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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The In-Universe reason for the lack of Stan Lee cameos could be that the Watcher Informant retired.
Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!I like to think that the Watcher informant was an indirect victim of Thanos's snap in Infinity War, since that's his chronological last appearance in the films. Maybe he was hit by a car or something while getting out of his school bus.
Maybe Uatu or the other Watchers can reference it at some point in the future.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."So, the Captain America twitter page just got a certain update
. A lot of people don't seem to like it.
The show is even called What If, I’d expect it to be obvious that it’s not the new canon.
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Ah, those folks. Some and perhaps the majority of it is definitely sexists merely using Sam as an smokescreen for their usual misogyny.
But there's also been an unfortunate vocal community of ultra-hardcore Sam Wilson fangirls and stans who despise Peggy Carter (possibly related to Endgame discourse and bitterness at the ending? I've seen some indications that this is the case, but also others who've hated Peggy for years before then) and genuinely believe that letting her take up the role, even temporarily, is a backhanded belittlement of Sam, and that celebrating a white woman in the role that Sam and Sam alone was meant to have is racist. Said folks have also extended that to Steve's time in the role, saying things like "Steve who? Sam is the one true Cap in my eyes".
I saw a very recent uptick in the amount of Peggy-bashing posts among them, was wondering what the hell happened, and I guess now I know why.
Normally I'd just ignore them and leave them to their own devices, but said Vocal Minority (or at least, a band of Fandom VIP folks who happen to share an interest in Sam Wilson in common) have developed a tendency for Moral Guardians behavior and to bulldoze over fan events, supposedly in the name of fighting racism, but really a lot of those events are for ships or kinks (including just nonspecific darker-than-usual or BDSM themes) that aren't even related to Sam except in the most tangential way at best.
Edited by AlleyOop on Aug 9th 2021 at 2:53:19 PM
I think maybe some people are upset that they've been promoting Sam as Captain America for less than four months before immediately changing it to Captain Carter. Whereas Steve was promoted as Captain America on the page for literal years.
I'm not exactly upset about it since I know it's for temporary promotion for What If, but I do think it's strange to promote her on a Captain America account, since she's quite obviously representing Britain in her costume.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."It would only be sketch if they didn't change it back to Sam afterwards. Cap 4 is still a ways off.
Surely they mean "what if she was the Captain America equivalent" than "obviously she is Cap now"...
When they initially premiered the idea of Peggy Cap getting to become a Canon Immigrant in the comics several years agonote , and before that appearing in several spinoff games based on the MCU, I do know that in-between the miscellaneous complaints of Peggy becoming a Creator's Pet who had worn out her welcome and also the usual sexism, there was a bunch of fairly justified confusion about why she was being called Captain America when she wasn't even an American citizen. Some folks tried to excuse it by arguing that when they say Captain America is open to anyone, they mean anyone, even foreign nationals whose only tie to the US is temporarily residing in it.
It seems like they took note of that discourse, as I noticed here that they're calling her Captain Carter (since Captain Britain is a whole other thing) and doubling down on her British iconography.
Edited by AlleyOop on Aug 9th 2021 at 6:08:08 AM
Believe it or not, invincible hair was an actual power of Superman's in the Silver Age, sooo.... Captain Carter is Kryptonian? Not the Marvel/DC crossover I expected but there you go.

The stuff he did in Kingsman and Scott Pilgrim was amazing.
Okey Dokey!