Film guide · 2025
The whole film, start to finish, told scene by scene in words. Read this and you'll know everything that happens.
Contains every spoiler, up to the ending.
Sam Wilson and the new Falcon, Joaquin Torres, raid a deal in Mexico to recover a stolen secret, run by the mercenary Sidewinder's crew.
Newly elected President Ross calls Sam and invites him to the White House. Ross says he wants to rebuild the Avengers.
Sam brings Isaiah Bradley, a super soldier the government once imprisoned for decades, to the event.
Ross tells world leaders he wants to share the adamantium found on Celestial Island. Japan's prime minister is among them.
Mid-ceremony, a certain song plays, and Isaiah and several others suddenly open fire on the President. Sam and Joaquin protect him.
Isaiah is arrested and says he remembers nothing. Sam is convinced his friend was controlled.
Sam and Joaquin track down Sidewinder, who admits someone hired him.
The President's aide Ruth Bat-Seraph investigates too. She's a former spy trained in the same program as the Black Widows.
Behind it all is Samuel Sterns. Exposed to Bruce Banner's blood, he gained a brilliant mind, and Ross kept him locked away for years to exploit it.
American and Japanese fleets face off near Celestial Island. Sterns takes control of pilots to make them fire on both sides.
Sam and Joaquin fly through the battle stopping missiles and jets. Joaquin is badly hurt.
Sam's desperate efforts stop the war just in time.
Sam finds Sterns's hideout. Sterns reveals he's been dosing Ross for years, so that rage will transform him.
At Washington's cherry blossom festival, Sterns's trap is sprung. Ross's anger boils over, and he becomes the Red Hulk.
The Red Hulk tears through Washington. Sam, with no super powers, takes him on in his new suit.
Under the cherry trees, Sam talks to Ross. Thinking of his daughter Betty, Ross calms down and turns back into a man.
Ross resigns as President and goes to the Raft prison. His daughter Betty comes to see him.
Isaiah is cleared and set free.
Sam starts thinking about forming a new Avengers.
Sam visits Sterns in the Raft. Sterns warns that danger is coming from beyond this world.