Captain America is portrayed in the movies as a small-government, anti-globalist, Christian patriot.
In "Captain America: The First Avenger" (2011), the Red Skull shouts "I have seen the future, Captain. There are no flags!" (implying that there will be a one-world government), to which Cap replies "Not my future!"
In "The Avengers" (2012), Cap gets ready to pursue Thor and Loki, when Black Widow warns him not to go after them, saying, "These guys come from legend. They're basically gods." He replies by saying "There's only one God, Ma'am. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that."
In "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" (2014), Nick Fury reveals that S.H.I.E.L.D. (essentially a fictionalized FBI or CIA) is creating a new surveillance/weapons program call Project Insight that uses artificial intelligence to predict which people will become terrorist threats and automatically kill them with giant drones before they act. Cap disagrees with the decision to create this program, believing that this is a vast overreach of power and could be abused. Cap is proven right when it turns out that S.H.I.E.L.D. is infested by HYDRA agents who plan on using Project Insight to kill everyone who the AI system predicts would stand in the way of their new world order.
In "Captain America: Civil War", Cap disagrees with the Avengers' decision to sign the Sokovia Accords, an agreement that would force the Avengers to only go on missions that are approved by the World Security Council (essentially a fictionalized United Nations), as he believes that the Avengers need to be capable of acting independently of foreign authorities.
The Captain America movies were made back when Ike Perlmutter (a politically right-leaning producer who went on to become a major Trump donor and even a Trump advisor) was still in charge of Marvel Studios. In 2015 (during the making of the third Captain America movie) Kevin Feige (who had to work under Perlmutter at the time) had Disney boss Bob Iger oust Perlmutter from his leadership position, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe has started steadily becoming more and more woke since then. Feige and Iger have both admitted that Perlmutter was standing in the way of their plans to wokify the Marvel movies, and that this was part of why they got rid of him.
I'd recommend all three of the Captain America movies, but not the follow-up Disney+ TV series "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" (which was released this year and was horrifically woke).
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Captain America is portrayed in the movies as a small-government, anti-globalist, Christian patriot.
In "Captain America: The First Avenger" (2011), the Red Skull shouts "I have seen the future, Captain. There are no flags!" (implying that there will be a one-world government), to which Cap replies "Not my future!"
In "The Avengers" (2012), Cap gets ready to pursue Thor and Loki, when Black Widow warns him not to go after them, saying, "These guys come from legend. They're basically gods." He replies by saying "There's only one God, Ma'am. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that."
In "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" (2014), Nick Fury reveals that S.H.I.E.L.D. (essentially a fictionalized FBI or CIA) is creating a new surveillance/weapons program call Project Insight that uses artificial intelligence to predict which people will become terrorist threats and automatically kill them with giant drones before they act. Cap disagrees with the decision to create this program, believing that this is a vast overreach of power and could be abused. Cap is proven right when it turns out that S.H.I.E.L.D. is infested by HYDRA agents who plan on using Project Insight to kill everyone who the AI system predicts would stand in the way of their new world order.
In "Captain America: Civil War", Cap disagrees with the Avengers' decision to sign the Sokovia Accords, an agreement that would force the Avengers to only go on missions that are approved by the World Security Council (essentially a fictionalized United Nations), as he believes that the Avengers need to be capable of acting independently of foreign authorities.
The Captain America movies were made back when Ike Perlmutter (a politically right-leaning producer who went on to become a major Trump donor and even a Trump advisor) was still in charge of Marvel Studios. In 2015 (during the making of the third Captain America movie) Kevin Feige (who had to work under Perlmutter at the time) had Disney boss Bob Iger oust Perlmutter from his leadership position, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe has started steadily becoming more and more woke since then. Feige and Iger have both admitted that Perlmutter was standing in the way of their plans to wokify the Marvel movies, and that this was part of why they got rid of him.
I'd recommend all three of the Captain America movies, but not the follow-up Disney+ TV series "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" (which was released this year and was horrifically woke).
Wow dude thanks for the detailed overview - I have been wanting to get into the marvel movies but couldn’t bring myself to watch them.
I’m going to definitely check out the first three captain marvel films now. Cheers!
Captain America. Captain Marvel is an entirely different character, and the 2019 Captain Marvel movie is terrible.