Captain America was always an ideological pastiche of what America "should be".
Falcon/Winter Soldier are much more accurate depictions of what America actually is.
But Cap is considered an icon, because he's... a blonde-haired, blue-eyed straight white military dude of the Greatest Generation. Meanwhile, F/WS are problematic because one's a swarthy-looking jive-talking urban millennial and the other is a long-haired unshaved Slavic-looking hippie with PTSD.
Comic books are the trash bin of ideology. :zizek:
Falcon was an antifaschist in other Cap stories, and he was great there.
Falcon was just another guy fighting Red Skull, a character that very deliberately existed to blur the line between Nazis and Communists as a generic "Foreign Man Bad".
Multiracial neoliberal hegemony is not an admirable goal because neoliberal hegemony is not an admirable goal.
Falcon is the personification of the old 👏 More 👏 POC 👏 Drone 👏 Operators 👏 meme. He's neoliberal now. He's been neoliberal for over two decades. And his introduction as New Captain America was explicitly about Owning The Chuds in a way that granted a pass to American imperialism while pretending at Antifacism.
Captain America was always an ideological pastiche of what America "should be".
Falcon/Winter Soldier are much more accurate depictions of what America actually is.
But Cap is considered an icon, because he's... a blonde-haired, blue-eyed straight white military dude of the Greatest Generation. Meanwhile, F/WS are problematic because one's a swarthy-looking jive-talking urban millennial and the other is a long-haired unshaved Slavic-looking hippie with PTSD.
Comic books are the trash bin of ideology. :zizek:
Damn this is a bad take
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It's Capeshit. They're all bootlickers.
Falcon was just another guy fighting Red Skull, a character that very deliberately existed to blur the line between Nazis and Communists as a generic "Foreign Man Bad".
Falcon is the personification of the old 👏 More 👏 POC 👏 Drone 👏 Operators 👏 meme. He's neoliberal now. He's been neoliberal for over two decades. And his introduction as New Captain America was explicitly about Owning The Chuds in a way that granted a pass to American imperialism while pretending at Antifacism.
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The comics and the movies have been echoing one another for decades. "Marvel Unlimited" was explicitly created to facilitate this.
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Albert_Malik_(Earth-616)
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In an issue that comes out at the tail end of the Cold War.
Weird how we have a Soviet Red Skull character from roughly the beginning of the Cold War to its end.
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They made a second Soviet Skull and ran it for thirty five years during the thick of the Cold War.
A thirty five year long afterthought.
There are franchises with shorter print runs.
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I would rather have the people ruling us look like me TBH. At least then I would have preferential treatment that white people do.
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