I feel like a lot of the time Captain America is in X-Books, he’s there to fill a very particular authoritarian role and that role pretty much requires him to be a dick. It puts him out of character a lot of the time, which is unfortunate. Maybe he has some latent unreasonability superpower that is activated through proximity to mutants?
I mean let’s be real it’s about the most plausible excuse for someone as liberal and morally oriented as Steve Rogers fighting the mutant cause
Steve Rogers comes from the New York Left. While FDR’s New Deal may have be explicitly written to exclude Black people Steve Rogers has always stood against bigotry.
Folks should def read Attewell’s follow up essays @graphicpolicy about Cap in his new series: A People’s History of the Marvel Universe.
It’s canonical that Captain America doesn’t have any anti-mutant prejudice at all and never did:
So says Magneto’s prejudice-erasing helmet. And so powerful is Captain America’s belief in the inherent equality of all that he retains this belief, even when he’s been mystically transformed into a Hyborian warrior:
To answer OP’s question: Cap is a dick when he interacts with mutants when the people writing him don’t know dick about Captain America.
Given that 11,000 men from the Westerlands alone fought, and that we know contingents from every kingdom were there, it could well be as high as 70-80,000 men.
It really depends – could be a few days, could be a few months, depending on the situation. Keep in mind, Bloodraven’s been keeping most of the east on a permanent semi-war footing to prevent a crossing by Bittersteel, so I imagine the logistics were worked out in advance.
I didn’t mean why Daemon Targaryen was a bad person, that, as you exposed long time ago, is quite obvious. What I meant is how was he developed into such an awful person?
For example, we pretty much know Joffrey’s background, how Cersei encouraged him to think himself higher than anybody as Targaryens thought themselves higher than anyone (in a suicidical way, not like others), and how she herself thought so high that she would threaten the wetnurse, and other things, all because Tywin promised her from little to make her even more than Lannister, to make her Targaryen.
So, I hoped that you could provide some insight in how Daemon the Mocker of newborn’s corpses came to be this person. His brother was a “happy go-by” boy, why was Daemon so warlike and even deranged (even though equally charming and “sociable”)?
I see what you mean. I don’t know if there’s a straightforward answer. We know that “In his youth, Daemon Targaryen’s face and laugh were familiar to every cut-purse, whore, and gambler in Flea Bottom,” so clearly he liked to slum it to ward off boredom and enjoyed breaking social mores. We know that during the Council of 101, Daemon assembled a private army to fight it out if the Council didn’t name Viserys (and thus making him the heir to the throne).
I don’t think this is a case of nurture beating out nature – rather, I think Daemon was always temperamentally aggressive and an adrenaline junkie and never burdened much by a sense of conscience.
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