Captain America

**Steven Grant Rogers** is an iconic World War II Veteran, a founding member and leader of the Avengers, and the Earth's first known superhero, operating as **Captain America**. He is the main male protagonist in ***Captain America: Legend Reborn***. Rogers was born in Brooklyn of New York City and suffered from numerous health problems, which at first caused him to be rejected numerous times for enlistment in the military and to fight in World War II. Rogers partcipated in Project Rebirth where he was the only receiver of Abraham Erskine's Super Soldier Serum before he was killed. The serum enhanced Rogers to the greatest levels a human could possibly reach physically, resulting in him becoming superhuman. After Rogers liberated over 400 of his captured allies in 1943, he was finally allowed to partake in the war where he would "lay down his life" to save the world from the destruction that would be brought upon by the Red Skull and his organization, HYDRA. nearly 70 years later, Rogers body was discovered in the artic and thawed out by Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. in 2011. for the next four years (2011-2014), Rogers would operate as a counter-terrorist operative for S.H.I.E.L.D. before the organization went defunct as a result of the HYDRA Uprising in the late Winter of 2014. While working with S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Avengers, Rogers would meet and eventually become romantically infatuated with fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. employee, Chloe Harper.

## Captain America

### Aliases

* Cap
* Steve
* Old Man
* Rogers
* America's Ass

### Title(s)

* Captain
* S.H.I.E.L.D. Advisor
* Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D.

### Affiliation

* S.H.I.E.L.D.
* Avengers
* United States Army (Formerly)
* United States Organizations (Formerly)
* United States Department Of Treasury
* Strategic Scientific Reserve (Formerly)
* Howling Commandos (Formerly)
* STRIKE

### Martial Status

Taken (Chloe Harper; Girlfriend; Later Wife)

## Biography

Rogers was born on July 4th, 1918 to Sarah and Joseph Rogers in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Growing up Rogers lost his father after he was killed in the line of duty during World War I. Growing up, the future Captain suffered from numerous health problems that resulted in him being turned down from participation and enlistment in World War II. In the summer of 1943, Volunteering for Project Rebirth, Rogers was discovered by a German scientest named Abraham Erskine, who granted him the blessing of being the first and only receiver of the original Super Soldier Serum. As Rogers held the dying Erskine in his arms, he was told by the man to be a good man instead of a good soldier, a lesson Rogers would continue to follow, even nearly seventy years later after being defrosted by S.H.I.E.L.D. in 2011. In the latter part of 1943, after he single handedly freed and liberated allied soldiers in a HYDRA base, Rogers was allowed finally be a real soldier in the war as he began leading his own personal team of soldiers called the Howling Commandos, one of which was his best friend, Bucky Barnes. Rogers would play a pivotal role in helping the allies win the war as he engaged in a deadly battle with HYDRA's leader, Johann Schmidt AKA The Red Skull. Rogers would seemingly give up his life by crashing HYDRA's Valkyrie plane into the artic to prevent the cargo bombs on board from reaching New York City, Chicago and among other places in the United States and the rest of the world. Rogers "death" was mourned by the world throughout the 1940s and 1950s as he was remembered fondly by all of his friends and allies, particulary Howard Stark, and his old flame, Peggy Carter. What had actually happened in reality, was that Rogers was unconscious and remained in suspended animation from the 1940s up until 2011 in the 21st Century, where he was found and thawed out by S.H.I.E.L.D. After he awakened, Rogers found himself feeling sad and alone as all of his friends from the past had either aged and lived their lives out, or died some point before or after he was defrosted. For the next four years, Rogers struggled in finding out what to do with his life outside of being a soldier, the leader of the Avengers and an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Fortunately, Steve found a new driving motivation in his life in the form of S.H.E.I.L.D. employee, Chloe Harper, whom he would grow close and develop romantic feelings for. Thanks to Chloe, Steve learned that there was more to life than being a soldier and ultimately learned to let go of the past, move on and enjoy the second chance at life that he was given by fate.