OUTRAGE! Captain America Is Acting Like Captain America
How polarized do we have to be to get that worked up over a fictional character from a kids comic and a couple movies? Marvel at the foolishness. Bat crazy. Super stupid. DC what I did there?
Is it political? Of course it is. It’s what Captain America as a character has been like since his creation. Like I mentioned, in his first appearance, he punched a goddamn fascist in the face. From then on, it’s been the same: In Civil War, he stands up for personal freedoms over government regulation. Hell, in the ’70s, he discovered that Richard Nixon—or at least, an incredibly thick implication that it was Nixon—was the head of a secret cabal trying to take over America. The character has been inherently political since his creation, and always will be. It’s not some newfangled thing cooked up by those kooky creative liberals working in comics today: that’s just who Captain America is.
But the other part of it is an alleged shock that a dude running around calling himself Captain America and fighting for the little guy might have some left-leaning ideals. The main furor that burst forth this weekend over Sam Wilson: Captain America #1 has been very much from sites that Spencer and Acuña lampoon in the issue itself: That somehow, by choosing to not be a mouthpiece of the Government or SHIELD and stand solely for the American people, Sam is now “Anti-American.”.
It’s as legendary comics scribe Kurt Busiek mused on Twitter—should we really surprised that all these years later, Captain America acts like this?
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