Culturally Insensitive Captain America
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- Captain America returns to America and realizes everything’s changed. Social commentary!
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Funsies
Ah okay, so it wasn't just me
I kissed ironman
Yeeeeeaaaa
Damn
"Wait that's... GERMAN"
With that single line, all of Captain America's trauma flooded back in his head
Just hope he doesn't explodes and destroys an entire city block
Jesus.
Wow, even Solid jj's got bots in his comment section now.
Damn shame
@gaelan white i mean i'm not, but still this is disgusting
@gaelan white They won't do a damn thing unless it starts cutting into their profit margins.
Captain America goes to a gas station after returning to society:
"HOLY SHIT THIS BAG OF BEEF JERKY COSTS A CAR PAYMENT"
Yeah but his bank account if it still exists probably collected an obscene amount of interest.
And for gods sake Steve watch your language
@@aryssamansfield9735 like that Futurama episode
@@Maestromedia27 I always found it weird how this became some prominent piece of fanon given just how much soldiers and military people have generally always used foul language. Even if Steve doesn't curse, I imagine he was around so many people who did in WWII that he wouldn't actually care, at least enough to attempt to censor people unless they were either minors or throwing out slurs.
@@MusicoftheDamned it's probably because he's such a lawful good character that people would find it weird
Even in a parody Captain America's speeches hit the soul.
And German faces'
Hits the top of the cringe-o-meter.
And Schneider's face unfortunately.
@@inkbomb675 bruh
@@exeecob3488 Like Carlin said, they call it the American dream because you jave to be asleep to believe. Just vain flag and slogan worship void of any genuine love for America. Also talk like a human bean, none of this bruh garbage
I remember a comic where an unfrozen Captain America spent months combing through flea markets to rebuild his long lost record collection.
The idea really appealed to me.
Give?
@@KoishiVibin it was in amongst the ultimate avengers run.
@@david7522
specific issue?
Poor guy
The nice thing is by now he'd be able to get a lot more vinyl since it's making a comeback.
reminds me of:
"There's nothing I hate more than people who are intolerant of other people's cultures...
And the Dutch."
I mean have you seen their shoes?
Edit: Just realized I spelled the wrong there, gonna jump into a wall now BRB.
I don't know where this quote is from but I hate people who are intolerant of other people's cultures and I think there is a lot of these people nowadays (at least on the internet)
@@zaishijunior9455 Take one glance at any major social media platform and you'll see them outing themselves in droves... it's disgusting.
-Nigel powers, Austin powers goldmember
I wonder what that person thinks of North Korea...
Iron Man was so excited to finally have a friend he could REALLY talk to
Hey Rupty, nice dich hier zu sehen!
@@alperalyanak9627 GERMAN!!
Fun Fact: In the Ultimate Marvel
Universe for some reason that I don't know Captain America hates the french
@@The_Blue_Otaku That's only because a Brit and a Scot wrote him that way.
@@ryanbauer3680 Makes sence most of europe already makes fun the french just for waving the white flag of surrender during World War 2
I feel like Cap is portrayed as an open-minded and kind individual before being frozen to prevent stuff like this being implied.
He’s the son of Irish Immigrants. The Irish were kinda the Caucasian punching bag of nationalists for years
Can't judge a book by its cover
I mean it's not like everyone in the past we're awful people or racists. The civil rights movement had lots of advocators
Jesus.
Yeah that is a good point
Always loved the little page in some Captain America comic where he sees a black woman as one of the scientist who unfroze him and he makes a comment about how a black woman was a doctor. she gets defensive and he just smiles and goes "no issue, it's just nice to see"
i like this :)
"everybody likes that"
I'm pretty sure that's from Man out of Time, he later gets time traveled into the 40s and tries talking to a black family, who get very (understandably) defensive. Man even tells their kid that he can join the dodgers at one point, only for the kid's dad to say something like "don't be puttin those ideas into his head".
I’d imagine Captain America will probably be happy to see how far America has come since his time (I mean, it’s still not perfect, but it’s definitely much better than it used to be)
@@theparrishshow9803 I think the fairest thing to say here is complicated.
“That whole bit about women sounded like it came from the heart”
That’s freaking good dialogue man.
Iron man said nothing wrong!!
@calypso ಠ_ಠ
@@calypso I love you, please have my children
"Dont be shy, say nigga!!!!!" - 👴
ikr
Cap was picked for his strong moral character after all, he wasn’t just a 1940s dude randomly given superpowers.
That was because they were kind of forced too after seeing what happens to anyone not pure taking it like Red Skull.
You know if it worked the same on everyone they'd have put it in a loyal racist sheep dog ready to beat down anyone the government told them too no questions asked
In a universe where people can shoot moons at people, create universes, and build hyper-advanced suits of armour with entire armouries built into them, captain america's greatest super power is his tenacity and determination to fight for a better tomorrow, and that's something no supersoldier serum on earth can give you
Considering what was normal back then, they certainly could've chosen someone whose views wouldn't have aged as well.
@@bwackbeedows3629 “alright but that doesn’t mean everyone was an asshole”
@@bwackbeedows3629 Well, it was a German scientist who made the serum, I don't think he'd qualify xenophobia as being normal considering he'd be facing it everyday. So, it makes sense he'd choose Rogers.
What's cute is that when Captain America was saying "television" he actually meant the smart phone, because a smart phone really looks much closer to a television than a telephone, considering almost 80% of it is screen
?
@@BGatts666 cap thougt that cellphones were handheld tvs since they look more like tvs than the rotatoryphones he used
@@ashadeofblue6815 ??? This captain america is supposed to be the original one, the one that came back from his hibernation in the 60's, not the mcu version.
Well, that's how I get this channel anyway, everything is set in the 60/70's era of comic books lore, just look at Batman, Lex Luthor etc, olders versions.
