Is he a good superhero concept?

>A better question is why he doesn't use power armor?
same reason every single hero doesn't wear power armor: it looks boring.

He has on occasion.

Guardian is better

Other than the Gruenwald era he has used guns, but he prefers the shield as his main weapon.

Injected politics into his stories feel more organic than most other characters considering he started out as a blatant political figure. It doesn't stop any amount of bitching when it's introduced in his stories, but that's the character he's always been, and the one that is most appropriate to use when subjects of that nature are brought up.

He's reasonably powered via a well-explained method, enough that his extraordinary feats don't break suspension of disbelief, but well within the lower band of the superpowered spectrum that they don't have to keep ramping up stakes to galactic levels or resorting to powercreep to keep him relevant in a story.

A great person, not perfect, even if that is what seems to be pushed sometimes. He has a great moral compass, even if it causes more problems than it solves. It is good starting off point to write stories around when something challenges his stances.

This is all assuming hack writing isn't in play, otherwise he comes off as a stubborn unyielding buffoon or naive dullard that can't read a room, much less a book.

He's used them in war and in really desperate situations outside of it, he just prefers to use his shield.

See above, he's used it before when offered, it's just a matter of preference.

This, although I do have an affinity for Fighting American far greater than my love for either Steve or Jim

Is there any love for Private Strong in this thread? Honestly, if not for DC's lawsuit against the book in the 50s, I bet he'd still be in the public eye today.

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>Other than the Gruenwald era
There was that one time.

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Why was the Uzi such a fucking prolific weapon in that decade? Every action movie had it, good guys and bad guys were using it.

Cheap, easy to make, bullet hose come to mind.

He has

Yeah, but MAC-10 though.

not a good superhero execute

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Tony made him one when he got de-serumed.

He's a stalker

He has a very simple powerset while still being incredibly hard to describe exactly what his powers are.

He is just really really good at doing stuff is what it amounts to

He needs some kind of means to harm super tough opponents. That's always the problem with him. He likes to take on guys like Nefaria and Ultron but he cannot really punch them or kick them and accomplish anything.

The shield helps him survive almost anything thrown his way but he has a lot of trouble throwing anything back. Shield frisbee only does so much.

>is a boyscout character, always has the moral high ground, has a concrete sense of right and wrong
nothing wrong here
>lets the mutants still get persecuted and discriminated
this is a bad thing.

The no guns thing was mostly a 60s comics code era thing. He needed to use his fists and gimmicks like every other hero of the time.

Tiny automatic weapon that every random thug in every action movie can hide and sneak into places with. Also makes for perfect whipping out from behind their backs like a live action hammerspace cartoon character. This was really common in Schwarzenegger movies

Marvel has been spending a lot of effort forming a strong divide between the Mutant books and the non mutant books that the fans divided with them. And it really does look like they exist in their own universe as a result of it.

i think if the xmen were a DC property, they would be excellent for a vertigo/young animal title.

It's not hard at all. He has low level superhuman physicals

stupid useless neet faggot

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I asked this question sometime back during a previous Cap thread, but how do you think Steve will be handled in 20 years from now? By then in comic time his whole generation will likely be dead and gone with Red Skull, Magneto and the like the only remainers. He becomes ever a relic of a bygone time yet continues to light the way as a beacon of morality in dark times

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Look at how much of a badass he looks like

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no. he exists to fellate americans, because deep down yanks have inferiority complex

do you know what second-generation holocaust survivor is? do you think that the kikes will ever let the wounds heal? do you think they will ever let us forget about the shoah?

Guns are very American. He should at least always have a pistol even if it just fires tranqs

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1950s commie smasher Cap was Best Cap. I recently read an old What If? issue where he was defrosted instead of Steve, and even though the comic tries to make him look like a puppet of a police state (because not liking commies=Evil), he honestly comes off as a genuinely heroic guy and the only decent person in the story (up until some 11th hour nastiness intended to make us cheer Steve killing him), and I'm pretty sure that wasn't the intention.

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Too boxy.

It was Larry Hama favorite gun. So much so, that he had it in his briefcase nearly all the time. Even when he would to the bank.

So is childhood obesity, him using a gun should be and impactful and an indicator that things have gone really bad. Him using a shield is symbolic because it's a tool primarily for defense, and he's a defender or liberty and all that jazz.

It's American though, and even better at being a bullet hose.

I dunno, I just never saw anything special about it aside from it having cheap stamped parts, and a telescopic stock (which is usually removed anyways). There were plenty of other better or cheaper sub machine guns in that period.

Concepts are irrelevant, execution is what matters.