"The legacy of that shield is ... complicated."
Captain America is a Marvel Comics superhero. Steve Rogers was a small, skinny young man who yearned to join the Army during World War II, but had always been rejected. Finally, he was given a chance with Operation: Rebirth, Dr. Abraham Erskine's attempt to create a Super Soldier formula. It worked on Steve, but a Nazi spy ended up killing Erskine and the formula was lost. After fighting in World War II with his sidekick Bucky Barnes, Captain America was accidentally frozen in the ice and revived in the modern day, where he joined The Avengers.
Captain America has appeared in:
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Major storylines
- Captain America Corps (a Crisis Crossover about various Captains America)
- Captain America: Winter Soldier
- The Death of Captain America
- Captain America: Sam Wilson
- Captain America: Steve Rogers
- The Death of Captain America
- Heroes Reborn: Captain America
- Ultimate Captain America
- Batman & Captain America
- The United States of Captain America
Anime
- Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers (2014-15), an anime series featuring Captain America as one of the main characters. In the show, he is partnered with a teenager named Chris.
Animated Films
- A clearly Ultimate-inspired Cap appeared in the Ultimate Avengers animated films (2006) note .
Literature
- He helped Spidey in Spider-Man: Global War.
Marvel Cinematic Universe (multimedia)
Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- The Avengers (2012)
- Thor: The Dark World note
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Captain America: Civil War
- Spider-Man: Homecoming note
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Captain Marvel note
- Avengers: Endgame
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
- What If?...
Live-Action Films (non-MCU)
- Captain America (1944): a Republic Pictures serial which incorporated practically nothing of the character except the basic costume.
- Unofficial Turkish movie Three Big Men (1973) which gained
notoriety status since it features (besides the captain) El Santo and evil Spider-Man. - Captain America (1979)
- Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979)
- Captain America (1990): This movie was originally going to play in theaters, but it went direct to video instead.
Video Games
- He has had only two video games on his own: Captain America in: The Doom Tube of Dr. Megalomann (1987) on the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 and Captain America: Super Soldier on next-gen consoles, but has featured alongside other heroes quite often, such as the arcade Beat 'em Up Captain America and the Avengers, the Fighting Game Avengers in Galactic Storm (with a different set of Avengers), and of course most of Capcom's Marvel Fighting Games, the Marvel Ultimate Alliance games, and Marvel: Avengers Alliance and Marvel's Avengers.
- He appears in the video game Marvel's Avengers (2020). His “death” in the prologue is one of the reasons for the group splitting for five years.
Western Animation
- The Marvel Super Heroes (1966): An animated anthology series which adapted several Marvel Comics for television. This also introduced an often-repeated theme song for Cap: "When Captain America throws his mighty shield, all those who chose to oppose his shield must yield..."
- Cap made various guest appearances and cameos in the 90's Marvel cartoons, like X-Men: TAS (appearing as an alternate version in another, Professor X-less future, and in one of the last episodes, teaming up with Wolverine in World War II), major roles in Spider-Man: TAS, and a couple of cameos as part of The Avengers in Fantastic Four, and a guest role in the horrible late 90s Avengers cartoon. He was planned to get his own series at that point (stories, character models, and a one-minute pitchfilm were all made), but was canned because of Marvel's bankruptcy; its slot in the Fox Kids lineup was filled by The Secret Files of The Spy Dogs.
- The animated series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2010-2012) includes Captain America as one of the major characters. In a manner paralleling the Silver Age Avengers comics, he became the sixth superhero to join the team. Chronologically speaking, four episodes pass in between the event that led to the founding of the Avengers, and the events that led to Cap joining their team, just as his comic incarnation joined in issue four of the first Avengers volume.
- Avengers Assemble (2013-), an Avengers animated series developed in conjunction with Man of Action Studios, features Captain America as one of the foremost members.
- He makes some appearances in Marvel Rising (2018-) — see his entry on the character page for details.
And if you're wondering where Captain America's shield is now, let's just say you can catch it weeknights on CBS at eleven-thirty-five EST...
