I try not to be a pedant about these things and I get why the need for a snappy nickname but the MCU John Walker isn't "US Agent", he doesn't have a codename other than "the new Captain America" For various reasons, I think the arc where he becomes US Agent is... unlikely
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Replying to @arthur_affect
i feel like this is related to the big shift in the MCU away from the secret-identity theme that characterizes legacy comics almost none of these characters have secret identities and so they don't really need codenames thor's name is literally just "thor"
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Well, this is a Marvel vs. DC thing originally, to be honest The only big Marvel hero who still really does the secret identity thing is Spider-Man, it's one of the things Marvel evolved away from over time as being corny
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Meanwhile the secret identity thing was still considered central enough to what DC Comics' "iconic" characters were about that they named a whole event after it (Identity Crisis)
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Like one of their most iconic characters -- the one, ironically, named Captain Marvel -- is completely about this concept of total transformation into an alter ego and if you take that away you lose the whole point
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I guess Daredevil is also pretty reliant on his secret identity Netflix Marvel was interesting with the contrast between him and a bunch of other heroes whose "superhero identity" is just their real name (Luke Cage, Jessica Jones)
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Or Frank Castle only becoming "the Punisher" after he achieved media notoriety under his real name
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