Okay but like what if the serum made Steve still super strong and fixed his health stuff but he was still short and everything and they got all sad that it didn’t work until Steve punshed a wall out of anger and broke through the whole wall. And they were like holy shit. And like he would be the perfect surprise attack because the Nazis are like what is this child going to do and Steve just fucking wreaks them. And when Steve goes to rescue Bucky, Bucky sees Steve and is like Steve why are you here wtf. You are going to get super hurt and he is like look buck and like bends the metal on his table and Bucky is like holy shit.
the guy responsible for captain america being a hydra agent made a team of college students the villains of the latest issue of captain america and it went as well as you would expect
this is the marvel equivalent of those newspaper cartoons that act like society is collapsing in front of us because of pokemon go
hurts
KILL
“Consider this your trigger warning,” I say as I shoot a poor, defenseless, Gen Xer in the temple. I retrieve my millenial iPad and cross out their name before moving onto my next kill: the golf industry.
remember when captain america punched hitler in the face on the cover of his first issue
Like the X-Men and Luke Cage weren’t created during the Civil Right’s Movement during the 60’s for no fucking reason at all…
Remember that the comics that really got the industry up and running where created by Jews in response to antisemitism and what was happening to Jews during the Holocaust.
But sure nothing at all related to social justice and equality there at all /sarcasm/
also, that book isn’t even about Superman fighting the KKK in a fictional story either, like, it’s about a guy named Stetson Kennedy who went undercover and infiltrated the KKK, then gave all their secret codes and handshakes to the Superman writers so they could do a bunch of stories where Superman fights the Klan, in order to reinforce the Klan as both villainous and worthy of ridicule.
It worked really well, too, the iteration of the Ku Klux Klan that existed at the time (before it was revived by modern white supremacists) was largely DISBANDED because of this Superman storyline, after a lot of Klan leaders went home and saw their kids Playing Superman, beating up pretend Klansmen who happened to be using their actual codes and titles.
Getting social issues involved in comics has had an actual tangible effect on dynamics in the real world, and having Superman fight the KKK in fiction actually managed to adequately shame the majority of Klansmen into disbanding their organization.
So, it makes sense to write fictional heroes as being opposed to real villains, because superheroes play a big part in forming kids’ conception of right and wrong
*deep menacing accent* “How did you take down Captain America?” *matter of fact European accent replies* “We shot him in the legs because his shield is the size of a dinner plate and he is an idiot”
¯_(ツ)_/¯ 
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