History Characters / CaptainAmericaTitleCharacter

* ExtremityExtremist: Steve is very skilled at using his agility and strength to deliver devastating kicks from Karate and Taekwondo and can take out most enemies with just one hit.

* StrongAndSkilled: Whenever he acquires a power-up (which is usually Mjölnir), he becomes this. Even in his normal state, he combines his incredible physical abilities with combat skills among the best in the Marvel universe, showing mastery in numerous martial arts such as Boxing, Karate, Judo, Aikido, Taekwondo, Brazilian JiuJitsu, Muay Thai, Wrestling, Wushu, Capoeira and Kickboxing.

!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Captain America of the 1950's, Steve, Prof. Rogers, Grand Director, "Captain Un-America" (by Barnes only), The Flag

!!Bob Russo

-> See [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Steve Rogers]]
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[[folder:Isaiah Bradley]]
!!Isaiah Bradley
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[[caption-width-right:350:As Captain America]]

%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Black Captain America, Black Kapitan Amerika, Captain America
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Truth: Red, White & Black'' Vol 1 #1 (January, 2003)

Isaiah Bradley is the last surviving test subject of a secret government project attempting to recreate[[note]] ''Truth'' was pitched as an out-of-continuity story that revealed the truth behind the origin of Steve's serum, but it was decided to make it canon, set ''after'' Steve gets his powers[[/note]] the Super-Soldier serum, which he was an unwitting participant.\\
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In more modern times, Isaiah is the grandfather of [[Characters/YoungAvengersTitleTeam Patriot II of the Young Avengers]].
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* AllegoricalCharacter: His origins were explicitly based on the infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment The Tuskegee syphilis experiments.]]
* BetaOutfit: His Captain America outfit unintentionally looks like one since by then Steve is already Captain America, and he just swiped a spare uniform and unpainted shield, and wore a bandanna instead of a cowl.
* DeathFakedForYou: The US government told Isaiah's family he and his unit were killed in action, so they wouldn't think to go looking for them.
* DependingOnTheArtist: In the original ''Truth'' his Captain America suit is a regular spare one, but later art (as pictured) gave him a darker variant with shorter sleeves.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He got captured by Nazis after liberating a concentration camp, met Hitler himself and broke out, but was thrown into prison for almost two decades after being court-martialed for treason... because he had stolen a spare uniform and shield of Steve's. With Steve himself being unaware of any of this until much, much later.
* FlawedPrototype: They hadn't quite worked out all the details on their recreated formula when they tested it on Isaiah. He's got the super powers, but at the cost of eventual severe brain-damage. Still, he managed to dodge the "murderous insanity" and "death" that some of the other failed attempts have produced. Other survivors of the same program got physical deformities like swollen heads.
** Subverted however with regard to Steve himself, as Isaiah is ''not'' a test run for him, though even other Marvel writers have sometimes [[ContinuitySnarl overlooked this]]. As the creators of ''Truth'' themselves have noted, it's always been canon that Steve took the serum before Pearl Harbor (since the very first Captain America comics predate it) while Isaiah enters the army ''because of'' Pearl Harbor. That said, the story reads like it's {{retcon}}ning canon until [[BaitAndSwitch it's revealed]] it only added details, not changed existing ones.
* LivingLegend: To those who know he exists, he's revered as the "Black Captain America".
* LongLived: Steve was frozen in a block of ice. Isaiah got to the twenty-first century the normal way - one day at a time. He's looking pretty good for a man in his eighties.
* TheNeidermeyer: Had the misfortune to be led by such an officer (naturally, white and racist) who threw away the lives of all the other survivors of the recreated serum tests by sending them into battle ''bare-handed'' (to the point where the last one is killed in the act of [[UnfriendlyFire killing him too]]).
* RetiredBadass: He's no longer Captain America, and is just a normal (relatively speaking) citizen now, but although he's well past his prime, and the serum that have him his powers [[HandicappedBadass caused brain damage]], he's still more than capable handling himself in a fight, as seen when he [[PapaWolf protects his grandson]] from a bunch of hoodlums in Patriot's backstory.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Isaiah didn't volunteer to be experimented on. Later on during the war, he was captured by the Nazis, who planned to pick him apart to make their own super-soldier, but he was freed before that could happen.
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[[folder:William Naslund]]
!!William Naslund
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[[caption-width-right:262:As Spirit of '76]]