@@BGatts666 ok but then the joke wouldn't make sense
@@Josuh It still can if you consider maybe colour tv but idk it being a phone is funnier
My sister first saw someone who was black when she was about 5-6 in a doctors office and she asked them if that’s why they were at the doctors, the lady didn’t miss a beat and told her about the country she was born in and how it was hotter so she had “built in sunscreen” and that truly was the most wholesome straight forward conversation I’ve ever heard about race 😊
That's actually a pretty good explanation that you can give to a kid tbh
Ngl, doctor is very much right about that lol, black skin evolved to protect humans from extreme heat conditions.
@@firemangan actually even though we dont know for sure what the first skin color was its widely believed that dark skin was first as we do know that human life originated somewhere in Africa.
W lady
Describing melanin as built in sunscreen is such a good shorthand for kids, I'm stealing that.
the fact that iron man sounds like ben shapiro speaking out of a soda can makes it even more hilarious
He did sound familiar indeed.
fitting, cuz I dont mean any offense but I feel like if iron man was real he'd be right wing. look at Elon Musk lmao
@@maad1670
That’s why Iron Man is the best. Cap would most likely be right wing too
@@bjehulk no he wouldn’t lmao he literally punched red skull/nazi’s (pretty much) before it was cool both figurative and literally
@@jacobe3051
Okay and? 😂 Nazis aren’t right wing
*Tony:* "I-I have a black friend"
*Rhodey:* "The fuck, Tony?!"
Steve: "oh I have a black friend as well too"
Didn't ask + L + Ratio
@@Hystial that's what a racist would say
Sums up every white democrat I know
Jesus.
I just love the way they talk over each other at certain points. Like the desperate stop he had!! The vibes are immaculate
Jesus.
I love this style of dialogue too. When they talk over each other (in a way that's not overdone) it feels like an organic conversation. Reminds me of early Bob's Burgers. The early seasons of that show were so funny when the family started talking over one another and chaos ensued
Overlapping dialogues are difficult to pull off and hats off to that.
"The Meyerowitz stories" movie has such dialogues.
Imagine writing the script for that.
@The Supreme Leader thank you King John Un Un Un
This is hilarious because Captain America is like "This says more about you Tony than it does about me" lmao
Remember, Cap was originally unfrozen in the 60s.
Yeah nothing so different, a bit yes... but not major
Yeah, Marvel Comics was created in the 60s, not the 40s.
That's what they get for not reading and thinking they know it all from watching movies. LOL!
@UCsQR1PYA_Gd0aHkg_vEhK2g hes just correct
"freeze me again"
@@the1darknight captain america was created in 1941
"I'm not racist"
Considering the ending, Japanese people should still watch out
'100 yo boomer reacting to top 100 anime openings' videos with Cap when? :D
"they know what they did"
Jesus.
Cap pretty much spent all his service fighting in Germany and got frozen way before the nukes even dropped. Don't think he's been to the Pacific Theater.
Itallians too
Being frozen in the 40s and revived in modern times is an essential part of Captain America’s origin story. But the funny thing is, he was first thawed out in 1964, barely more than 20 years after he was supposed to be frozen. To the readers at the time this would be like a soldier from the invasion of Iraq in 2003 being frozen and thawed out today.
imagine how that soldier would feel about all the marines having an existential crisis over the evac from Afghanistan, as essentially everything they fought for was all for naught.
To be fair, a lot has changed since then
So... very different?
If we go by consoles it would be the PS2 to PS5
@@BeefMeisterSupreme Well, Vietnam happened in 1964. And captain America was thawed out in 1964.
I love the idea of someone in the present trying to tell someone from the 40’s how their normal way of life isn’t normal anymore, while they just go “dude, I wasn’t even a sexist or racist to begin with…”
A little detail I really liked was Cap saying televisions instead of phones. Because if you showed someone from the 40s a smartphone and told them it was a miniaturized version of a common household item, how could they possibly equate it to their version of a phone?
No
@@firestriker3580 😐Bro… what????
Yes
Or he was talking about computers
@@pungoblin9377 Maybe, but Iron Man said everywhere you go, computers are more limited. It’s also possible Cap doesn’t know the difference, and just thinks they’re big televisions and small televisions.
In Cap's defense, that reaction to the German last name isn't because he hates Germans on a personal level, it's just the PTSD kicking in. With the mass self-censoring on German culture in the wake of anti-German sentiments during WWI and Steve's Brooklynn based childhood, Cap's only exposure to Germans was during the war. Every German he ever met was a German soldier or Nazi storm trooper trying to kill him.
Except for the doctor who gave him his powers lmao
small correction, you mean world war 2.
@@drwilyecoyote5357 and world war 1. germany was basically blamed for the worst war in world history at the time and was basically a third world nation. seeing as cap was raised during this time, he'd still have been raised with the knowledge that germany started both world wars basically
@@drwilyecoyote5357 yeah, the censoring of German culture has been in effect since World War 1 and came again during World War 2. That some German communities even went out of their way to Americanize their names to be less German sounding.
@@crazysith7809 Ah fair point, i had only considered him actually fighting in world war 2.
Cap still isn't racist. He just has PTSD from the war
nah Germans probably have PTSD from cap
Well yeah that isn’t racism, Germans are white and so is cap. It’s more xenophobia (the hatred of people from a certain country, not necessarily due to race)
@@devonodonnell715 he’s also the son of Irish Immigrants.
@@devonodonnell715 Well said!
@@devonodonnell715 well here in europe we do not consider white to be a race, but multiple so we can do granular racism.
I feel like cap would be more concerned about the inflation and corruption that happened while he was frozen
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN A BURGER FRIES AND A COKE ARE 12.87? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND, BACK IN MY DAY THESE 3 TOGETHER WERE NO MORE THAN A DOLLAR
Back in his day "dollars to donuts" made sense! A dollar cost a dollar and a donut cost a nickel, now they both cost a dollar, the expression used to be a cute-ish way to say "20 to 1 odds" and 100 years from now it'll seem like it means the literal inversion, 1 to 20 odds.
Blame marketing, inflation and Biden funding Ukraine 😂
@@trvpmusic2569 Pretty sure the the wealth gap exploding after Reagan and Supply Side or "Trickle Down" economics is a bit harsher if we're wanting to talk about specific president actions.
