The Ethics behind Captain America

At the time, Captain America was supposed to represent the ideal American patriot, who loved fighting for his country and helping his fellow citizens. He also shows specific attributes such as bravery and loyalty to his country, wearing his countries colours bright and proud for everyone to see and recognise him by, and having a motto of "favouring freedom over blind loyalty." Joe Simon, one interview, "I've always considered myself very

patriotic," and mentions that they were looking to create a hero in response to the Nazi's during World War II. Captain America's whole moral structure is based on his extrinsic values for America, fighting for his fellow citizens and doing whats right in order to defend their freedom, and prevent the enemy from taking it. Some of the enemies featured in some comics are actual or based off of, real people that are against the United States, for

example, Adolf Hitler, and Electro (who is an attempt created from the Russians to fight him). These values added to the character of Captain America made him more attractive to all ages, especially in a time when there was an impending threat of world destruction. The country needed someone to look up to and encourage the youth at the time that there was hope, and that America was doing all the right things in order to preserve their freedom, which was what the authors were aiming for, even before the cold war started.

Written by Franklin Parada Jr.

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