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Falcon

IdentityConfirmed

Real nameJoaquín Torres

CodenameFalcon

ContinentAvengers

In DoomsdayDanny Ramirez (on Marvel's cast list; role not yet named)¹

First seenCaptain America: Sam Wilson #1, December 2015²

Created byNick Spencer, Daniel Acuña²

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WhoAn American Air Force officer who backed up Sam Wilson and, when Sam took up the shield, inherited his Falcon wings and name.³

AbilitiesFlight on Sam's old Falcon wings, military training and coding skills.³

In DoomsdayMarvel lists Danny Ramirez in the cast but has not named his role; his most recent released role was Joaquin Torres / Falcon.¹

Last seenCaptain America: Brave New World (2025), as Joaquin Torres / Falcon: Recovering after being shot down, he hears Sam's plan to rebuild the Avengers.⁶

Sources

Level 2 // Surveillance recordOn screen · 2 sightings, 2 in the MCU

Every live-action sighting of Falcon, and everything Marvel has confirmed.

2021
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier MCU
Danny Ramirez A U.S. Air Force officer who looks up to Sam Wilson, Torres backs Sam from the ground during a rescue mission in North Africa, is the first to warn him about the Flag Smashers, and gets knocked out after stumbling into one of their bank robberies in Switzerland. Across five of the six episodes (by voice only in episode 3), he flies Sam and Bucky Barnes to Germany and, in episode 5, is handed the Falcon wings by Sam.¹²
2025
Captain America: Brave New World MCU
Danny Ramirez Now flying as the new Falcon in Sam's restored old wings, Torres helps stop SERPENT's sale of stolen adamantium in Mexico, meets Isaiah Bradley, and works the investigation after an attack on President Ross at the White House. He and Sam uncover the Leader's mind-control scheme at Camp Echo One, and he writes a program to block its trigger. Shot down near Celestial Island while destroying a missile, he survives surgery, and Sam tells him to be ready for a rebuilt Avengers.¹³

What Marvel confirmed

The film. Avengers: Doomsday opens 18 December 2026.⁴

Sources

Level 3 // Deep archiveThe comics · since December 2015

Origin, the comics by era, abilities and recorded feats.

Origin

Joaquín Torres was born in Mexico and was six when he crossed into the United States with his mother and grandmother, growing up in Sonoita, Arizona, and finishing high school on the honor roll. He never forgot the people still trying to make the crossing, and he made a habit of leaving water, food and medicine along the border for them. That habit put him in the path of the Sons of the Serpent, who were snatching people at the border and delivering them to the rogue scientist Karl Malus for experiments.

When Joaquín vanished, his grandmother Mariana turned to Sam Wilson, then serving as Captain America. Sam tracked the trail to Malus's base in New York and found that Joaquín had been rebuilt into a human-falcon hybrid using DNA from Redwing, Sam's own bird partner. Malus's other subjects changed back once rescued; Joaquín did not. Claire Temple worked out why: Redwing carried a vampiric strain, and it had left Joaquín with a healing factor that kept the transformation locked in place.

The change also tied him into Redwing's psychic link with Sam. When Serpent Society thugs hurled Captain America off a building, Joaquín heard the alarm through that link and caught him in mid-air, then held his own against the Serpents with Sam feeding him moves through Redwing. Afterward he took up the Falcon name as Cap's partner. He first appeared only in a photograph in issue #1 (December 2015), made his full debut in #3 (January 2016) and wore the Falcon identity from #6 (April 2016); the wiki credits Nick Spencer and Daniel Acuña as his creators.¹²³⁴⁵

