That’s so fricken cool. I love it! Props to your brother.
Lathe-and-Order-SVU2025-10-01 16:50
Yeah, he does some cool shit for me. Last Christmas he made me a hand drawn poster of my last name in the style of the Castlevania SOTN logo. (That’s my favorite game of all time) he’s a real G.
reyknow2025-10-01 18:13
lol is this from the movie? his weakness is everything? lol
Fantasia_Fanboy9312025-10-01 18:16
It's a joke about how Sam is vulnerable because he has no Super Soldier serum.
Lathe-and-Order-SVU2025-10-01 19:42
The running joke wasn’t just that he was vulnerable to attacks, I’d drop it when he was going down stairs “my one weakness… stairs.” We were cracking up. We tried to release the track on YouTube, but Disney wouldn’t let us.
Joranthalus2025-10-01 22:31
It’s for the best….
DecoyOne2025-10-01 20:06
It is funny to think Sam was at his best as Falcon with his guns. He became Cap and he’s actually less of a threat now.
UrbanSquirrel_692025-10-01 22:08
Tf you mean less of a threat? If Sam as Falcon would have gone up against Red Hulk, dude would have been obliterated within a minute 💀
DecoyOne2025-10-01 22:24
Sam was not a threat to the Hulk. The shield didn’t change that.
Hippo_in_limbo2025-10-01 22:26
Sam got further with the hulk did Steve would have.
Mario-Speed-Wagon2025-10-01 22:58
Steve was a super soldier. No comparison
Gasparde2025-10-02 08:21
Anyone can be what Sam is if you just gave them a fullbody suit that makes them invulnerable and able to hurt Hulks. Could've given Darcy that suit and she too would've been able to hurt Red Hulk - although in the end none of that matters because Red Hulk was ultimately beaten by family, love and friendship, which too is something that could've been used by *any other character*.
Sam got further with Red Hulk because Sam is a vague and undefined blank character that can be given anything the writer needs. Steve on the other hand is a fleshed out character with set rules and limitations that forces writers to actually think about how they're going to handle shit instead of just coming up with some random ass infinity invulnerability magic tech.
Hippo_in_limbo2025-10-02 09:06
>Sam is if you just gave them a fullbody suit that makes them invulnerable and able to hurt Hulks. Could've given Darcy that suit and she too would've been able hurt Red Hulk - although in the end none of that matters because Red Hulk was ultimately beaten by family, love and friendship, which too is something that could've been used by any other character.
You could literally switch out tech with super soldier serum and nothing changes lmao. Give Darcy the serum she'll be able to do anything steve can do. (Hint, hint, Peggy Carter)
>Sam got further with Red Hulk because Sam is a vague and undefined blank character that can be given anything the writer needs.
This could literally be applied to most characters in the MCU. Especially the main ones like strange and tony. Know magic and be smart and suddenly you can pull anything out your ass to save the day or whatever the writer can come up with
>Steve on the other hand is a fleshed out character with set rules and limitations that forces writers to actually think about how they're going to handle shit instead of just coming up with some random ass infinity invulnerability magic tech
Except he carries a frisbee that defy rules and limitations lol. But we only excuse it bc it's cool.
Gasparde2025-10-02 09:46
> You could literally switch out tech with super soldier serum and nothing changes lmao
There is a difference between Steve being extra durable and Sam being able to tank literal rocket hits and Hulk beatdowns. The super serum didn't make Steve invulnerable, guy can still be shot, can still break something, can still be hurt - again, Sam tanking rocket explosions and dropping out of the sky and hitting the ground at 500 mph, that's the suit, and that's not what the serum allowed Steve to do.
> This could literally be applied to most characters in the MCU. Especially the main ones like strange and tony. Know magic and be smart and suddenly you can pull anything out your ass to save the day or whatever the writer can come up with
Yes, but for those characters it makes sense - *because that is and has always been their character*. Tony has always been a tinker. The guy faces a problem and just invents the solution. Strange breaking the universe in new and unforeseen ways in order to get out of a speeding ticket, right on track for that guy.
