>white hero passes/shares his mantle to/with long time friend and fellow hero who happens to be black >nerds on and outside /co/ still hate it despite checking off their boxes on how to do a legacy right Why?
>>150486492because hydra cap happened to facilitate it and marvelfags are allergic to legacy characters in general.
>>150486492>Character who has crafted their own super hero identity gets undermined by taking the more profitable name of a white hero Man it's almost like Falcon fans are fans of the Falcon and his own Legacy
>>150486492Personally I liked him as Falcon. It was fine when Steve was made old and stopped using the name.
>>150486492>despite checking off their boxes on how to do a legacy rightBecause the movie version, which is the version everyone knows, did it wrong and because most people don't read comics, they assume that's how it was in the comics too.
>>150486492Falcon has fought to become more than Captain America's sidekick for decades. Treating it like a lesser identity -- a stepping-stone to Captain America -- instead of Sam's identity is diminutive and disrespectful. I LIKED the Falcon.We already had characters that could explore the legacy/concept of Captain America through the lens of black America. The Eli Bradley version of Patriot was a thing. His grandpa Isaiah is still around. Josiah X is still there too.
There was an issue of Ewing's Mighty Avengers where The Falcon is seen through the eyes of a random criminal, and it's treated like a horror sequence like something out of The Birds.Stuff like that was cool.Now they might as well swap Redwing with a bald eagle.
>>150486492In this one specific case I think it had a lot more to do with the time it was happening in than the idea of Falcon being a successor to Steve Rogers itself being the problem. There's been at least one previous story where Sam filled in as Captain America and nobody really objected, but this time it was happening in that Alonso Marvel era where they were replacing a lot of white male heroes with legacy heroes who were all non-white, non-male or both, so Sam becoming Cap at that time looked less like the Captain America writer just had a great story idea, and more like part of a company-wide agenda that a lot of the longtime fans were already sick and tired of. Legacy replacement heroes in Marvel's past had never tended to last more than 2-3 years at most, but in the Alonso era, a lot of unpopular replacements were just sticking around for years and years, and the audience couldn't even vote their way out of this with their money by not buying the books, it didn't seem to matter to Marvel if the audience was rejecting all these replacement heroes, they still weren't going away. And that's the environment in which we got Falcon Cap.Remender was at least trying to make Sam prove himself and earn the mantle by running a gauntlet of Cap's rogues gallery, but this storyline got cut short by Secret Wars, Remender bailed, and got replaced by Spencer, whose Cap run got really political and divisive really quickly, and made Steve Rogers into the main villain Sam was up against, which did not go over well at all, and a lot of people seem to still associate Sam with this era and the Secret Empire event, as it's the biggest role he's ever had.
>>150486492‘Cause now Sam is stuck as “the OTHER Captain America.” He’ll always be number two ‘cause they’ll never get rid of Steve for good. How is this supposed to be an upgrade?? A hand-me-down name that you still have to share??
>>150486637ThisSam had his own identity and his own powers for decades and now he has been subsumed into being the cap that has wingsThey even took redwing away, and replaced it with nothing, you're telling me you can't even get the nigga a goddamn eagle partner in the 5 years before Gunn beat them to the punch
>>150487208>that Alonso Marvel era where they were replacing a lot of white male heroes with legacy heroes who were all non-white, non-male or both"All according to plan, Mr. Perlmutter . . ."
>>150486492Because it happened to every White A-lister at once>Cho Hulk>FalCap>Captain Carol>Ironheart>Miles>Jane ThorAll of them talking about cool and epic their minority successors were
