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Marvel ’s latestCaptain Americais a draught - sidestep hippy - but does that prevent him from becoming America ’s most patriotic superhero ? The Star - Spangled Man is famously an ikon of American might in the face of adversity , fromWorld War 2 forrader to the present day . ButAvengers Forever # 7asks the question rarely ask in Marvel Comics ( or comics in general ): can a human race still become Captain America if he begrudge the very country for which he fights ?
From 1941 to the present day , Captain America is both a soldier and a symbol for the Marvel Universe ( and the earth at large ) . Created as part of a propaganda movement against Hitler , Steve Rogers became the face of the war travail on the home front , alongsideDC ’s Superman and Wonder Woman- but the postwar era escort a decline in superhero popularity . By the time Stan Lee revived the theatrical role in 1963 , America had alter - and so had Captain America himself . While he never officially fight in the Vietnam War , Marvel has flirted with the mind of showing Steve Rogers joining the counter - culture effort before .
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InAvengers Forever # 7 , written by Jason Aaron with artistry by Aaron Kuder , a man named Steve Rogers heat up in a nondescript jail cellphone . He chop-chop realizes that the other five people in the complex arealsonamed Steve Rogers - including aWolverine stochastic variable of Captain America , a dog , and an older man with an unkempt beard and a broken demeanour . He charge through the one open door in the jail cell with a rallying cry of"Death to the military industrial complex!"- and though whatever expect him beyond the door drags him back to the mobile phone , he is no bad for wear . “I am a political prisoner!“he shouts . “Because I refused to take part in your illegal war ! Your fascists will not break me ! "
The validation that thisCaptain America is indeed a Vietnam War protestorcan be base on the covert , in which Steve Rogers impersonate for a mug shot after a dare arrest . pick up in Alemeda County in California , Rogers was arrested on May 22nd , 1965 - meaning Ginger Rogers most belike took part in the May 21st " Vietnam Day " protests at the University of California . Some Marvel tarradiddle that boast Captain America in Vietnam actually have him side with theVietcongagainst the United States , so this " hippie " Captain America has a precedent .
Even though this Steve Rogers refuses to become a soldier in the army , he does n’t shy away fromfighting . He unfeignedly believes that America ’s liaison in Vietnam is illegal and base ; he stands up for what he believes , even if it ’s unpopular and fly sheet in the look of the persuasion at the time . Captain Americadoesn’t necessarily fight for what Americais , but rather what itshouldbe - and in that esteem , this " hippie"Steve Rogers is just as worthy to handle the shieldas any other .
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