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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
In the comics, it was more the fact that the Federal Government decided to pay all of the back wages for Steve Rogers and then demanded that he work for them and do what they want. He ended up refusing the wages and then discarded the name. He later took the name back.
Edited by alliterator on Jan 21st 2020 at 5:04:40 AM
That really doesn't factor into it. It's that the Captain America identity was conceived while Steve was acting as an official member of the U.S. military, and using equipment and weaponry created by the government. That's the rationale used in the comics and I imagine will be what they use here too, since The First Avenger shows "Captain America" to initially be a propaganda identity that the government concocted.
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I want Marvel Comics to create an actual Night Monkey character.
Might as well milk that one.
One Strip! One Strip!Which is a totally pedantic argument. We all know what the America in Captain America means.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.More to the point, in-universe Captain America is the product of a USA funded military project, his uniforms are USA military property, his propaganda films were funded by a USA Senator, his original iconic shield was also made on the USA's dime...
Edited by M84 on Jan 22nd 2020 at 2:20:26 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedYour reasoning was that because it used the word "America" it was automatically owned by the USA. That's as pedantic as they come, especially since "America" is used for more than just the USA, as I already pointed out. Trying to say that "America only refers to the United States" is silly and almost jingoistic to the point of "Do you think this A stands for France" levels. Even if you didn't mean it that way, that's how it comes across.
They were saying Captain America, the idea, was created by the United States government, therefore Captain America, the person, is who they say it is.
Like saying if MI 6 decommissioned James Bond and instituted someone else as Agent 007.
There is also debate about who owns the original shield. Per First Avenger it was a prototype/experiment that Howard made to play with the Vibranium he had on hand and wasn't part of the Commissioned set of Shields that Howard made for Steve.
Steve took a shine to *that* shield rather than the actual ones the Army/SSR ordered/paid for. So the argument could be made...and one Tony mostly likely DID make to Ross post Civil War...that the Shield was NOT US Army property but a personal gift from Howard to Steve ergo if Steve no longer wanted it...Tony would be the rightful owner as Howard made the thing.
That's also considering if Tony ever let Ross know he had the Shield during the time between Civil War and Endgame. My guess is "No."
I can also see Sam saying "did you know what Captain America did when the government told him not to do something?"
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.I don't know why but this
part of the Black Widow trailer just... electrifies me.
Baaa-naaaaaaaaaaauurn-naaah-naaaaern! -Red Star flexes-
And it's not that it's just... the door gets blasted, he flexes, squeezes on the helmet. It's like "f-ck yeah i'm back" The same "riff" happens here
and when Widow is walking into the movie's logo.
Edited by Soble on Jan 22nd 2020 at 5:23:13 AM
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!Marvel is looking for a new director for Captain Marvel 2
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Marvel has tapped rising scribe Megan Mc Donnell, a staff writer on the company’s Marvel-based series, Wanda Vision, to pen a script for a follow-up to the 2019 movie that starred Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson. Mc Donnell is in final negotiations to seal her deal.
Sources say that Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who co-wrote and directed the initial 2019 hit, will not return to helm the sequel but are in talks to remain in the Marvel Universe and direct a possible Disney+ series. Marvel is hoping to find a female filmmaker for Captain 2 and is eyeing a potential release in 2022.
Details of any high-flying take were not revealed but the new story will move the setting from the 1990s of the first movie to the present day.
Marvel had no comment.

No, there wouldn't, because under U.S. law, any creative works commissioned by the Federal government, or created by Federal employees in the course of their duties, automatically enter the public domain.