LeathermanKick25 said:
My problem with Cap is that he's the Good Guy[sup]TM[/sup]
He's a paragon, everything about him is good. This makes his verisimilitude nearly non-existent. Don't get me wrong though, I like Cap, I like the fact that he's a good person. I particularly like his line about not wanting to kill anyone, he just doesn't like bullies. That's fine, but then it's played up to the nth degree.
I like characters with flaws. Cap has precious few of them. Not only that, but he has several little quips that annoy me. His whole bit in The First Avengers when Thor arrives, "There's only one god, mam. And he doesn't wear a cape." Stuff like that gets under my skin. And again when he gets on Tony's case about going too far.
Captain America is barely character to me, he's much more of an ideal. A concept. Heck his name is tied to the concept of a nation. In Civil War I can't get behind him, not when the other side is Tony Stark.
Stark is a much more fleshed out character. He's gone through one hell of an arc. He went from playboy, snob, billionaire, to turning his company around completely and trying to do good. At the end of the Avengers it comes full circle when he stops the nuke from hitting New York. He has made mistakes, but imo he's much more compelling than Cap. Also, when you get right down to it, Cap can be pretty arrogant as well, just in a different way.
Ultimately it comes down to what you like in characters. For me, it comes across in a quote from Parthurnaax, a character from Skyrim.
"What is better - to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"
I don't ask what is better, but rather what makes a more interesting character? Tony didn't start out where he is now. He has flaws that he has to fight, and people always love it when characters come around and see the light. Captain America
is the light, which makes him boring.
OT: I always thought the ladies, and even some guys, liked Thor and Loki. I can see people liking Cap as well.
But for me it's Black Widow.
