At the end of “Captain America: Civil War”, Tony Stark’s team wins the conflict, with many members of Steve Rogers’ team taking the fall to allow him to save Bucky. The end of the film provides insight into the proceedings by showing Scott Lang, Clint Barton, Wanda Maximoff and Sam Wilson being arrested and placed in a super-max prison called the Raft.
Located under the ocean in the middle of the sea, the facility has some of the most advanced security technology, and its remote underwater location makes it nearly impenetrable. Nonetheless, Captain America and Bucky are able to break in and free their teammates, teasing their next appearance in “Avengers: Infinity War.”
The nature of the Raft seems to lend itself to the idea that it could house the MCU’s most dangerous super-criminals. Although most of the early MCU villains were killed off, like Ivan Vanko, taken off-planet, like Loki, or mysteriously disappeared, like Red Skull, many have speculated about a notable villain who may have been housed in the Raft: Emil Blonsky, aka the Abomination. While it’s not said in the movie if there are other prisoners on the raft, we have to imagine it wasn’t built just for the Avengers. It was probably built for any super-powered, high-security-risk individual, and Abomination certainly qualifies. With Blonsky appearing in the Disney+ series “She-Hulk,” we can finally find out if that was the case.