Sam isn't that. Never been that. For the longest time Sam hasn't been anything other than the guy with wings. Then they gave him his own show and tried to get him more in line with your classical Captain America moveset... and then they gave him his own movie and, well, basically gave him a Wakandan Iron Man suit and made him nigh invulnerable.
> Except he carries a frisbee that defy rules and limitations lol. But we only excuse it bc it's cool.
We excuse it because a) yes, it's cool and b) it's always been like that. Also, the shield isn't what makes Steve Steve. The shield allows for cool extra moments, but even without the shield you'll get some absolutely badass Steve moments. Steve without the shield is still just about as capable and just about as threatening. Sam's suit is the only thing allowing him to do what he does, in that vein it's much more similar to the serum - and that serum had to be earned by a one in a billion character - and that serum still didn't make said character a god. Sam's suit isn't that. For fuck's sake, he was quite literally just gifted that thing offscreen by a rich ass country because *something something* heritage. Sam's suit isn't cool, it's not earned, it's got infinite gadgets and none of it has got anything to do with Sam's core character identity because we still don't really know what Sam's core identity is. It's cool that Tony's nanotech suit can do basically *anything* - because that's earned character development from Tony over the course of a decade. The Black Panther suit is cool because it's got culture and lore attached to it and because it's linked to a rather special and unique tech genius with infinite money *and because the guy wearing it earned it (and we even get to see what happens when the wrong person "earns" it)*. Sam's suit is just some random fucking thing he got because he needed something to keep up with all the other characters. Sam's suit is a crutch. Sam without the suit is nothing - and that was already the case back when he was still Falcon because they've never bothered to give the guy a clear character. He's just Iron Captain Wakanda now, for no other reason than that just being what he is now. They could give that same suit to Darcy, Scott, Thor or Howard the Duck and it would make just as much sense - it's not cool because it doesn't have any meaning to it. Might as well give the guy laser pistols and dismiss any criticism with "well, Star Lord has vague plasma blasters as well, why shouldn't Sam have them?!"
CoffeeJedi2025-10-02 14:37
Sam is vague and undefined? Did you watch his Disney+ show?
They gave him a fully fleshed out background, showed his family, showed his financial struggles, aired his personal thoughts on America and racism, etc. He's one of the more well rounded characters in the MCU.
Gasparde2025-10-02 15:22
> showed his family
The family that didn't show up again and wasn't mentioned *a single time* in his very own movie. If Sam is supposed to be the family guy, then show him being the fucking family guy - imagine if we dropped Steve being the guy standing up for what's right after mentioning that character trait once in his first movie and then never talking about it again.
> showed his financial struggles
the struggles that weren't mentioned again in his very own movie. His very own movie that showed him in his new hightech bat cave facility thing where he keeps his Wakandian vibranium tech safely locked away. Oh how relatable them financial struggles are - and how much sense they made when they were first brought up.
> aired his personal thoughts on America and racism
Oh, yea, I too loved the 5 lines he had about that and how they writers then danced around that topic and cut everything about that topic out in the editing room when shit tested poorly with test audiences. Neither America nor race are that guys defining characteristics... he just happens to be an American and he has an opinion on black people and their treatment as a black person. If you wanna tell me that Sam's shtick is about equality and racism... then make the character about class struggle and racism. They *hinted* at him possibly going into that direction after his show but then did absolutely *nothing* with that plot line in his own movie.
> He's one of the more well rounded characters in the MCU
He's one of the most boring, aimless, unfocused and uninspired characters in the MCU. Him having a take on 20 different topics but never really engaging with any given topic more than once for more than 5 minutes doesn't make a compelling character.
Steve was a guy who didn't like bullying. And when he grew up he didn't like bad people doing a war on other people. And eventually he just became the Captain America who stood up for always doing the right thing. That's a consistent character. You see him starting out as A and see him becoming Z, and each of the steps they took along the way make complete sense for that character.
