' bosses on the Sharon Carter reveal and what could be in store |url=https://ew.com/tv/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-sharon-carter-power-broker-reveal/ |access-date=May 8, 2021 |website=EW.com |language=en}} On her new role as a supervillain, VanCamp noted that seeing where Carter has ended up was meant to give "a sense that it hasn't always been easy, and that the sacrifices she's made weren't always worth it in her mind". When VanCamp learned that Carter was the Power Broker, she felt it solidified the version of the character that appears in the series, and called the reveal "very fitting [since] she was hurt and scorned and went rogue".

In 2021 and 2024, VanCamp voiced two alternate versions of Carter in respective What If...? episodes, "What If... Zombies?!",{{Cite web |last=Campbell |first=Scott |date=August 1, 2021 |title=Here Are All the Marvel Actors Doing Voices in 'What If...?' |url=https://collider.com/marvel-what-if-voice-cast-explained/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802020126/https://collider.com/marvel-what-if-voice-cast-explained/ |archive-date=August 2, 2021 |access-date=August 1, 2021 |website=Collider}} and "What If... the Emergence Destroyed the Earth?".{{Cite web |last=Young |first=Kai |date=January 6, 2024 |title=Marvel Just Doubled Down On 1 Controversial Phase 4 Story 3 Years Later |url=https://screenrant.com/sharon-carter-mcu-villain-return-what-if-season-3-explainer/ |access-date=January 6, 2024 |website=ScreenRant}}{{Cite web |last=Silliman |first=Brian |date=September 8, 2021 |title=Episode 5 of 'What If...?' Fills the MCU with Zombies and Hopelessness |url=https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/marvel-what-if-episode-5-zombies-recap |access-date=March 29, 2023 |website=SYFY}}

{{Main article|Sharon Carter|Power Broker (character){{!}}Power Broker}}

Throughout the mainstream Marvel Comics, Sharon Carter was originally introduced as the younger sister of Peggy Carter in Tales of Suspense No. 75 (1966) written by Stan Lee, drawn by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.{{Cite magazine |last=Marston |first=George |date=April 24, 2021 |title=The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Who is Sharon Carter/Agent 13 |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/agent-13-sharon-carter/ |magazine=Games Radar |accessdate=March 30, 2023}} She was later retconned into being Peggy's great-niece for continuity purposes. In the comics, Captain America has a relationship with Carter "that has survived break-ups, dimensional divides, and even death and resurrection". Contrastingly to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Captain America travelled back in time to be with Carter's aunt, Peggy.{{Cite web |last=Migalla |first=Sean |date=March 1, 2024 |title=5 Years On, We All Need To Admit Avengers: Endgame Is Actually A Sad Ending For Captain America |url=https://screenrant.com/avengers-endgame-captain-america-sad-ending/ |access-date=January 20, 2025 |website=Screen Rant}} Despite this difference, in both the comics and the MCU, Carter was inspired by Peggy and is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.

One of the biggest differences from the comics is that in the MCU, Carter becomes the supervillain known as the Power Broker. In the mainstream comics, the Power Broker is a man named Curtiss Jackson who trades securities and assets and hires a scientist named Dr. Karl Malus to give super-strength for his clients.{{Cite web |last=Ramano |first=Evan |date=April 23, 2021 |title=The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Wants Us to Think Sharon Carter Is The Power Broker |url=https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a35950119/power-broker-falcon-winter-soldier/ |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=Men's Health}} Two of these clients include U.S. Agent / John Walker and Battlestar / Lemar Hoskins. Jackson was known for being dishonest with his clients by subjecting them to medical procedures they did not sign up for and giving them hardcore addictive substances to cause them to keep "coming back to him and paying for treatments".{{Cite web |last=Polo |first=Susana |date=April 2, 2021 |title=Falcon and the Winter Soldier's Power Broker connects many dots in Marvel history |url=https://www.polygon.com/tv/22352834/falcon-and-winter-soldier-power-broker-episode-3 |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=Polygon}}{{Cite web |last=Fuentes |first=Tamara |date=March 27, 2021 |title=Who is The Power Broker from "The Falcon and The Winter Soldier"? |url=https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/movies-tv/a35949907/who-is-the-power-broker-the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier/ |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=Seventeen}} This story was adapted to the MCU showing Carter supplying a doctor named Wilfred Nagel with resources to recreate the Super Soldier Serum.{{Cite web |last=Bruce |first=Amanda |date=May 25, 2021 |title=FATWS: 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Power Broker |url=https://www.cbr.com/falcon-winter-soldier-power-broker-trivia-details/ |access-date=January 20, 2025 |website=Comic Book Resources}}

Additionally, during the Civil War comic storyline, Carter was as supporter of the Superhuman Registration Act which causes strain on her and Rogers' relationship; in the MCU, Carter is an avid member of 'Team Cap', helping him fight against the Sokovia Accords.{{Cite web |last=Thapa |first=Shaurya |date=January 25, 2022 |title=10 Things Only Comic Book Fans Know About Captain America's Romance With Sharon Carter |url=https://screenrant.com/captain-america-sharon-carter-romance-comic-fans/ |access-date=March 30, 2023 |website=Screen Rant}}

