The first trailer for Captain America: Brave New World didn't just reveal our first look at Harrison Ford's Red Hulk, it also featured a short but key glimpse of another important Marvel Cinematic Universe character: Isaiah Bradley. Isaiah Bradley, played by Carl Lumbly, first showed up in live-action on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Disney+ series. In that series, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) discovered that the same government that created Captain America has some skeletons in its closet, and one of them is Bradley.
And now, in the Brave New World trailer, it appears that Bradley is attempting to assassinate Ford's President Thunderbolt Ross. So who is Isaiah? Let's explore what we know and how this character exposes the dark truth behind the myth that is Captain America. Isaiah is the main protagonist of 2003's Truth: Red, White & Black.
Written by Robert Morales and drawn by Kyle Baker, the series reveals Steve Rogers was far from the only soldier the government attempted to transform into a superhuman propaganda tool. Because the formula for the Super-Soldier Serum is lost when Dr. Abraham Erskine is killed by a German spy, the scientists of Project: Rebirth have no choice but to attempt to recreate it through trial and error.
They do so by experimenting on hundreds of African American soldiers, men seen by the eugenics-obsessed Dr. Josef Reinstein as expendable tools for the cause. The series draws heavily on the real-world Tuskegee Syphilis Study , an infamous progr.
