Hollywood’s biggest franchise is at a turning point. In the six years and 11 movies since the all-conquering Avengers: Endgame, few entries in the franchise have felt like a genuine event. It’s partly the arrival of lesser-known new heroes,

Sam Wilson is braving the box office, with Captain America 4 flying past a major milestone following its opening weekend.

Though it took roughly 70 years since his first comic book appearance for Captain America to anchor a theatrical movie that didn’t star J.D. Salinger’s son, this Marvel Comics legend has made up for lost time in the last 14 years of cinema history.