Sharon Carter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was the great-niece of Peggy Carter and granddaughter of Michael Carter.{{Cite web |last=Bruce |first=Amanda |date=March 27, 2021 |title=The Falcon And The Winter Soldier: 10 Questions About Sharon Carter, Answered |url=https://screenrant.com/sharon-carter-mcu-falcon-winter-soldier-unknown-facts/ |access-date=January 31, 2025 |website=Screen Rant}} Growing up, Carter admired her great-aunt, Peggy, who helped found the intelligence agency S.H.I.E.L.D. Peggy bought Carter her first thigh holster and despite protests from her mother, Carter joined the agency. While working at S.H.I.E.L.D., Carter did not tell anyone about her relation to Peggy due to feeling that she could not live up to her great-aunt's legacy.

{{further|Captain America: The Winter Soldier}}

Sometime in 2014, Carter is assigned by the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury, to monitor and protect Steve Rogers / Captain America in his home apartment. She uses the alias Kate to observe Rogers, report back to Fury and ensure that Rogers is stable after being found in the ice a few years prior.

After Rogers is declared a fugitive by S.H.I.E.L.D. secretary Alexander Pierce, Carter goes to work in the Triskelion, reluctantly agreeing to help hunt him down. When Rogers exposes Hydra's plot with Project Insight, Carter watches as another agent is threatened by Brock Rumlow to launch the project. She reacts by pulling a gun on him, affirming herself to Captain America, and fights Rumlow off. After S.H.I.E.L.D. is dismantled, Carter joins the CIA and works at the Joint Counter Terrorist Centre, alongside Everett K. Ross.

{{further|Captain America: Civil War}}

In 2016, Carter attends her great-aunt Peggy's funeral and gives a moving eulogy where she reveals her family heritage for the first time. Rogers and Carter reunite after the funeral when the news about the bombing that occurred at the signing of the Sokovia Accords becomes public. Rogers' best friend Bucky Barnes is accused. Carter updates Rogers about the search for Barnes noting that there is an order to shoot him on sight.

Rogers, Barnes, Sam Wilson, and T'Challa are eventually brought to the Joint Counter Terrorist Centre after being arrested and are greeted by Carter and Ross. After a brainwashed Barnes breaks out of his cell with the help of his acting therapist, Helmut Zemo, Carter engages in a fight with him alongside Natasha Romanoff and Tony Stark. Barnes overpowers all three and consequently escapes with the help of Rogers and Wilson. Carter retrieves Rogers' shield and Wilson's wingsuit, subsequently betraying the government, and proceeds to go on the run.

{{further|The Falcon and the Winter Soldier}}

In 2018, Carter survives the Blip despite initially believed to have been a victim.{{Cite web |last=Hood |first=Cooper |date=September 8, 2020 |title=Avengers: EVERY Confirmed Victim of Thanos' Infinity War Snap |url=https://screenrant.com/aveners-infinity-war-thanos-snap-characters-victims-confirmed/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226155745/https://screenrant.com/aveners-infinity-war-thanos-snap-characters-victims-confirmed/ |archive-date=February 26, 2021 |access-date=March 6, 2021 |website=Screen Rant}} Over the next eight years,{{Cite web |last=Orquiola |first=John |date=February 9, 2022 |title=Why Sharon Carter Became The Power Broker (& What She Wants Now) |url=https://screenrant.com/sharon-carter-power-broker-why-future-plans |access-date=March 30, 2023 |website=Screen Rant}} Carter moves to Madripoor, becomes a black market art dealer, and then the Power Broker, Madripoor's criminal underworld secretive ruler. After the Blip, she learns about Wilfred Nagel's work on replicating the Super Soldier Serum and provides him with the resources to synthesize the serum. Additionally, Carter takes in teenage Karli Morgenthau, who betrays her and steals twenty vials of the serum, using one on herself and much of the rest on members of her anti-nationalist terrorist group, the Flag Smashers. Carter vows to track and kill her.

{{See also|Power Broker (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier){{!}}Power Broker|The Whole World Is Watching (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier){{!}}The Whole World Is Watching|Truth (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier){{!}}Truth}}

In 2024, Carter witnesses Wilson, Barnes and Zemo arrive in Madripoor and helps them escape bounty hunters that come after them. Carter tries to kill Zemo, but Wilson tells her they need his help. She takes them to her art gallery and uses her connections to help the three get to Nagel who is then killed by Zemo. After a fight breaks out between the four and other bounty hunters, Carter decides to stay behind in Madripoor but Wilson agrees to obtain a pardon for her so she can return to the United States.

Later on, Carter uses her resources to help Wilson and Barnes track down John Walker. Carter also releases Georges Batroc from an Algerian prison to track down and spy on Morgenthau.