And then you have Sam. Who, for the longest time, was basically just Steve's flying sidekick - that and him bickering with Bucky was basically all that was to that character for about 10 years. He did what Steve did, just slower. Literally. Eventually that just made him Captain America. And once he became Captain America he spent 5 minutes talking about financial struggles, and 5 minutes talking about race struggles, then 5 minutes talking about America's dark past, then 5 minutes on terrorism and then 5 minutes on heavy expectations. And then he fought Red Hulk. And he fought Red Hulk because Ross was like "aight, gimme that new Captain America" and then 5 minutes later was like "fuck that guy, he's not my Captain America". And had they made that in *any way* relate to racism or whatever, great, I woulda bought that. But instead, they went for Sam feeling like he's not good enough. And for the love of god, if that's a genuine struggle of Sam's, you know, people not accepting him, then fucking show that being the case, make that his character, please, do *something* with it. Don't show me a fucking movie where everyone the guy comes across treats him like the one and only true Captain America no question asked no doubt about it no nothing - but then there's that one guy that never liked Sam to begin with who's being mean to him, and suddenly Sam has a self-worth crisis.
My issue with Sam is not that there's quite literally nothing to him. My issue with Sam is that he has like 5 vague ideas and motivations and backstories and what not to him... and yet not a single one of them has really had any lasting impact, has developed into any one direction, has really been shown to be the driving character motivation that gets him up in the morning. Because even in his very own movie, he didn't fight for freedom, not to end racism, he fought because someone was trying to fuck with his friend - and that plot could've happened to absolutely every single fucking character in the MCU. It didn't need to be Sam, it had no real connection to Sam, it didn't develop any of Sam's ongoing narratives, but it gave us a speech from twink boy about how Sam is the greatest guy to ever walk the planet and how you just have to know that it's really hard for Sam when everyone thinks you're that great.
The guy is boring as all hell because there's no singular unique vision behind his character. He's just a dude. And his family has money problem - or at least had them 5 years ago... despite Sam having saved the world numerous times... but apparently that wasn't good enough for Tony or Wakanda to give the guy like 10m bucks and call it a day. Oh well, no need to develop that plot any further. But he's black though! And sometimes we totally will imply some not so unracist implications here and there... but it's not like we're ever really going hard on that topic, let's not kid ourselves. And then he has some opinions on immigration! I mean, those opinions are basically that someone should figure something good out... and it's not like his political opinions matter in any way, shape or form in his very own movie... but he has opinions! Like, what the fuck am I supposed to relate to when every single time the guy is on screen he's got a new problem - a new problem that is conveniently never iterated on or even just brought up again. My guy is about as well rounded as Scott Lang - you know, the guy who's entire character is yelling his daughter's name.
CoffeeJedi2025-10-02 16:21
Okay, long reply; I'll be honest, I just skimmed it. But you do make good points. They definitely should have carried more of his characterization over from the series into the film.
queerhistorynerd2025-10-02 17:09
> showed his financial struggles
they kept telling us he was broke and him being too stupid to open a Go fund me isnt a plot point its something that irritates the audience. He had a million and one ways to make money that the writers ignored to awkwardly force in that sub plot
CoffeeJedi2025-10-02 17:17
There's no way Sam would start a GFM, he's got too much pride. He made money as an active air force officer and government contractor, but it wasn't enough to pay for the boat restoration. He's not wealthy.
Though, I do find it a bit unrealistic that he couldn't get the loan. I know it was a commentary on racial discrimination in finance, and he does have a dangerous job, but he's a big celebrity and even in death his family would receive his pension.
Ok_Perspective_51482025-10-02 05:45
Sure but he was considerably more of a threat with the shield to the red hulk then he would’ve been if he was still using the dual pea shooters
DefNotAShark2025-10-02 07:11
IMO it’s not even the shield so much as the full vibranium body suit and wings. That saved Sam multiple times where his Falcon suit would have left him splattered.
learning-life-222025-10-02 09:34
That's called plot armour
Sharkbait_O_aha2025-10-02 09:40
Brother what do you mean Sam literally still is falcon, he is just more useless now lol
elizabnthe2025-10-02 09:30
He's clearly more of a threat even if you believe it's not a huge step-up.
