Casting Suggestions: Captain America

Wait...so you're just going to change a character's gender (Izzy Cohen) without any explanation as to why...?

Also, something that's always bugged me about the Howling Commandos, but that I could deal with because it was a comic book that needed to be politically correct, was that there's no way they would have allowed Gabe Jones on an all-white team. That comment's not racist, I'm just pointing out that this takes place in World War II, which ended in 1945, three years before the armed forces started desegregating.

My main problem isn't Gabe Jones, however, it's the hole Marvel has dug themselves with Nick Fury. While you could argue that Gabe was just a member, and that he was the best of the best, and that was why he was a member of the Howling Commandos, there is absolutely no way that the U.S. Military of the early 1940s would allow a black man to lead a military unit made up predominantly of white men.

So they're left with few options. Make the Howling Commandos into a sort of Tuskeegee Airmen type group, Make current Nick Fury the son of an African American woman and a Caucasian World War II veteran named "Nick Fury" (thus making "current" Nick Fury, Nick Fury the second, and the son of normal continuity Fury) or have someone else be the leader of the team.

Now, let me also follow up by saying that I love Samuel L. Jackson as movie Nick Fury, but the problem is, Marvel's trying to have their cake and eat it too. They want an Ultimate style Nick Fury, but they want to have him doing things that would not be (politically?) possible in that time-frame. I have no problem with them doing any of the things I suggested to get around this (I especially think that the Tuskeegee Airmen idea would be interesting, though you would have to replace Dugan. He's as white as it gets.)

Anyway, now that I've rambled about keeping things historically accurate, I'll try to get back so some sort of point.

Basically, I like the cast. I think it does a good job of capturing the characters, but I'm not entirely sure why you changed Izzy Cohen's gender, and that's mainly because you gave no reason and just assumed we would all understand... I guess...

Sorry about the above Marvel-aimed rant.

@Canadianturd-- There's always need for further explanation... It's lucky you had Sam Jackson as Fury up there, because if not, LEEE's comment wouldn't have been distracted, and would have complained about the lack of information.

I'd say it is somewhat of a reach, though, because I don't really see Sarah Polley as the battle-hardened soldier type. I mean, yes, I've seen the "Dawn of the Dead" remake, but still, she just seems to be more of a person who is generally a calm, quiet person that is doing what it takes to survive in an insane situation. Now, I'm sure she could probably pull off the whole "tough woman" aspect of the character, but it requires further explanation for the simple fact that, to my knowledge, she hasn't played that type of character before, so it's slightly difficult to wrap your head around without a frame of reference.

I can see there needing to be a "tough woman" on the team, but again... historical context.

Oh, wait. You don't care about historical context. Never mind.

I see what you're getting at about there being super humans and androids and such in the Marvel Universe, but the thing is, the reason that "Marvel" people prefer "Marvel" to "DC" is usually because it combines these very unreal concepts (such as a man that can stretch, a woman that can move things with her mind, etc.) with very real-life situations. So if you remove even the most vague sense of historical context, you're removing one of the things that makes Marvel, Marvel.

Now, I'd also like to say that I wasn't "attacking" you about the "Sarah Polley" thing in my first comment, or the "historical accuracy" thing. (Actually, that was directed specifically at Marvel, who totally read these web sites...) So there was no reason to get sarcastic.

@Canadianturd-- HeyHey, now That's what I'm talkin' about!

DELETING COMMENTS is not cool!

Oh an see you've put info in now lol!

So SLJ sucking in WWII is not relevant!???

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Women weren't in battle during WWII, get your shit together......

Jaryd Polson is right!

Women just weren't allowed in a battle
unit in WWII! I don't care how you try
to twist the history, a woman in a commando
unit in WWII just will not fly!

The black thing in World War II has been
twisted by almost everybody, in comic books,
so Gabriel would fly!

The Howling Commandos were an all-man unit
just like all units in WWII. I don't care if
it seems like a sausage fest, that is just
an un-changeable fact! It is ludicrous to
put a woman in a commando unit in WWII! Sorry!

But this is a great cast otherwise!
Very quality actors!

Now there were women in France who fought in
the underground in WWII but they never were
in the military! You could maybe create a
female French character who fights with the
Howling Commandos. But an American woman in
a Commando Unit is so far-fetched it is just
utterly wrong! It's unacceptable!

I myself am not pissed-off Canadianturd@!

It's just too far-fetched to have a woman
in the Howling Commandos unit in WWII.
They didn't even do that in the comics!
That is just too untrue history even for Marvel
comics! There just wasn't any female fighting
soldiers in WWII. Having women in combat is
a very recent thing in American society.
It may be a fictional universe but there are
certain things like this that are just too
un-real to be believed!

I mean no disrespect!

You guys seem to be all over the place with your logic. I'm going to have to respond to all of this with another article.

no no no no no spare us another article
true, it's in a make believe universe. but, with comic book movies now-a-days, they try to be as realistic as possible with everything around the characters. in turn, women weren't in WWII as soldiers.