WTF captain heroe's DEAD?????

[Northern_Greens]

so we start killing off great superheroes then say there not coming back???WTF marvel and DC have gotten gay lately

Shocking event for Captain America
POSTED: 2:43 p.m. EST, March 7, 2007
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• Captain America a victim of Marvel Comics' "Civil War"
• Storyline plays off War on Terror, 9/11, says Marvel
• Is this really the end? "Cap" finale leaves questions
From Larry Holmes, Jonathan O'Beirne
and Glenn Perreira
CNN
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Editor's Note: The following story reveals information about the Marvel Comics' "Civil War" storyline and a key character. If you'd rather not know, stop reading now.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- He fought and triumphed over Hitler, Tojo, international Communism and a host of supervillains, but he could not dodge a sniper's bullet.

Comic book hero Captain America is dead.

After close to 60 years in print, Marvel Comics has killed off Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, one of its most famous and beloved superheroes amid an already controversial story line, "Civil War," which is pitting the heroes of Marvel's universe against one another.

In the comic series, Rogers was to stand trial for defying a superhero registration law passed after a hero's tragic mistake causes a 9/11-like event.

Steve Rogers eventually surrenders to police. He is later mortally wounded as he climbs the courthouse steps. (Watch the story of an American hero Video)

Marvel says the comic story line was intentionally written as an allegory to current real-life issues like the Patriot Act, the War on Terror and the September 11 attacks.

"Every child knew about 9/11," says Dan Buckley, president of Marvel Comics. "If [he] could see a TV he knew what 9/11 was. The other similarities [to] things going on are just part of storytelling."

It was a violent and strange end for an American hero.

Captain America first appeared in 1941, just as the United States entered World War II. He was a symbol of American strength and resolve in fighting the Axis powers, and later Communism.

As originally conceived by creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, Rogers was a man born before the Great Depression in a very different America. He disappeared after the war and reappeared only recently in the Marvel timeline. For a superhero many thought perfect, it was perhaps a fatal flaw for "Cap," as he became known.

"He hasn't been living in the modern world and the world does move," says Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada.

Quesada said he wanted to readers find their own meaning in Cap's end.

"There is a lot to be read in there. But I'm not one who is going to tell people, this is what you should read into it, because I could look into it and read several different types of messages," he told CNN.

The character's death came as a blow to co-creator Simon, the Associated Press reported.

"We really need him now," Simon, 93, told The AP.

Still, one has to wonder: Is Captain America really dead? Comic book characters have routinely died, only to be resurrected when necessary to storylines.

Joe Quesada agrees -- but said times are different now.

"There was period in comics where characters would just die and then be resurrected. And the death had very little meaning and the resurrection had very little meaning," he said. "All I ask of my writers is if you're going to kill a character off, please let that death have some meaning in the overall scope of things."

Besides, he said, there are other important questions left unanswered.

"What happens with the costume? And what happens to the characters that are friends and enemies of Cap?" Quesada said with a smile. "You're going to have to read the books to find out."

Copyright 2007 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/03/07/captain.america/index.html


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[Charlemagne]

Warning spoiler below.

I'd hate to spoil, but if you would read Civil War: The Initiative #1 (they make way too many civil war comics) it is revealed that he didn't in fact die, even though in Captain America #25 it seems he did.

 

[jojajico]

lol keeping up with the civil war story is a nightmare they spread it out over like 50 different publiccations and mke it so you have to buy like everyone to know exactly whats going on..... good marketing. personally i like ultimates captain america better hes fucking bad ass, took on the hulk one on one, got his ass beat but still held his own against the hulk.

 

[Northern_Greens]

i havent been following comics lately, too much on my plate. But i was avid when i was younger, saw it oon the news and was shocked...definitally gonna buy that issue and see what its all about....noticed the title sez captain heroe...lol....too high last nite

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[clorox]

how quickly everyone forgets that superman has died like 4 times

 

[Johnny Chimpo]

how quickly everyone forgets that superman has died like 4 times

I heard something about a Captain America movie = publicity

 

[newbieb]

I was trying to figure out what they were gonna do with all this publicity, booyah dough dough dough

 

[Guest]

how quickly everyone forgets that superman has died like 4 times

so true lol

 

[Northern_Greens]

Quote:
Originally Posted by clorox
how quickly everyone forgets that superman has died like 4 times


so true lol

true, but capt america just faded away....then outta nowhere gets sniped. Going INTO the court house.....
i agree that its just a straight up publicity stunt for the movie

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[jojajico]

how quickly everyone forgets that superman has died like 4 times

he died twice but since hes a true immortal the definition of death really isnt as powerful as it is with humans. yea, i read alot of comic books, what of it

 

[Charlemagne]

This is why I like Marvel's Ultimate imprint (at least in part): someone dies, they stay dead.

 

[jojajico]

This is why I like Marvel's Ultimate imprint (at least in part): someone dies, they stay dead.

yea the ultimates universe is badass. people get killed, raped, mutilated, they have sexual disfucntions, and relationship problems lol its great kinda like the "real world" with super powers. u read the ultimated where the hulk got horny and went on a rape spree in NY? he was fucking and rippin people apart like they were pieces of tissue.

 

[clorox]

ok ok ok TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES in theatres next week, wooooo... ive been crapping my pants regularly in anticipation of the awesomeness

 

[jojajico]

anyone notice that in the 3rd tennage mutant ninja turtles the turtles had thesre really dark spots all over their body like skin cancer or something. guess that ooze exposure is finally cathcing up with them. i hear in the new one by the end of th emovie they look like meth addicts and are bedridden with and IV drip lol.

 

[Rosy Cheeks]

Yeah, well, every superhero has his time, others are waiting behind to take his place.