He's even more of a nationalist than Captain America also. It's smart of them to skip the Super-Patriot phase of his career, partially because that character just doesn't work today and it opens up interesting possibilities for if/when he DOES get powers. A shield and a gun won't help him be Cap forever.


Side note: I thought it was interesting they showed him using a gun right away in his first fight, but then I re-watched Civil War and I totally forgot Sam straight up dropped bombs on two dudes in that opening fight sequence. I feel like the number of Avengers with blood directly on their hands (setting aside all the building and city murder and what not) is very low, but I was a little surprised it's not zero.


I don't enjoy the speculation based on comics thing because it gets people way too wound up in stuff that may or may not happen (see: Game of Thrones, WandaVision) but there's a lot of gristle there for the character to be pretty interesting.


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