About the new Captain America reveal in the comics

[annathepiper]

I’m seeing the Internet explode all over the damn place today, thanks to the new reveal about Captain America in the Marvel comics.

I’m not even reading Cap’s title right now; my exposure to him in the comics so far has been his periodic appearances in the titles I have been following. Notably, Black Widow and Captain Marvel, at least prior to the recent universe reset. The vast majority of my experience with the character has been via the movies.

But Cap’s also one of my favorites. I like him for many of the same reasons I like Superman: to wit, I actually appreciate the morally upright “boy scout” type heroes, when they’re done well. And Chris Evan’s portrayal, particularly in the recently released Civil War movie, has always been about his rock-steady moral center.

This new reveal? It’s bullshit. It flies in the face of everything the character has always been about. Not to mention that taking a character created by a couple of Jewish guys and doing this to him is just full of NO.

The reveal in question, I’m putting behind the fold just in case you haven’t managed to see it yet and care about spoilers.

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Comments

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

This is the first I've heard of it, but it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever with any of the character's history. There's no way you can say that all the stuff he's done was about maintaining his cover. Unless the writers are saying he was a brainwashed sleeper agent and didn't even know it himself, you can't even begin to square it. And yes, Marvel has re-written its own comics' past more times than there are blades of grass on my lawn, but there's always still been the kernel of the character there, which this is not.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Especially since Captain America's creators were Jewish.

"An insult" doesn't even begin to cover it.

[annathepiper]

Indeed. I updated my original post with my favorite reaction on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/inaneenglish/status/735508685682823173

[annathepiper]

Yeah. solarbird and vixyish and I were talking about this online, and we were in accord that as a plot development, it just doesn't make any freggin' sense. Even aside from any question of what this says about Cap's moral center, there's also the question of it just not making any damn sense for Hydra, given how much Cap has done against them over the years.

If he's supposed to be an undercover agent, he's the least useful undercover agent ever.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Exactly. There's a certain amount of minor damage an undercover agent can do to maintain good cover - what Cap has done to Hydra over 50 years of canon isn't it!