The Late Great Jeff Webb once told me an anecdote. While he was attending the Joe Kubert School of Comics Art, he got into a knock down drag out verbal argument with some other student there -- about what, he couldn't even remember. Whether or not Frank Robbins was a good artist, maybe. Anyway, they were screaming at each other as they walked through the building they were in, really shouting and angry.
Jeff said one of his friends pointed out to him later "If you had been Matt Murdock and Bill was Steve Rogers, you'd have been jumping all over the rooftops beating the hell out of each other over that".
And Matt Murdock and Steve Rogers are about the two most reasonable, likable superhumans in the Marvel Universe.
I think if Captain America or Daredevil were confronted with someone shouting racist ephithets, they'd punch the fuck out of that guy. Because in superhero comic books, that's how you resolve issues -- through violence. It's probably the most destructive thing I ever learned, growing up reading them.
I also learned that human life was sacred -- a lesson, sadly, that superhero comics no longer teach. But they're still all about resolving disagreements violently. That's what the customer is paying for and it's never going to change.
Cap would absolutely have sussed out Trump's Russian connections during the campaign, though, and dragged him off to jail for it, and the justice system in the Marvel Universe would have tried and convicted Trump for treason, too.
Of course, to be fair, in the Marvel Universe, Trump would have also been revealed to be a Skrull infiltrator...
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