Sharon Carter
It’s tough to pick the most pointless person in the whole of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but we have a pretty good contender. Ladies and gentlemen, we put it to you that Sharon Carter is the most useless and unwanted character in these movies.
Initially just known as Sharon, Emily VanCamp’s S.H.I.E.L.D. agent first turned up in Captain America: The Winter Soldier as a neighbour of Steve’s that Black Widow tried to set him up with. She didn’t do much but, like we said, characters being introduced for major roles in future are par for the course, so we let her appearance there slide at the time.
Come Captain America: Civil War, though, and there was no real payoff for Sharon’s introduction in the previous movie. In fact, her character got worse. First, it was revealed – though comics readers already knew this – that she was Peggy Carter’s niece before she later shared a single kiss with Steve – her aunt’s former beau.
The problem with Sharon’s character is threefold. Not only is her romance with Steve laughably weak, with VanCamp sharing little chemistry with Chris Evans over their short amount of screentime together, and also just plain weird (we repeat: she’s Peggy’s niece!), but it’s utterly unnecessary. Civil War has enough to be getting on with without trying to matchmake Captain America.
Russo brothers, why not just use the Time Stone to bring Peggy to the 21st century and give us a character and a romance we actually care about in Infinity War?
