Under the guise of Steve Rogers, a Brooklyn wimp who becomes Captain America after the injection of “Super Soldier” serum, Isaiah Bradley was there.
Written by Robert Morales and illustrated by Kyle Baker, Truth on stage the first humorous scene of Isaiah Bradley, a serum-controlled Black World War II soldier as well. But although the formula perfect on Rogers, tests continued on Black soldiers like Bradley, a resource that can be worn in the eyes of the U.S. military.
While hundreds of black subjects died, Isaiah Bradley came alive, giving him powers equivalent to Captain America. But Bradley was never known. No parades, no comic books, no membership with the Avengers. Instead, Bradley was imprisoned for twelve years after he disobeyed orders and tried to extradite Hitler on his own. Bradley later received a pardon from President Eisenhower.
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The metaphor Marvel went for is to put it simply, that America was built on the sacrifices of black people. The concept for Isaiah Bradley was inspired by the horrors of real Tuskeegee experiments, in which generations of African-American men were looked for for untreated syphilis. The investigation went on for 40 years and caused the deaths of 128 black men before a traitor let the investigation go to Jean Heller den Attached print.
In The Hawk and the Winter Soldier, the Marvel Cinematic Universe universe canonizes the story of Isaiah and, in a distant way, an institutional horror like Tuskeegee as well. The second episode of the show, “The Star-Spangled Man,” features a title featuring John Walker, a white-haired grunt in the Army who literally carries the Captain America shield.
But the title indeed referring to Isaiah. Played angrily by actor Carl Lumbly (alum TV superhero with credits in the animation Justice League and the live action Supergirl), the series’ top winners Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) meet Isaiah, a veteran of an aging Korean War soldier living in a rough area Baltimore. With the powers of a Super Soldier still, Isaiah is bitter for his “reward” of service: 30 years in prison, with daily trials and injections.
How Isaiah Bradley changes the MCU
Through Isaiah Bradley, The Hawk and the Winter Soldier brings a new, grim depth to the MCU, a place already mysterious with mysteries and consequences for the presence of superheroes. If Bradley ‘s story is in any way similar to his humorous origins as can be seen in Truth, then the MCU is on its way to turning Captain America red, white and blue into a white-yellow calf. Where Steve Rogers was a true subconscious story that spanned America’s glory and promises, Isaiah Bradley is a lab rat that reveals America’s shame and lies.
But the middle of The Hawk and the Winter Soldier not Isaiah Bradley; it’s Sam Wilson. Like the Hawk, Sam’s story is a duty and, yes, a representation. At the end Avengers: Endgame, Steve Rogers handed the shield to his friend Sam, blessing him as the new Captain of America. But between Endgameending and Hawk and the winter soldier, Sam balked. For Sam, the identity of Captain America – a symbol and metaphor for America – held too much weight for his wings.
Out of his own fear and inadequacy, Sam surrendered the shield to the U.S. government for the future. Little did he know what to do with it, giving the “new Captain America” a full rando just because he’s watching the part. (If ever there was a superhero to impersonate white welfare, it’s John Walker, played by Wyatt Russell who is quite a “Chris Evans nega-verse.”)
In his opening speech, Sam himself said: “Symbols are nothing without the women and men who make sense of them. Even the Captain of America’s shield means nothing without the “man who built it.” ”Sam should listen to himself.
Sam, of course, is good enough to be Captain America. Like the Hawk, Sam brought down SHIELD under Hydra’s control, fought against Sokovia Accords, went to war with aliens in Wakanda, and flew into the fight against Thanos. Sam deserves it! But the boy is so caught up in symbols that he has turned his own friend Steve Rogers into one. No one can be Steve Rogers, Sam believes. That’s right, no one can. But it’s not until Sam meets Isaiah, a literal American Captain who didn’t get the catchy songs, the talkies, or a national tour full of shows, that he doesn’t have to be Steve. It’s already Sam. Even as a Black man who cannot get a loan and is racially hated by the police, he himself can become Captain America. He just had to see it for himself.
The Hawk and the Winter Soldier streams Friday on Disney +.