“Captain America” star Chris Evans stepped out of character Tuesday to scold America.
“This is an embarrassing night for America. We’ve let a hatemonger lead our great nation,” tweeted the actor. “We’ve let a bully set our course. I’m devastated.”
He was talking about Donald Trump, if you haven’t been following the news.
This is an embarrassing night for America. We've let a hatemonger lead our great nation. We've let a bully set our course. I'm devastated.
Trump’s success left Americans glued to their screens, some with their mouths agape. Stock market futures plummeted. Hollywood freaked. And now Captain America is upset with us.
Evans’ tweet quickly received 40,000 likes. One person asked, “Save us captain.”
Anther fan replied to the actor’s comments with a comic-book picture of Captain America in tattered clothes, sitting on the floor with his head down looking very despondent.
As of this writing, Trump was close to scoring the 270 electoral college votes he will need to become America’s 45th president. Trump received many comparisons to Hitler during the campaign, rejecting them all. And now he’s been compared to a comic-book Hitler, by the guy who plays America’s greatest super soldier.
All 12 Superheroes in 'Captain America: Civil War,' Ranked (Photos)
We ranked all the enhanced humans in "Captain America: Civil War." There's 12 of 'em, which is more people than I know in real life. If you want jokes about how susceptible to peer pressure the Winter Soldier is, you're in the right place.
If you want a real discussion of who these armies of superheroes then click on our Who's Who explainer.
12. War Machine Not nearly as much fun as when he was called Iron Patriot in "Iron Man 3," probably because he has to spend most of this movie standing in political solidarity with Tony Stark instead of constantly busting his balls.
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11. Iron Man Tony Stark doesn't have kids, but he's definitely treating the rest of the Avengers like they're his rebellious preteen offspring here. Come on, Tony, lighten up.
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10. Vision What a goofball, walking through walls when he should be using doors. He kind of spends the whole movie being an overprotective dad to Scarlet Witch, though. Not cool, robot man.
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9. Hawkeye Actually a dad, Hawkeye disappointed his kids by skipping out on the family vacation to participate in the superhero royal rumble. At least he acknowledges it.
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8. Winter Soldier Doesn't really know what's going on, is constantly being emo, and is susceptible to peer pressure in a big way. Sounds like somebody needs to have a talk with him.
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7. Scarlet Witch Accidentally blows up a building to kick off the central conflict of "Civil War." Whoops. As always, teenagers have to learn important life lessons the hard way. She's not really a teenager this is just a metaphor.
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6. Captain America Remember that time Captain America was totally wrong about something? Oh wait, that never happened ever. And yet 117 different countries are giving him a hard time here. Sure, let's trust Tony "my bad dreams almost made me destroy the world" Stark instead.
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5. Black Widow She's Captain America's BFF, or is she? She's #TeamIronMan, or is she? Honestly, "I'm not sure which side to go with here" is probably the right call for most of these secondary folks. She could be nicer to Falcon's robot bird, though.
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4. Falcon He's got a remote control robot bird to play with this time, and it's awesome. I retroactively like "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" less now because of its lack of the robot bird.
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3. Black Panther He's a superhero who's super pissed off andmanages to hold his own both in combat and as a screen presence against all these other people we've had around for a bunch of movies. No small feat, that.
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2. Spider-Man Does not take this superhero melee seriously at all. On the other hand, he is actually a child so we can give him a pass. Also, he's really funny. If he wasn't behind on his homework, he might have had a shot at the top spot.
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1. Ant-Man Just pops up in the middle of this super dramatic movie and just refuses to say anything with a serious tone. And yet he manages to play probably the most key role of any member of #TeamCap during the big showdown. He's the best and there's really no debating this.
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Marvel’s ”Civil War“ has so many superheroes in it that they can’t all be cool
We ranked all the enhanced humans in "Captain America: Civil War." There's 12 of 'em, which is more people than I know in real life. If you want jokes about how susceptible to peer pressure the Winter Soldier is, you're in the right place.
If you want a real discussion of who these armies of superheroes then click on our Who's Who explainer.