@@lewiskazzamo230Supply Side Economics is actually fine and is the most realistic way to genuinely solve our economic issues & lack of purchasing power. What Reagan did was very little when it came to Supply Side economics (hence why his shit is more known as “Trickle Down Economics”)
@@TheMortalLandRegan’s actions as president have had a devastating effect on our economy that we may never recover from. If you’re looking for someone to lynch I’d start with him not Biden’s milquetoast Neoliberalism which couldn’t sink Swiss cheese. There’s a reason that the deficit tends to shrink under democrats and grow under republicans.
*Broke:* "Captain America would be racist" jokes.
*Woke:* Captain America would sh*t his pants at the price of things because he doesn't know about inflation.
Based
A candy bar costs what!? That's absurd, it's a &*$(ing candy bar!
If Cap only knew how hard it is now to obtain a property he would have broke his shield
@Bogda Nov While I agree with your latter statement, I must disagree with the former.
Cap has always been a moral paragon, and was written as explicitly not a racist even back in the day he was created. It'd be silly to change that, because "it'd be more realistic." When in reality it would be a huge shift in personality and outlook, as well as explicitly conflict with the reason the serum did not turn him into a monster. The dude fought along side black soldiers without a comment in those old comics for example.
He might hold a bit of bitterness towards the Axis powers as well as Communists in general (While they where Allies in the latter part of the war, this was widely held as a deal with the devil, and Cap would not be a fan.)
The worst you might get on the racial front are those little slip ups that today's moral busybodies would call "micro-aggression." There are definitely some things of our era that would trip him up and make him uncomfortable, if not invoke his righteous indignation. People of different races getting along would not be one of them. (I actually think he'd be more sad to see what hasn't changed, or more commonly, the manner in which we have slipped backwards, in that regard)
He would probably be a bit of "sexist" though. At least by today's standards. Not a full on misogynist, just a bit traditional. (I would argue that doesn't count but many would.)
You know inflation did exist before the 2000s right? You couldn’t go into a grocery store in the 30s and buy a can of beans for a ha’penny like you could in the 1890s
Iron man: "Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but racism is no more"
That killed me 😂
And schnider
It's alive. Except it's the other way around now.
But whining and complaining is for losers.
@@VladTepes-SaviorofEurope-mw4uy Accurate. I am tired of useless whiners who want free handouts.
@@VladTepes-SaviorofEurope-mw4uylol you're the exact kind of person this video is making fun of 😂
I'm always curious what you guys see when you watch stuff like this that's literally mocking your point of view.
“WAIT THATS GERMAN!” *proceeds to beat him mercilessly*
“CAP THEY SURRENDERED Like 80 Years ago!”
118 likes? I’m part of the cool kids club !
@@MrManWithPlan cringe
@@MrManWithPlan you aren't part of the cool kids club....
You *are* the cool kids club
@@jonnythonmccrapballs3112 Kool Kids Klub.
@@mariobadia4553 I think it's sweet
0:44 The way he says "oh my god..." with that panel is just priceless.
There's one comic where Cap is seeing a SHIELD doctor, and she's a black lady, and he's like "wow, YOU'RE the doctor here?" with a big smile. She seems apprehensive and asks if it's a problem, but he says no, "it's just nice to see."
I think about that a lot.
He's a bit insensitive- but he's got the spirit.
I guess it's fair. Not much opportunity for black people back in his time.
I like that, it feels realistic. He's a nice guy who wishes the best and who isn't used to black people getting a chance.
@@gabrielegenota1480 I don’t think he was insensitive. Maybe could’ve worded the start better
@@theolympiyn8670 that's being insensitive mean.
@@theolympiyn8670 "poorly said", from Captain America, I guess.
To be fair, if German Nazis were the reason you got frozen in ice for decades, you'd probably have some PTSD from it too.
that and also the nazis are still alive as well as the man who got him stuck in ice red skull and hydra
YOU AGAIN! I SEE YOUR FACE EVERYWHERE!
@@BerzerkVideos wait me have you seen me before
The again you have to remember that the Allied Commander was Eisenhower and guess what kind of name that was.
like nor really. my family was killed in the holocaust and im not prejudiced against germans (in fact i really appreciate that germany recognized their past atrocities and actively condemns them)
I like how it’s just a simple joke milked for all it’s worth. It’s very funny
Jesus.
its cringe this is not a joke it never was just a bunch of whites brainwashed by blacks to making cringe
@@superz5128 Satan.
Definitely, but I loved how Cap got PTSD from the Germans
Jesus again
I love how iron man has a favorite “socially unacceptable word”
He does not, but he thinks captain maybe have one
Note, he's not being a racist. Just fighting the enemy.
Bruh what
True enemies of America
@YT user Shut up bot
The enemy? But no one brought up the Jews!
@@josegonzalez-ii3vt Honest to God I was expecting the kid to be Jewish at first.
"The A on my head stands for an America better than the one we have today"
"Yeah well the single star with red and white stripes stands for Puerto Rico.. Or was it Liberia? Fuck if I know country flags, but yours certainly lacks the stars to be America"
"You seriously want to go down to that level, 'Titanium alloy Man'? I've caught up enough to know your fancy suit isn't plain iron"
I imagine an iron suit would be very, very problematic.
The stars in the American flag is suppose to represent its every state, therefore you could just easily assume he logically comes from one state with is New York, hence the one star but if you really want to go down the amount of stars he actually has, it is THREE; one on his chest area, the other two on his shoulder pads and fourth if you count the shield. So that joke is a bit ignorant.
It could mean Texas
@@perce1veALL The original Jack Kirby Captain America, who is the one featuring in this video, didn't have stars on his shoulders.
This is good stuff
0:22 the way he says “the television” is golden, as if the simple concept of it is unfathomable.
I love how he called Iron Man out on how his speech "came from the heart". The man may be a germaphobe, but he's not sexist.
germaphobe, awesome pun
Teutonophobe?
