Marvel's latest iteration of Captain America, featuring Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson, introduces a character with no superpowers, raising questions about the intrigue and appeal of superheroes without extraordinary abilities.
Marvel has decided to take Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson right back to the superhero stone age with its latest iteration, in which he will basically have no power at allhere’s a weird thing about superheroes. They tend to be a little bit more intriguing when they actually have superpowers.
All of which is fine, but sounds a bit like Wilson’s superpower will manifest as just being really, really especially careful. There’s a longstanding debate in comic books about the efficacy of constantly increasing superpowers: Superman is so invulnerable to just about anything and anyone that DC Comics had to introduce kryptonite just to give the story guys something to spin off.
The idea becomes that Chris Evans’ Cap was a true superhero largely for his decency and altruism rather than for his ability to Frisbee a shield so hard it turned Nazis into abstract art. Had anyone else been given the same privileges, they might have used them for selfish purposes rather than the greater good.
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