RIP CAPTAIN AMERICA

national hero since 1941

on march 7, 2007, steve rogers aka captain america was shot fatally in the back (and three more times for good measure) after surrendering to authorities. his anti-registration faction/resistance movement stance clashed with the pro-registration movement that would allow superheroes to act as law enforcement and also military authority. he saw this as unpatriotic and un-american and so he led a battle against the pro-registration authorites that ultimately led to his death.

yeah, i used to love comic books as a kid. spider-man was the shit, but a lot of other comics were good too. i bought superhero video games, action figures, graphic novels, novels, board games, backpacks, POGS, and had birthdays with superhero themes. i haven't read a comic book probably since middle school, but the movies have kept me in the universe and also when dramatic events like this happen, it's likely to cause a public uproar. events like these are on such a grand scale that i first found out about captain america's death as the new york times front page headline story.

there's no fear, however, that by some magical turn of fate captain america will be back. superman died by the hands of doomsday and came back, batman was paralyzed by bane and nearly killed by his batman replacement, azrael, and spiderman died too, except that it turned out to be his clone, scarlet spider. as much as writers, creators, artists, etc. may want to let a character's persona live forever through their death, ending such an important franchise is hard to do. like athletes who can't walk away from the game, these people have known this comic character all their life and so abandoning them suddenly is more than likely out of the question.

not to mention that there's a captain america movie coming, so it's very unlikely he's permanently dead. they'll find some incredible healing machine to impossibly remove the bullets from his body or something.