Captain America (Steve Rogers)

**Steve Rogers** also known as **Captain America** is a major character from the *Marvel* Comics.

During World War II, Steve Rogers volunteered to receive the experimental Super-Soldier Serum. Enhanced to the pinnacle of human physical potential and armed with an unbreakable shield, he became Captain America. After a failed mission left him encased in ice for decades, he was found and revived by the Avengers. Later joining their ranks and eventually becoming the team's leader.

In the XP4 fics, Steve made his debut in XP4 Heroes of the Multiverse - All-Star Adventures.

## **Appearance**

Captain America is usually seen with his Captain America chain-mail armor that is bulletproof, and is colored red, white and blue which represents his country's flag. His costume covers up everything except his nose, mouth, and ears. It's made out of Kevlar, Nomex, lightweight Titanium and an unknown polymer. This costume offers mid-high level of resistance against electric shocks and force impacts fundamentally. This suit cannot be pierced or slashed with simple and rather normal sharp materials like woods, glass, iron and aluminum. It's also resistant to high or low temperatures. In its helmet there is a small voice operated-wireless communicator which has its frequencies locked and almost untraceable that is also unaffected by jamming systems.

## **Personality**

Captain America is traditionally seen as one of the greatest heroes in the universe. He is a righteous and brave man who always wanted to see the good in people. From even before his origins as a superhero, Steve has always devoted himself to the protection of the weak and the defense of freedom and justice.

In spite of his virtues, however, Cap has been plagued by his status as man out of time. Remembering his days as a soldier in World War II, Cap worried that his idealism might be considered outdated in the modern world. Furthermore, seeing how idealized his legacy has become throughout the years, Cap sometimes believed that he might not be able to fulfill the image the world had of him. Regardless, Cap is still seen as the pinnacle of heroism and an example for everyone to follow.

## **XP4 Fanfics**

### **XP4 Heroes of the Multiverse - All-Star Adventures**

In Chapter 13, Steve is seen in the Stark Towers alongside his Avengers comrades mourning over Vision's death. They later then discussed what to do about Vision's killer and Bruce Banner suggested that they search for the remaining gems and Doctor Strange pointed out that a certain person knows where the gems are.

## **Abilities**

In the beginning the Super-Soldier Serum increased his body to the physical perfection of human potential or the next step in human evolution (though still a non-mutate). He is as strong, fast, durable and agile as any human could one day be - and his strength is referred to as being preternatural. His reflexes have also been increased to ultimate human potential and are nearly instantaneous (he is also capable of 'seeing faster' - enabling him to dodge bullets). He has run a mile in roughly a minute (approx 60 mph) and has bench-pressed 2200 pounds (1100 pound on each side) for reps (just as a warm up). His one-rep maximum is likely much higher. He also has uncanny accuracy, being able to hit multiple targets with a single throw of his shield, and having enough marksmanship to turn a lighter on and off through a shield throw alone.

Another major enhancement provided is the serum prevents the build-up of fatigue poisons in his muscles. This means he effectively never tires, making it possible for him to perform at his maximum ability when doing anything physical for an extraordinary length of time. However Captain America has displayed feats that would appear to be far outside the limits of a human. One of Captain America's most recent durability feats is him surviving a 200ft fall on top of a car from an airplane and suffering no discomfort. Steve's enhancement has also allowed him to survive building collapses and major explosions.

The serum also enhances his constitution, making him immune or highly resistant to many diseases and increasing the speed at which he heals from injuries and recuperates from illness. The serum is constantly being replenished by his body down to a cellular level.

#### **Master Martial Artist and Combatant**

Cap is an expert and adapt in virtually every technique and form of martial arts, hand to hand and weapons combat. He is master of a large number of martial arts and has developed his own unique fighting-style which melds American and bare-knuckle Boxing, Taekwondo, various styles of Karate, Judo, Aikido, Jujitsu, Brazilian Jujutsu, Muay Thai, Jeet kun do, Krav maga, Savate, pressure points, all-terrain acrobatics and the use of his own shield. He is also able to learn how to use most weapons (if not all) quickly, as Beast has described Cap of being capable of mastering any weapon in seconds. He has used chi-manipulation and many other techniques. He is a quick learner and learned these skills in a short amount of time.The known martial arts Steve used in his fighting style (without counting the variations) including but not limited to: Boxing, Judo, Karate, Taekwondo, Aikido, Hapkido, Krav Maga, Muay Thai, Muay Boran, Jeet Kun Do, Kung Fu, Kickboxing, Wendu, Defendu, Okinawa-te, Savate, Sambo, Wrestling, Systema, Taijutsu, Wing Chun, Jujitsu, Brazilian Jujutsu, Capoeira, Wushu, Pencak Silat, Kobudo, Vale Tudo, Eskrima, Jojutsu, Kenjutsu, Kendo, Iaido, Iaijutsu, Bojutso, Shinobi-Iri, Intonjutsu, Ninjato, Shurikenjutsu, Kayakujutsu, Chi-Mon, Cho-ho, Bartitsu, Keysi, Fencing, Dambe, KAPAP and U.S. Army Combatives.

