MCU Rewind: Part War Movie, Part Homage, ‘First Avenger’ Is A Superhero Classic
15 min readApr 7, 2019
In 2011, the modern superhero genre turned a decade-old, and it had been 33 years since Christopher Reeve donned the tights and cape to play Superman. By this point in the development of the genre, some believed that there was just no place for morally-straightforward heroes. The whole point of the superhero film was to see these gods made real, and that…
