The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: What’s hidden in plain sight in episode 6
By Mike McNulty
More of Bucky’s list of names
Being this is the last episode, “One World, One People” has Bucky confess to Yori Nakajima that he was the one who murdered his son as the Winter Soldier. In turn, this allows him to cross off the final name on his list that he wrote in Steve Rogers’ notebook. But as Bucky’s assigned therapist, Dr. Raynor (Amy Aquino), leaves through the pages of the notebook, we see that there were a lot more names on Bucky’s list than we first realized.
As before, the names are references to either Marvel comic book characters and creators, or Marvel Studios personnel. But there’s one name in particular which really sticks out: “A. Clairemont-Windsor.” That’s because this seems like a clear reference to writer Chris Claremont (albeit not the same spelling) and writer-illustrator Barry Windsor-Smith, -two creators known for their work at Marvel Comics, particularly Uncanny X-Men and Weapon X, which is a Wolverine miniseries.
This potentially makes the second X-Men reference (the first being Madripoor) in a series based off the Captain America comics books. And before you go, “Oh my gosh! This proves the X-Men are coming to the MCU!” keep in mind that a) we already know this, and b) there’s no plans for an X-Men or Wolverine movie during Marvel Studios’ Phase 4 of movies. Still, it is rather curious.
Then again, Claremont and Windsor-Smith didn’t just work on X-Men projects during their time at Marvel. Claremont’s first gig was writing Captain Britain, a comic originally published exclusively for the United Kingdom. Before being folded into the X-Men line-up, the character initially started off as Britain’s version of Captain America, albeit with very different origins tied to Arthurian Legends, and who occasionally team-up with Cap. As for Windsor-Smith, he was the inker for a Jack Kirby-illustrated Captain America story featured in a 1976 one-shot , Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles.