The release of Captain America: Brave New World has breathed new life into the question of why the MCU has replaced Steve Rogers as the titular hero, Captain America. The Captain America mantle has been inexorably linked to Steve Rogers throughout his MCU career, which began in 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger. This movie stipulated the qualities deemed necessary to embody the initially symbolic role, with Dr. Abraham Erskine selecting Steve Rogers as the preferred candidate to receive his perfected super soldier serum after witnessing Steve Rogers’ litany of virtues.