Captain America's New Origin Already Made A Critical Mistake
Warning: contains spoilers for What If...Miles Morales Became Captain America #1!
Marvel's new Captain America is none other than Miles Morales — but his debut issue forgets what made both Captain America and Spider-Man great in the first place, and commits a cardinal error that will be difficult to fix in the future. What If...Miles Morales Became Captain America #1 depicts an alternate universe in which Steve Rogers was never found after World War II, and a new hero took up the shield to defend the country. But Miles does not become Captain America by choice, but by accident — and this dooms the story before it starts.
In this reality, Miles Morales' father and uncle are both stationed at an Army base, and Miles no longer lives in Brooklyn. Scientists continue to reverse-engineer Captain America's super-soldier serum, but are mostly met with failure. Uncle Aaron — still a criminal in this universe — steals the serum for himself, but Miles accidentally opens the canister before Aaron has a chance to use it. Thus, Miles Morales becomes the new Captain America.
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Astoundingly, the military doesn't court-martial Aaron for stealing government research (this is explained away through the fact that the serum worked on Miles when it failed to affect anyone else), and Miles is immediately trained to become Captain America. In the very next panel, Miles is already fighting in Russia, complete with star-spangled suit and shield. But the issue skips over the single most important part of the Captain America origin story: the choice to become a hero in the first place.
Steve Rogers wanted to enlist in the United States Army even though he clearly didn't meet the physical
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