Created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Dick Ayers, the character first appeared in Tales of Suspense #75 (March 1966).

[2] Emily VanCamp portrays Sharon Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Captain America: Civil War (2016) and the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021), and voices alternate universe versions of the character in the animated series What If...?

She grew up with the stories of her aunt (Margaret "Peggy" Carter) who was a freedom fighter with the French Resistance during World War II.

Inspired by her aunt's adventures, Sharon joins the international security agency S.H.I.E.L.D., and is assigned the code name Agent 13.

[6] By this time, Steve Rogers, the patriotic hero known as Captain America, had been revived from suspended animation, and during one of Sharon's earliest missions, he comes to her aid when she is under attack by a mercenary known as Batroc the Leaper.

liaison with the New York Police Department, Sharon investigates and infiltrates a white supremacist terrorist organization known as the National Force.

Under the effects of a mind-altering gas, Sharon apparently activates a self-destruct device in her National Force uniform and dies.

Learning that they plan to use the Cosmic Cube to return Adolf Hitler to life, Sharon joins forces with the villainous Red Skull to stop them, but they also need Captain America.

[volume & issue needed] At this point, Rogers is suffering health problems: the Super-Soldier serum that gave him his abilities is breaking down, and he has fallen into a coma.

Over the course of the mission to topple the cult he learns that her years out in the cold have made her grimmer and more ruthless, and the two of them do not renew their relationship when Sharon rejoins S.H.I.E.L.D.

[volume & issue needed] A romantic tension still exists: Sharon teases him about his naïveté, such as when he lets a family of squatters stay in his apartment.

While investigating the whereabouts of Jack Monroe, she is abducted by the Winter Soldier and used as bait to lure Captain America into a trap set by General Aleksander Lukin.

She switches her allegiance to Captain America, citing the death of Goliath as the primary reason; it is unclear how much of this is the result of Faustus's influence.

[volume & issue needed] In a follow-up, a sniper shoots Steve Rogers in the shoulder while he walks up the steps to the Federal Court.

It is later revealed that the plan was orchestrated by the Red Skull; the sniper was Crossbones, and Sharon Carter shot Rogers in the abdomen while under a hypnotic suggestion by Dr.

[10] Sharon is still under the influence of Doctor Faustus, who uses her to disable Black Widow and Falcon before she joins the Red Skull's organization as a minion.

She is apparently pregnant with Rogers's child, but she loses the baby during a fight with the Red Skull's daughter, Sin, during one of several attempts to escape.

[21] Sharon Carter pretends to be brainwashed by Doctor Faustus, but incapacitates him by spiking his tea with a non-lethal toxin.

[22] Sharon Carter later forms the Daughters of Liberty, who work to clear Captain America's name after he is framed for the death of Thunderbolt Ross.

Deirdre Kaye of Scary Mommy called Sharon Carter a "role model" and a "truly heroic" female character.

[25] Joe Anthony Myrick of Screen Rant called Sharon Carter a "popular ally to Captain America.

"[26] Rob Clough of Looper described Sharon Carter as one of Captain America's "central love interests," writing, "She's a scrappy, clever, and tough agent who never backs down from Cap, despite his status as a living legend.

After the Red Skull's daughter Valentina de Santis kills her parents, Sharon accompanies Captain America to Italy to defeat the villains.

Sharon Carter appears in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), portrayed by Emily VanCamp.