Cap is about the American ideal. The real one, the one about Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, and how it's our duty as citizens to strive for that -- not because it gets us some advantage, but because it's right.
It's the thing that says Any Kid Can Grow Up To Be President. It's the thing that makes you help your neighbors, whom you may not even know, when they're in trouble, because We're All In This Together. It's the one that remembers the Bill of Rights and the Preamble to the Constitution are actually supposed to mean something, not merely in a historical context but right now.
Superman is an iconic representation of what his creators thought at the time would be a perfect man (ironic, as he's an alien). Cap is much the same, but his iconic nature is more philosophical than physical. Yeah, he beats up Nazis. But mostly he is a living example of the notion that freedom must be fought for, is worth fighting for, and can and must be fought for for the right reasons.
I'm surprised the Army hasn't licensed him: Cap is literally our ability to be the best we can be.
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It's the thing that says Any Kid Can Grow Up To Be President. It's the thing that makes you help your neighbors, whom you may not even know, when they're in trouble, because We're All In This Together. It's the one that remembers the Bill of Rights and the Preamble to the Constitution are actually supposed to mean something, not merely in a historical context but right now.
Superman is an iconic representation of what his creators thought at the time would be a perfect man (ironic, as he's an alien). Cap is much the same, but his iconic nature is more philosophical than physical. Yeah, he beats up Nazis. But mostly he is a living example of the notion that freedom must be fought for, is worth fighting for, and can and must be fought for for the right reasons.
I'm surprised the Army hasn't licensed him: Cap is literally our ability to be the best we can be.