His concept is a little on the hokey side, even for superheroes, and he just does what a regular guy can do, but a little better. He doesn’t drive a red sports car or have awesome lightning skills. So how does Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers, one of maybe two of the MCU’s actually earnest characters, fit into this paradigm?Ĭaptain America isn’t cool. They want Thor’s power, and if they don’t want to be the Hulk, then they at least envy the power to do what he can do. They want Tony’s resources and abilities. They are badasses and, in a way, their lives are aspirational. The other heroes are the special, exceptional men who lead different lives from regular folks. In The Avengers, Tony even makes the point that everything special about Steve came out of a bottle. Bruce Banner was a genius before he ever became the Hulk. Tony Stark was not only born rich but also gifted with extraordinary intelligence and ability. There’s also the issue of the characters themselves, who all had great callings and purposes in their regular lives. Hulk was a rage machine, destroying everything in his path.
Thor was temporarily banished from his own world and kingdom for being headstrong and too willing to rush into war. In Iron Man, Tony Stark needed to come to terms with the consequences of his past actions. They started out flawed, not quite ready for heroics, and over the course of their films, they learned a lesson and developed into very cool, very manly heroes. Before Joe Johnston’s Captain America: The First Avenger, the heroes of the MCU had been of a certain type.
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