AdditionalBanana95852025-10-06 06:49
Show me Sam as Falcon flying straight through fighter jets. Or hell, show me him winning one major 1v1 as Falcon.
Bearpunss22025-10-01 21:43
I would purchase this for real. Awesome art and spot on quote lol.
DrTommyNotMD2025-10-02 00:05
His one weakness is physical.
MikeSpace2025-10-02 04:46
I love Sam as Cap (and agree with that poster saying he did better against Red Hulk than Steve would have), but I would totally rock this shirt
Grayx_28872025-10-02 06:26
Nice shirt.
PixelBits892025-10-02 06:52
I cannot wrap my head around the fact that in a franchise started by a normal human in a super suit, people can’t accept the idea of a normal human in an even more super suit. It’s literally an indestructible suit.
igby12025-10-02 09:54
Sam didn’t even wear a helmet to fight Red Hulk.
And his suit doesn’t protect his whole body like Tony’s did.
PixelBits892025-10-02 11:04
So now the goal post is the helmet and that it’s a hulk? Alright I’ll pretend the original post isn’t saying anything beats him as if he isn’t a guy covered in vibranium, a trained soldier, and experienced super hero.
It’s very common for heroes to not completely cover their body. In The Batman 2022 we see he has a bullet proof suit, and he casually walks through automatic gun fire. But he still doesn’t cover the bottom half of his face. Logically it’s stupid, realistically it’s stupid, but it looks better this way. Same applies to Sam.
As well, Sam has a retractable helmet. He puts it on when necessary. That’s very clearly shown in the film. And if you want to complain that he keeps taking it off, welcome to superhero movies. Literally all of them do it. Even Ironmans suit is beaten up and helmet-less a ton of the time. He still doesn’t die. Evidently, you don’t constantly need full body cover in these sci fi fantasy movies. And to look at it realistically as you oddly insist, if their centre mass is protected, and they’re practiced fighters, it makes sense they can survive these situations.
Again I must say, this is a common logical fallacy of superheroes. Aesthetic design takes precedent over realism. I think it’s m the fact Falcon isn’t just another non-strength powered hero like Batman or Daredevil, but is instead specifically compared to Steve Rogers, that people have the issue. They see it as “well he has no super serum so this should go bad for him”, despite the suit, wings, and training. And of course, this all being sci fi fantasy where things are not realistic.
Lathe-and-Order-SVU2025-10-02 13:42
Bro, it’s a joke a joke t-T-shirt not a brutal takedown of the MCU.
Sinestro6172025-10-02 14:17
That might have been YOUR intention but the comments here say otherwise
PixelBits892025-10-02 18:57
I’m not talking just about this post. Obviously even Batman gets the “he’s useless” jokes. I’m not dumb enough to have that bother me. This is more of a general statement. Cause again, the “everything kills me” joke feels weird for a superhero covered in vibranium. And we’ve done these same jokes for months, years even with the show. Jokes can get stale, and at that point you’re just left with subtext of the implications.
But still, my comment is more general. Read through this whole comment section. It’s not just a joke T shirt.
OnlinePosterPerson2025-10-02 20:37
What are you talking about? Sam’s suit provides millions of times more protection than Tony’s did. His suit isn’t even that protective. It’s just a metal can he stands in. Sam is dripped out in VIBRANIUM. His suit protects him in a way Tony’s never could dream to.
exaviyur2025-10-02 21:10
Tony's also had way more offense built in and JARVIS.
queerhistorynerd2025-10-02 16:56
because if tony was helmetless he would have died in that cave in a neat metal coffin by the first guy who remembered to aim for the head. And the exposed face thing is brought up every time the heroes take their helmet off to chit chat in the middle of battle. Any competent enemy would obviously aim for the obvious weak spot
PixelBits892025-10-02 19:09
“He would have”, “any competent enemy”.
This is a sci fi fantasy. There are no competent enemies. If they were competent enemies, he wouldn’t have been able to make a giant suit of armour while on camera in the first place. That’s really silly even after the movies justification. But you accept it because this isn’t real life. Rule of cool.
