Well, as the set up for the upcoming Avengers film is building slowly (Sit through the credits of Iron Man and the last 60 seconds of The Incredible Hulk), the big question on everyone’s head is who is going to be Steve Rogers, Captain America?

Some assholes actually published an article on the internet suggesting Leonardo DiCaprio or Brad Pitt. Well, this instigated a discussion amongst us robots. In my wildest dreams I could imagine Leo, in all his Tiger Beat glory, in blue spandex posed with the iconic shield. Then, he will start to run away from Tom Hanks, and end up on a sinking ship. The credits roll: directed by Brett Ratner; the lights go up, and the crowd goes bananas.

Then there’s Brad Pitt. Needless to say, the man is a good actor… When he’s playing a spy husband fighting his spy wife and then teaming up with her and fighting bad spies. That screams Captain America. In that version Captain America turns out to be a figment of Bruce Banner‘s – err- Edward Norton’s imagination.

After watching the last two Jason Bourne flicks, seeing not only the acting and physical capabilities of Matt Damon (he nearly kills a mother fucker with a book). I even suggest bringing in the same director as the latter Bourne films. Captain America can be a fantastic allegory to today’s political climate as he has constantly been in the comics (just read Civil War). It would be infinitely interesting to see a character born into a world of black and white, Allies versus the Axis. He’s a soldier who knows the enemy. Then put him in today’s world, where your enemy isn’t an SS soldier or a fascist collection of nations, but a virtually faceless terrorist entity who don’t fight on front lines, but with asymmetric warfare, where the soldiers on the other side can be American citizens. Sadly, over thinking the concept could result in disastrous results.