NO ONE WOULD call the U.S. presidency an easy job, but the newly-elected Thaddeus Ross has it particularly rough in Captain America: Brave New World. Not only does he come to the office with a reputation as a war-mongering hot-head,

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Captain America: Brave New World is nominally a political thriller in which the new Captain America (Anthony Mackie, taking over the role from a retired Chris Evans) must uncover a conspiracy to mind-control soldiers and embarrass the newly named President of the United States, Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford, filling in for the late William Hurt).