Why do you think other characters like Hawkeye and black widow have completely impractical suits? And I’m aware they were spies and agents before. But even after being avengers for a decade, fighting aliens and super robots, they don’t change. It’s because sticking them in armour wouldn’t be as cool since they’d loose their distinction. It’s less realistic, but better for the films.
Same applies here. No caption America wears full face masks (in film or usually in books), a more uncovered face allows for better acting. It’s better for accuracy and for the film to not constantly cover his face.
And no the exposed face thing ain’t always brought up. It’s pretty apparent Sam Capatain American gets way more flak for it than most characters.
And if we want to talk realism, being shot in the head is extremely unlikely. People are trained to shoot centre mass as it’s easier. As well, we see the events of the movie and Sam is not hit in the head. So regardless of if he did or didn’t have a helmet he’d be fine as the same things would happen. You can call the decision to take it off dumb, but it’s not as if he SHOULD be dead.
Edboy7962025-10-06 12:12
Virtually indestructible☝️
Remember, Adamantium is even *more* indestructible
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Sam got further with Red Hulk because Sam is a vague and undefined blank character that can be given anything the writer needs. Steve on the other hand is a fleshed out character with set rules and limitations that forces writers to actually think about how they're going to handle shit instead of just coming up with some random ass infinity invulnerability magic tech.
You could literally switch out tech with super soldier serum and nothing changes lmao. Give Darcy the serum she'll be able to do anything steve can do. (Hint, hint, Peggy Carter)
>Sam got further with Red Hulk because Sam is a vague and undefined blank character that can be given anything the writer needs.
This could literally be applied to most characters in the MCU. Especially the main ones like strange and tony. Know magic and be smart and suddenly you can pull anything out your ass to save the day or whatever the writer can come up with
>Steve on the other hand is a fleshed out character with set rules and limitations that forces writers to actually think about how they're going to handle shit instead of just coming up with some random ass infinity invulnerability magic tech
Except he carries a frisbee that defy rules and limitations lol. But we only excuse it bc it's cool.
There is a difference between Steve being extra durable and Sam being able to tank literal rocket hits and Hulk beatdowns. The super serum didn't make Steve invulnerable, guy can still be shot, can still break something, can still be hurt - again, Sam tanking rocket explosions and dropping out of the sky and hitting the ground at 500 mph, that's the suit, and that's not what the serum allowed Steve to do.
> This could literally be applied to most characters in the MCU. Especially the main ones like strange and tony. Know magic and be smart and suddenly you can pull anything out your ass to save the day or whatever the writer can come up with
Yes, but for those characters it makes sense - *because that is and has always been their character*. Tony has always been a tinker. The guy faces a problem and just invents the solution. Strange breaking the universe in new and unforeseen ways in order to get out of a speeding ticket, right on track for that guy.
Sam isn't that. Never been that. For the longest time Sam hasn't been anything other than the guy with wings. Then they gave him his own show and tried to get him more in line with your classical Captain America moveset... and then they gave him his own movie and, well, basically gave him a Wakandan Iron Man suit and made him nigh invulnerable.
> Except he carries a frisbee that defy rules and limitations lol. But we only excuse it bc it's cool.
We excuse it because a) yes, it's cool and b) it's always been like that. Also, the shield isn't what makes Steve Steve. The shield allows for cool extra moments, but even without the shield you'll get some absolutely badass Steve moments. Steve without the shield is still just about as capable and just about as threatening. Sam's suit is the only thing allowing him to do what he does, in that vein it's much more similar to the serum - and that serum had to be earned by a one in a billion character - and that serum still didn't make said character a god. Sam's suit isn't that. For fuck's sake, he was quite literally just gifted that thing offscreen by a rich ass country because *something something* heritage. Sam's suit isn't cool, it's not earned, it's got infinite gadgets and none of it has got anything to do with Sam's core character identity because we still don't really know what Sam's core identity is. It's cool that Tony's nanotech suit can do basically *anything* - because that's earned character development from Tony over the course of a decade. The Black Panther suit is cool because it's got culture and lore attached to it and because it's linked to a rather special and unique tech genius with infinite money *and because the guy wearing it earned it (and we even get to see what happens when the wrong person "earns" it)*. Sam's suit is just some random fucking thing he got because he needed something to keep up with all the other characters. Sam's suit is a crutch. Sam without the suit is nothing - and that was already the case back when he was still Falcon because they've never bothered to give the guy a clear character. He's just Iron Captain Wakanda now, for no other reason than that just being what he is now. They could give that same suit to Darcy, Scott, Thor or Howard the Duck and it would make just as much sense - it's not cool because it doesn't have any meaning to it. Might as well give the guy laser pistols and dismiss any criticism with "well, Star Lord has vague plasma blasters as well, why shouldn't Sam have them?!"
