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Essay About Captain Canuck

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The superhero in particular is named Captain Canuck. In this superhero’s limited history, he is portrayed as just a normal guy who lives in Canada, where in this universe, is now “the most important country in the world”. His birth comes in two parts: in the form of an encounter with aliens during a Boy Scout expedition that he led, as the aliens fired at him with a ray, giving him superhuman powers, and in the form of a traumatic event where terrorists crippled his brother. This led the newly formed Canadian International Security Organization to hire him under the guise of a superhero, setting up the strangely-Captain-America-like persona that is Captain Canuck.
The superhero is different from a regular person in their society in that he has powers like no other human, he’s an official government agent, and that …show more content…

His comics also usually follow the Hero’s Journey, though in strange ways (e.g. Captain Canuck fights off polar bears to get to his main objective).
There are two main factors that I see as unheroic about Captain Canuck. The first factor is that he originally gets paid by the C.I.S.O. for being under them, as superheros generally do not get paid for their bravery and courage (which presents them as more heroic), and that Captain Canuck travels backwards in time and alters the past, which is a big risk as one tiny act could rewrite the future in a much more drastic sense than you intend for it. This does happen however, as Canuck saving his brother from the terrorists causes C.I.S.O. to vanish from the present.
The hero’s only real nemeses by technical standpoints is his former partner Blue Fox, who turns on him as a double agent, and Mr. Gold, but only in the modern web series reboot. Both do not really provide any cultural insight due to either their changes over the years (e.g. Blue Fox’s gender swap) or their being just

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