#### **Master Shield Fighter**

An accomplished master with his signature shield, Cap can hit multiple throws by calculating ricochets. He can also use his shield as tool for assaulting and fight against his opponents using his shield while defending himself from their attacks.

#### **Master Marksman**

His aim is unerringly top-notch which makes him an extraordinary master marksman. He can throw his shield in the calculated way he wants and is skilled enough to use Hawkeye's Bow with the same accuracy and precision. He is also highly trained in the use of firearms and proved to be a deadly sharpshooter with several types of guns though he doesn't like to use them.

#### **Master Swordsman and Staff/Stick fighter**

Steve is an excellent sword fighter as he was able to fight Wolverine, a master swordsman, easily and gaining an upperhand against him and later by his time in The Avengers with The Swordsman, his skills and knowledge were praised by him. He also proved to be highly proficient in the sue of Bo staffs and Kali sticks, using Daredevil's billy club against himself with the same proficiency and skill which surprised Daredevil and commenting on them.

#### **Master Strategist and Tactician**

Cap is also a great and nearly unmatched leader, field commander, strategist and tactician. He led the Avengers for a long period of time, and his great experience makes him a seasoned commander on the battlefield. He also creates the plans for the Avengers. He also likes to keep himself prepared for any possible situation and study his opponents by any measure.

#### **Master Hacker**

Steve can hack into every form of digital data, systems and computers without leaving a trace or alerting security and tipping firearms with ease.

#### **Expert in Arts of Espionage and Stealth**

Cap is an expert and extremely experienced in fields of espionage, stealth, disguise, infiltration, escape arts, data gathering, sabotaging, surveillance and hostage-rescue as evident by his leadership and participation in almost every Secret Avengers mission.

#### **Expert Military Operator**

Also an expert military operator. He is well-versed and highly educated in every Armed force technique and discipline like reading codes and maps, drilling, marching, assassination, decrypting, intelligence gathering, survival, demolition, swimming, mountaineering, secret code languages reading, disguising and many more.

#### **Expert Vehicular Driver**

He is greatly skilled and very proficient in driving cars, bikes, tankers, trucks, boats, submarines, several types of trains and piloting jets and helicopters from civilian to military classes.

#### **Multilingual**

Cap is also a polyglot, he is fluent in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and maybe more.

### **Equipment**

Cap's trademark weapon is his vibranium alloy shield in which he always carries with him. This shield is 2.5 feet / 70 cm in diameter and weight 12 pounds / 5.5 kg. The shield is virtually unbreakable and absorbs the kinetic force of anything that strikes it, which enables Cap to ricochet the shield off of objects and allow it to come back to him. Despite it being nearly unbreakable, it has shattered a few times but has needed a highly-powerful being to do such a feat such as Thanos (with his Infinity Gauntlet) or Odin's brother, the Serpent. After giving the shield and costume to Bucky Barnes, Cap got a new costume and weapon. However, after Barnes faked his own death, Rogers would once again become Captain America and wield the shield. But then he lost his serum, and would become an old man. He would give the shield to Falcon as the new Captain America until Steve was again restored back to his youth, but allowed Sam to keep his trademark round shield and would instead wield an all-new one.

Cap's (Hydra one) former wielded shield is similar in appearance to his classic, triangular shields he would use before he got his vibranium round one. This shield is made of an unknown metal, but is highly durable. The shield can split into two parts with the bottom part being capable of being shot at an opponent or disconnected if someone were to grab it. The biggest feature of the new shield is that of a laser blade that forms along the point of it that enables Cap to cut through things like steel with utter ease or used to dismember opponents.

## **Trivia**

* After Steve Rogers was revealed to be a Hydra agent in Nick Spencer's *Captain America: Steve Rogers*, fans have started to call him Captain Hydra.
* Steve was never seen reading the Bible, attending church, or praying (unlike his explicitly Christian Ultimate Marvel counterpart), but Maria Hill describes him as a churchgoer in *Avengers Standoff* and he invokes the will of God toward the end of Roger Stern's Cap run.
* The letter "A" is emblazoned on his mask and is an iconic part of Cap's outfit.
* In *Captain America: Steve Rogers #2*, it's revealed Red Skull used Kobik, a girl created from a cosmic cube, to rewrite Steve's memories to make him believe he's been an agent of HYDRA all along.
* For a while, Cap disguised himself as a hero known as The Captain. The costume looked identical to his normal Captain America costume except for darker colors and a slightly different chest-insignia. He even threw a shield around that also had a slight color-change. Here is a cover depicting both costumes.◊ This costume somehow fooled everyone, including his allies on The Avengers. The costume would later be worn by the USAgent.