<strong>THE AVENGERS</strong><br/><br/><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong>Captain America<br/><strong>REAL NAME: </strong>Steve Rogers<strong>AGE:</strong>92 (looks to be in early 30’s)<br/><strong>SEXUAL ORIENTATION:</strong>Heterosexual<br/><strong>HEIGHT:</strong>6 feet 6inches<br/><strong>WEIGHT:</strong>240 lbs<br/><strong>AFFILIATION:</strong>Avengers<br/><br/><strong>APPERENACE/COSTUME:</strong><br/>(http://thefightingconnection.com/sites/default/files/pictures/captain-america-marvel-vs-capcom-3-fate-two-worlds-picture.png)<br/><br/><strong>APPERANCE WITHOUT COSTUME:</strong><br/>(http://i1.cdnds.net/11/26/550w_showbiz_chris_evans_mens_health_1_1.jpg)<br/><strong>POWERS/ABILITIES: </strong><br/><em><span class="bbc_u">Human Perfection:[/</span></em>i] He is transformed and his strength, endurance, agility, speed, reflexes, durability, and healing are at the zenith of natural human potential. The formula enhances all of his metabolic functions and prevents the build-up of fatigue poisons in his muscles, giving him endurance far in excess of an ordinary human being. This accounts for many of his extraordinary feats, including bench pressing 1200 pounds (545 kg) and running a mile (1.6 km) in 73 seconds (49 mph/78 kph). He is highly resistant to hypnosis or gases that could limit his focus.<br/><em><span class="bbc_u">Combat Leader:[/</span></em>i] Rogers' battle experience and training make him an expert tactician and an excellent field commander, with his teammates frequently deferring to his orders in battle. Thor has stated that Rogers is one of the very few humans he will take orders from and follow "through the gates of Hades".<br/><span class="bbc_u"><em>Combat Master: </em> </span>Rogers' reflexes and senses are extraordinarily keen. He has blended judo, western boxing, kickboxing, and gymnastics into his own unique fighting style and is a master of multiple martial arts. Years of practice with his near-indestructible shield make him able to aim and throw it with almost unerring accuracy. His skill with his shield is such that he can attack multiple targets in succession with a single throw or even cause a boomerang-like return from a throw to attack an enemy from behind. In canon, he is regarded by other skilled fighters as one of the best hand-to-hand combatants in the universe, limited only by his human physique.<br/><strong>WEAKNESSES: </strong><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em>Honor:</em> Captain America has often changed or even outright ignored orders in preference of doing what was right. He is a defender of good and all that is just in the world. He will not back down from doing anything that he deems right and it has put him at odds with friends and the government several times.<br/><strong>HISTORY: </strong><br/>Born in 1921 in the Lower East Side of Manhattan to poor Irish immigrants young Steve found himself completely orphaned before his 16th birthday. He grew up into a tall but scrawny college student studying Fine Arts specializing in illustration. Seeing the actions of the Third Reich on news reels outraged him and he tried to enlist but was rejected due to his frail form. He is then selected to be part of a secret program to create the perfect soldier and after many a test he is selected as the test subject. <br/><br/>The process is a success but the attempt was immediately destroyed and the doctor responsible for the process is killed. Steve Rogers is now the only subject the military has.  As such they decide to use him as a counter-intelligence agant and have him pose as a hapless infantryman. At the new base he forms a strong friendship with the base mascot “Bucky”. Eventually Bucky discovers Steves secret and promises to keep the secret if he can be his side-kick and begins to be trained by him. Throughout World War II, Captain America and Bucky fight the Nazi menace both on their own and as members of the superhero team the Invaders. Captain America also battles a number of criminal menaces on American soil, including a wide variety of costumed villains. In late April 1945, during the closing days of World War II, Captain America and Bucky try to stop the villainous Baron Zemo from destroying an experimental drone plane. Zemo launches the plane with an armed explosive on it with Rogers and Barnes in hot pursuit. The pair reach the plane just before take off. When Bucky tries to defuse the bomb, it explodes in mid-air. The young man is believed killed. Rogers is hurled into the freezing waters of the North Atlantic. Neither is found, and both are presumed dead.<br/><br/>Years later, the superhero team the Avengers discovers Steve Rogers' body in the North Atlantic, the Captain's uniform under his soldier's fatigues and still carrying his shield. After he revives, they piece together that Rogers had been preserved in a block of ice since 1945. Rogers accepts membership in the Avengers, and although long out of his time, his considerable experience both in individual combat service and his time with the Invaders makes him a valuable asset to the team. He quickly assumes leadership. <br/><br/>Rogers reunites with his old war comrade Nick Fury. As a result, Rogers regularly undertakes missions for the security agency S.H.I.E.L.D. for which Fury is public director. Steve is later involved in a political scandle making him so uncertain about his role that he abandons his Captain America identity in favor of one called Nomad emphasizing the word's meaning as "man without a country". During this time, several men unsuccessfully assume the Captain America identity. Rogers eventually re-assumes it after coming to consider that the identity could be a symbol of American ideals and not its government; it's a personal conviction epitomized when he later confronted a corrupt Army officer attempting to manipulate him by appealing to his loyalty, "I'm loyal to nothing, General... except the American Dream. <br/><br/>Rogers receives a large back-pay reimbursement dating back to his disappearance at the end of World War II, and a government commission orders him to work directly for the U.S. government. Already troubled by the corruption he had encountered, Rogers chooses instead to resign his identity and takes up one as “The Captain”. A replacement Captain America, John Walker, struggles to emulate Rogers' ideals until pressure from hidden enemies helps to drive Walker insane. Rogers returns to the Captain America identity and Walker later becomes U.S. Agent. <br/><br/>Because of his altered biochemistry, Rogers' body begins to deteriorate, and for a time he must wear a powered exoskeleton and is eventually placed again in suspended animation. During this time, he is given a transfusion of blood from the Red Skull, which cures his condition and stabilizes the Super-Soldier virus in his system. Captain America returns both to crime fighting and the Avengers.