They gave him a fully fleshed out background, showed his family, showed his financial struggles, aired his personal thoughts on America and racism, etc. He's one of the more well rounded characters in the MCU.
The family that didn't show up again and wasn't mentioned *a single time* in his very own movie. If Sam is supposed to be the family guy, then show him being the fucking family guy - imagine if we dropped Steve being the guy standing up for what's right after mentioning that character trait once in his first movie and then never talking about it again.
> showed his financial struggles
the struggles that weren't mentioned again in his very own movie. His very own movie that showed him in his new hightech bat cave facility thing where he keeps his Wakandian vibranium tech safely locked away. Oh how relatable them financial struggles are - and how much sense they made when they were first brought up.
> aired his personal thoughts on America and racism
Oh, yea, I too loved the 5 lines he had about that and how they writers then danced around that topic and cut everything about that topic out in the editing room when shit tested poorly with test audiences. Neither America nor race are that guys defining characteristics... he just happens to be an American and he has an opinion on black people and their treatment as a black person. If you wanna tell me that Sam's shtick is about equality and racism... then make the character about class struggle and racism. They *hinted* at him possibly going into that direction after his show but then did absolutely *nothing* with that plot line in his own movie.
> He's one of the more well rounded characters in the MCU
He's one of the most boring, aimless, unfocused and uninspired characters in the MCU. Him having a take on 20 different topics but never really engaging with any given topic more than once for more than 5 minutes doesn't make a compelling character.
Steve was a guy who didn't like bullying. And when he grew up he didn't like bad people doing a war on other people. And eventually he just became the Captain America who stood up for always doing the right thing. That's a consistent character. You see him starting out as A and see him becoming Z, and each of the steps they took along the way make complete sense for that character.
And then you have Sam. Who, for the longest time, was basically just Steve's flying sidekick - that and him bickering with Bucky was basically all that was to that character for about 10 years. He did what Steve did, just slower. Literally. Eventually that just made him Captain America. And once he became Captain America he spent 5 minutes talking about financial struggles, and 5 minutes talking about race struggles, then 5 minutes talking about America's dark past, then 5 minutes on terrorism and then 5 minutes on heavy expectations. And then he fought Red Hulk. And he fought Red Hulk because Ross was like "aight, gimme that new Captain America" and then 5 minutes later was like "fuck that guy, he's not my Captain America". And had they made that in *any way* relate to racism or whatever, great, I woulda bought that. But instead, they went for Sam feeling like he's not good enough. And for the love of god, if that's a genuine struggle of Sam's, you know, people not accepting him, then fucking show that being the case, make that his character, please, do *something* with it. Don't show me a fucking movie where everyone the guy comes across treats him like the one and only true Captain America no question asked no doubt about it no nothing - but then there's that one guy that never liked Sam to begin with who's being mean to him, and suddenly Sam has a self-worth crisis.
My issue with Sam is not that there's quite literally nothing to him. My issue with Sam is that he has like 5 vague ideas and motivations and backstories and what not to him... and yet not a single one of them has really had any lasting impact, has developed into any one direction, has really been shown to be the driving character motivation that gets him up in the morning. Because even in his very own movie, he didn't fight for freedom, not to end racism, he fought because someone was trying to fuck with his friend - and that plot could've happened to absolutely every single fucking character in the MCU. It didn't need to be Sam, it had no real connection to Sam, it didn't develop any of Sam's ongoing narratives, but it gave us a speech from twink boy about how Sam is the greatest guy to ever walk the planet and how you just have to know that it's really hard for Sam when everyone thinks you're that great.
