But she notes that even because Sam has had a more central role in the franchise over the past few years, it was difficult to see evidence of that on the screen – or in the promotion and marketing of the franchise. “As a POC, you tend to hope and pray that you can get the characters that look like you,” says White, but she has little for Wilson or Brave new world of the usual distributors. ‘Come on. This is the Black History Month and you can’t get your teams together to celebrate Sam Cap? ‘

It has been generally noted that franchise -fatigue – and the flag quality of the studio’s projects – for Marvel in the set of the jerseys of his beloved white male heroes in the jerseys of his beloved white male heroes are hung End game. “For Anthony Mackie, it’s a shame,” Lowe says. “The time is just not right – and it’s not on him. It is not even on the production. It’s just that history has gone further. “

Brave new world In particular, it is also a boycott of fans. The boycott is first through the Palestinian guided boycott, sales and sanction movement, leading a series of economic focused actions against Israel, and is a response to the film’s inclusion of Israeli comic, an agent in Israel ‘s intelligence organization Mossad. While the name and back story of the character for the film was changed, the film’s premiere of Hollywood was argued Tuesday. Many fans seem to be looking for this one – and even the broader franchise – outside. These geopolitical discussions are also related to criticism of the MCU’s relationship with the US Department of Defense, a long discussion point within the Fandom, but pushes into the mainstream focus when 2018’s Captain Marvel was used for recruiting the air force.

Bad critical reviews or ambivalence around the source material are not necessarily obstructing for fans creators just after the ongoing dominance of Harry Potter in the fan-fiction space. But the relatively subdued cultural response to newer Marvel titles also reflects how much fan culture has changed over the past decade. Transformative fandom is far, much greater than at the beginning of the MCU, but compared to the early Captain America era, fans are more diverse, spreading their interests on a much greater variety of source material.

Many fans also spend less time in one place and bike for several months, even weeks, through a fandom before proceeding. The deep, sustained interest in a world that has fueled so much Captain America Fic on its high is harder to find, especially on scale. With so much content about film and television, fans hardly have time to get stuck to anything – or to detect their own versions of the characters and their worlds in the gaps.

Early box office projections suggest Brave new world will go well for Marvel, which could put it on track with the opening performance of Winter soldier. Like all entertainment companies, money is the most important metric for Marvel and its parent company, Disney. Whether they create space for fan creativity, not much does it matter if the numbers are still there. But for fans, Captain America’s return to the big screen is a moment to reflect on the ERAS from the past and see how much has changed. They will have to do this quickly – there is only ten weeks to the next MCU title, Thunderbolts*hit theaters in May.