The record, by era

2015–2016
A New Falcon Takes Flight Origin
Kidnapped by the Sons of the Serpent and remade by Karl Malus with Redwing's DNA, Joaquín became a permanent human-falcon hybrid with wings grown from his arms and a healing factor inherited from Redwing's vampiric strain. Sharing Redwing's mental link with Sam Wilson, he saved Captain America from a deadly fall and helped beat the Serpent Society. By the end of the opening arc he had claimed the Falcon name as Sam's partner.¹⁶⁷⁵
Key issues: Captain America: Sam Wilson #1, 2015 · Captain America: Sam Wilson #3, 2016 · Captain America: Sam Wilson #6, 2016
2016–2017
Captain America's Partner Sidekick
Joaquín stayed at Sam's side through the rest of Captain America: Sam Wilson. One story in issue #17 shows him rescuing Ariella Conner, a divisive political figure, when she is attacked during a university speech. Conner had previously called for him to be deported, and she promptly spun the rescue to serve her own agenda.¹⁸
Key issues: Captain America: Sam Wilson #17, 2017
2017
The Underground Secret Empire
When Hydra seized control of the United States, Joaquín joined the Underground resistance working against the new regime. He operated alongside members of the Champions as well as Ironheart and the Wasp, and the event's first issue features him among the young heroes of the resistance.¹⁹¹⁰
Key issues: Secret Empire #1, 2017 · Champions (Vol. 2) #11, 2017
2018
Back in Sam's Orbit Two Falcons
When Sam Wilson returned to the Falcon identity in his own series, Joaquín remained in the supporting cast, still credited as Falcon himself. In one issue the new Patriot, Rayshaun Lucas, teased him with a list of joke codenames now that the name was shared.¹¹¹
Key issues: Falcon (Vol. 2) #5, 2018
2019–2021
Teen Hero on the Roster Champions
Joaquín was a featured member of the Champions when the team's 2019 series launched. In the 2020 Outlawed crisis, as the government moved against teenage heroes, he insisted the Champions could stand on their own, only to be reminded by a senator that he had been trained by Sam Wilson. Under the new rules he signed on to be mentored by Sam Wilson.¹¹²¹³¹⁴¹⁵
Key issues: Champions (Vol. 3) #1, 2019 · Outlawed #1, 2020 · Champions (Vol. 4) #4, 2021
2022–2023
Supporting Sam's Shield Symbol of Truth
With Sam carrying the shield again in Captain America: Symbol of Truth, Joaquín returned as a recurring supporting character, credited in issues across the run from #1 to #14. The opening issue also introduced his cousin Luísa.¹¹⁶¹⁷
Key issues: Captain America: Symbol of Truth #1, 2022 · Captain America: Symbol of Truth #14, 2023
2025
Better Angels Skydream
The private military firm Eaglestar International abducted Joaquín and harvested his DNA aboard Skydream, a floating platform, to create winged guards called the War Angels. Broken out by Shadow Soldier (Josiah X) and later teamed with Sam and Sam's cousin Billie, he fought through the platform alongside Patriot (Elijah Bradley) and the Red Hulk, helped shut down its weapons before the fleet could strike cities with large Black populations, and then helped hand out Skydream's resources to the people it had hurt.¹¹⁸¹⁹
Key issues: Sam Wilson, Captain America #2, 2025 · Sam Wilson, Captain America #5, 2025

Capabilities

Avian hybrid body

The experiments gave him feathered winged arms, enlarged eyes and bird-like talons on his hands and feet.¹

Flight

Flies by flapping his arms, which have been partly turned into wings.¹

Regenerative healing

Vampiric traits from Redwing give him a healing factor that has brought him back from fatal wounds and may even regrow body parts.¹

Psychic link

Shares Redwing's psychic bond, so he and Sam Wilson can pass thoughts to each other through the bird.¹

Source of power

Karl Malus's experiments spliced him with Redwing, Sam Wilson's vampiric falcon, leaving him a bird-human hybrid whose change cannot revert.¹

Recorded feats

comics Sensing through Redwing that Sam Wilson had been thrown off a building, he flew to him and caught him in mid-air. Captain America: Sam Wilson Vol 1 #5 (March 2016)⁷¹
comics Came back from death after Cottonmouth bit his head, thanks to his healing factor, then took the Falcon name as Sam's partner. Captain America: Sam Wilson Vol 1 #6 (April 2016)⁵¹
comics Caught Patriot as the Skydream platform exploded, then helped disable its weapons so it could not attack the cities below. Sam Wilson, Captain America Vol 1 #5 (July 2025)¹⁹¹
screen On his first mission as Falcon he chased three SERPENT mercenaries on motorbikes, shot out a tyre, took them down and recovered the stolen canister. Captain America: Brave New World (2025)²⁰²¹
screen At Camp Echo One he worked out that flashing lights had planted hidden commands set off by a song, then fought off mind-controlled soldiers with Sam. Captain America: Brave New World (2025)²⁰²¹
screen Over Celestial Island he pulled a pilot from a disabled jet and destroyed a missile, but was caught in its blast and fell into the sea. Captain America: Brave New World (2025)²⁰²¹

Notes from the archive

His healing factor is strong enough that he came back from a fatal wound after the Serpent Society's Cottonmouth bit his head.¹⁵
He was seventeen years old at the time of Captain America: Sam Wilson #5 (2016).¹⁷
After Sam reclaimed the Falcon name, Patriot (Rayshaun Lucas) jokingly offered Joaquín replacement codenames such as Squawkman.¹¹¹
The screen version is a different man from the comics one: the MCU Torres grew up in Miami and serves in the Air Force's 547th Intelligence Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, while the comics Joaquín was born in Mexico and raised in Arizona.²¹¹

Sources

Signal history2015 to 2026 · bars: screen · line: comics eras

201520212026 · Doomsday

Known associatesShared the screen

Falcon

Captain America2 shared

Winter Soldier2 shared

U.S. Agent1 shared

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