MCU: 10 Real World Issues Addressed In Marvel Films

The Winter Soldier is probably one of the MCU's most unapologetically political films, which is unsurprising, given Captain America's very political history.

Cold War paranoia and espionage play beautifully with modern-day themes, tackling America's violation of individual privacy through technology and the obsession with counter-terrorism that circles right back around into plain old terrorism. Judging who lives or dies by algorithm is something that doesn't feel far off in an internet-powered modern society, for which algorithms already provide an unprecedented level of control.

And if it wasn't for the resurgence of fascist views in the US, the idea that this algorithm would secretly be a Nazi is somehow no longer a funny, far-fetched joke.

The corruption of authority and hidden Nazism and Fascism in seats of power is also (sadly) relevant to the real world, and Captain America ironically (or, perhaps, unsurprisingly) finds himself fighting American authority as a consequence.

How sad is it that a superhero film about magic/sci-fi Nazis and a guy who throws a physics-defying shield as a weapon is "too real" for its modern audience?