That wasnt the case withCaptain America: The Winter Soldier.
By far, its biggest contribution is how it led to the MCUs ostensible genre shift.
It became popular to say movies that followed were x genre, but Marvel.
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So big was Winter Soldier that Marvel effectively went all-in on it.
But all this imitation and success only went so far.
(Case in point: Falcon & the Winter Soldiers messy handling ofraceand geopolitics.)
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With the Cap movies in particular, theyre locked into being politically tinged action-thrillers.
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