“This isn’t an instruction manual for the current president,” he said. “It’s simply a story about a group of people in tight suits who can fly, as part of the wonderful imagination that the Marvel Cinematic Universe provides. It’s primarily an escape from reality.”

Like its prequel television series, “ The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ,” the newest MCU film, “Captain America: Brave New World,” hopes to explain why a Black man would want to represent a country that has so rarely protected people who look like him.