verdant monkai said:
This may be just because I am not the target audience for C.A comics, and maybe for Americans the character fills you with pride, and a sense of patriotism. Its just that he seems to be an icon that exclusively caters to Americans and alienates everyone else.
I'm not sure why he'd alienate everyone else. I mean, I get that he's CAPTAIN AMERICA, which means he's American, but beyond the name and the costume I don't think there's much alienating. Have you read the comics? Steve took off the costume in the 80s in protest of the way our nation was behaving. Steve then sided against the central points of the Civil War story line more recently. The Steve Rogers Captain America has long been a good guy. I mean, I'm not big on the history, so maybe he was a douche in early comics (Sort of like the Superman "Slap a Jap" thing), but coming from a hippie pacifist liberal queer American, I don't find him particularly problematic to my very "Unpatriotic" life.
And I was introduced to Cap by my father, a man threatened with deportation for not wanting to go kill people in Vietnam. Not exactly your typical chest thumping patriots.
That being said, he's not my favourite hero, but I don't dislike him.