Iron Man must not realize Cap had the pleasure of working with Peggy Carter who was kicking ass with him
Tony can't do anything and take it to his heart if you know what I mean
I think a germaphobe is called a hypochondriac
That was amazing. I just knew they would go with the old "Cap is from the 40's so he's a bigot" gag. It's a good gag. This is vastly better. Completely unexpected. 😆😆
GERMAN
Jesus.
What makes this better is that _no one_ predicts when a Shell Shock episode comes on, it just does.
Sadly, this means Cap just leveled an entire city while unconscious in a nightmare.
Considering he's Jewish, or at least Jewish adjacent, it's weird that people expect him to be racist despite his experiences in the war
Ive seen a lot of jabs that Cap came from a time that would beat up wemen, but never crossed my mind he would be unhinged to nazi cause they were literally at war back then lmao
to be fair Cap spent a good deal of his life as a weak scrawny guy, so he did kind of understand what it was like being pushed around by those who were stronger than him, of course it's not the same as being a minority or anything, but he does understand it can really suck when the strong abuse their power
Steve was a second generation Irish immigrant so he must've faced some degree of discrimination, even if his time was past the worst of the anti Irish period.
@@redskared8093 yeah if you've got a strong sense of morality like steve is portrayed to have, even a taste of prejudice would push you in the right direction if empathy didnt do it first
@@redskared8093 There was anti Catholic and Irish sentiment into the 1960s. John Kennedy faced near constant accusations of being a "puppet of the Vatican" during his election campaign.
More than any other Avenger, before all the superhero nonsense, he really was just some dude. A scrawny, weak dude with a heart of gold. He could relate a lot more with average people than someone like Iron Man or Hulk ever could.
Minorities arent pushed around by anyone today
Do you think Cap would react badly to the words moron, idiot, and imbecile because in his time those terms where used by eugenicists to describe people who were mentally disabled or otherwise deemed to be undesirable by society, and considering all of Steve's health problems he was probably also considered to be an undesirable by eugenicists and so he would have felt even more empathy for the people labeled as such?
That makes me wonder if he's used to the R word being a progressive term (because it originally was a non-offensive word to replace moron/imbecile) and would, trying to correct someone's way of referring to others, just drops that bomshell and everyone goes silent.
@@PointingFinger"Hey don't call that kid a moron! He's not dumb he's just Re@$3@d..."
*Silence*
"What?"
"Cap you can't say that kind of stuff anymore..."
@PointingFinger This is the kind of scenario i wish Marvel actually showed, but alas, youtube comments and maybe some posts on tumbkr are my only source kf these little "every day situations" that i wish were more explored with "Man from the 40s frozen during war unfrozen in the far modern future"
@@PointingFinger this is wild to me, slurs became commonplace insults, and commonplace insults became slurs, language trully is wonderful
@@PointingFinger "You shouldnt call him a moron dude, maybe try going with something like r-" "ONE MORE THING ABOUT THOSE WORDS YOU CANT SAY ANYMORE STEVE"
I love how whenever someone brings up “If Captain America were realistic he’d have been racist” it’s become pretty commonplace to remind people that there were plenty who weren’t and Captain America would definitely be one of the ones who wasn’t.
Yep, to reach the kind of society we have today in which racism is condemned (for the most part) there WERE build up.
People are just enamored with the idea that a single "hero" comes in, cause a revolution and change the entire world alone...
It's easier than put some kind of effort...
I feel like that shows more about the person who said it
@The Supreme Leader what’s your point?
@@007megaoof tbh it says that they’re really dumb. If Steve was just some random schmuck off the streets sure but he wasn’t. They looked for a good person
@@F1rstNameLastName he wasn't wrong though
I remember there was a Cyanide and Happiness webcomic that said Steve Rogers would abuse women, and I just rolled my eyes.
While this isn't Steve Rogers, the first Superman issue literally had Clark beat up an abusive husband.
Bluebeard is a folktale about how messed up somebody who killed their spouse would have to be.
People have always hated domestic abusers.
dying at this considering the knowledge that Steve Rogers literally grew up in an abusive home where his dad beat his mom and her protection of him and refusal to back down was a huge part of why he became who he was as an adult
granted that comic wasn't super early I don't think but like. jeez.
didnt his dad beat his mom or something? and didnt his mom protect him from his dad?? (or is my memory clogged.)
even if thats NOT his canon backstory, and its the one where his dad dies from war, his mom still took care of him and sacrificed alot for him, never backing down hence forming his fighting spirit.
he would never beat women,
@@pixigirldust yeah you are correct
He would be slightly misogynistic at best, considering the era he grew up in. But poor women, esp poor single mothers, have always needed to be more than wives and mothers, since time immortal. Being a "housewife" was a privilege (I say this with a pinch of salt) of the middle/upper classes, because they didn't NEED to earn their living. Also, women were being nurses and mechanics and drivers during WW2 since men had to go and fight, so women being a breadwinner or doing a "man's" job, is probably normal for him.
@@Furrina89 My grandmother was a ww2 nurse, and my grandfather was a ww2 soldier. So I'm also basing this knowledge off of accounts I heard (my grandfather died before I was born)
"What do you mean, you come from the 40s"
"Alright but that doesn't mean everyone was an asshole"
That's a fair point Cap
Very fair point
If being "asshole" was the norm back then, then is it really being an asshole? The average Joe, since the majority were white, would probably not think much of it.
Wish we had the humility to see morals change.
@Bogda Nov They were racists, they ware sexists, they were anti-semites ... and some of them were good people 😼
That's just how we see our ancestors. They were all stupid and morally inferior to us. Demonstrates how highly we think of ourselves, ignorant to the fact that out descendants will think the same of us. Stones and glass houses.
It makes sense, he was a soldier after all
“Alright, but that doesn’t mean everyone was an a-hole.” This quote could be paraphrased for so many situations. For instance, you have the people online who treat people badly and then try to excuse it by claiming, “It’s because I have a mental illness!” This causes people who actually are mentally ill to respond, “Having a mental illness doesn’t make you an a-hole!”
Also, can we appreciate how Solid jj understands Cap better than anyone who’s been writing the comic for the past ten or more years?
