You should look at the more recent posts with pictures of him in the Cap outfit.

NO ONE is going to make any connection between his character in Fantastic Four and his portrayal of Captain America. And you clearly need to watch more movies with Evans in it. You dont even spell his name right. I doubt that they would have given him the role if they felt he was “not the best actor”

As far as your other references, I could easily see a different actor take on roles like Ghost Rider, Cyclops, Storm, and even Batman or the Joker. Halle Berry is also Catwoman, but that didn’t hurt Storm.

Any actor can be replaced. Its not always easy, but there is never an absolute as to who should play a role. No matter how great they do, someone COULD have done it better.

AKA:

Christian Bale = Batman
Heath Ledger = Joker
Nicholas Cage = Ghost Rider
Hugh Jackman = Wolverine
Robert Downey Jr = IronMan
James Marsden = Cyclops
Halle Berry = Storm
Chris Evens = the Human torch/Captain America this is counter intuitive.
Plus he’s not the best actor either.

any word on Buckey?

The news is getting more exciting day by day. I’ll try and abstain from the race issue, Steve Rogers was written as a Caucasian character with an Irish heritage background I believe? So that is all I need to know.

Evans says he will be refitted with a new shield and the red white and blue costume in the third act.

Decorating him up to stand out sounds like he will be that symbol by then.

When you say Yet, do you mean not in this film, but in the sequel or something?

I fully expect this film to end in present day. If it does, and he’s not a symbol by the end, then his race shouldn’t matter, even in world war 2.

I said he wouldn’t be used as a symbol YET. From Evans’ quote it sounds like his actions will result in him becoming the symbol of inspiration from his actions and not as some PR ploy.

Race wouldn’t matter in most cases, but the movie is set in World War 2 and like it or not, socially a black man wouldn’t have become a symbol the way Rogers did.

If they were doing a modern Captain America that was created for a modern army and not WWII, then it wouldn’t matter.

indeed Steve Rogers isn’t black, although there area a mini series form Marvel awhile agoe that told the story on how black soldiers being used as guinea pigs for the serum. That could be incorporated to the origin sotry. Also Steve Roger having some moral issue when he found it out.

Some characters race don’t matter. You said spider-man doesn’t have to be white.

My question is, if cap isn’t going to be used as a symbol, does his race matter? Since it seems like they didn’t choose him for a symbol of hope in the film, just someone to experiment on.

Why would he be? Steve Rogers wasn’t black. And historically at that time of racial intolerance they wouldn’t have chosen a black man to be their symbol of hope for the American forces.

Its still Steve Rogers, just looks like it will focus more on the time spent before he put on the suit.

In that case, could he have been black?