# Captain America Trailer is out **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-trailer-is-out/575859 "2011-03-24T17:09:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-trailer-is-out/575859/41 "2011-03-25T23:46:39Z")
Needs more Bucky. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-trailer-is-out/575859/42 "2011-03-25T23:54:02Z")
I like it. The suit even looks okay. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-trailer-is-out/575859/43 "2011-03-26T00:15:47Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Hey, there’s 27+ other countries that have a Red, White, and Blue flag. They just need to change the name. Captain Thailand? I’m from Australia, which is more blue, red and white. Captain Australia would probably have the superpower of getting pissed while watching the cricket. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-trailer-is-out/575859/44 "2011-03-26T03:38:25Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Needs more Bucky. Curious about comic book fans’ opinions on the movie’s take on Bucky. I’m not a comic book guy and don’t really know much about Bucky but I’ve always had the impression that fans of the comic book hated Bucky, considered him embarrassingly campy, and have been pretty happy that he stayed dead (until he stopped staying dead). It seemed to me that all agreed that a teen sidekick was a totally lame idea and sucked a considerable level of cool out of the series. So, the trailer shows us that Bucky is a young adult, pretty buff and square-jawed. It seems that in this version Bucky and Steve had long been buddies. That they are about the same age. Furthermore, it seems that _Steve had been Bucky’s scrawny geeky “sidekick”_ prior to his transformation. As, depicted, it looks like it will be easier to accept Bucky as being heroic in his own right. I definitely think a teen sidekick would have been a bad choice for the movie, but how do long-time fans feel about Bucky being so significantly ret-conned? Good idea, or better to just drop the character completely? (Or would anyone _prefer_ the teen sidekick version?) ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-trailer-is-out/575859/45 "2011-03-26T04:35:45Z")
Having Bucky as a war photographer, not a teen sidekick, worked well in _The Ultimates_. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-trailer-is-out/575859/46 "2011-03-26T04:40:38Z")
Bucky was nicely ret-conned into a WWII era young, scrappy, throat-slitting, advanced recon sidekick in the last few years. One who “did the things Captain America couldn’t be seen doing” IIRC. It was quite well received. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-trailer-is-out/575859/47 "2011-03-26T18:49:32Z")
I didn’t so much hate the idea of the teen sidekick, I like the current semi-autonomous Robin just fine. I just found it refreshing that a dead character actually stayed dead. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-trailer-is-out/575859.md?page=2)