#cap's shield

[a-dork-n-chips]

The Captain America sheild in rivals is such an interesting artifact

Okay so I went down a Cap's sheild shaped rabbit hole.

I was looking into the Rivals version of the sheild as I was trying to articulate why I got the impression it was kind of ugly, but then I realized:

It appears this version of the sheild is mixing elements from the golden age and secret wars toyline (plus the energy sheild abilities).

This is such an intersting choice, as Cap's sheild has become very standardized over the last couple of years. And because of that it can creare such an odd first impression.

But, once you read his bio and if you know your marvel history, it makes perfect sense.

As this Cap is just coming off the ice, so he would have just gone through his golden age. Meaning his shield would still look like it did back then. And with no Tony or Coulson in 2099 to serve the role of marvel editorial and revamp the shield it would make sense it is mostly unchanged.

With the exception of the one major visible upgrade being a container(?) around the sheild that looks pretty much spot on to the lenticular shields from the original secret wars toyline.

The "Secret Wars" being the templates for hero/villain team battles (sw1) and multiveral mashups (sw2)

So the sheild is telling you "this guy just got unthawed yesterday, but now he's been plucked out of wherever he was to fighting accross the multiverse"

I may not love the aesthetics, but that's such a fun use of the character's lore to do visual story telling, that I just take off my hat to the designers, freaking amazing.

[abby118]

[steverogersnotebook]

Back in August, I got this for my birthday. I finally had the desire and space needed at the same time. Second photo has a puck light behind the shield.

[time2memedrjones]

Yup

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) dir. Joe Johnston Avengers: Endgame (2019) dir. The Russo Brothers

[nickmarino]

[personalindustry]

leon…

[platossoulmates]

i will never understand people who are team iron man in civil war because it is LITERALLY a captain america movie. you are supposed to sympathize with tony stark and the world governments, and understand that yes, reform is needed (which steve UNDERSTANDS and agrees with), but also understand that what they’re enacting is morally wrong. the sokovia accords (much like the mutant registration act in x-men 2000) require the registration AND tracking of all enhanced individuals as well as agreeing to prison without trial should the government decide it necessary (they go into detail about the legislation in the sokovia accords in agents of shield, which, yes, is technically no longer canon, but this aired long before it moves off track of the main marvel timeline, when it was still following canon post winter soldier movie). it strips all inhumans, mutants, people who have been experimented on (all of which is out of these people’s control) of quite literally all of their constitutional rights. tony stark is not in the right just because steve didn’t tell him about his parents. the politics of the movie are so deep please use your critical thinking skills

[shitpostingkats]

What if I told you. He. Was trans.

[marenwithanm]

Minish Cap Link’s tiny shield got even tinier!

[divercitizen]

Everyone at S.H.I.E.L.D: This department is TOP SECRET!!! Nobody can know we exist!!

Also everyone at S.H.I.E.L.D: Puts the logo for their top secret department on literally everything.

[marvel-television]

y'know it's always funny when people start arguing about who was right in civil war bc like. Even with just the movie Tony and the pro-accords crowd has no ideological leg to stand on, the only reason we have to at all root for him is that Bucky killed his parents, but then you throw in Agents of Shield? You throw in everything about that third season leading up to Civil War?

It's kinda painfully obvious that the sokovia accords weren't even *really* about the Avengers, but rather the incident in Lagos was just a convenient excuse to subjugate the growing Inhuman population under the guise of "cracking down on the avengers".

The only people we ever see affected by the sokovia accords are A: members of the Avengers, and B: Inhumans. If you're not an Inhuman or an Avenger, you straight up don't have to register. Spider-Man, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, all are heroes that exist in the public eye. Sure, Spider-Man hasn't revealed his identity, but he's still known about as a superhero unlike Iron Fist or Cloak and Dagger.

All this to say, simply having powers doesn't mean you have to register, it's only if you're an Inhuman. The sokovia accords specifically, intentionally target Inhumans, and with that in mind there's not even a slight bit of moral ambiguity in Civil War, Tony is just completely clearly in the wrong.

That's not to say Steve gives a fuck about Inhumans either, he never even brings them up in the movie so he clearly doesn't, but he at the very least accidentally stumbled his way into the morally correct position. There's probably some kind of political commentary to be made there, but idk.

Point is, fuck team tony lmao

[amelia-mariee]

I hate when a show/movie is trying to show that like “we’re stronger together than we are apart!” so they have to write in conflict for the characters and make them all be mean to each other and all it does is pit everyone in the fandom against each other, and then the characters forgive each other and learn lessons about friendship, and the fandom is still on fire and never quite the same

[xxplastic-cubexx]

brain rot so bad i was in class today when a schoolmate was wearin red sunnies and my prof went 'you look like something straight out of a marvel comic' HIS NAME IS SCOTT SUMMERS PUT RESPECT ON HIS NAME

[waltongoggos]

This is in appreciation of Shane Vendrell's green eyes.

[rainbowsuitcase]

So, I'm watching Agents of Shield for the first time in my life, and there are two characters talking about needing to pick out a superhero name. During this conversation, one of them says this -

"Have you ever heard of Steve Rogers? No. But Captain America, now, he's on the news and a lunch box and a poster on the wall."

And holy fuck, what?

This guy is a war hero, he saved New York, and by extension the world, twice at this point and people don't know his real name?

He's had comics and movies and documentaries and fucking trading cards made with his face and people don't know his name?

You're telling me he woke up after decades into a world he doesn't know, a world he doesn't understand, a world where everyone he's ever loved is either dead or doesn't remember him, a world where people think he's something he isn't and they don't even remember his name?

This really makes the analysis I did of Steve's Avengers 1 costume even sadder, and it's the nail in the coffin for what I always say - the modern world Steve wakes up into needs Captain America, but they could not care less about him.

[clownsketch]

Rogue said fuck 12 this episode