If you saw the new Funko Pop collection designed for Captain America: Brave New World, you may look like Red Hulk (Harrison Ford), too. That bellowing growl is not giving "Smash" in a steroid-rage way, but ridiculously angry in a "This sucks out loud" feel toward the other baddie in the film —The Leader.

Played by Tim Blake Nelson ("Looking Glass" in The Watchmen Max series), The Leader is every bit a fascinating antagonist in Captain America's world. He's a primary fixture in the life of Sam Wilson as well. He was known as Samuel Sterns until a freak chemical accident that exposed him to heavy gamma radiation (because Hulk). Then, something goes terribly wrong. Sterns' skin turns green, and his head grows exponentially.

He will capture our imagination because he looks like the love child of Brainiac and a Skrull Warrior. That notwithstanding, Sterns' heightened intellect grants him powers beyond his wildest dreams,...