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  1. 2021-03-19, 09:58 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #39
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    Default Re: The Falcon & Winter Soldier

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    Huh. Never heard of this one.
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    Captain America was created to punch Nazis.

    After WWII, they didn't really have anything to do with the character, since Nazis were gone, so they rebranded him as Captain America: Commie Smasher, a Cap for the McCarthy Era who hunted down communist spies lurking in our midsts.


    This take on Cap...didn't do very well. Especially after the Red Scare faded and McCarthy was disgraced.


    Soo, in the early Avengers comics, the Avengers discover Cap in ice. It was retconned that the 50s Captain America wasn't the beloved Steve Rogers, but some other guy named John Walker, who was appointed by/blackmailed the US Government (or something), impersonated Cap, and used the shield and star-spangled jumpsuit to pursue his own agenda.


    From what I can tell, John Walker has, with successive decades and reboots, been reworked into kind of "Captain America, but he kind of sucks", usually under the name U.S.Agent, operating as a solidly D-List Hero for the most part.

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