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Thursday, March 15, 2007 | 3:12pm
They Murked Captain America Ya’ll
Captain America is dead. That’s right Marvel Comics has recently killed off the iconic character and many people are not happy about it. Why? Because Captain America is a character that is supposed to personify America. He stands for truth, justice and all that other good propaganda stuff. And many feel that killing such an [...]
Captain America is dead. That’s right Marvel Comics has recently killed off the iconic character and many people are not happy about it. Why? Because Captain America is a character that is supposed to personify America. He stands for truth, justice and all that other good propaganda stuff. And many feel that killing such an important character off is just not a good look for the country. Esspecially during a time when morale in the United States is low and people just aren’t buying all that stuff about freedom and democracy. When it comes down to it, its nothing but good business on the part of Marvel Comics. They managed to get the spotlight back on a character that no one has given a damn about since World War II. They don’t care because by today’s standards Cap is pretty corny. With the red, white and blue costume with the little wings on his head. The saddest thing is that Captain America hasn’t been a good representation of America for a long time. White guy with blonde hair and blue eyes? Come on. If he truly represented America he’d be…well he’d probably be Mexican. 
Cap dies in issue #25 of his own series. No, he doesn’t get killed on the battlefield fighting insurgents in Iraq. He gets assinated by a sniper while leaving a courtroom. Oddly the series will continue with possibly a new character taking up the mantle of Captain America. As an odd twist, in the issue Captain America dies, the Punisher is seen picking up Cap’s mask off the ground after the shooting. Forshadowing maybe? How crazy would it be if the Punisher, a character that freely kills those he feels deserve it, became America’s superhero?
**UPDATE: Looks like I was right and Punisher is becoming the new Captain America. Click here to see the Punisher as Captain America (interesting costume design). Also it appears that at that Steve Colbert was left Captain America’s shield in a “will” and actually had the shield sent to him by Marvel. Pretty funny. Check out the video below.
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I think the fact that Captain America hasn’t really represented America in a while is why he should stay dead, because Captain America’s death represents an awareness of the change in America – America’s not all blond-haired, blue-eyed white people, but at the same time, America’s no longer about justice and freedom. Some can argue it never was, but at least then, there was the illusion of it. Now with things like illegal wars and the Patriot Act, Captain America’s death says we’re aware.
welp Wolverine is my man anyway
Aight see that’s why comics are the best the story lines are crazy how they interweave.
When we are all truly ready to accept freedom into our lives, Captain America will return. That, and when his clone is done baking in the oven. Freedom coincidentally smells like fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. Or is that hash brownies. No, no – it’s justice that smells like hash brownies.
Until then, you are all welcome to come up to Canada, like U.S. Agent did. Party with Tommy Chong and The Sasquatch. Maybe you’ll get a chance to hit it with Nelly Furtado. Anything can happen in this fubar crazy world.
i can’t believe they ended the life of one of the greatest super heros this just makes me so sad
why would they end it like that anyway
I’m real late to this issue. But as I ran across your blog will researching reaction to this, I must say all of oyu need to put the weed down. One, a Mexican couldn’t represent Captain America as the blogger so snidely put, because Captain American wouldn’t be breaking the law and sneakin illegally. Two, the war wasn’t illegal either. we had every legal right to go there. We could have done it years ago. Is that the reason we were given–no. But stop this B.S. about illegalness, its just not factually true.
As for Captain American not representing America. Let me ask you something? If you use the same criteria, should we say that the Black Panther character should be killed off considering nothing about the character remotely represents Africa?
Captain America as a character does represent America. Everything that America is suppossed to be, can be, and in many ways is. Is the USA perfect? No, but that does not mean that you should diss a character as time honored as Superman, Batman, or Wonder Woman.
Killing him was silly. Heck, killing Iron Man makes more sense, because he does is not a primary staple of the history of the company, or comic book history. So please stop it with the Let’s Hate America and anythng that promotes American patriotism, song and dance.
Ra Ra Right-Wing!!! Go Patriots!!! I Mean Bigots!!!
well said, even though you’re a year late.
@Kiara Ashanti. Black Panther is an iconic character but he in no way is supposed to be the face of Africa. If he was they’d call him “captain africa”. Black Panther is known as being the first black super hero and that is all.
As for my statement that a better face for America would be Mexican was a tounge in cheek way of saying that the people of this country are diverse and should be represented as such.
And just because a person chooses to be against the war or not stand with our president does not make them unpatriotic. It just means they have an opinion of thier own.
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