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Marvel is changing Captain American to a BLACK man !

Discussion in 'Member Casual Chat' started by Channe, Jul 17, 2014.

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  1. RichT2705

    RichT2705 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    RichT2705, Jul 17, 2014
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  2. Talon

    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Bruce Wayne is banging-out his ward?

    Who does he think he is, Woody Allen? :puke:
     
    Talon, Jul 17, 2014
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  3. Talon

    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Good question, Rich.

    And shame on us - what's to say that the new Black Panther isn't a trans-gender superhero? Maybe that heaving rack isn't the real thang? :lol:
     
    Talon, Jul 17, 2014
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  4. TheTaoOfBill

    TheTaoOfBill Well-Known Member

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    I'm a big comic book fan. Especially a marvel comic book fan. And anyone who has a problem with this is just ignorant. Falcon has been in Captain America comics for 60 years. He was even in the latest Captain America movie with him. He's trained extensively with him and has fought by his side more times than anyone. There is no one else you would replace Steve Rogers with. It makes the most sense.

    Besides this is only a temporary shift while Steve Rogers is MIA. I guarantee it will all return to status quo by this May when the Avengers movie comes out. Pretty damn sad that people are freaking out over this just because of his race.

    None of the actual fans of the story are upset because this absolutely makes sense in the story.

    The only people upset are people who think Captain America is some sort of symbol for white America.
     
    TheTaoOfBill, Jul 17, 2014
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  5. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

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    I don't think having a Marvel comic book hero be black is going to destroy America..
     
    Durandal, Jul 17, 2014
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  6. TheTaoOfBill

    TheTaoOfBill Well-Known Member

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    TheTaoOfBill, Jul 17, 2014
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  7. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

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    Kind of interesting how this works. I've never been into comics, so I had no idea until now that Captain America was a suit occupied by different men.

    Hmm, men... Might there be another America-destroying change for Captain America coming up in the future?
     
    Durandal, Jul 17, 2014
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  8. Channe

    Channe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No, CA is a title and not an individual. The mantle has been passed to different men. A black CA is fine, but I find this to be calculated and intended to appease the far left.
     
    Channe, Jul 17, 2014
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  9. TheTaoOfBill

    TheTaoOfBill Well-Known Member

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    They do these stories now and then. What if so and so was so and so. How would they act as that hero.

    They just recently got done with Superior Spider-Man where Doctor Octopus switched bodies with Peter Parker because he wanted to show the world that he could be a better Spider-Man. That lasted a year and ended the same week Amazing Spider-Man 2 came out.

    Is it a bit silly? Sure. But people who love these characters eat it up because it's an interesting new take on the character.

    I'm sure people who love Falcon are really going to enjoy this story.
     
    TheTaoOfBill, Jul 17, 2014
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  10. Surfer Joe

    Surfer Joe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yet suddenly it's cause for hysteria and another round of brain farts among the rubes.
    Why am I not surprised?
     
    Surfer Joe, Jul 17, 2014
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  11. Talon

    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It won't, but superficiality isn't strengthening America, either.
     
    Talon, Jul 17, 2014
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    spoken just like a 11 year old boy.
     
    TexMexChef, Jul 17, 2014
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  13. Talon

    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Kinda like your sig, eh, big boy? :roll:
     
    Talon, Jul 17, 2014
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  14. Junkieturtle

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    I really don't see this as a political correctness thing. I see it more as a way to open up new angles on characters that have been around for decades. I really don't see what's even politically correct about having a black man or a woman play a comic book character. They aren't real people. They can be whatever the authors want them to be, especially when their gender or race doesn't really have anything to do with the character. Spawn could be a white man or a black man and it literally changes nothing about Spawn. Captain America could be a man, woman, white, black, American Indian, doesn't matter, because it doesn't change a thing about the character.

    Now Thor as a woman I can understand some objection to since Thor is a character from real mythical legend, and even the name Thor is a man's name. But even here I can only muster a slight "that's dumb" because these are comic book characters and they don't matter in the slightest and nor are they involved in national politics in any way.
     
    Junkieturtle, Jul 17, 2014
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  15. WallStreetVixen

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    No, it hasn't. The Continuity explains that very well.

    Its Captain America, not the Green Lantern.

    It may be fine if they plan on rebooting the series, not if they plan on keeping the same timeline. That would just be stupid.
     
    WallStreetVixen, Jul 17, 2014
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    "Yesterday I heard Thor is being changed to a Woman, and now Captain America needs to be a Black guy?"

    Why not comics? In television and movies, all the heroes are black men, and justifiably so. White men in America have become pusillanimous little wimps, so someone must take their place to gitter done! :clapping:
     
    nom de plume, Jul 17, 2014
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  17. Channe

    Channe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Thor being a woman is the bigger joke. In theory I have no issue with a black CA, I just think it was done to appease far left groups.
     
    Channe, Jul 17, 2014
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  18. TheTaoOfBill

    TheTaoOfBill Well-Known Member

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    We have a black president now. Now they feel threatened and pushed into a corner.
     
    TheTaoOfBill, Jul 17, 2014
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  19. Channe

    Channe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Are you intentionally glib or just trolling ? CA is a suit and many different men have worm it. It's not based on any one individual !
     
    Channe, Jul 17, 2014
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  20. Oldyoungin

    Oldyoungin Well-Known Member

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    It seems like the black captain america character dates back to the early 2000's....................
     
    Oldyoungin, Jul 17, 2014
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  21. WallStreetVixen

    WallStreetVixen New Member

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    Captain America is not a suit, it's the character. So yes, it is based on the individual. Based on the Captain America continuity, the individual (Steven Rogers) has been alive for nearly a century, mostly due to his suspended animation from being frozen in the North Atlantic. There was never a new Captain America since. The only person he has asked to continue the manta as Captain America was his side, who isn't black by the way.

    Continuity matters. It is what makes the stories' good and what keeps fans being fans. You can have a black Captain America if it is an entirely different story, but not if it is the same story...

    Given the time period and the history of the Captain America, a black Captain America wouldn't make sense at all. Stop being stupid...
     
    WallStreetVixen, Jul 17, 2014
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  22. RichT2705

    RichT2705 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Im not following your insult. What about that sounded juvenile?
     
    RichT2705, Jul 17, 2014
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    Even as a DC fan I know this is an inaccurate statement. Can you please explain why there have been so many other captains over the years if it is not a title and just Captain Rogers? I mean it is true he was the first but clearly not the last and only.
     
    Crawdadr, Jul 17, 2014
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  24. Tahuyaman

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    I thought the bald eagle was the one bird that was automatically associated with America?

    As far a who Marvel comics uses to depict Captain America? I could not care less.
     
    Tahuyaman, Jul 17, 2014
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  25. Talon

    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I'm sure Obama's white mother would marvel at your lame "revelation", Bill. :roll:

    I'm equally sure that the OP, who happens to be one of Obama's fanboys, doesn't feel particularly threatened or pushed into a corner over this.
     
    Talon, Jul 17, 2014
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