Steve Rogers

Steven Grant "Steve" Rogers is a World War II veteran, a founding member of the Avengers, and Earth's first known superhero. Rogers grew up suffering from numerous health problems, and upon the United States' entry into World War II, he was rejected from serving in the United States Army despite several attempts to enlist. Rogers ultimately volunteered for Project Rebirth, where he was the only recipient of the Super Soldier Serum developed by Abraham Erskine under the Strategic Scientific Reserve. The serum greatly enhanced Rogers' physical abilities to superhuman levels. After Erskine's assassination and being doubted by SSR head director Chester Phillips, Rogers was relegated to performing in war bond campaigns, where he posed as a patriotic mascot under the moniker of Captain America.
In 1943, Rogers rejoined the SSR after single-handedly liberating Allied prisoners from a HYDRA base, after which he began leading his team of Howling Commandos in many operations against HYDRA. His World War II exploits made Rogers a living legend, and during this time he also formed a close relationship with SSR agent Peggy Carter. Rogers ultimately helped the Allies win the war and defeat HYDRA's leader Red Skull, but crashed into the Arctic during his final mission to stop a plane carrying bombs bound for the United States. Rogers then spent sixty-six years unconscious and frozen in ice under a state of suspended animation, before he was eventually found by the Avengers.
When he awoke, Rogers found himself alone in a modern world that he hardly recognized, with no idea what to do with his life. Following Loki's attack on New York City, the Avengers asked Steve for his help and the latter agreed to assist. Joining the Avengers, Rogers played a key role in the Battle of New York, successfully stopping the invasion, capturing Loki.
==Biography ==
===Early Life===
Steve Rogers was born on July 18th, 1918, to Sarah and Joseph Rogers in Brooklyn, New York.
===World War II===
====Rejected for Service====
====Stark Expo 1943====
===Meeting Abraham Erskine ===
====Training Begins====
====Accepted for Rebirth====
===Project Rebirth===
===Assassination of Abraham Erskine===
===Captain America===
==== Performing for the USO====
====Disobeying Orders====
===Liberation of Prisoners of War===
===Showdown with Red Skull===
====Return to Camp====
====Recruiting the Commandos====
====Howard Stark's Upgrades====
=== Fighting HYDRA===
==== Crashing into Ice====
===Disappearance ===
====Remembered in History====
===Reawakening===
===Chitauri Invasion===
===Battle of New York===
====Fighting the Chitauri====
==Personality==
Considered by many as the world's first and greatest superhero, Steve Rogers has been defined by his courage, patriotism, and righteousness. Rogers has always had a noble and honest spirit, intolerant towards injustice and abuses of power. Since he grew up weak and small, he learned on his own that true strength is having the courage to fight against abuse, no matter one's power, and having compassion for the innocent. Despite being transformed into a perfect human by the Super Soldier Serum, he maintained his original values and character. Since his reawakening, Rogers was saddened by losing so much of his time, but still retains the same values he had since the 1940s. He also had a hard time adapting to the 21st century, causing a certain nostalgia for various elements of the modern world, as normally happens with older people.
What separates Steve Rogers from the other Avengers is two things: his humanity and morality. Steve Rogers is an extremely dedicated person. Despite originally being physically weak and small, and rejected many times due to his frail health, he still tried to enlist in the Army during World War II. Steve tried to be of service to his country in whatever way he was allowed; even when his talents were wasted when he was ordered to inspire the American soldiers and support the war effort by starring in propaganda. When he heard that the 107th battalion, including Barnes, was captured in a nearby HYDRA facility, Rogers disobeyed his superior's orders and went behind enemy lines in an apparent suicide mission and rescued them. 
Captain America's uncompromising sense of morality and selflessness often puts him at odds with Tony Stark, who is more comfortable with a grey morality to protect people. This has led to several moments of bickering, arguments, and almost physical fights over the direction of the Avengers in how to protect people.
==Powers and Abilities ==
===Powers===
*Artificially Enhanced Physiology: The Super Soldier Serum enhanced all of Rogers' bodily functions, such as his strength, durability, speed, agility, stamina, reflexes, senses, healing, and lifespan to enhanced levels. He is very muscular, athletic and physically capable. The Super Soldier Serum also healed all of his ailments, physical and genetic imperfections instantly, giving him a perfect body better than that of a man in his physical prime. It also prevents him from getting intoxicated by alcohol, meaning he cannot get drunk. The Super Soldier Serum permanently transformed him from a frail young man into the "perfect" specimen of human development and conditioning.
**Enhanced Strength: Rogers' physical strength is enhanced beyond the peak of human potential. His strength allows him to physically overpower elite-trained humans and extraterrestrial troops. Rogers had initially required visible effort in bending metal bars when he just used the serum, but later he effortlessly slammed through solid walls and reinforced glass, pry open steel doors, and even briefly hold back an accelerating helicopter. Rogers also able to effortlessly crush a walkie-talkie from one of the German police officers in one hand and tear off a taxi door with ease. Rogers' immense strength allows for him to send enemies flying several meters in the air from mere punches and kicks during his fight. He can even generate enough force to have his shield pierce the metal frame of a Quinjet. During his USO tours, Rogers was able to lift a motorcycle frame with three showgirls sitting on top without any strain. With one hand, Rogers can lift a grown man over his head and throw him like a rag doll. While Rogers' strength is rivalled by enhanced beings like Red Skull. He was outclassed by Loki. Rogers' strength combined with his astonishingly effective muscle control, can greatly enhance his profound fighting skills, making him an incredibly formidable opponent. Rogers can overpower extraterrestrial troops with ease, being able to easily overpower several Chitauri soldiers, simultaneously lifting, throwing, and knocking them away with ease, even chopping their arms out with his shield.