Shoutout to my "friend" who says the most disgusting, Fascist shit and says "Oh sorry I have dyslexia"
I... uhh... the fuck? Dyslexias a fucking reading and writing disorder!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I know SO MANY people who think having a mental illness gives them a free "be an asshole" pass, and love to quote "The problem with having a mental illness is people expect you to act as if you don't."
I mean, narcissism is a mental illness and it DOES make you an arsehole.
That's a misuse of the quote, I think. He only said that not everyone was an asshole; he didn't take the further (and inaccurate) step of saying that the people who _were_ assholes weren't products of their time. Everyone is a product of their time, regardless of whether they're an asshole or not. Similarly, everyone's behaviour - including bad behaviour - is a product of their mental health. Sometimes mental illness _does_ make you an asshole. There are a lot of mental illnesses out there, and they don't affect everyone the same way. Just because a specific mental illness doesn't make _everyone_ who has it an asshole, doesn't mean it's not the cause of some particular asshole's behaviour. A person isn't necessarily _lying_ when they say "It's because I have a mental illness." It's just that it's up to everyone _else_ to decide whether that makes any difference for _them,_ and whether they want to try to help address the root cause, etc.
I think I get what you mean. Mental illness can affect the personality. A lot depends on if the person uses their mental illness as an excuse to justify rude behavior or an explanation for why they might have rude behavior.
"that bit about women came straight from the heart"
I honestly don't know why, but that part has me laughing metaphorical tears lol.
The "I have a black friend" joke is funny, but it becomes twice as funny when you realize iron man does in fact have a black friend. (Roddy/War Machine)
So does Cap (Falcon). Cap recruits Falcon for the Avengers in the comics.
Everybody needs a black friend in their lives
Who’s Roddy?
@@aaronalkor James Rhodes
What's even more funny is that War machine as a character is far younger than Iron Man, hell, I'm pretty sure the frames these memes are made with predate the character
You’ve managed to subvert my expectations in a clever manner while still respecting my intelligence. Bravo!
Didn't ask + L + Ratio.
Jesus
bruh skynet is invading
All the crappy movies from Hollyeood has ruined "subvert expectations" for me
@@lazylonewolf All the more reason I’m glad this video subverted my expectations in the right way.
I love the way Cap says German
It’s like how Mermaid Man always said “Evil” every a villain was around
Glad to see someone acknowledging that not everyone from the 40's was racist. My grandpa fought near the end of WWII, and from the stories I've heard from my dad, he was the most anti-racist person you would have ever met.
@A Mothman with a phone where?
@@roboticartist2793 Probably that “anti” there which he believes shouldn’t be there.
My grandfather was born in the Deep South and raised in the South (I don’t think OK counts as “deep”), and has been very socially progressive his whole life, especially in racial matters.
Ironically at least half of that is because of what he saw growing up-he knows how insidious bigotry can be, and how much bigotry there was to fight, and isn’t delusioned by thinking it all magically got better overnight.
@@magiccarpetmadeofsteel4564
Racism isn’t a serious issue in this country let’s be real though
Most people in the 1940s weren’t actually racist
As a descendant of German immigrants to the US in the mid 1930s, I can definitely say that my great grandparents experienced hatred against Germans. During the war my grandfather was just a little boy when he was playing outside and called a Nazi
EDIT: Wow thank you everyone, 4k likes! Just to clarify, I have not directly experienced these things myself, but my grandparents and great-grandparents unfortunately most certainly have. Thank you all for your sympathy and kind words
Oh my God!! You poor soul.
Sulistas no Brasil aí
Sorry to hear that. Hope you don't have to experience such things today. Greetings from a fellow German
Now people use the word Nazi to the people they dislike (Mostly Americans)
So sad those things happened but then again with what we discovered germany did I can't blame people for seeing red and just hating us. (I'm 75% German btw)
0:48 that still frame is solid gold
No it's Solid jj
No it's solid iron
Cap's face when he looks right into the camera is the stuff of nightmares
I love how the butt of the joke _is_ Iron Man, subverting audience's expectations as we were given by the title of the video and simple reasoning.
The simplicty of these jokes is where their brillance lies, no sense of quirkness or randomness, no hardcore edginess, just a good joke with a setup and punchline. I love this channel.
Why don't you just say nigg@ instead of N word?
Literally the best comedy I’ve seen on this platform in a while
"the butt of the joke"
I don't think you know what that means..
Are you from the Future? Here in 2022 that Word is still being used Left and Right.
@@timewarpdrive77 I mean, iron man IS the butt of the joke, so he's close.
"You're from the 40s. You gave women the right to vote."
Ironman, you're about 30 years off.
He is American
@@Aceshot-uu7yx ah I see, america bad troll
@@dorkfish1275 iorn man not knowing American history is about as American as you can get, I should know because A is for America's AceShot.
@@Aceshot-uu7yx americans arent bad at history?
@@0xzoooo Americans are very bad at history. Most struggle listing even a handful of non-American (or involved) historical events from the past 200 years, and a lot don't even know their own history well. Whether it be not knowing events, people, and places, or not understanding how the history connects to today and how today will effect tomorrow
I like that Captain America was always meant to be a representation of what America should be instead of a representation of what America currently is. Hell, Cap’ was fighting nazis in the comics before America even joined the war. Captain America truly is the embodiment of the American Dream.
aka a fantasy BS utopia.
Nowadays they should make Comics about Cap securing our border or fighting NATO but unfortunately marvel is not based enough
@@bjehulk Captain America would be fighting our current government if he were real seeing how America is very quickly nose diving into fascism and taking away basic human rights.
@@sweetbusiness9798
Our government isn’t leaning towards fascism, but other than that you’re correct. Our government is a disgrace to our country and has plunged our society into degeneracy. We no longer are the beautiful nation we used to stand for.
