Amazing Spider-Man's Biggest Mistake Gets Even Worse in Marvel Comics
Warning: contains spoilers for Captain Carter #3!
Marvel's most recent Captain Carter adventure recreates an infamous moment from Andrew Garfield's The Amazing Spider-Man film — but unlikeSpider-Man, the enemy in question has absolutely no excuse. Both Captain Carter and Peter Parker are popular characters, but that doesn't mean their stories are free from plot holes and illogical decisions. Captain Carter #3 begins with one of these decisions that unfortunately sets the tone for all the antagonists in the book, for better or worse.
Captain Carter, while on the surface another Captain America variant, is very much her own character. Like Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter fought in World War II and was frozen in ice before the conflict's end — but unlike Rogers, she was thawed out in the modern era in Great Britain. Her superiors want to position her as a symbol of the UK's strength and heroism — and since the overwhelming majority of superheroes in the Marvel Universe are either from or operate within the United States, Carter's importance on the world stage as a British superhero is magnified.
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This situation is strikingly familiar to fans of The Amazing Spider-Man film in 2012, in which Spider-Man fights the villain Lizard. The aforementioned antagonist discovers Spider-Man's true identity when he comes across a camera labeled «Property of Peter Parker.» While this is admittedly a horrendous mistake on Peter's part, it does makes sense: he has received no training, operates alone, and has canonically made mistakes far worse than this. But the highly-trained members of STRIKE have absolutely no excuse — for both plastering their logo on their guns or
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