Captain America and the Invaders?

In a report by CHUD, which you can read here, it appears that diretor Joe Johnston has confirmed that not only are Cap's former associates, the Invaders, featured in The First Avenger: Captain America. They are apparently present for most of the 2nd half of the film.

On one hand, this is kind of cool cause it shows just how much of Cap's history is being respected in this film. Who would have thought guys like Union Jack or the original Human Torch would have been featured in a mainstream comic book film? Clearly, they are reading the history of Cap in making this film. That is a promising sign.

But, this news is somewhat worrisome for me. Did we all see what happened in X-Men: Origins: Wolverine? The film got so bogged down in mutant cameos and useless action, that the story suffered greatly and became nothing more than cookie cutter material. Now, I understand that was a FOX production, but the article above mentions the film possibly being 6 to 9 characters deep! With that many characters, Cap can easily get lost in the shuffle. Especially since Cap's powers are not flashy. Also, I kind of take this as Marvel is not confident in Cap's capactity for action, so they have to add more super powered charaacters to compensate.

Whether this is an awesome addition or just adding characters for the sake of adding characters will be determined opening night. While I am confident in the production given Marvel's track record as a film studio, the news on Thor, and how awesome Iron Man 2 looks, I can see this idea backfiring.

Hopefully this turns out to be more genius from the young studio!