Like shoot him in the head? :-p
New screenshots for Captain America
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Just 30 years earlier, the best pilots flew red, blue or yellow planes. 50 years earlier the Brits still wore red coats in battle.
Then add to the fact that the bulls-eye that you are carrying is indestructible... It beats having a target on your forehead.
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Seriously though guys, it's Marvel Productions, not Sony. It will be well handled.
Oh, I get all that. It just seems counter to the mentality for the other soldiers they had in WWII. Why have all the flashy colors and bullseye shield when you CAN do camouflage?
Because then it's not Captain America, the gaudiest and most propaganda-based superhero this side of the Atlantic!
Camo was not well accepted during the war, the army did not use any in Europe. The marines would mostly use their personal camo in the Pacific. The US Army did not adopt Camo until the 1980's.
But no giant suspenders...Colors and helmet aside, his uniform doesn't look that different from a standard paratrooper uniform from WW2 aside from being more form-fitting.
They had lots of pouches and shit, too.
Well as pointed out above, he is a propaganda tool... and he was one inside the comic too...[URL='https://www.halforums.com/members/minddetective.315/']MindDetective[/URL] said:
And you can always say that he's meant to draw fire away from the more squishy troops because he can actually wear heavier armour (did you know the Russians wore breastplate that protected them against submachine guns in WW2?)...
It all looks great to me. I have hopes for this movie.
One of them being that they don't gunk it up with a ton of pre-Avengers excess fat like they did to Iron Man 2.
One of them being that they don't gunk it up with a ton of pre-Avengers excess fat like they did to Iron Man 2.
Awww, I want it to be good on its own; not good in comparison.
HYDRA, while the main villains of this film, are going to be a rogue intelligence agency lead by the Red Skull. Love the pictures.
EDIT: Vis-a-vis the character being a propaganda tool...maybe in the early days, and definitely in story. Since his return in the sixties though, Cap has been portrayed as fighting for the ideals the U.S. is meant to stand for (IE, Democracy, a government for the people, and The Bill of Rights) even when it brings him in direct conflict with the government. Civil War is the most recent (and most poorly written) example, but it goes back to 1974 when Cap temporarily became Nomad after finding out Richard Nixon was corrupt. No, not the Watergate scandal...he was a leader of conspiracy called The Secret Empire, but the idea is still the same.
EDIT: Vis-a-vis the character being a propaganda tool...maybe in the early days, and definitely in story. Since his return in the sixties though, Cap has been portrayed as fighting for the ideals the U.S. is meant to stand for (IE, Democracy, a government for the people, and The Bill of Rights) even when it brings him in direct conflict with the government. Civil War is the most recent (and most poorly written) example, but it goes back to 1974 when Cap temporarily became Nomad after finding out Richard Nixon was corrupt. No, not the Watergate scandal...he was a leader of conspiracy called The Secret Empire, but the idea is still the same.
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He flat out went against the governement in Civil War to support a cause he felt was just as well.
That's what I'm saying. Captain America hasn't been a propaganda tool in at least 37 years. Except in the pages of The Ultimates, but Jeph Loeb and Mark Millar are morons. Ironically, it is the latter (who isn't even an American) who writes Cap as the most jingoistic, douchey...and badass.
Him not being American might actually be why...
The douchey part yeah, but Ultimate Captain America is the biggest badass in the Ultimate line. Able to take down whole enemy squads by himself, rides motorcycles out of skyscrapers while fighting terrorists and outrunning and explosion, etc. He's a almost a Marty Stu.
Which makes the fact he's a written by a Scotsman somewhat incongruous.
As a Spaniard, I think would probably write Captain America in a very similar way. After all, "Douchey Badass" is a very good description of one of the recurrent stereotypes about americans and america as a nation.
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I almost died of laughter.
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Your check is in the mail.
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Funny doesn't depreciate, it goes up in value, I want to get in on this at the ground level!
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I like you Krang, you're all brainy and veiny.
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It's because of the extra 'u', right? 30% more of teh funnez.
It's just an Xtreem way to spel.
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