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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Different people who went by the name "Captain America."
- After Cap went into the ice, post-World War II, the US Government decided that they didn't want people to know that him or Bucky were dead, so they basically chose two different people and changed their appearance so they looked like Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes and gave them a version of the Super Soldier Serum that turned out to be...not that stable. This was the infamous "Commie Smasher Cap" of the 1950s, which was initially meant to be Steve, but when Stan Lee brought him back in the pages of Avengers, he was retconned into being someone else. Later on, Commie Smasher Cap was brainwashed and made into the Grand Director of National Force, a Neo-Nazi organization. Later on, his name was revealed to be "William Burnside" and he came back to fight Bucky Cap during the "Two Americas" storyline. Last seen having been shot multiple times by Bucky and falling into the water.
- John Walker, on the other hand, became Captain America after the government fired Steve for not following orders, basically. Walker had been a hero called "Super Patriot," but he was pretty violent and had gotten into fights with Cap, but they offered him the job anyway. (They were being manipulated by the Red Skull.) As Captain America, he was way more angry and violent than regular — I would call him a parody of the edgy '90s vigilantes, except this happened in 1987 — and eventually Watchdogs killed his parents and he ended up killing his former sidekicks who leaked his name to the press in retaliation. After it was revealed that the whole thing was a manipulation by the Red Skull, he was fired and Steve was rehired, but Walker went on to become US Agent. He's been a member of Force Works and even the Avengers occasionally, but he's generally characterized by his excessive use of force and willingness to kill. Eventually, he became Warden of the Raft after losing an arm, but then regained the arm (don't ask) and went back to being an agent for the US government. He was last seen fighting against Sam Wilson as Cap, since Hydra Cap asked him to.
Edited by alliterator on Jul 5th 2019 at 10:07:02 AM
And the MCU, Jeffrey Mace was the Director of SHIELD after Coulson, right when SHIELD went public again. He claimed to be an Inhuman, but he was actually using a cocktail serum made from Mr Hyde's serum to give him super strength (it could also possibly kill him, but he decided it was worth it) so he could be "the Patriot." As an Easter egg, Coulson stated that they chose him because they wanted someone "like Captain America" to lead SHIELD, although Mace was more concerned with bureaucracy at first (he got better).
In truth, in a comic book world any given military leader will probably be responsible for some significant breaches of ethics, protocol or chain of command. So many secret projects going on that no one above a certain rank would be clean. With Ross there was still a slim chance he had state and local authorities informed that something was happening. The instant SHIELD dissolved the Avengers became a private militia, and they would do things like evacuating Sokovia as though they had any political authority whatsoever.
That would require him to be around. He was on the run up until Avengers and then was on the run again after Ao U.
I posted this in the FFH thread (no spoilers, don't worry), but I wanted to put it here because it's such a fun idea.
It'd be cool if the next Avengers / crossover film took a breather and went for a plot that's less densely dramatic, more bombastic and comic-booky, and introduced the Savage Land and Ka-Zar. The whole idea of a world inside of Earth with not just prehistoric concepts, but also strange and mystical ones: they could composite the idea with Thor's mythos and finally give us Jormungandr, for one. Or the main villain could be Spider-Man's antagonist Stegron, trying to use the Savage Land's properties to devolve the planet, and we could get that iconic panel about turning people into dinosaurs.
Marvel Studios is coming back to Hall H for San Diego Comic Con 2019!
Hall H is reserved for super huge news, so fingers crossed!

Technically they do.
I mean, failing to do something is still doing something, and you can learn from that failure and be better...in theory.
Plus, if he's the only non hydra, non extremis conspiracy dude left...
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