[quote=@Lord Wraith]
Well we're almost a week into the IC and already on our third page so out of curiosity, what are the driving factors and influences in your story?
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A lot of my personal influences on the Captain America story aren't necessarily as rooted in the comics, as I just never really followed his solo outings. That being said, the influences on the character that I've been working on have been a cross between the initial idea behind his run in [i]Ultimates[/i] and the current MCU depiction by Chris Evans. I want to toy with the idea of a Captain America that is much more a proper "soldier" who uses lethal force against threats and follows orders, but for the character to start coming into his own in the way MCU's Cap does. While I don't believe I'll be telling these sorts of stories, I love the complications and development of Steve Rogers in Englehart's Secret Empire storyline, Gruenwald's "No More!" run, and of course Brubaker's "Winter Soldier" run.

In the larger, grand-scheme of things, a lot of my non-comic inspiration from the character comes from war films from the 1940s to the present, while also tossing in the flavor of spy dramas for good fun. I find placing Cap in a world where he just punches Nazis isn't as fun as placing him in a world filled with mysteries, conspiracies, and moral grayness. I don't want to list off some of the films I'm using as inspiration, as they may give away the plans for this first arc and subsequent arcs.