Peggy Carter is Finally Doing What Captain America Always Should Have
Warning: contains spoilers for Captain Carter #2!
While Captain America is frequently positioned as an international hero, he's primarily an American super-soldier to solve American problems — and thus new heroes like Captain Carter are needed to address issues outside of the United States. Despite Marvel's best efforts to position Steve Rogers as the planet's savior, he's not always equipped to handle modern-day situations (and the company who creates his stories is weary of sending their super-soldier to one side of the political isle or the other). In Captain Carter #2, the titular hero tackles an issue Steve Rogers could not: the UK's policies of immigration.
Peggy Carter's success in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a character encouraged Marvel to use her elsewhere on numerous occasions. The character headlined her own TV series Agent Carter, and followed up with a starring role in the animated series Marvel's What If...? on Disney+. Finally, the world of the comics has included her in the ending to Avengers Forever and her own series Captain Carter, in which Peggy largely replaces Captain America as a super-soldier in World War II who was frozen in ice and discovered and thawed out in the present day.
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After being revived in the modern era (and being told by the Prime Minster that she's sorely needed as a symbol of British might), Peggy Carter spends her time taking down Hydra cells and other terrorists. When she rescues a shipping container full of people from terrorists, she believes she's saved them. Unfortunately, the next day, her neighbor tells her the truth: the vast majority of those refugees will be deported.
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