![]() ![]() The movie cleverly spins a meta-fictional "origin" myth for Captain America: explaining that he was in fact a propagandist comic-book superhero before becoming a real one. ![]() Granted, it repels any bullet and can be frisbeed around the place as a weapon, but then there's the tiresome business of having to retrieve it afterwards it cuts down on hand-to-hand combat and wouldn't some sort of body armour have been frankly more convenient? It almost looked as if Captain America's loyalty to this faintly ridiculous accessory was a kind of arrogance – that he can defeat his enemies with one hand in effect behind his back – or even that the shield amounted to a disability, like Daredevil's blindness, for which his powers were a triumphant, if neurotic over-compensation.īut doubt on the subject of the shield, and the Captain generally, is pretty much allayed by Joe Johnston's cheerfully strident new film version starring Chris Evans, in which his shield is seen to morph from a prototype in the prefect's-badge shape into the familiar sleek metal disc, like a flattened missile nosecone, which can be slung over the back or the forearm. A shield? Growing up in the 1970s, and first becoming aware of Captain America's crime-fighting career, that shield always seemed to me the most eccentric and awkward encumbrance to have to carry around all the time – almost an admission of vulnerability, a superheroic comfort blanket. ![]()
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