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I recommend that comic series so much. It was pretty disturbing, yeah. But well written.
Holy crap. They went there. They really went there.
Isaiah from ep2 of fatws? That’s Isaiah Bradley, the protagonist of the miniseries Truth: Red, White & Black, written by Robert Morales and drawn by Kyle Baker–a.k.a. the heaviest, most disturbing comic series I’ve ever read.
Basically: during WWII, 300 black American soldiers are taken, against their will, to parttake in the super soldier serum experiment (the remaining soldiers in their camp are killed). Only five survives, all the others die in agony. The five remaining are taken to Europe to fight (basically treated like dogs), where four of them die in various ways, until only Isaiah remains. He steals the costume meant for Steve Rogers, and goes to a concentration camp to destroy the German branch of the supersoldier program (there is a gas chamber scene. It makes your chest constrict and your heart clench), he succeeds but then is taken hostage and brought to Hitler, who plans to dissect him to reverse-engineer the serum. He is freed, but then court martialed for stealing the uniform, and setenced to prison. He is freed after nearly twenty years, and becomes a legend amongst black people, while no-one else really knows about him. Steve leanrs about his existence in present time (the series was released in 2003) and visits him–by then the serum has mosty destroyed Isaiah’s body and mind.
The whole thing is way more disturbing than what is seen on the show, and that was already plenty disturbing.
i hope the scenes with isaiah bradley, the cops cornering sam, sam telling bucky he cannot tell sam what he does or does not have the right to do, sam being flat-out “this is something neither you nor steve would understand” regarding his decision to give the shield back, i hope none of that goes over yall’s heads.
isaiah bradley was forgotten about by history because (canonically) he was part of a project that experimented with the super soldier serum. experimented. remember what that word means.
the cops cornered sam because they thought he was bothering bucky, and likely would have arrested him FOR NO REASON had bucky not been there to testify to the fact that he really was an avenger.
and it has finally been straight-up addressed now that the shield carries a notably different burden in relation to sam than it would to steve and bucky, and isaiah stands as a living testament to the complicated legacy of the shield.
it’s right there.
Just watch Captain America Brave New World, and here are my thoughts throughout the movie
Spoilers from here on out
The trio friendship is actually the most wholesome thing ever, like my heart couldn't handle the cuteness. Like Isaiah getting hyped up.
Isaiah wearing the suit he got married in, like almost cried when he was asking the officer not to reck his suit.
I can't believe they got an 85 year old man to do exercise on camera
Dude Ross saying that if anyone was to get the animantiom (probs butchered that) it would be them feels like the most American line ever.
Bro, it took me a second to process that the don't die jokes were probably actually Sam's trauma.
Also, like Sam's trauma of losing Riley and then almost losing Joaquin, def wasn't addressed enough in this
The way I silentlyish screamed when Bucky made a cameo like yessssssssssss
I know Bucky probably said, "I'll have your back." But it legit sounded like, "I love you, man." Like winterfalcon, who????????
Honestly, I really liked the idea of bringing the celestial into it like it was something that happened ages ago but never ended up getting addressed until now, and I liked how they did it.
And the foreshadowing in the end credit scene that could mean so many different things.