{{See also|One World, One People}}

After being asked for help by Wilson, Carter travels to New York City to help him and Barnes save the Global Repatriation Council (GRC) from the Flag Smashers' attack. In the hustle of the attack, Carter separates Morgenthau from the others and confronts her. Batroc overhears them and attempts to blackmail Carter, who kills him. Morgenthau shoots Carter, then prepares to shoot Wilson, the new Captain America. The wounded Carter shoots and kills Morgenthau to protect her identity as the Power Broker. Carter watches Wilson make a speech and is later taken by Barnes to receive medical help.

Carter is consequently pardoned and reinstated to her former position in the CIA. Leaving the U.S. Capitol, she calls an unknown person to line up buyers for government secrets.

{{See also|What If...? (TV series)}}

Multiple alternate versions of Carter appear in the animated series What If...?, with VanCamp reprising her role.{{Cite web|url=https://gamerant.com/captain-america-brave-new-world-should-fixed-hated-mcu-twist-sharon-carter/|title=Captain America: Brave New World Should've Fixed A Hated MCU Twist|accessdate=April 4, 2025|website=Game Rant|date=February 20, 2025|last=Chapman|first=Tom}}

{{Further|What If... Zombies?!}}

In an alternate 2018, Carter is among the survivors of a Quantum virus outbreak which turned most of Earth's population into zombies. She, alongside Hope van Dyne, Peter Parker, Bucky Barnes, Okoye, Bruce Banner, Kurt, and Happy Hogan, leave their base in New York City and travel to Camp Lehigh where a cure is said to be in development. Carter is soon ambushed and infected by a zombified Steve Rogers. Resurfacing as a zombie herself, Carter is blown up by Van Dyne, but not before she infects her.

{{Further|What If... the Emergence Destroyed the Earth?}}

In an alternate universe, the Earth is split apart by the Emergence. Carter survives the Emergence and assumes her role as the Power Broker, a black market technology dealer. She meets with Riri Williams who is need of a magnetron, an essential part of a project she is working on to defeat Quentin Beck, the fascist leader of the Earth's remains. Carter, however, betrays Williams and hands her over to Beck's Iron Federation before being knocked out by Williams.

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VanCamp's role as Sharon Carter has received praise with TheThings writer Anthony Spencer noting that she had "great presence in the MCU" before seemingly disappearing from the franchise.{{Cite web |last=Spencer |first=Anthony |title=Who Was Emily VanCamp Before Playing Sharon Carter? |url=https://www.thethings.com/who-was-emily-vancamp-before-playing-sharon-carter/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518141845/https://www.thethings.com/who-was-emily-vancamp-before-playing-sharon-carter/ |archive-date=May 18, 2022 |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=TheThings}} Carter's reveal as the Power Broker received generally mixed reviews with many praising VanCamp's acting transition from Carter into the Power Broker but some deeming it confusing to the character's storyline, and calling it "predictable and unsatisfying".{{Cite web |last=Royer |first=Matthew |date=April 2, 2021 |title=Review: "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" finds its footing in compelling second and third episodes |url=https://www.thevalleystarnews.com/post/review-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-finds-its-footing-in-compelling-second-and-third-episodes |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=The Valley Star}}

Rolling Stone writer praised VanCamp's acting ability in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, noting that she "does well with the bigger showcase and with playing a much more cynical Sharon than the one who flirted with Steve in the movies".{{Cite magazine |last=Sepinwall |first=Alan |date=April 2, 2021 |title='The Falcon and the Winter Soldier': The Man Behind the Mask |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-recaps/falcon-recap-episode-3-power-broker-1150407/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |accessdate=March 23, 2023}} Deadline writer Anthony D'Alessandro also praised VanCamp's acting but noted that the reveal did not make much sense; however, he received the cliffhanger post-credits scene with praise, calling it "intriguing".{{Cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=April 23, 2021 |title='The Falcon And The Winter Soldier' Season Finale: And The Power Broker Is… [Spoiler] |url=https://deadline.com/2021/04/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-season-finale-power-broker-revealed-spoilers-sharon-carter-captain-america-1234742288/ |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=Deadline Hollywood}} Screen Rant writer Kai Young called Carter's transition to Power Broker one of Phase Four's most controversial stories. Similarly to D'Alessandro, he noted the transition made no sense as "Carter had always been depicted as a steadfast hero with a strong moral compass". Young also called it "insulting" to the Carter family legacy.

Comic Book Resources writer Timothy Donohoo wrote that Carter's change into the "villainous Power Broker" was "poorly" written.{{Cite web |last=Donohoo |first=Timothy |date=October 5, 2022 |title=Movie or Not, Armor Wars' Villain Cannot Be Sharon Carter |url=https://www.cbr.com/armor-wars-villain-not-sharon-carter-mcu/ |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=Comic Book Resources}} He felt that the "development came out of nowhere" and that "audiences didn't receive a true reason for her motives". Conversely, Mediaversity writer Li felt that Carter was "reborn" on the show "as a character with grit and independence".{{Cite web |last=Spellman |first=Malcolm |date=May 12, 2021 |title=The Falcon and the Winter Soldier |url=https://www.mediaversityreviews.com/tv-reviews/2021/5/13/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=Mediaversity}}

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