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They invited the man who is “battling Cancel Culture,” Senator Tom Cotton, who suggested that we, in effect, “cancel” Captain America, stating that Captain America needs a demotion to Lieutenant. So, after Cotton put in his two cents on the situation, here come former ’90s stars Dean Cain (who played Superman) and Kevin Sorbo (who played Hercules) to slam the character’s “Wokeness” but Cain would later admit that he hasn’t read the book but stands by his stance. Then a self-identified comedian named Michael Loftus, host of the Loftus Party would complain that Captain America has been turned into “Captain Woke”, crying out “I’m done with Captain America, he’s dead!” These Networks and Critics miss the mark completely about Comic Books and Captain America, he has been political since the first day of his creation from punching Nazis, distinguishing between patriotism and fanaticism in the comic books (a lesson that Fox News would need to learn from this concept). Here are several more examples of how political Captain America is even in films and television, Salon pointed this out in their coverage:
- “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is an exploration of the real-life horrors of the surveillance state and predictive policing technologies, which can show who is a “threat” before they’ve even graduated high school.
- “Captain America: Civil War,” is similarly rife with political commentary on reining in global superpowers, and whether global governing bodies and treaties can be trusted.
- “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” in which the mantle of Captain America is picked up by Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson, a Black man with mixed feelings about becoming a symbol of a country still steeped in white supremacy. The short series explores how the experiments that created super soldiers like Steve (played by Chris Evans onscreen), and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), were rooted in racism and nonconsensual human experimentation on Black men. The show is devastating but honest, even including a scene where Sam is racially profiled by police.
There is plenty of misjustice in the world, politicians introducing bills to restrict votes, racism still going strong to this day, the growth of false news, xenophobia, embracing lies more than the truth, and inequality plague this country and in society while the people who are supposed to represent its citizens rather fight and try to misdirect their anger and rage over frivolous issues such as claiming an anime being part of a scheme to manipulate Americans by Google or KW Miller saying that Dragonball Z promotes “Over-Sexualization” in animation. While some disagree with politics in Comic Books they will still buy the merchandise and watch the movies because, at the end of the day, it is still Entertainment. It is a form of Freedom of Speech that shouldn’t be censored. The notion that when Marvel or Comics wading into politics is considered to be brand new when it isn’t, Marvel stories have been critiquing and reflecting on power and oppression for decades.
The Information and Images used in this article were provided by the following sources: CBR, Fox News, Salon, Culture Map Houston, Wikipedia, Variety, and History Channel.
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