@@bjehulk Our government very much is, the republican party meets all 10 requirements for fascism and the democrat party is doing nothing about it other than “sending prayers”. AFAB people are loosing their rights, trans people are at stage 8 out of the 10 stages of genocide, segregation is going to come back, and gun control laws are still laid back even when we are having more and more mass shootings every single day. If you would like I can gladly show you exactly all the 10 requirements for fascism and how America meets all of them. I can even give examples for each stage trans people are on the 10 stages of genocide. America is literally copying Nazi Germany and so many people can’t even see that because we’re all brain washed into “American Pride” and “The Land of The Free”.
Captain America: wait that’s…German!
*beats up German boy*
Iron man: maybe I should have told him the Germans, Japanese, and Italians don’t want to kill us anymore
Italy switched sides in 1943. Cap was frozen in 1945, right before Germany surrendered
@@violetbean8928 Hitler invaded Northern Italy after he was removed (in a pretty milquetoast way from reading about it, seems like Italy was corrupt), forming the Salo Republic with Mussolini as a German puppet, which seemed pathetic to Italians and led to their intense hatred of him and later hanging/dragging naked in the streets.
Whole "National Syndicalist" idea was just, "What if we form 'syndicates', basicially just places where the nationalized labor unions and business leaders can talk to us, so we can ignore the labor unions and just do whatever the business leaders want? No more class conflict! The slave and the master shall fight together for justice.'
Cap gives an important lesson. Never assume people of the past were all regressive intolerant people. Some were wiser than most people today.
Yeah, racism would’ve never been decreased if everyone was racist
Most were and still are racist though. Sheep who can't think for themselves
some...
@@emblemblade9245 I have a black friend
I like the whole speech about Captain America because it’s always how I interpreted Boy Scouts like Cal and Superman when they talk about America. It’s not that they’re reflective of what America is they are a reflection of what it stands to be. People are almost addicted to hatred that the simple concepts that not everyone gets. People don’t get that not everyone in a certain time period was a certain way and that “The American way” isn’t the same as “The America now” but doesn’t make it less valid.
My grandfather fought in WWII in the Pacific. When I knew him, as a child and young adult, he was the sweetest, gentlest old man I ever knew. He was fairly progressive for his generation: he had lots of black friends and didn't care that my uncle (his nephew) was gay. But he hated anything Japanese until his death. He quit talking to his brother once, for a year, because his brother bought a Toyota.
i mean Toyota sucks
must have seen/heard some messed up shit,
The Japanese made the German look merciful
I hate it when people think the minority represents the majority. Your father wasn't "progressive", he was just culturally rebellious.
So back then he was considered based
“I mean that whole bit about women kinda came from the heart” took me out
Part of the lore reason for why Cap isn't racist, sexist, or homophobic, is that he was legitimately just a good person, and that's why the Serum succeeded with him where it failed with with Red Skull.
Calling it a 'lore reason' is very funny but I get what you meant by this, yeah.
@@Hifuutorian aslume has ruined the words "lore reason"
@@burner555Aslume?
I think the actual, in-universe part of it is because Steve was born to two Irish immigrants.
Remember that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Irish-Americans weren't exactly treated the best by the Anglo-Americans who already lived here. They had to work hard in order to advance in society, much like African- and Asian-Americans who were very much repressed and downtrodden by Jim Crow and other racist policies of the era.
Steve could identify and sympathize with other racial minorities on a personal level from shared experiences.
It's also helped by the fact that Steve grew up in New York, the cultural melting pot of the world.
Thanks conservative white man 741
I mean, to be fair, Cap was a poor kid in Brooklyn. I'm not pretending there wasn't a lot of racism in that area at that time, but New York was a cultural melting pot.
Ellis island was the central point of immigration into America from 1892-1943. Cap would have grown up in the most diverse area that America had to offer at the time.
I absolutely think when he woke up he probably needed a list of words he wasn't allowed to say anymore just cause they were so common place in the 40s that the level of insult they carry today isn't something Cap would have been cognizant of, but I think he had enough general exposure to people from all walks of life that he wouldn't have been brought up with more than ambient prejudices.
Honestly, Cap is more likely to be racist against Germans than he is black people.
I expected the kid at the end to be Irish and to get the Irish treatment.
@@WisdomThumbs Is it because he’s ginger?
@@Barakon No, it's because he's Catholic. /s
even then, he was completely cool with dr ercstine.
"list of words you aren't allowed to say" what a stupid load of bullshit
"Equality is _apart_ of the American dream."
And they said spelling wouldn't matter.
Lmao
Technically, that’s a grammatical error since the issue lies in the spacing of the letters and not the spelling of the word. “A part” would have applied perfectly but the lack of space made it the wrong word for the context as opposed to an incorrect letter.
God I’m so sad.
@@lucasbell4831 Thanks for explaining the joke that everyone got 👍
@@iv689 the spelling vs grammatical error thing isnt part of the joke...
Living my life quite happy knowing that as a half-German and half-Soviet person, Cap would beat me up without my having to even ask
🚨 Not reading the replies is self care 🚨
The Soviets were a US ally then, though.
The question is, would you like it...?
@@umbrellashotgunman the fifth Captain America, William Burnside hated the Soviets (and people of colour) with a burning passion. It got so bad that the government locked him up and hid him away till he broke out in the 2000s.
And he hated them even more
I second the first comment, the Soviets were a US ally during WW2; probably THE most important ally actually
@@modove2842 Well that's just like saying the T-34 was a good tank. Not lying to you but the US did kinda carry the allies in terms of supply.
I feel like not enough of the comments are about Iron Man calling women "an ordinary household item".
Tony being sexist is actually believable
Why is this so in character for both? That's amazing writing
Uh...
You right in the head?
Jesus.
@@JordanWheeler1999 are you?
Since when was Iron man racist?
@@stevanthewise7240 no, are you?
We often forget that being from "x" year doesn't mean your values are automatically "backward" compared to now
Ideas don't come from nowhere
We wouldn't have the rights/ideals we have nowadays if people in the past hadn't fought for and promulgated those ideas first
Yeah, people from the past were no more monolithic in their beliefs than people are now
I can guarantee there will be a generation that will believe abortion is murder and that today's America is an atrocity and backwards. We'll almost always see the past as barbaric.