%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Spirit of '76
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Captain America Comics'' #49 (August, 1945) [[note]]As Captain America[[/note]]; ''Invaders'' #14 (March, 1977) [[note]]As Spirit of '76[[/note]]; ''What If?'' #4 (August, 1977) [[note]]Retcon Established[[/note]]

A man from Pennsylvania who initially served as part of the short-lived UsefulNotes/{{W|orldWarII}}W2 team the Crusaders, and took up the mantle of Captain America after Steve went missing in action. His tenure was short-lived, and he died in the line of duty.
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* BadassCape: As Spirit of '76, he wore a cape which was fireproof and bulletproof.
* BadassNormal: Unlike most of his successors, he had no superpowers of any kind.
* CanonImmigrant: Originally, the story of William becoming Cap was just a ''What If...?'' story, but it made its way into continuity anyhow.
* {{Expy}}: As the Spirit of '76, he was designed to be a counterpart of the ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DCComics}}' Uncle Sam.
* KilledOffForReal: He was killed in 1946 by one of Adam-II's robots, trying to protect a young John F. Kennedy.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Although unlike Steve's adamantium-vibranium shield, William's was just a regular steel shield.
* {{Retcon}}: A bit of Roy Thomas's continuity soothing, to explain a few discrepancies.
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[[folder:Jeffery Mace]]
!!Jeffery Mace
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[[caption-width-right:350:As Patriot]]

%%!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Jeffrey Solomon Mace
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Patriot
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Human Torch Comics'' #4 (March, 1941)

The Golden Age Patriot and third Captain America.
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* BattleCouple: With his wife Betsy Ross.
* CaptainPatriotic: He's literally named '''Patriot'''.
* KilledOffForReal: Died of cancer after coming to terms with his past, with the original Captain America at his bedside.
* LegacyCharacter: Third person to become Captain America. He himself was succeeded as Patriot by Elijah Bradley.
* PrimaryColorChampion: His Patriot costume was also red and blue with some yellowish green.
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[[folder:William Burnside]]
!!William Burnside
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[[caption-width-right:350:As "Captain America"]]
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[[caption-width-right:176:As "The Grand Director"]]

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Steven Rogers (legally changed from William Burnside)
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Captain America of the 1950's, Steve, Prof. Rogers, Grand Director, "Captain Un-America" (by Barnes only), The Flag
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Young Men'' #24 (December, 1953) [[note]]retroactively; the ''Commie Smasher'' run treats him as the genuine Steve Rogers[[/note]]; ''Captain America'' #153 (September, 1972) [[note]]As a separate Captain America[[/note]]; ''Captain America'' #231 (March, 1979) [[note]]As the Grand Director[[/note]]

A devoted fanboy of Captain America, William "Billy" Burnside volunteered for a government program and had his face surgically altered to resemble that of Steve Rogers following Cap's apparent death at the end of WWII. Rediscovering a version of the super soldier serum that granted Rogers his powers, Burnside became the Captain America of the 1950s, complete with his own Bucky, Jack Monroe. Tragically, Burnside was driven around the bend by his use of his unstable variant of the serum, losing his mind and seeing Communists everywhere. Put on ice in the hopes a cure could eventually be found, Burnside broke free during the modern era, where his insanity has made him a tool for many villains, including Doctor Faustus and the far-right Watchdog militia.
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* AbsentMindedProfessor: An ''emeritus'' example, who has memory issues and sometimes literal insanity, as DependingOnTheWriter. Presumably due to mental damage from the defective super-serum.
* AxCrazy: Burnside is sometimes portrayed as dangerously insane.
* BadassBookworm: Before he became Captain America, he was a mild-mannered professor of American history.
* BadPresent: Thinks the current day is this, since present-day society has pretty much destroyed everything he once loved about America. However, he remains determined to restore [[EvilReactionary the good old days of true Americanism]]... or die trying.
* BeingEvilSucks: Being a 1950s-era conservative in the 2010s America definitely sucks for him. From his POV, his country has turned into a madhouse where abortion is publicly funded, white people are discriminated against, and homosexuals are married in Christian churches. The only people who agree with him on the principles that once made America great are fundamentalist know-nothings and present-day fascists and right-wingers, [[SurroundedByIdiots which pains an articulate, sincerely patriotic conservative intellectual like Burnside no end.]]
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Anyone who is with him fighting for the traditional values and people of America is good. Anyone who is against him is one of the Communists, or at least one of their useful idiots.
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: As a character defined by both their BlackAndWhiteMorality ''and'' their status as being on the wrong side of the law (and culture, and history), it's not uncommon for Burnside to be portrayed as taking his simplistic morals to extreme interpretations. This is especially likely if Faustus is involved, since Burnside's already unstable mind is like putty in the hands of a PsychoPsychologist.
* BrokenAce: A successful intellectual and academic, charming and good-looking, with SuperStrength and fighting ability... But in the present day, everything and everyone he once loved are gone, he is an enemy of what his country has turned into, and the PsychoSerum he was exposed to is slowly driving him insane.
* CaptainPatriotic: More so even than the original Cap, who has turned against America occasionally and adopted the alternate superhero identity Nomad, the Man Without a Country. Obviously, this would be unthinkable for a superpatriot like Burnside.
* CerebusRetcon: Originally, he was the same character as the "main" Captain America, when his series was briefly revived in the 1950s, but later changes to his post-World War II story invalidated those appearances. A 1970s comic established this Cap as an impostor, thereby returning them into continuity, and also made him brainwashed and insane. It also deconstructed the stories where he went against civil rights protesters by revealing that the SanitySlippage caused by the flawed serum had exacerbated existing racism and BlackAndWhiteInsanity and led to him attacking innocent Hispanics and African-Americans for supposedly being communists, implying these stories were a look ThroughTheEyesOfMadness.
* CommieNazis: His major villain as Captain America was the Communist version of the Red Skull, the legendary Nazi supervillain, who had joined the Soviets after the war to continue the struggle against American capitalism. (Though a [[RetCon later rewrite]] established that this Skull, too, was an impostor.)
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: It's pretty obvious that the writers aren't exactly enamored of the 1950s, and they tend to play up the bits of its values they dislike when portraying him.

