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The reason US Agent was hated (to an extent) in the comics is that he’s a Grade A level jerk. He became a hero, and he can be right about many things, but his presentation of those things to his peers is just…well…. There’s telling it like it is, and then there’s John Walker, who makes steel wool pads look downright soft.
To the extent they got that right in the MCU, Walker is worthy of dislike. But that’s about the only thing they got right about him (surprise, surprise).
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Walker was created in the same mindset as Jean-Paul Valley with Batman: to look bad so the regular hero comes off looking better, so of the “what if the hero went too far” without damaging the hero. Like Hydra Cap. The movies, according to JesterBell and a few other critics, did not do a good job painting him as the bad guy. #JohnWalkerDidNothingWrong exists because the MCU messed up the assignment due to their own social and political leanings.
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Oh, great, now I have a picture of John Walker as HYDRA Cap in my head. Dang it, THAT would have worked….
Though the best thing for that arc is for it to get forgotten, posthaste. I wouldn’t throw anyone to HYDRA if I could avoid it.
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