[politicomics] "Righting wrongs and being righteous in your life"

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One of the few unmitigatedly good things about yesterday (the 4th) is that it's Steve Rogers's birthday. And I was going to write up my thoughts about just how awesome he is as a character—I know, from the outside, he can seem terribly corny (Ny, I think you once described him & Barry Allen as being "not part of your America"? I was going to

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Steve Rogers is so poor that he had to live out of Sam Wilson's office.

Steve Rogers is so poor that his mother died in front of him while explaining that she was saving her medicine for her sickly boy.

Anyway, substance of the post: I think it's fairly obvious that there's a wonderful escapist element in seeing America associated with a liberal humanist who really wants to do good, but the escapism in that is kept on a very tight leash: Steve isn't invincible, just stubborn, and he's frequently beaten down by hateful fucking reality of America.

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Steve isn't invincible, just stubborn, and he's frequently beaten down by hateful fucking reality of America.
*nod nod* That tight leash - like Truth:RW&B in particular - is a *big* part of what makes the character so compelling. Negative space, or something? The dark underbelly CONTEXT that makes his stubbornness even more admirable.

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Absolutely. Who cares about a guy whose battles are easy, who doesn't suffer for his beliefs, who always wins, who isn't thoughtful about the role he plays in the world?

[glossing]

Steve Rogers is so poor he had to sew the first Nomad costume?

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Steve Rogers is so poor that fighting with Nick Fury means losing his rent money (yet he does it anyway).

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He *had* to fight with Nick. Fury was WRONG.

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Wrong, yet ever so amusing, especially when he dons the roboarm to attempt a Cap-whooping.

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I harbor such alarming fondness for Nick's roboarm and like to daydream about him pulling it out of storage for a friendly duel with Bucky.

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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh tee pee!