Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross returns to the MCU in Captain America: Brave New World, his largest role yet. Ross has an interesting MCU arc that has largely happened offscreen. He debuted as General Ross in 2008's The Incredible Hulk and returns as the Secretary of State in 2016's Captain America: Civil War.

After making his debut in 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Mackie has portrayed Sam Wilson in eight Marvel projects over the past decade. In many of them, Mackie's Wilson also goes by the superhero pseudonym Falcon, the *ahem* wingman of Chris Evans' Steve Rogers, aka the original Captain America.

Brave New World” is, by official count, the 35th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that began in 2008 with “Iron Man.” It’s also the fifth in the series of interconnected storylines known as MCU’s Phase 5,