Marvel and the Avengers stars have been sharing a new series of posters for Infinity War, and they’re really well done. Except for one poster, which purports to depict Steve Rogers.

The five posters are themed around the Infinity Stone colors and group lead Avengers with some of the characters associated with them (Steve and Bucky, Black Widow and Hulk) as well as some characters that we know come to work with those heroes in the upcoming film (Iron Man and Doctor Strange, Thor and the Guardians of the Galaxy).

It’s intriguing to consider if other characters that we haven’t imagined interacting but appear here together may end up being important to each other (Nebula, Shuri, and Mantis with Steve and Bucky? Falcon and War Machine with Vision and Wanda?), or if some of these placements are at random.

Comicbook.com points out that each team-up is also associated with a specific Infinity Stone, minus that mysterious Soul Stone:

As you can see, Iron Man and his group represent the Aether AKA the Reality Stone, Black Widow and her group represent the Eye of Agamotto AKA the Time Stone, Captain America’s group represents the Tesseract AKA the Space Stone, Thor and the Guardians represent the Orb AKA the Power Stone, while Scarlet Witch and the Vision represent the Scepter AKA the Mind Stone.

The Stone choices don’t make much sense (doesn’t Thanos get the Space Stone from Thor’s ship? Wouldn’t that Eye of Agamotto’s protection fall to Doctor Strange or Iron Man?), but of course, it’s possible that the designer just liked the color schemes for the characters.

As for that design—in general, I really love these, and everyone looks true to life … except for Captain America. Let’s take a closer look.

I know I might be nitpicking here, but I assure you that I have spent an inordinate amount of time staring at Chris Evans’ face and this is not Chris Evans’ face. This is Chris Evans’ face squashed up and at a bad angle so as to be almost unrecognizable—altered, for some reason, out of its nigh and perfect original form. Why on Earth would anyone alter Chris Evans’ face?

If you showed me this face removed from context I would not be able to tell you who it was, even though Chris Evans’ Cap beard and I are in a longterm relationship.

This isn’t the first incident of strange image choices where The Avengers‘ promotion is concerned. Elizabeth Olsen recently shared a magazine cover on Instagram wherein she had inexplicably been photoshopped beyond recognition. That was, presumably, a decision more on the magazine’s side, whereas these posters are coming straight from the Marvel mothership. Can we just agree that these people are uncannily flawless and do not need any sort of alteration?

Maybe the pure light radiating from Bucky Barnes is the thing obscuring Steve Rogers’ face, but either way, that’s not the bearded man I’ve sworn to love unto death.

(DON’T YOU DARE DIE YET, CAP. NOT YET. GIVE ME AT LEAST UNTIL AVENGERS 4.)

Also…where is Hawkeye?

(images: Marvel)

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So what’d you see today?

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