[ SECRET POST #2616 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2616 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. I wouldn't say they were 'boring' or 'forgettable' (how can you accuse two of the biggest comic icons of being forgettable, seriously?), but I will say they're not the kind of character that interests me most.

They're, ah, how to put this? They're very fixed state sort of characters? Physically, I mean. In terms of superpowers, most of their attributes are related to strength, agility and physical perfection (not exactly, I know, but super-soldier plus super-alien, it's a theme). I tend to prefer more fluid and trickery-based attributes, things like shapeshifting and mastery of disguise and mindgames, so people like the Martian Manhunter or Barbara Gordon in DC and Bruce Banner, Tony Stark and Natasha Romanov in the MCU (I don't read the Avengers comics, just the X-men ones occasionally) are more my speed. I tend to prefer physical fraility or fluidity backed up by guile and experience to physical strength and daring.

There are themes about both of them that I find interesting. Cap's 'man out of time' is fascinating to me, and I love the Clark vs Kal divide that some incarnations of Superman have had. And I'm aware that they're not short on guile, either of them. But iconically, they're not the right set of themes/images to push my buttons the way other characters do, so generally they're fairly low down the totem pole of my interests, below people like J'onn and Barbara and Natasha and Bruce.

It's not their personality, is what I mean. If they work for you, they work for you. But they're not quite the right theme set to usually work for me?

[(Anonymous)]

Well put; they don't appeal to me at all.

They seem like very traditional sorts of heroes; the overdogs. Noble and beautiful and all that. Great if you like that sort of thing.

[mechanosapience]

I admittedly don't see Captain America as an overdog. As a caveat, I'm only familiar with movie-canon, but to me, it seems like Captain America is a huge underdog, just by virtue of who he is. He was an sickly, scrawny kid who never gave up. He got knocked down, and he'd get back up. I get how with the backing of SHIELD and his moniker, he can come across as an overdog, but at least to me, in spirit, he will always be just a kid from Brooklyn.

[(Anonymous)]

different anon:

I'm pretty sure the other anon meant Cap as an overdog in the comics, because he has been written or come across like that several times. Movie Cap is very different from comics Cap in many ways, and also not fresh out of WWII.