** How crazy/evil he is varies ''a lot'' between different appearances. Is he a genuinely well-intentioned crusader for truth, justice and a slightly old-fashioned American Way, a paranoid KnightTemplar, or a downright psychotic crypto-fascist? As of his last appearance in the ''Two Americas'' arc, he's settled on 'paranoid KnightTemplar', working with the Watchdogs to blow up the Hoover Dam to make a statement, forcing Bucky to dress up in the old Bucky costume and constantly barely restraining himself from lashing out at his loyal men in the belief that they're his enemies.
** Also, the technobabble for how his powers work, and how different they are from the original Cap's.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Originally, he was meant to be the "real" Captain America, who, like a patriotic citizen, kept fighting the Communist menace in the 1950s after the Nazis were defeated; thus, his characterization did not differ from his in any important respect, except that his main enemies were Reds rather than fascists. However, later writers rewrote the story to establish his 1950s portrayal as an impostor. Now, he is a ''literally'' paranoid right-winger, while the original Cap is usually written as fairly liberal.
* DrivenToVillainy: Originally, Burnside was an upstanding history professor who volunteered to serve his country as Captain America after the disappearance of the original. But awakening out of decades of suspended animation in a BadPresent where the Communist conspiracy he denounced in the 1950s appears, in his eyes, to have ''completely succeeded'' at subverting America and turning it into what he considers a [[DeliberateValuesDissonance Cultural-Marxist hellhole]], he sees no other option but joining with the [[KnightTemplar Watchdogs]] in their guerrilla struggle against the corrupt system.
* DuelingMessiahs: Sometimes with the original Cap, over who is the true American CaptainPatriotic and whose vision for America is the right one. Roughly speaking, Steve Rogers embodies the liberal conception of what America is (or ought to be), while Burnside represents the conservative/reactionary one.
** During the ''Two Americas'' arc, Bucky was the one to take him on and advertising hyped this angle up with the tagline, 'Who will wield the SHIELD?'
* EvilKnockoff: Of Cap. Not ''made'' to be evil originally, but turned out that way due to a combination of (in-universe) ValuesDissonance and PsychoSerum.
* EvilReactionary: Played somewhat sympathetically -- he was an educated and respected 1950's history professor who was dumped head-first into the modern age. While Rogers' progressive ideals helped him cope with the culture-shock, Burnside's conservatism ensures he'll never properly adapt, and all his evil acts are primarily motivated by a deep-seeded need to create some kind of familiarity and control in a confusing and frightening world.
* FictionalPoliticalParty: Under Faustus' control, Burnside was the head of the National Force, a far-right organization which crusaded against Black inner-city crime.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Grew up in the 1930s, and spent long periods in suspended animation from the 1950s on. The [[PoliticalOvercorrectness cultural shift]] in American life in the half-century or so since he was last active horrifies him beyond words, to the point that he will sometimes team up with latter-day fascists if they are the only ones fighting this utter nightmare.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: His original personality, which he sometimes still displays. When written like this, he is kind, chivalrous (in a now dated, but very much not malicious way) and generally displays the attitudes of an educated, compassionate conservative gentleman of the first half of the 20th century.
* HeroWorshipper: Of the original Cap. He wrote his thesis on Captain America, and later volunteered to follow in his footsteps as part of a top secret government program.
* HumanPopsicle: After his apparent death in the 80s, he reappeared during Brubaker's run, having been kept alive by Dr. Faustus like this.
* ImposterForgotOneDetail: After all the trouble he went through to be able to imitate his hero exactly, he only put stripes on the front of his costume and not all the way around. This isn't an invention of Steve Englehart either; even when he was being depicted as the actual Steve Rogers, he was never drawn with the full wraparound. When Falcon calls him out for this oversight, a caption states that [[SpottingTheThread this was what clued him in to the fact Burnside isn't the real Steve Rogers]].
