Do they expect him to recover?
General Streck: 'Very well, let me know if there is any change in his condition.
[hangs up]
He's dead.'
Captain America, here just in time to save Democracy from the fascists again.
I mean superheroes are kinda fascist by definition, but yeah sometimes it is tempting to have someone that can just... ya know...
Oh for sure. Superhero content just reinforces an infantalized mindset that's a ripe bed for fascism.
People get a hard-on for "strongmen" that break the law to get the "bad guy" because the government is too weak, evil, innefectual, yada-yada
Captain America respects the law, it's kind of his thing. Not saying he's never broken a law, but it's not his first choice. Unless it's the laws of physics, but that's a convention of the genre which he's upholding.
You should watch The Boys. It's a superhero show that addresses this exact issue. It's nothing like the Marvel universe, the superheroes are pretty sinister in this universe.
Pauly Shore can finally stage his big comeback.
Let’s digg up Brendon Fraser!
That's cool.
Sounds like the plot for an 80s sitcom
It he was a few years older, it was an 80s movie called Iceman.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15868638/ (if you're in the UK you can watch here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001y669/mammoth)
Wake him up
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