And the reason for that is that there was no point in making a big showcase of Steve's death because everyone knew going into it what was going to happen, since it got smeared over international media outlets to let everyone know. If he'd died properly, at the end, everyone would have been twiddling their thumbs waiting for it to happen. But really, what exactly was the point in having the news report it? I can't say how well known Cap is in America, because I'm neither American nor living there. But over here no one knows who he is unless they're regular comics readers. Seriously. No one. Over here everyone has heard of Spider-Man, everyone has heard of the Hulk (bizarrely) and everyone has heard of the X-Men; although not any individual members. No one has heard of the Avengers. Even fewer people have heard of individual members. And if they had, I doubt anyone would care about Cap. He's a man wrapped in a flag calling himself Captain Country. British people in general aren't enamoured of that level of cheese, and I'm Welsh - we definitely aren't impressed (a good point to raise here, therefore, is that in spite of that, I still thought he was a great character. Says a lot, doesn't it?) So the only people who would have paid even the slightest attention to the BBC casually announcing the death of said character are the ones who really didn't want to be loudly told such a massive spoiler over their afternoon tea and biscuits.

It was all a gimic. As far as I'm concerned that's all there is to it. It was a particularly inept way of trying to recreate the shockwaves and subsequent rise in readership that DC got when they killed off Superman, combined with a handy way of burying their heads in the sand in order to not specify whether Steve Rogers votes Republican or Democrat.Otherwise I'm not sure what meaning they imagine they've given his rather untimely demise; granted, he shoved that guard out of the bullet's path, but that hardly qualifies him as dying to save others, which is about the only meaningful death possible. I'm a firm believer that lives have meaning, not deaths. Death just means you can no longer make a difference. Not bringing him back just means Cap will continue to have no meaning for a while.

So runs my opinion anyway. Also, I suspect most of that was a tad incoherent, because we're celebrating Noson Calan Gaeaf at the moment (Welsh thing) so I'm quite drunk. Many apologies to all.