I am saying they don’t want him to fight(adding with white soldiers right here doesn’t seem to make that much of a difference to me) but he goes AWOL and proves through his action that he is a leader. Despite the plans the army had in place for him.

He was fully aware from the start that his mission was to fight and protect America. By doing that he is a symbol.Furthermore, the government told him what their intentions were. What may happen in the story, as you are saying, does not reflect who he eventually turns out to be.

And maybe I did or maybe I didn’t but I thought I said the USO thing already and the comment got deleted.

When the director talked about the costume he said that they put him in the USO show and that he goes AWOL.

He also says that cap uses it as a symbol. So that makes it his choice not the people that created him.

If they DON’T have him in place as a symbol and a leader in his own film and in Avengers then they are missing the point. Cap was created not just to be a superior type of soldier, but to stand as a symbol – which is why they have him in the garish uniform laden with the flag. He IS a symbol in action and presence. That was what Cap always was.

And despite repeating your assumption you still havent said why you think they WONT make him a leader and a symbol when that is an integral part of his storyline and origin.

I mean put in place as a leader. He will come to lead through action, not because the army had this symbol they wanted to lead.

I dont see what assumption you are going under that they wouldnt make Cap some sort of leader.

He has always been a leader.

Adaptation.

I’m sure they wont have Captain America set up as a leader anyway.

I could be the most racist person in the world but if I am caught under fire with no way out, and someone comes to save me, I don’t care what color they are.

Well stated Rodney. Cloud, you gotta understand the social and political situations going on during that time. Blacks and whites barely fought together side by side during WWII. The blacks that did join the military were put in their own platoon with other blacks or they had other types of jobs that didnt consist of fighting. As barbaric as it is for today’s standards the world was completely different back then. It wasn’t until Vietnam that blacks and whites fight side by side. (Perhaps the Korean War Im not sure because I don’t know too much about that but I know for sure about Vietnam)

In 2003 there was a miniseries that outlined a Hero named Isaiah Bradley who was a black test subject of the Super Soldier serum, and he did have similar abilities but never became the symbol that Cap was.

The basis that Cap was more than a super soldier, and rather a SYMBOL of the American fight is why they will go with a White guy playing the role. They would not have elevated a black test subject as a symbol in that culture that accepted blacks as second class.

Yes but would it not be plausible that would test it on a black guy first?

That story would make sense to me. If it worked on the black guy then they could it on white guys. That wasn’t the story but I don’t see how that would drastically change the story.

Steve Rodgers was the guiene pig. The US Government was going to manufacture the serum for more super soldiers but there was a Nazi spy who killed Dr. Erskine, which is why Rodgers is the only one.