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Add to FavoritesThe bullet entered his body and killed a remarkable man. However, the Universe of such beings is such that demise is often less than a nifty nap in the scheme of things.
I know my reaction is "how could they, at a time in history when we need such a man on our side to remind people of the ideals so a part of the American dream?" No Captain America is not dead. He, like America, will rise to new heights. I truly believe that.
America is in a transitional stage that is more like the entry into a new life cycle like the birth passage of a new born infant. There is labor, and pain, and hard work, and often a lot of screaming and foul language accompanying the process and yet the the babe unseen but direly felt emerges climatically with new energy, new perspectives, and new potentials.
I do not see America dead anymore than I see Capt. America dead. And though Capt. America may not have made the cult status of say Superman, who was after all superhuman and an alien to this planet, still he managed to survive, as America has, all these many years to see his passing, and no doubt in the near future his resurrection, because what America and Capt. America share in common is fortitude, endurance, a love of justice, and a belief in the basic ideals of the Constitution as created by our founding fathers. And even though there are people who are more than willing to pervert those ideals there will always be Capt Americas, normal everyday heroic men and women who fight to remind each and every one of us that these ideals are worth believing in and fighting for, and dying for. And that is why Capt. America must and will rise again.
Capt. America will never die..because you can't kill a dream, no matter how hard you try.
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Contemplating the permanent death of Captain America, let only any popular comic book hero, is sheer folly. Do I have a conspiracy theory of what really happened? Unfortunately not. I think he is either really dead, but not forever, or not really dead at all. Allow me to show you the logic of this line of reasoning by using other examples.
First and foremost, let us use an illustration from Marvel Comic's competitor, DC Comics. Who remembers the "death" of Superman? He, like Captain America, is an iconic character. When Superman was killed, there was a funeral lamenting the loss of a champion of good. His fellow heroes wore black bands with the Superman emblem to commemorate him. And now, Superman is alive and well, fighting for truth, justice, and the American way.
And what about Jean Grey, of the X-men? How many times has she been killed off and resurrected in some form or another? She was always considered the heart of the team, much like Captain America was the heart of the Avengers.
Also, Colossus, who has been "dead" for years has been recently resurrected. Turns out, he had never really died at all. What I'm saying is that it could be as long as a decade before we see Captain America's rebirth, but it will happen, nonetheless.
I could go on and on and list different comic book characters of great popularity who have "shrugged off their mortal coil" and came back to tell the tale. It is a common comic marketing strategy. One of Marvel's most productive crossovers, The Age of Apocalypse, came about by way of the death of Professor Xavier.
How will Captain America come back? Who knows. Maybe the Captain that was killed was a clone. Maybe He was a Skrull impostor, and the real Cap is locked away somewhere to be rescued later. After all, Skrull infiltration is a big thing these days on Earth 616.
Maybe he really did die. Perhaps some heroes will go back and change how things went down during the Civil War. Maybe a Cap from an alternate universe will take up residence in the current continuity. Rest assured, true believer, if the comic industry ever had a motto that it lived by, it would be, "You can't keep a good man down."
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