Originally Posted by Anteater

Captain America always seemed in the comics (at least to me) like an avatar of some unachievable ideal. The idea of an America that works for everyone I guess.

The MCU interpretation attempts to work along those lines, but I think Chris Evans is pretty insufferable as an actor so I feel like he doesn't really carry the spirit of the character that well.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.