Before you head to the Cineplex to see Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Brave New World, there are a few things you should know — or, remember! — about two characters from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,

Brave New World is not on the level of Captain America: Winter Soldier or Civil War, but it’s a solid project from Marvel Studios that allows Mackie’s Sam Wilson to make a name for himself and not just be the guy forever known as Steve Rodger’s buddy not named Bucky.

Like its prequel television series, “ The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ,” the newest MCU film, “Captain America: Brave New World,” hopes to explain why a Black man would want to represent a country that has so rarely protected people who look like him.