Phase Zero
Characters

Sharon Carter

Agent 13

Sharon CarterCaptain AmericaEarth-616

Peggy Carter's great-niece, who did everything the way her aunt did and found out that nobody was coming to help her.

Sharon Carter is the great-niece of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s founder Peggy Carter. She follows her aunt into the agency and takes the codename Agent 13. On Fury’s orders she watches over Steve Rogers as an undercover nurse, and then helps him bring down a S.H.I.E.L.D. that Hydra had been inside for seventy years. She joins the CIA afterwards, and goes into hiding after helping Rogers during the Avengers’ civil war.

Then the films leave her there. She survives the Blip in exile, unpardoned, while the people she helped are celebrated.

Minor spoiler

By the time of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier she has established herself in Madripoor as the Power Broker, running the city’s criminal underworld. She is pardoned and reinstated at the end of the series without anyone finding out. The turn divided viewers, and this catalogue notes that the reaction to the character was generally positive and the reaction to this specific development was not.

Played by
Emily VanCamp
Role
S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, then CIA, then something else
Affiliation
S.H.I.E.L.D., the CIA, then herself
What they can do
None. Training, and a great deal of resentment.

The journey

What happens to this person, title by title.

  1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier2014

    Living across the hall from Steve Rogers as a nurse, on Fury's orders, until the agency she works for turns out to be the enemy.

  2. Captain America: Civil War2016

    Steals the shield and the wings back for people who are now fugitives, and becomes one herself.

  3. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier2021

    Found in Madripoor, pardoned in Washington, and running the thing everybody has spent the series chasing.

Appears in

  1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier2014
  2. Captain America: Civil War2016
  3. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier2021

Sources

Facts last checked on Sep 10, 2026