* LightIsNotGood: His Dictator costume is all white and his personality in general fits much of the trope.
* MadScientist: A little bit, as he helped recreate the original Captain America super-soldier process.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Burnside suffers from schizophrenia, among other illnesses, and now genuinely believes himself to be the first Captain America, Steve Rogers.
* ObliviouslyEvil: He just wants to change America back to the way it was when he was a young man, by getting rid of affirmative action, third-world immigration, feminism, homosexuality, political correctness [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain and so on]], and doesn't view this as evil. The methods he uses to do it sometimes are and sometimes aren't; DependingOnTheWriter, he can be portrayed as anything from an old-fashioned chivalrous white knight to a ranting militia fanatic. Regardless, however, his [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter gullibility]] makes him supremely careless about whom he'll team up with in his quest for a return to law, order, morality and sanity -- for example, in one story, one of his allies was the [[BlatantLies dependable American patriot]] '''''[[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]]'''''.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, He legally changed his name to Steve Rogers. So there are two Steve Rogers. (And counting his real name, two Captain Americas named "William".)
* OnlySaneMan: ''Thinks'' he is this, in a world of madmen who allow [[DeliberateValuesDissonance public nudity and homosexual marriage]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Attacked Civil Rights protestors for being Communists, and still views non-whites with deep suspicion.
** Increased in one story where he was under the influence of Doctor Faustus, who used him to fight the black gangs in New York. Together with Faustus's MoreThanMindControl, his conservatism made him embrace a very "robust" approach to their criminality.
-->'''Captain America''': A white America is a strong America!
* PuttingOnTheReich: When brainwashed by Faustus, he led the National Force militia, which displayed some open trappings of neo-Nazism.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Views these people as "real Americans" and hates just about everything else about modern society.
* ShadowArchetype: He is a chilling reminder of what the real Captain America ''could've'' been without his progressive ideals and morality. After all, the only reason he isn't the real Cap is because of retcons. Cap himself notes that he could have just as easily turned into the same "Reds under the bed" fascist maniac, since he didn't go through a psych eval before taking the serum.
* SuperStrength: He's far, far stronger than the real Captain America, capable of smashing Winter Soldier through two brick walls with a single punch. It's never made clear if this is a quirk of Burnside's unstable SuperSerum, [[PowerBornOfMadness stems from his violent insanity]], or maybe is derived from a mixture of both.
* TragicVillain: As seen in his backstory and original appearances, Dr. William Burnside was both highly talented and a genuinely kind and well-intentioned man, whose greatest wish was to serve his country and help protect it from totalitarian Communism. Thus, he volunteered for a dangerous military program to recreate Captain America when the original was believed dead. Tragically, however, the defective super-soldier process has taken a heavy toll on his once brilliant mind, and in the present day his mainstream, respectable conservative 1950s ideals are seen as old-fashioned at best and oppressive at worst by most people.
* UnwittingPawn: Repeatedly; most frequently of Doctor Faustus.
* VillainousValour: He ''is'' still Captain America, even if a conservative/reactionary version, with all that entails as regards bravery, devotion, and prowess. [[OneManArmy Regular Cap]] usually beats him, but few others. And he ''never'' gives up.
* WouldHitAGirl: Not something he is comfortable with, given his origins as an old-fashioned gentleman. But he is also a soldier, and has learned that modern women will frequently abuse his chivalrous notions.

