{"id":176575,"date":"2019-11-20T23:49:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1811297\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T23:49:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:49:36","slug":"marvel-tells-politician-to-stop-using-captain-america-in-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/20\/marvel-tells-politician-to-stop-using-captain-america-in-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Tells Politician to Stop Using Captain America in Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/CaptainAmerica1112019-650x366.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"figcaption\">Marvel asked a New York City politician to stop using Captain America for campaign purposes. (Photo Credit: Marvel Studios)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A politician recently dressed up as Captain America and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/movies\/disney-updates-marvel-movies-available-to-stream-at-launch-1810098\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Marvel<\/a> was not happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>New York City councilman Ben Kallos received a cease and desist letter from Eli Bard,\u00a0Marvel&#8217;s deputy chief counsel, on Nov. 15, <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/marvel\/2019\/11\/20\/marvel-captain-america-new-york-councilman-cease-and-desist\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">ComicBook.com noted.<\/a>\u00a0The request was sent after Kallos reportedly used a picture of himself sporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/movies\/ant-man-3-and-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-2-expand-marvels-smallest-heroes-2-1809212\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Captain America&#8217;s suit<\/a> in a fundraising email called &#8220;Superhero Alert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Got this charming letter from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marvel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Marvel<\/a> and got a kick out of it, thought you might too! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/azqawtAmQY\">https:\/\/t.co\/azqawtAmQY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iP0vDkOaWF\">pic.twitter.com\/iP0vDkOaWF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Kallos (@kallos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kallos\/status\/1195455229870911490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Kallos shared the letter on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kallos\/status\/1195455229870911490?s=20\"  rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> and said he &#8220;got a kick out of it.&#8221; The letter asked Kallos to stop using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/movies\/brie-larson-and-marvel-co-stars-want-an-all-female-superhero-movie-1806927\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Marvel characters<\/a>, including Captain America, for &#8220;political purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I write to request that your campaign refrain from using Marvel&#8217;s characters in its advertisements for your quest for the Borough Presidency or otherwise,&#8221; Bard wrote in the letter. &#8220;While Marvel appreciates your obvious affection for our properties and welcome your support as a fan, we ask that our characters not be used for political purposes or to support political campaigns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kallos did not specify whether he would agree to Marvel&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If folks really want to know how the rest of the story turns out, they should subscribe and tune in to the next issue,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/marvel-new-york-councilman-captain-america\"  rel=\"noopener\">he told Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>More on Geek.com:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/movies\/disney-updates-marvel-movies-available-to-stream-at-launch-1810098\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Disney+ Updates Marvel Movies Available to Stream at Launch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/movies\/ant-man-3-and-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-2-expand-marvels-smallest-heroes-2-1809212\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Ant-Man 3 and &#8216;Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse 2&#8242; Expand Small Big Heroes&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/movies\/brie-larson-and-marvel-co-stars-want-an-all-female-superhero-movie-1806927\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Brie Larson and Marvel Co-Stars Want an All-Female Superhero Film<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/CaptainAmerica1112019-650x366.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/p>\n<div>Marvel asked a New York City politician to stop using Captain America for campaign purposes. (Photo Credit: Marvel Studios)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A politician recently dressed up as Captain America and Marvel was not happy about it. New York City councilman Ben Kallos received a cease and desist letter from Eli Bard,&nbsp;Marvel&rsquo;s deputy chief counsel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/culture\/marvel-tells-politician-to-stop-using-captain-america-in-campaign-1811297\/\">Marvel Tells Politician to Stop Using Captain America in Campaign<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/\">Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/20\/marvel-tells-politician-to-stop-using-captain-america-in-campaign\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4573,2133,2,2810,3295,2047,2997,3239,7,240],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,504,455],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-JVZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176577,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176575\/revisions\/176577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}