Marvel Ultimate Alliance (and Ultimate Alliance 2) are far more coherent than anything Michael Bay has done.

I'm leery... but considering this is Marvel Studios, and they did a pretty good job with Iron Man and recent movies? I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

I hope they play up Steve being an artist, though. That'd be nice.

Here's the thing: I wonder who Joe Johnston is talking to when he says "It's not going to be a Captain America that you expect". Is he talking to actual Captain America readers like me? Or... maybe he's talking to a more general audience. An audience of people who think they know what Cap is all about, but tend to have it wrong.

A lot of folks think that captain America is a boring hero. Goody two-shoes, jingoistic and flag-waving, a patriotic thug who punches the Enemies Of America. And this isn't the Cap that I know from years of reading his titles - it's not even an entirely fair description of Ultimate Captain America.

Captain America has always believed in the Dream, but he has also questioned America. As the audience knows that Steve would never betray America, writers are able to use him in stories that question American values compared to American behaviours, and ask "Has America lost its way?" He has at times stood up against unjust U.S. policies - even from day one, when he volunteered to fight against the Nazis before the States was ever involved in the war. Nazi sympathisers in the U.S. complained about the publication of Captain America Comics #1 and sent hate mail; as I recall Jack Kirby wanted them to drop by the office so he could smack them in the face.

Steve also questions himself - because he is nearly always right, and we know how high his standards are, any failure to meet those standards is a big deal. In another character's title, unnecessary violence might be brushed aside or dismissed as inconsistent characterisation, but not in Captain America. It's usually deliberate, intended to provoke debate within the character and the readers alike.

And when it comes to the enemies of America, are there any enemies so dire that Steve would not want to see them reform and be forgiven? Arnim Zola, you might think, or the Red Skull... but Steve has shown compassion whilst also seeking justice for the Red Skull's heinous crimes. He certainly has a history of reaching out to criminals and former criminals - Hawkeye, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Jack Monroe, Porcupine, Diamondback, Batroc (Ze Leapair!), and of course the Winter Soldier.

This is a Captain America who is more complex than most comics readers realise, let alone wider movie audiences. If you're been a Cap fan for awhile, maybe sent fanmail in to "Let's Rap With Cap", you know him better than 95% of comics readers.

Maybe Joe Johnston isn't talking to you, Maybe you already know the Steve Rogers he wants to put on the big screen. And maybe most other people don't.


This is all speculation, of course. We'll see what actually happens sooner or later. I'm hoping for the best.

Zero. I really hope you're right . I really do.

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Cool!

That at least could be good news, provided we don't mini origins for them and instead they just show up.

Multiple characters can bring a film down when they spend to much time doing to many origins. That said, if they just show up as a group or something quick and painless, it'd be awesome.

That's what the movie needs, a love triangle with Cap, Spitfire and Union Jack! Female demographic? Check! Now we need a hispanic Torch, a chinese Bucky, and a black Toro, and we've covered all the major demographics, unless they squeeze in a Namor Patel cameo...

They can also make it out that Namor and the Torch have feelings of a romantic nature for one another. Truly modernize the tale.