[[folder:Bob Russo]]
!!Bob Russo
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%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Captain America'' Vol 1 #178 (October, 1974)

Baseball player who attempted to take up the mantle of Captain America. He was retired seconds into his heroic career, by swinging into a brick wall.

[[folder:"Scar" Turpin]]
!!"Scar" Turpin
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[[caption-width-right:320:As Captain America]]

%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Captain America'' Vol 1 #179 (November, 1974)

Biker who attempted to be Captain America. Failed to prevent a robbery and was beaten up by a gang.

[[folder:Roscoe Simmons]]
!!Roscoe Simmons
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%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Captain America'' Vol 1 #178 (October, 1974)

Roscoe assumed the role of Captain America after Steve Rogers became Nomad. He lasted only a short time before being killed in the line of duty.

* BrooklynRage: Like Steve, Roscoe hailed from Brooklyn.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The Red Skull was not remotely happy to find someone other than Steve wearing the cowl, and had Roscoe crucified as a message.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: Roscoe's horrific death would hang over Steve for years.
* KilledOffForReal: Died in ''Captain America'' #183, and has stayed dead since.

[[folder:John Walker]]
!!John Walker
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' John F. Walker
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Jack Daniels, Super-Patriot, Captain America
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Captain America'' #323 (November, 1986) [[note]]As Super-Patriot[[/note]]; ''Captain America'' #333 (September, 1987) [[note]]As Captain America[[/note]]; ''Captain America'' #354 (June, 1989) [[note]]As U.S. Agent[[/note]]

John Walker had his strength enhanced in hopes of being a hero for his country like his fallen brother. After a tenure upholding the mantle of Captain America, Walker re-established himself as U.S.Agent where he went on to have extensive service as a member of, and even leader of, the Avengers.

-> See Characters/CaptainAmericaHeroes

[[folder:Clint Barton]]
!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Clinton Francis Barton
!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Hawkeye, Ronin, Captain America
!!!'''First appearance:''' ''Tales of Suspense'' #57 (as Hawkeye), ''Fallen Son: Death of Captain America'' (as Captain America)

A long-time Avenger and colleague of Steve Rogers. After a temporary case of death, Barton was resurrected. Approaching Tony Stark after the events of ''Civil War'', Clint was offered the chance to take up the shield of the then-deceased Steve Rogers, being one of the few people who could successfully wield it. However, on his first patrol, Clint encountered his own successor, Kate Bishop of the Young Avengers, whose words on honoring Clint's legacy cause him to have a change of heart, handing the shield back to Stark's possession.

-> See ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}

[[folder:Bucky Barnes]]
!!Bucky Barnes
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[[caption-width-right:350:As Bucky]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:As Winter Soldier]]
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Bucky, Winter Soldier, Captain America
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Captain America Comics'' #1 (March, 1941) [[note]]As Bucky[[/note]]; ''Captain America'' #1 (January, 2005) [[note]]As Winter Soldier[[/note]]; ''Captain America'' #34 (January, 2008) [[note]]As Captain America[[/note]]

Formerly Steve Rogers' KidSidekick during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, when he was known as 'Bucky'. He was apparently killed shortly before Steve was frozen in suspended animation, but was recently revealed to have been captured, near death, by the Soviets. Equipped with a cybernetic arm and {{Brainwashed}} into becoming the assassin known as the ''Winter Soldier'', he played the role of a villain until Steve brought him back to his senses and had him reform. With the apparent death of Steve, Bucky took the mantle of Captain America with the blessing of Tony Stark. He kept the shield after Steve's resurrection, only to be apparently killed in battle with Cul, the Serpent, at which point the mantle went back to Steve, while Bucky resumed operations as the Winter Soldier.

-> See ComicBook/BuckyBarnes

[[folder:Sam Wilson]]
!!Sam Wilson
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[[caption-width-right:350:As Falcon]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:As Captain America]]

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Samuel Thomas "Sam" Wilson
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' "Snap" Wilson, Falcon, Blackwing, Blackbird, Captain America
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Captain America'' #117 (September, 1969) [[note]]As Falcon[[/note]]; ''All-New Captain America'' #1 (November, 2014) [[note]]As Captain America[[/note]]

Sam Wilson was a social worker before he was a super hero. After witnessing unspeakable acts of gang violence, he took up the codename "The Falcon" and fights to keep the streets safe.

-> See Comicbook/TheFalcon

[[folder:Dave Rickford]]
!!Dave Rickford
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[[caption-width-right:350:As Captain America]]

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' David Rickford
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Captain America'' Vol 1 #615.1 (May, 2011)

David Rickford is a highly decorated Special Forces soldier who was augmented by Nick Fury (posing as the Power Broker) to adopt the mantle of Captain America.