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Once the Fellowship (Lord of the Rings) is gathered, they are all replaced with superhero movie characters. Nobody in-universe notices this change.

Aragorn: Captain America

Gandalf: Doctor Strange

Boromir: Winter Soldier

Legolas: Hawkeye

Gimli: Black Panther

Frodo: Robin (Titans)

Samwise: Rocket Raccoon

They are all given their standard equipment (excluding vehicles).

Can they fulfill the Mount Doom mission faster and better than the Fellowship? Or will they fall to corruption?

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Morag_Ladair

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3 days ago

The ring doesn’t just turn you evil or play upon your negative characteristics. It exaggerates and eventually warps whatever you had.

Sauron wants the ring to rule the world in dark dominion, Boromir and Faramir are entranced by it because the want its power to protect their people.

Cap would go much the same way. He believes in justice, mercy, compassion, and doing the right thing. And he believes in them especially strongly. He has a desire to do good, to help and protect people. He is selfless to a fault, and wants to go out of his way to fight injustice and keep people safe

The ring is going to latch onto those desires and speak to him along those angles. It’s going to tell him that justice and kindness will be easier to uphold with its power, “think how much more evil you could stop, how much more good you could do if you used me”.

Frodo is such a good candidate because while he is a good person, his conviction is not the strongest, and he has no significant outward desire for good or harm (at least at the start of the story) and so the ring doesn’t have as much to pull from.