Notes from Captain America and Agent Carter viewing:

Captain America: The First Avenger

Notes focusing on interactions with Agent Carter:

• “…gets a ride back with Agent Carter”
  • There is a real need to impress Agent Carter
  • She has authority and is a powerful, dominant character.
• Captain America: “I don’t know why you would want to join the army if you are a beautiful dame?”
  • Introduces the questions as to why she is in the army and how she got her ranking
• Agent Carter is very accurate with her shooting and she is a hard worker.
• She is obviously a minority like Captain America (before his transformation), but she also has the same courage as hm (recognizable when she is staring down the barrel of the gun at the car).

Marvel One Shots – Agent Carter

• Agent Carter is under appreciated and commended for doing a “bang-up job” for basically doing nothing. Told not to worry about handling “the rough stuff” – suggests that women aren’t as influential or proactive as men. This is a continuous theme throughout the film and sets Carter up to be the hero when she proves the men wrong. Makes a statement about undervaluing and underestimating women.
• Tony Stark wants Agent Carter to run SHIELD with him after her work getting The Zodiac. Push off point: Agent Carter moving to SHIELD
• Statis-Quo is reminded in the after film after the credits which is about the women’s bikini

Marvel’s Agent Carter

• Set in 1946 New York – immediately sets the scene for the role of women in America the 40’s.
• Mr Stark is the technician : push-off point for the Starks

Responce to follow up questions:

How does she fit as a character told across multiple different stories? How is the character configured in each of the separate artefacts? i.e. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011 feature film), One Shot: Agent Carter (short film), Marvel’s Agent Carter (TV show). Thoughts on planning.

Peggy works across each of the three narratives, as more and more of her story is revealed with each artefact. In Captain America, she is a supporting role; simply put, she is his love interest and serves the purpose of providing one of the emotional climaxes to the story (when Captain America acts heroically and could potentially die, leaving Peggy heartbroken). In the short film One Shot: Agent Carter, Peggy is beginning to show her worth, and that her character is strong, independent and powerful (despite what the men of the current time think). Finally in Marvel’s Agent Carter, she steps into the main role and proves she is no longer just Captain America’s girlfriend, but is so much more. Throughout all these different and separate artefacts, her character traits and personality remain the same, it is simply the varying degrees to which these aspects of her character are revealed that differentiates the different artefacts.