Marvel didn't go back to Falcon's first origin until All-New Captain America #3 (2015), which establishes that Red Skull made up the entire "Snap" Wilson story. What's important right now is that Falcon had some very tasteful things to say about his best friend's new magical girlfriend: Marvel Comics Marvel Comics To be continued in the inevitable WandaFalcon porn parody. Oh yeah, and this happened while Cap and Wanda were sleeping (but just sleeping) together, which is a whole other can of reality-altering worms. Marvel Comics Marvel Comics Marvel Comics "Woman" was definitely another word in the first draft. During the Avengers: Disassembled storyline in 2004, a mentally unstable Scarlet Witch reverts Falcon to his "Snap" persona just to screw with Cap. Of course, Falcon is able to overcome the Skull's control and continues being a superhero - but the "dope-trafficking mobster" story remained his accepted origin for decades. Marvel Comics Marvel Comics "Only a monster would humiliate the character like this!" - the writer humiliating the character like this Once Red Skull was ready to reveal his ruse, he demonstrated his power over Falcon by making him cluck like a chicken. That's where Red Skull found him and, using the reality-shaping powers of the Cosmic Cube, turned him into an "upright, cheerful negro" so that he'd befriend Captain America and become his crime-fighting partner. One day, "Snap" was flying back from some sort of deal in Brazil (the comic doesn't specify, so we're gonna assume he was buying man-thongs) when he got greedy and decided to attack the pilot to steal his bosses' money, causing the plane to crash on Nazi Island. Marvel Comics Marvel Comics "Do we have any black writers on staff?" "No, but I've seen Shaft." "Close enough." Captain America and the Falcon #186 (1975) reveals that Falcon's entire backstory was a fabrication - he was never a social worker, he was a mob-connected drug dealer called "Snap" Wilson who dressed like a pimp and talked like, well, a white comic book writer trying to write "black" dialogue. until Marvel decided to make it a bit more confusing and a lot more racist. That's about as simple an origin as you'll find in comics. Cap convinces Sam to dress up in a (somewhat) falcon-looking costume to inspire the locals to rise up against the Nazis, and he ends up liking the whole "punch racists for a living" deal, so he becomes a superhero.
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