New Captain America to be gay
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It sounds like they've completely destroyed the concept of a specific hero, now they want 'everyone to be a hero.'
Basically they aren't creative and they are lazy, so this is the outcome.
I recall one of the Batman movies having regular people start acting like Batman. That would be an interesting concept, exceptional people trying to be "Captain America". Maybe have the story arc be that the original captain is gone for some reason and the stories are about people fighting against bad guys who look up to the captain and emulate him. That could create some interesting stories of people trying to be more but I don't expect them to do anything fun like that.
This is literally the story behind Reign of the Supermen.
The only difference is, in The Dark Knight, the Batman impersonators weren't exceptional. They were fat, lazy, and dumb.
His flag tattoo is fucking backwards. Fucks sake.
It's also shown off alongside a communist tattoo.
USA flag next to the red star.
It doesn't make any sense.
Idk all of you but I'm deeply inspired by men who like other mens shit holes. Like it's just so heroic to slowly but surely close the gap between youth and senile fecal incontinence. It really makes me wanna get out there and do something, y'know?
I can't wait for when they actually cancel The Punisher next for those political reasons. It's going to make so many more comic viewers wake up for the problems the industry is having.
Yeah, I’ve been thinking about that, too. They’ll probably just ruin him, rather than make him go away altogether.
Last I recall, a ton of Frank Castle comics lately have been pretty low effort. Honestly they sort ruined him with the Netflix series. The actor was great but they just turned the story in some lame Jason Bourne like on the run CIA plot. You didn't really see the Punisher....punish.
It seems like the third season might have been more like that, if they'd made it. The second season was like an extended origin arc.
Who the hell is this being marketed to... lgbt is like 2% and only a small % of that small percent has any interests in comics.
Well might as well just make all the super heroes gay and all the villians straight.
And a very small percentage of those people actually want Cap to be gay. Cap is Cap. Always been. If you really can't stand him being hetero, then why would you be a fan? Pick a different character. Not that hard, there are about 7 metric ton of them at this point, from Marvel and DC, to small indie stuff to manga.
This is the thing, who the fuck is like "I would become a huge fan spending a ton of money on this... if you just made it different". Like what??
That's literally made Watchmen so interesting.
It's also why people like Deadpool, and were so disappointed with Hancock.
Superman (at least in the old movies and the 90's TV show) actually wasn't. He wouldn't superhero all the time, to prevent everything bad that could happen. Superman only showed up for the big stuff. Because Clark Kent has a day job and personal life. Superman, his alien powers, don't define him. Yeah, they're traits he HAS, things that make him special, but they'd set him apart from the world he's trying to be part of.
He's a reporter, dating Metropolis's famed columnist-reporter Lois Lane, cares about his adoptive parents, and occasionally helps the world out when he thinks it needs it and he can do it with a veneer of plausible deniability to his alter ego.
I don't think the superhero genre started this way at all. After all, the vast majority of silver age heroes were white, straight, male, and morally Christian. These IPs were wrested away from their creators by big business, who then handed everything off to radical leftists. They proceeded to subvert and destroy, slowly at first, and now rapidly, as is their MO.
I also think the classic vigilante is more akin to a monarch; they both decide and enforce a morality that is individually determined, a perfect reflection of their personal worldviews. Only in recent times has the vigilante become a mouthpiece for leftist statism, and that shift has been simultaneous with the overriding narrative switcheroo by leftists. To wit: they must imagine and conjure threats and oppressors so that leftism can maintain the "resistance" high ground even as it mercilessly wields near-total control.
The people who go to comic book stores are way different from who they market to
Sounds like it’s an anthology series where everyday people wield the shield and “become” Captain America. In other words, this is the hollowest of virtue signaling from Marvel.
If you like Captain America, and have never read Simon and Kirby’s original Fighting American, check it out. The character isn’t as popular, so it hasn’t been ruined, in spite of Rob Liefeld taking a crack at it in the late 90s.
I hated the Titan series, too, since it was so predictably ‘modern.’ Oh, here’s two guys from the 50s that get flung into current day, haha, they’re so backwards, lets pair them up with a lesbian FBI agent! Can’t just tell a good story about Fighting American smashing Commies, oh my, no.
Hope they make him black and gay at the same time, for that super inclusivity.
Also pregnant.
and retarded, but I guess thats implied
But not black?
Not woke enough
Well, it looks like they will pass the shield to several characters so I expect a black one soon enough.
On a side note I noticed that black guys are not normally portrayed as gay. In fact they make a point of making the black dude the manly character.
At first I thought this was about Captain Planet and I was about to ask, "He wasn't already?"
Forgetting about everything else for a second;
Is anyone else confused by the character design?
An American flag tattoo alongside commie tattoos?
Supposedly is a blue collar labourer who loves his country enough to fight for it but has the piercings and haircut of an anarchist?
It's just so jarring.
Been collecting comics since childhood. It was awesome when comic book companies marketed to comic book readers
you mean, mostly male and mostly white nerds? hehehe.
When male heroes are bad ass and female heroes are sexy.
Yep. I’m a black male and can say without a doubt one of the worst things to ever happen to nerd culture is the over obsession with diversity.
Or at least it should reflect the demographics. Like right now, entertainment makes it seem like 20% of people are lgbt instead of 2%.
Exactly! But if you want people to read a minority/female character then make a good story. He wasn’t a popular character but I liked Steel because the fact he stepped up to help when Superman died. And the way they say you can only like characters based on race. I love Spider-Man and Superman because of their idealism. Not because they are white.
Starting with fake controversy to generate buzz around the project I bet . Don’t bite, the industry has been fizzling out entirely on its own for a few years now.
Expect a trillion articles about all the “hate” they’ve received from all the usual sites maybe even with convenient instructions on where and when people can buy this stunning and brave series
Quite a shocker.