canon is watchmen, et al :|a

[retropolis]

Are you sure you've thought this through?

After all, it isn't as if I can go anywhere for a few months. Then I can't help but feel like when I do I'll be one of the world's biggest fishes out of water. Or -- if I do. You're still undecided, aren't you?

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[kneecaptain]

Nat says I need to stop paying attention to the news shows.

[retropolis]

I've -- I've just, we've lost people to that kind of... propaganda. It's absolutely dreadful.

Is Nat your... wife?

[kneecaptain]

What? No. No, she's my partner.

[retropolis]

Oh. Is she called Miss America?

[kneecaptain]

Ha hah.

No, definitely not.

[retropolis]

That's too bad; I think that would have been just precious.

[kneecaptain]

She'd never go for it.

[retropolis]

You could have matching costumes. It would be patriotic, media-friendly, and adorable.

[kneecaptain]

She wouldn't go for any of that.

[retropolis]

I guess there's no reasoning with some people. Um -- no offense to the lady, of course.

[kneecaptain]

She's not American, and not a "miss", so I can't see that ever working out.

[retropolis]

Right... it's really no good of a gimmick if it's inaccurate. [ Even though he calls himself "Captain." ] Do you just have the one partner, or did you work with a team?

[kneecaptain]

Nat's my second partner. And I've been on… four teams, I guess.

[retropolis]

Wow. Here I can't even get a second one together.

[kneecaptain]

Well, I only started two of 'em.

[retropolis]

It's still, uh, very admirable. Were they very successful?

[kneecaptain]

Sure, I guess. The Invaders had sponsorship direct from Churchill and FDR, so the deck was sorta stacked in our favor.

[retropolis]

The Minutemen never had any sponsorship, officially... we were just a group of people looking to do our part. We probably could have stayed together if we had. Was your group formed before or after the war?

[kneecaptain]

The Invaders? That was a wartime thing; we were mostly deployed in Europe. The Avengers, though, that came after— that was just a group of people, looking to do their part. Or, it started out that way.

[retropolis]

That's strange. WWII was just fought with regular soldiers. Those who weren't enlisted kept the Minutemen going back in New York. We -- well, Vietnam was won that way, but everything was different for costumed adventuring by then... people didn't really want masks anymore.