Bruh there is literally a popular media character called Captain America.
If you were trying to satirically come up with the main character of a state propaganda show, a name like that would probably come to mind. For satire.
Imagine how US Libs would react if a superhero called Captain China started getting really popular.
I mean, I’m sure he’s a great guy in-universe. But the fact that he’s canonically a god (he weilded Thor’s hammer) and the protector of literally the entire universe, and libs don’t think that could possibly be meant to say something about how the real America is. Meanwhile, they spend way too much time psychoanalysing any communist show.
I’ve watched reviews of the DPRK cartoon Squirrel and Hedgehog, and the parallels to real life politics they draw are just, a rubber band would snap if you stretched it that far. Saying nothing about how Japanese anime from the same era is actually pretty similar in plot structure and level of violence, is anime from a US supporting country also commie propaganda? It’s also not like those countries are right next to each other, and could possibly have similar cultures that show through in their media, right?
Sorry, it’s not you. I’m just in a salty, ranty mood tonight.
I’m not disagreeing, i meant it as “the bar is very low”. As in “at least he really bashed some nazis”, which in last two months seem to be unreachable by real life westerners and their media especially…
I fully expect proukrainian propaganda to eventually find its way to comics too in this or that form.
INB4 First Officer Ukraine
More like Sturmbannfuhrer Ukraine… as a good guy.
There was a character called “Baby Killer” a few years ago in Marvel. He was a Polish general in a cloned teenage body, and his power was being violent and shooting guns. So you know, not really out there in terms of plausibility.
I had to google that. Old style female surname (male style would be Zamorski, meaning literally “Oversea”), not a polish first name - Mikhail is russian version, or possibly… ukrainian, especially that this character was introduced in 2014, rather famous for some massacres in that country.
I half expected it to be jab at general Jaruzelski, but it seems not to be, and we don’t actually had any real bad generals lately. Closest one would be field-bishop (yes that’s a real general rank in Poland) Sławoj Leszek “Flaszka”* Głódź, but he wouldn’t be Baby “Killer”, since he was pedophile, also famous for incredible even for a catholic bishop feats of coruption.
*Nickname meaning literally “The Bottle” since his drinking feats and parties were equally awesome to corruption
Lovely people all around
In a Hercules comic from mid 00’s, they literally went to the obelisk in Washington DC as the current site for “World’s Axis”. Compared to that, Cap using a magic hammer is small potatoes.