Steve Rogers, CAPTAIN AMERICA & Hydra agent all along

http://stuckytogether.tumblr.com/post/144931176610/typhoidmeri-awwheartno-awwheartno

What the...

Aaand Marvel comics Great No Homo 2k16 campaign has another CANON wtf jewel in their crown.

EDIT: Ugh, I was so upset, look at my stupid spelling. And I still feel white supremacist is a good and very correct title, but I'm actually giving myself the willies. Dread shouldn't be the reaction when looking at one's own thread. I'm changing it.

 

man this
ugh
just
UGHHHHH
MAKE IT STOP

 

http://panels.net/2016/05/26/on-steve-rogers-1-antisemitism-and-publicity-stunts/

 

it's just. revolting. why would someone who has so little respect for the character and the people that created him even want to write a captain america comic in the first place? eueughhhghhhhh D:

 

Just so you know, discussing this has already been happening over in Tumblr.txt!

 

Comic books :D

 

original flavor captain america: steve rogers
hydra captain america: seve rogers

 

i inverted cap's colors in a shitty paint program, since that seems to be a very Comic Book thing to do.

seve rogers, also known as the reverse captain not so subtle dig at flash, there

Spoiler: the original pic is a liefield for good measure

but really, all of this is upsetting nonsense. a lot of people are calling them on the fact it's a gimmick, and a few of the articles i've read covering it so far has been them saying it's not and then them proceeding to unintentionally describe this as a gimmick.

 

For anyone who hasn't seen the other thread and would like to at least glean some levity from this godawful situation, I collected all the alternate plot twists suggested by people in the Tumblr.txt discussion (like "Black Widow was actually Spider-Man the whole time" and "Daredevil just keeps his eyes closed") and posted it on Tumblr. It has more than 900 notes already, and people keep reblogging to add their own suggestions. My favorite were my sibling's additions, but there have been some other excellent ones.

 

my fave on that list was iron man needing two boxes of scrap instead of one, because i could totally see tony lessening the amount of materials he needed every time he retold the story.

 

tony: i made my suit out of a single paperclip
steve: what the fuck tony
tony: are you questioning my brilliant engineering skills?

 

Tony Stark, age 94, tottering around an assisted living facility in power armor: "I made my first suit of armor outta a THIMBLE! A THIMBLE, I TELL YA!"

 

Apparently people on Twitter had the same idea as @Avery . ours are better

 

There was a post on my dash of repaints of the 'Hail Hydra' panel as other superheros, and I think this one probably highlights just how dumb this is the best:

 

I've never been the superhero type. The characters I might have admired turned me off by me being introduced to them by their modern Darker And Edgier reboots/personas, like Watchmen and the Dark Knight trilogy. Fun, good movies, not really what I would call heroes. So much of the internet hype and comics I could buy looked like the misogynistic, thoughtless men I knew in real life, but put into capes and given the excuse to smash things. I could never get into it, I was infamously bitter about comic 'heroes.' I was scared to be around the stores or the fans because oh god, the fans. It's not that I wanted uncomplicated characters with no flaws, as some accused me of, I just wanted someone called a hero who didn't, by taint of their writer or their mansplainers, ping me, however subtly, as being a product of their men-centered, self-focused, insular comic world.

Captain America was an exception. I really liked him. He looked like a hero. He looked like a good man. I don't think you understand. I am a born and raised American who calls myself an anti-patriot because I am so freaking bitter and salty about this country. Sheer, store grade lemon juice about this country. Captain America was still an exception. I had forgotten, or wanted to ignore, that there were good things here too, good intentions under the awful real world results, and he reminded me of that.

I didn't expect to start tearing but, but god. dammit. No.

I've had a lot to do in the past few days with moving my house, so I was not thinking about this, but now that I actually am, I think I'm crushed.

 

...well, Madoka is. Depending on what you consider canon. But yes Princess Tutu.

 

"marvel or dc?" "no."

 

i found a couple of the twitter twists that i loved:

this one's adorable


and this one i really wouldn't mind seeing a 3edgy5me alternate universe comic or fanfic of


like, imagine a universe where xavier wanted to make a team that could protect the world, protect humans, but there was no big bad to show them why being anti human was wrong? he already has some control issues, imagine if that was turned up to eleven and there was no where to channel it?

 

Sorry if this is deraily or splainy, but for what it's worth, Watchmen the book is much, much better than Watchmen the movie. The movie tries, but it had to cut out most of the book's layers and most of its cast of side characters, and they turned it into much more of an action movie than the book is an action story. They exaggerated several of the major characters and removed the gray areas and depth in most of them, and changed the ending markedly (I can sorta understand that- the original would have been hard to film in a way that had the proper impact). The book is much farther from the Hypermasculine Grimdark Power Fantasy genre than the movie is, even if the creator has apologized for the fact that it helped start the Dark Age of Comics.

It's also entirely original characters, even if Nite Owl is clearly based on the Blue Beetle and Rorschach is clearly based on the Question. So it wasn't stepping on anyone else's continuity-toes with its story.

 

Not splainey at all, I had absolutely no clue about Watchmen the book. Then, to give it its due, not its fault. I was trying to describe that selfsame Grimdark Power Fantasy trend without actually knowing its best examples/real history, because seeing a few popular editions made it clear to me that I didn't want to explore the oeuvre.

Maybe I should read some Superman, since it's clear that what I want is what most fans will go out of their way to call 'boring' and 'too black and white.'