He turned up in the mid-Eighties as the intensely InfoWars-sounding Super-Patriot, who functioned as a black mirror of Captain America: his love of country is aggressive, fractured and blindly loyal rather than optimistic and questioning.Ĭhristopher Priest, who wrote a five-comic miniseries about US Agent which arrived last summer, called him "Cap’s scowling, emotionally damaged misfit cousin" and he did take up the mantle of Captain America for a bit in the comics.
#NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA LOOKS LIKE GUY FROM UP TRIAL#
That sounds a lot like the Marvel superhero US Agent, alias John Walker. Look at Minneapolis, where an unarmed biracial Black man, Daunte Wright, was murdered by police, at the same time the trial of Derek Chauvin, the cop who murdered George Floyd, is happening. This guy, whoever he is, sounds like he's going to be an avatar for the more – ahem – traditional American values. He switched to just clouting people with his shield quite quickly though.)
(Yes, Steve Rogers was in World War Two, which was quite tricky to get through without a gun. Looks a lot like late period Sean Connery.) What that means for this post-Blip America is a white dude with a gun and, judging by his supremely annoying face, a lot of misplaced confidence in exactly how much a white dude with a gun can get done. Mackies Sam Wilson is the first Black man to take up the mantle of Captain America in. "We need a real person who embodies America’s greatest values," says the guy on the podium who introduces New Cap. And the kid tells her, Well, Captain America looks like me now.
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