The guy is boring as all hell because there's no singular unique vision behind his character. He's just a dude. And his family has money problem - or at least had them 5 years ago... despite Sam having saved the world numerous times... but apparently that wasn't good enough for Tony or Wakanda to give the guy like 10m bucks and call it a day. Oh well, no need to develop that plot any further. But he's black though! And sometimes we totally will imply some not so unracist implications here and there... but it's not like we're ever really going hard on that topic, let's not kid ourselves. And then he has some opinions on immigration! I mean, those opinions are basically that someone should figure something good out... and it's not like his political opinions matter in any way, shape or form in his very own movie... but he has opinions! Like, what the fuck am I supposed to relate to when every single time the guy is on screen he's got a new problem - a new problem that is conveniently never iterated on or even just brought up again. My guy is about as well rounded as Scott Lang - you know, the guy who's entire character is yelling his daughter's name.
they kept telling us he was broke and him being too stupid to open a Go fund me isnt a plot point its something that irritates the audience. He had a million and one ways to make money that the writers ignored to awkwardly force in that sub plot
Though, I do find it a bit unrealistic that he couldn't get the loan. I know it was a commentary on racial discrimination in finance, and he does have a dangerous job, but he's a big celebrity and even in death his family would receive his pension.
And his suit doesn’t protect his whole body like Tony’s did.
It’s very common for heroes to not completely cover their body. In The Batman 2022 we see he has a bullet proof suit, and he casually walks through automatic gun fire. But he still doesn’t cover the bottom half of his face. Logically it’s stupid, realistically it’s stupid, but it looks better this way. Same applies to Sam.
As well, Sam has a retractable helmet. He puts it on when necessary. That’s very clearly shown in the film. And if you want to complain that he keeps taking it off, welcome to superhero movies. Literally all of them do it. Even Ironmans suit is beaten up and helmet-less a ton of the time. He still doesn’t die. Evidently, you don’t constantly need full body cover in these sci fi fantasy movies. And to look at it realistically as you oddly insist, if their centre mass is protected, and they’re practiced fighters, it makes sense they can survive these situations.
Again I must say, this is a common logical fallacy of superheroes. Aesthetic design takes precedent over realism. I think it’s m the fact Falcon isn’t just another non-strength powered hero like Batman or Daredevil, but is instead specifically compared to Steve Rogers, that people have the issue. They see it as “well he has no super serum so this should go bad for him”, despite the suit, wings, and training. And of course, this all being sci fi fantasy where things are not realistic.
But still, my comment is more general. Read through this whole comment section. It’s not just a joke T shirt.
This is a sci fi fantasy. There are no competent enemies. If they were competent enemies, he wouldn’t have been able to make a giant suit of armour while on camera in the first place. That’s really silly even after the movies justification. But you accept it because this isn’t real life. Rule of cool.
Why do you think other characters like Hawkeye and black widow have completely impractical suits? And I’m aware they were spies and agents before. But even after being avengers for a decade, fighting aliens and super robots, they don’t change. It’s because sticking them in armour wouldn’t be as cool since they’d loose their distinction. It’s less realistic, but better for the films.
Same applies here. No caption America wears full face masks (in film or usually in books), a more uncovered face allows for better acting. It’s better for accuracy and for the film to not constantly cover his face.
And no the exposed face thing ain’t always brought up. It’s pretty apparent Sam Capatain American gets way more flak for it than most characters.
And if we want to talk realism, being shot in the head is extremely unlikely. People are trained to shoot centre mass as it’s easier. As well, we see the events of the movie and Sam is not hit in the head. So regardless of if he did or didn’t have a helmet he’d be fine as the same things would happen. You can call the decision to take it off dumb, but it’s not as if he SHOULD be dead.
Remember, Adamantium is even *more* indestructible