I don't know man, it's a pretty safe assumption that most white people were racist back then. I mean, segregation wasn't started by anyone else.
Yeah, the way some people characterise people from the past, you'd think interracial relationships were a recent thing or something.
Internet: Haha funny clerical misinformation go brrrrr
It’s funny how true this was- my grandpa ran a grocery store, and he would supposedly regularly help his poorer black customers by giving them credit for food when needed, and my Dad grew up hanging out with the black kids in his neighborhood (this was in the 40’s-60’s no less).
And being that my Dad went to a traditionally all black college and his best friend in the Army was black- it didn’t sound like he ever really had any huge problems with white on black racism when he grew up(though he was originally quite poor, so he probably had that to worry about), but apparently my Grandpa had a distrust/dislike of German things(as the war had just happened), and he had apparently had an old Luger pistol that he sold because of his dislike of German stuff… which is sad to hear: as Luger pistols go for a pretty penny these days, and I’d’ve loved to have owned one… oh well! C’est la vie. :/
Today, we’re exactly the same with Chinese and Russian stuff. That’s not racism, that’s war. That’s why the British hate the French and why Greeks hate Turks. Race isn’t really a factor
Your gramps sounds pretty cool
Just remember it was for the best, that he most likely sold it because he didn't like to think the thoughts that came into his head when he looked at it, and I'm sure it still wasn't an easy choice.
It's not uncommon for this to happen when veterans get older, sometimes trophies just start to feel like painful reminders instead. There is no reliving the "glory days" for men who took part in this stuff, there's only moving on from it.
Your grampa sounds like a really neat guy. But yeah, a shame about that Luger though, the P08s are super cool little pistols.
Kind of reminds me of the 1990 Captain America movie. There is a scene early on where a recently thawed Steve is hitchiking, gets picked up by someone driving a German car with a Japanese radio installed so Cap punches out the dude and steals the car.
As a German myself, I feel deeply honored that we are so special to the captain....
The ironic thing is that the Nazi came to America to study lessons in discrimination and racial hatred from Southern states
😂
The first time I tried to watch this video, I made it to exactly 1:02 before it was taken down, so I heard Iron Man say 'let me list them for you' and then it cut to an error message and that was a billion times funnier than the actual video, which already had me chuckling sensibly.
For this one moment, everyone is jealous of you.
The weird thing is, with Cap actually being non-bigoted, that would be the one part of all this that might actually benefit him in some way.
I mean, imagine if he just unwittingly said re----ed without stopping to consider that's no longer the preferred term. That would definitely be an awkward moment.
R/thathappened
@@gaysarahk retarded isn’t a bad word, no one will stop you from saying it, also it would be worse if he said the n word
@@rbexcess 😂
1:12 I feel like we forget this WAY too often.
It's always brushed aside, just because a good portion of humanity at the time was what many people nowadays consider "backwards" doesn't mean everyone from the 40's or any time before or after were complete assholes, in fact a good chunk of people were probably very decent and likable people who end up being lumped in with the horrible people as being "products of their time" and it's rather sad that some people decide to view past generations in such a way.
Sad truth is being an asshole gets you remembered far more than being a good person
Captain America: I mean it’s not all that different, I mean surely gas can’t be more than .05 cents a gallon.
*Its over 4 bucks?! That’s money to feed a family of 4 for a week!*
…What do you mean that’s ridiculous? I mean a sandwich can’t cost 25 cents a pop max! I mean, by golly a burger cost that much in the Army in 44.
It cost TEN DOLLARS?! My god man! What is it super cattle? Does it take years to make longer than the good old angus original?!
ITS MORE EXPENSIVE WITH ANGUS?!
Oh now you’re gonna tell me a pint of beer is 75 cents.
It’s five bucks?!
Wha-wha-bu-what what the hell?! Oh shoot I swore. You gotta take me to the station to pay my swearing fines. Gotta uphold your appropriate speech restrictions, even if I’m fully for free speech.
Wait you mean they did away with them?! Hazzah!
Cap should have been more floored by the modern world than he is.
Swearing fines?
@@weeblordgaming6062 never heard of them, but back during caps time people were probably not as friendly towards swearing, and the may have had a fine
Gas was more expensive during WWII.
Love that this implies Tony was just waiting for anyone who might share his views to join so he could just let it all out
This is such good comedy. The timing between the characters, the way they misunderstand each other, man the dialogue fits together so seamlessly.
Keep it up, you're doing great
"I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, Steve, but segragation is over"
- Tony Stark
I can't tell if he is trying to comfort Steve or not?
I know this is just a funny joke video, but Captain America's words here hold true. To be a better America for the tomorrow. The future.
Now I’m imagining Captain America during the Civil Rights movement. Showing up in Birmingham, thrusting his shield in front of a blast from a water hose aimed at teenagers, or personally walking the Little Rock Nine to school and sitting with them at lunch. “I don’t like bullies.”
Unfathomably based.
It’s unfortunate that the writers are not based enough to write Caps just actively supporting equality-movements of all kind
**Exactly.** This is one of the many reasons I love Cap.
Why not? President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce the safety of hated students. If he had a superhero on-call, he likely would have sent him, too.
1:32
See, he KNOWS what he wants to stand for, but that pesky wartime PTSD installs some unfortunate impulses, especially since he’s coming straight from the war that inflicted them decades later.
I’ll be honest the second the ginger-haired boy came onscreen at 1:48 , I thought the joke would be that cap has a prejudice against gingers.
Captain America going to a McDonald's: WHY IS THIS BURGER 10 ENTIRE DOLLARS?!?!
$10 in 1945 is equivalent to $174.89 today according to an inflation calculator. Jeez.
