One more thing about the death of Captain America...
He shouldn't be dead.
No, not from the fact that I think they were idiots to kill the character off, but from a couple of simple facts.
First off, he was in costume. If the story was accurate, Cap was a prisoner. Prisoners don't get to keep their own clothes. He should have been in standard prison issue.
Second, as a prisoner being transferred, federal law requires a prisoner being transferred to wear a flak vest. A bullet-proof flak vest. And Cap wasn't shot in the head, he was shot in the stomach, exactly where the vest would have protected him. Oh, and even if he got the special permission to wear his own outfit, that outfit seems to be made of some form of armor, designed I think, to protect him from things like, oh I don't know...bullets?
And finally, when Cap looks up and notices the sniper, why does he keep this information to himself? I guess he wanted to protect the team of elite SHIELD agents around him that are trained to deal with all manner of dangerous threats from a lone gunman. Or maybe he just gave up? After all, he's only survived for decades through war and death of those closest to him and being frozen in a block of ice. So, having a bad experience while three civil workers tackle him for...wait, why did they tackle him? That really was never made clear in Civil War.
No, I feel that the thing that killed Cap (ignoring the previous post) was bad writing. I would go on, but this entry would simply disolve, rather quickly, into a diatribe against the state of writing at Marvel these days.
About Me
- Brett Brooks
- I've been me as long as I've been alive. I'm originally from Fort Wayne, IN, and then moved to Marietta, GA at the age of 13, where I still live today. I met my wife on my 23rd birthday, and then married her nine years later, and have been married to her ever since.
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I had many of the same ojections. There is a saying that "Talent can recognize genius, but mediocrity can't see beyond itself" or something to that effect...but I think that applies to Marvel's writers when it comes to integrity and nobility. If they think that being on Myspace and voting for American Idol is the summit of civic responsibility, then it's no wonder they can't figure out how to write a character who's got so much more substance than that. There is simply no nobility in their souls. It's ultra sad when the days of Rob Liefeld's version of Cap with the changed outfit's star on his forehead looks like a patriotic, Kirby-esque triumph by comparison to how the character is being treated today.
Tom
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