Captain America: Civil War is most definitely the latter. In a world where political correctness, state worship, war cheerleading, and socialist propaganda have infected the very nurseries of American culture (namely higher education and Hollywood), Civil War shines as a beacon of pride that will have libertarians in the audience smiling brightly. Besides, any movie that can send Salon.com into a tantrum has to be good, right?

Amanda Marcotte's laughable attempt to complain about how Marvel ruined the character and to smear Cap as a "douchey libertarian" and "Ayn Rand acolyte" rests on an assumption of some perceived inconsistency of previously established "liberal" values. (I, for one, am shocked to see someone use that "d" word to belittle someone else. The writer must be a sexist). To Ms. Marcotte, and many on the left, Steve Rogers was always a good ole rule following American patriot who stood up for Democracy and its values around the world. Supposedly, this was established early on in Cap's first movie (when he enlisted in WWII to fight the Nazi's parallel, Hydra). Similarly, in Winter Soldier, it is perceived that Rogers does the right thing by putting a stop to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s secret spying and drone assault program that was never OK'd by the voting public.