I like that you went the route everyone assumed Cap was racist as opposed to him actually being racist. The latter concept is too easy of a joke to make and is only really applicable to the Ultimate version of the character
Honestly, Miles was the only good thing to come out of the ultimate universe. They made Hulk a masochist incel, and deadpool racist towards mutants
Yeah, I feel like the 'this letter on my head' bit really hammers home how this is a gag directly at Ultimate Cap
@@iguanaboi3921 yeah, I read The Ultimates because Ultimate Spiderman was pretty neat, and _God_ was that a terrible book. I hated _every single panel_ of it... Except maybe anything with Thor, he's kinda just chill there.
ultiamtes kind of screwed up every character didnt they? still not forgiving what they did to nightcrawler. kind, loving, non-kill, religious character? nah lets make him a psychotic homophobe. i lack enough middle fingers.
@@iguanaboi3921 i liked the ultimate universe but yea some parts are abit cringe
The funny thing is I can totally believe Iron man was sexist before believing Captain America was racist
(Edit): holy hell!!! I did not expect this to get so many likes!! Thank uuuu
Yeah, I love Tony but that makes way too much sense.
Exactly 😂
Especially considering their drastically different upbringings. Steve Rogers as a poor kid, born to immigrant parents, in Brooklyn, which was one of the most culturally and racially diverse places in the country at the time. Meanwhile, Tony Stark is a trust fund billionaire who inherited a massive weapons manufacturing empire from an absentee father.
Not only that, but depending on the era, his weapons were being used in the invasion of either Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan, which were unjust wars waged for selfish and xenophobic reasons. Captain America fought in one of the rare and last just wars the U.S. was involved in - though there was still a ton of violent racism at the hands of U.S. soldiers, especially in regards to the slaughter and mass rapes of Japanese civilians after we'd cleared out their military occupation (not unlike how we would go on to treat Vietnamese, Iraqi, and Afghan civilians), but the point of Cap is that he didn't go in, wanting to kill anyone; he genuinely cared about doing the right thing, which, again, comes from his upbringing. Tony Stark only really grew a heart when his arms dealing backfired and impacted him directly.
You mean Iron Man is based*
@@bjehulk Alaway wanted to know what based was.... thank you.
I actually thought that Iron Man was going to say telephones when he meant "ordinary household item that is now carried everywhere" but holy shit that got me, and didn't expect either that he was going to go on so much after that
Same. Was expecting the typical "Cap is an 'old fashioned' racist due to his time period" trope.
I think that is what Captain America was referring to with the televisions. Modern phones look a lot more like TVs than the phones he'd be used to.
Not being a bigot will make your future life a lot easier for anyone. My grandfather was a poor immigrant and didn't attend high school. In Vietnam a squad of black dudes went into the jungle to save him after his buddies abandoned him. He always grew up in a pretty diverse neighborhood for his time and his wife is Romani and grew up in N@zi Germany with her left hand tied behind her back and nearly murdered in a hate crime when she was 14 so he knew firsthand how poorly minorities were treated. His time in Vietnam knowing the guys who went out of his way to save some uneducated shy French guy from Boston would go home to a country that might not even let them use the same bathroom changed him. Seeing his soldiers murder a Vietnamese teenager and laugh about it when he tried to catch him when he was pushed from the helicopter changed him.
Be kind and decent to each other.
I can just imagine Captain America bulking up when he realizes Schneider is German like Popeye does when he eats spinach
I love it
it's unlikely that Cap would say that about Germans, the supreme commander of allied forces was called Eisenhower.
@@sadiqkhawaja7019Eisenhower is not particularly german ngl
@@chrisi7127 It is not too too common even in Germany but there are still a few people called Eisenhauer
“You’re not- What do you mean you come from the 40s”
“Alright but that doesn’t mean everyone was an asshole”
Idk why but I absolutely love the straightforwardness of the Cap’s line.
"Alright but that doesn't mean everyone was an asshole"
That was pretty fire.
When the kid had red hair I thought captain America was going to call him soulless and punch him
"I have a black friend"
-Tony Stark 2022
Jesus
"I dont."
-Me, Current Year
Beyond how well written and legitimately funny this is, I'm entertained by how in character this is for Cap.
Poor cap, he just wanted to talk about television and he's met with assumptions :(
captain america: i´m not racist.
also captain america: I NEVER SURRENDER, THIS A STANDS FOR AMERICA, NOT FRANCE
That was Ultimate Captain America, from the Ultimate Universe where Hulk is a rapist supervillain, and Wanda and Pietro are in an incestuous relationship.
Ultimate Marvel's a bit whacky.
@@lewstherintelamon244 Yes I don't what were they thinking
Inhabitants of France do not constitute a "race". The quote is prejudiced against France, but it is lazy to call all prejudice "racist".
Iron Man also had to explain what "Twitter" was, and why he was "canceled"
I've said before how I love that his Iron Man impression is basically just a robotic version of his Ben Shapiro impression, and it makes it so much funnier in this context
Funny because hearing the name Shapiro would also trigger Cap's PTSD
@@someonerandom704 Shapiro is a Jewish name.
@@Punaparta ...I know. Who do you think was massacred in WW2?
@@someonerandom704 Er, let's go back a step. What did you imply by "the name Shapiro would also trigger Cap's PTSD"?
@@Punaparta The Germans were killing Jews en masse and, in the canon, Captain America was saving them. Hearing a Jewish name would probably remind him of the times he was liberating concentration camps.
This isn't a meme, it's a joke. It has everything a good joke uses to make it funny. A story, build up, subversion of expectations and a good punchline at the end. This made me laugh
All jokes are also memes, especially if they're any good. A meme is basically any idea that is passed between people.
Its then revealed that Max Schneider was actually Red Skull in disguise, thus justifying Captain Americas attack as his keen detection for deception
"Downhill spiral"
"Bearer of bad words"
I love how Iron man depicts these changes as disasters rather than progress
That was the joke
@@birddaddydetta yes
@Duke E wow so funny man, at least make the troll less obvious, c'mon :/
Progress is a disaster to a lot of people
@@dinoblacklane1640 Yeah, if it changed for the worse and not the better.
"I'm not racist!"
"What do you mean? You came from the 40s"
"Okay, but that doesn't mean everyone's an asshole!"
That part was just pure gold! 😂
1:43 Phew, I was thinking it stood for France. Glad that cleared up
I understood that reference
Turns out, Tony DIDN'T misread him.