**Enhanced Durability: The serum made Rogers incredibly durable. Though he is not bulletproof, he can survive extreme blunt force trauma, such as being hit with solid objects like his own shield, or contact with superhuman opponents like Loki. With his Vibranium Shield, he is capable of surviving falls from immense heights that would definitely kill a normal human.
**Enhanced Agility: Rogers can coordinate his body with perfect balance, equilibrium, flexibility, and dexterity.
** Enhanced Stamina: Rogers' body eliminates the excessive build-up of fatigue-inducing lactic acid in his muscles and his musculature produces fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human, granting him exceptional endurance and lung capacity, greater than that of normal humans. Rogers can exert himself at peak capacity for several hours without showing any sign of fatigue, allowing him to fight for long periods of time.
**Regenerative Healing Factor: The Super Soldier Serum granted Rogers' physiology an accelerated rate of healing and regeneration. Rogers is immune to earthly infections, diseases, and disorders as well as the inability to become intoxicated by alcohol, drugs, or impurities.
**Longevity: As a result of the Super Soldier Serum, Rogers ages much slower than the normal human. This kept him alive and halted his aging while being frozen in ice and placed in a cryogenic state for nearly seventy years.
===Abilities===
*Master Martial Artist: Rogers is an extremely skilled and formidable hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist, having extensive levels of knowledge of melee combat as well as being considerably experienced in combat operations, making him one of the most powerful and best fighters on the planet. After being defrosted in the 21st century, Rogers was quickly put into action again and remained as skilled as ever; he was able to stand against Loki in combat, holding him long enough for Iron Man to aid in arresting him, hold his own against an enraged Thor during their first encounter to standstill with aid of his shield, and also managed to defeat hordes of Chitauri aliens at the Battle of New York. When a police officer questioned why Rogers should take orders from him, the latter easily defeated several attacking Chitauri soldiers, inducing the impressed officer to follow his orders without question. He held his own against and landed some hits on Loki.
*Shield Mastery: Rogers is extremely skilled at using his unique shield in combat, with years of training and experience in wielding it, as well as completely mastered its physical properties, allowing him to accomplish amazing feats with the item. Rogers can hit multiple targets with the same throw by means of ricochet, and could even achieve a boomerang-like return effect, allowing him to strike enemies from behind or retrieve the shield without objects to ricochet from.
*Master Acrobat: Rogers' years of training and experience have made him an extremely skilled acrobat, gymnast, and aerialist, being able to fluidly dodge attacks from multiple directions using coordinated flips, twists, and sharp turns without losing balance. He often utilizes these talents in combat for both evasive and offensive purposes. Combined with his enhanced agility, Rogers has expertise in utilizing parkour and tricking flips in his attacks and takedowns.
==Equipment==
===Weapons===
*Vibranium Shield: Rogers' primary weapon is his concave disk shield. The shield is about 2.5 feet in diameter, weighing 12 pounds painted in its familiar red-white-and-blue pattern with a five-pointed star design in its center, constructed by Howard Stark and made from Vibranium only. The vibranium composition allows the shield to absorb and reflect kinetic energy from impacts, therefore, making it nigh indestructible. Nearly every kind of human weaponry cannot even dent it, as bullets normally bounce off it. The shield is also strong enough to combat magic and mystical weapons, such as Thor's hammer Mjølnir.
===Vehicles===
*Motorcycle: Rogers owned and used a Harley-Davidson WLA "Liberator" during his service in World War II.
==Relationships==
===Family===
*Joseph Rogers † - Father
*Sarah Rogers † - Mother
===Allies===
*United States Armed Forces
**Chester Phillips - Former Superior; deceased
**Peggy Carter - Love Interest
**Bucky Barnes - Best Friend; deceased
**Michael Duffy
*Strategic Scientific Reserve
**Howard Stark - Deceased
**Abraham Erskine - Deceased
*Howling Commandos - Former Teammates
**Dum Dum Dugan
**Gabe Jones
*S.H.I.E.L.D.
**Phil Coulson
**Maria Hill
**Nick Fury
**Natasha Romanoff
*Avengers - Teammates
**Tony Stark/Iron Man
**Thor Odinson
**Bruce Banner/Hulk
**Hank Pym/Ant-Man
**Janet van Dyne/Wasp
*J.A.R.V.I.S.
===Enemies===
*Adolf Hitler - Deceased
*HYDRA
**Johann Shmidt/Red Skull ?
**Arnim Zola
**Baron Zemo
*Loki
**Chitauri
**Leviathans
==Appearances==
In Order
*Captain America
*The Avengers
*Ant Man & the Wasp 2 (mentioned)
*Spider-Man
**Season One
***With Great Power (Picture)
*The Incredible Hulk: Gamma Madness (mentioned)
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