Actor Tim Blake Nelson's wonderfully goofy take on the Leader helps forgive a lot of the clunkier parts of Brave New World. But the character would have been so much more impressive had it followed the model set by the groundbreaking comic book series The Immortal Hulk.

Though the marketing for the film hasn't put him front and center (yet), we've known since at least 2022 that Tim Blake Nelson will reprise the role of Samuel Sterns/The Leader in Captain America: Brave New World.

I am absolutely certain that the Leader’s distinctive cranium underwent a significant redesign in rehoots, and early character designs support this.