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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4828498" data-attributes="member: 19675">I'm a tad torn.On the one hand, its hard to let a valuable piece of IP lay dormant when it could be making you money.  And Cap is one of Marvel's most iconic characters, to be sure.OTOH, so few of their (OK, DC's too) characters actually stay dead.  It would be nice of them to retire an icon and have someone pick up the mantle.  Marvel has done analogous storylines to this when Cap was forced to retire for this reason or that, but with the relatively recent revelation that Steve Rodgers wasn't the first/only "successful" Captain America of some kind - see Isaiah Bradley, the black Cap; Jeffery Mace aka Patriot aka Cap #3; USAgent, etc.- the Captain America identity seems somehow ideal for a concept that "passes the torch," like the Phantom of pulp fiction, or even DC's Green Lantern.I think, in the end, he should have stayed dead, and Marvel could have given the world a new, fresh take on an American idealist with super powers.  Even if he wasn't the same, it would be interesting from a storytelling point of view to show him struggle and learn, to see what he could emulate and what he had to do his (or her?) own way.</blockquote>