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It’s hard to come up with a good description so… here’s Steve with a special dedication for mistletoestucky because she’s awesome 🙂
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Captain America: White to be Released in September
Okay guys listen to me. foxyfussings drew my attention to this today, and this is actually a potentially really big deal.
The Marvel COLOR series is a series of short run stories including Daredevil: Yellow, Hulk: Grey, and Spiderman: Blue. All of these, including a prelude Issue 0 Of Captain America: White, were published in 2008. But here’s the thing. Despite the fact that the creators of Cap White say it’s an amazing story, it was the only one that never got its actual release.
The other books are critically acclaimed, Daredevil: Yellow is on many “must read” lists of people looking to get into the comics after or before taking on an interest in the new Netflix show.
Here’s the big thing. The entirety of the color series? Focuses on the love interests of the heroes and explores their relationships. How they met. Significant moments.
This article talks about briefly the other stories in the color series.Captain America: White is about Steve and Bucky.
I don’t want to jump to conclusions. But those are the facts.
PLUS:
– The Captain America installment was delayed. It was delayed SEVEN YEARS after a lot of hype, interests, and sales of the 16 page prelude Issue 0. The other parts of the color series sold very well. Why is it being released now? Why not then? Was there controversy?
– I’ve read articles that said specifically they wanted this comic to be released before Civil War. All five issues (this will be a five issue limited run) will be out before Civil War opens.
Dunno about you guys, but I’ve already got my copies preordered.
Tagging ohcaptainmycaptain1918, linzeestyle,
My question is: what is Steve Rogers’s body count?
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We don’t talk about that a lot because he’s an American Hero ™ and American Heroes don’t ever actually kill people even when they’re, you know, soldiers in the actual fucking Army. The American Hero has to show mercy and give everybody a second chance and any time the Bad Guy dies, it has to be because he made a mistake that lead to his own death. The hero can never actually just fucking murder him in our stories because that would be wrong and a true American would never do something like that.So, like, has Steve Rogers ever shot a dude in the face? Has he ever snapped anybody’s neck? Has he ever been struggling for his own life and used his shield to take a life?
If you have either canon comics knowledge or just Opinions and Feelings, please feel free to share. Because, like, dude was a soldier in WWII on the European Front fighting Nazis, kicking open doors with gun literally blazing, so he’s obviously killed people, but we never discuss this. How does Steve reconcile killing? Does he feel guilt? Is he comfortable with his actions? Has he killed people since he got pulled out of the ice? How does he feel about taking human lives? Does he talk to anybody about it? Does he just internalize it and let it eat him up inside?
This is an excellent question, so I decided to look into it (in MCU, not the comics, sorry). Turns out it’s incredibly difficult to determine Steve’s on-screen body count because 99% of his kills are unconfirmed/ambiguous—which, given that Marvel is now owned by family-friend Disney, is obviously deliberate, and made easy by the fact that Steve’s weapon of choice is his shield (blunt force trauma, no penetration, leaving no obvious marks). A metal Frisbee doesn’t look like much of a weapon, right?
However, as a traumatologist in spe, I know for a fact that a shield thrown hard enough to embed itself in a metal bulkhead would definitely kill anyone it hit, especially if—as here—it’s aimed directly at the person’s head:
There’s a good chance almost everyone Steve hits with the shield full force ends up dead/severely incapacitated and probably disabled for life.
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