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When Captain America: Winter Soldier came out it was (insofar as capeshit slop can be) a pretty big deal for a few reaosns. The biggest one by far was that they took a guy whose whole schtick is that he throws a giant frisbee and managed to make him and his fight sequences actually fucking cool. Of note also though was that it actually confronted and indeed actually confirmed the idea that the shadowy government agency they were all working with were basically Nazis. The moral of that one was that America has become what it originally fought against in WW2 and we needed the symbol of the American dream to bring us back on track.

That was 10 years ago. At this point even people like me who will guiltily consume capeshit will tell you that's all cope. America is a genocidal colonizer state who served as inspiration to the Nazis. The values Captain America claims to have represented are and always were fantasy.

If I was to do a Superman movie I think I would take a page out of David Goyer's brief comic run where Superman renounced his American citizenship. Maybe have a B-plot that ties into the A plot where Superman who is by any and all definitions an undocumented immigrant is being granted American citizenship only to have him reject the offer at the end when he realizes that the concept of the American way is actually short sighted and myopic and that he actually needs to see himself as a citizen of the world. Honestly I wouldn't be shocked if they actually go that route. Meaningless platitudes but I don't see how anything else won't land completely flat.