<br/><br/>In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, Rogers reveals his identity to the world and establishes a residence in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The Avengers disban for a short time and Rogers, now employed by S.H.I.E.L.D., discovers Bucky is alive, having been saved and deployed by the Soviets as the Winter Soldier. <br/><br/>During the “Civil War” events Rogers opposes the new mandatory federal registration of super-powered beings, and leads the underground anti-registration movement. He adopts the alias "Brett Hendrick". After significant rancor and danger to the public as the two sides clash, Captain America voluntarily surrenders and orders the Anti-Registration forces to stand down. Rogers is indicted on criminal charges for his anti-registration efforts, and is shot outside a federal courthouse; taken to a hospital, he is pronounced dead. The assassination, orchestrated by the Red Skull, involves Crossbones as a sniper and Dr. Faustus, who poses as a S.H.I.E.L.D. psychiatrist and gives Carter a hypnotic suggestion to surreptitiously shoot Rogers at close range during the chaos surrounding the sniper shot.<br/>Captain America is purportedly laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, but Tony Stark (Iron Man) and others have actually returned Rogers' body to the Arctic where Rogers had been found years before, and whereupon Namor swore to guard him. Stark receives a letter containing Rogers' request that Bucky become the next Captain America, which Bucky agrees to do. <br/>Rogers did not die, and that the gun Sharon Carter had been hypnotized to use had actually caused Rogers to phase in and out of space and time, appearing at events in his lifetime and fighting battles. The Skull returns Rogers to the present, where he takes control of Rogers' mind and body. Rogers eventually regains control, and with help from his allies, defeats the Skull.<br/>The U.S. president appoints Rogers, in his civilian identity, as head of the nation's security, replacing Norman Osborn. The Superhuman Registration Act is repealed and Rogers reestablishes the superhero team the Avengers, spearheaded by Iron Man, Thor and Bucky as Captain America. Steve Rogers is present when the threat of the Serpent is known. Following the apparent death of Bucky at the hands of Sin (in the form of Skadi), Steve Rogers ends up changing into his Captain America uniform. When the Avengers and the New Avengers are fighting Skadi, the Serpent ends up joining the battle and breaks Captain America's shield with his bare hands. Captain America and the Avengers teams end up forming a militia for a last stand against the forces of the Serpent. When it comes to the final battle, Captain America uses Thor's hammer to fight Skadi until Thor manages to kill the Serpent. In the aftermath of the battle, Iron Man presents him with his reforged shield, now stronger for its uru-infused enhancements despite the scar it bears. It is then revealed that Captain America, Nick Fury, and Black Widow are the only ones who know that Bucky actually survived the fight with Skadi as Bucky resumes his identity as Winter Soldier.<br/>Captain America attempts to apprehend Hope Summers of the X-Men. She is the targeted vessel for the Phoenix Force, a destructive cosmic entity. Captain America believes that this Phoenix Force is too dangerous to entrust in one person and seeks to prevent Hope from having it. Cyclops and the X-Men believe that the Phoenix Force will save their race, and oppose Captain America's wishes. The result is a series of battles that eventually take both teams to the blue area of the moon. The Phoenix Force eventually possesses the five X-Men present, leaving the Avengers at an extreme disadvantage. The Phoenix Five, who become corrupted by the power of the Phoenix, are eventually defeated and scattered, with Cyclops imprisoned for turning the world into a police state and murdering Charles Xavier after being pushed too far, only for him to note that, in the end, he was proven right about the Phoenix's intentions. From there, Captain America proceeds to assemble the Avengers Unity Squad, a new team of Avengers composed of both classic Avengers and X-Men.<strong>PERSONALITY: </strong> <br/>Born in a time when a mans word was his bond and his honor not a commodity Rogers never forgot his meager begins. Raised during a time of high nationalism and strengthened by his immigrant parent. Roger is the epiphany of American ideals and a stalwart believer of the American Dream.  Often seen as a boy scout, dreamer, outdated or a relic Rogers has never wavered in his mission to make America great despite itself. A friend like no other and a tireless enemy he is the man that other heroes point to and say ”I want to be like him.”<br/><strong>EQUIPMENT:</strong><br/>A nigh-indestructible disc-shaped shield made from an experimental alloy of steel and the vibranium later reforged, now stronger for its uru-infused enhancements despite the scar it bears.<br/>Occasionally he carries a veriety of modern militry infantry weapons though this is rare. <br/>Captain America's uniform is made of a fire-retardant material, and he wears a lightweight, bulletproof "duralumin" scale armor beneath his uniform for added protection.<br/>Rogers has an Avengers priority card, which serves as a communications device.<br/>Captain America has used a custom specialized motorcycle, modified by the S.H.I.E.L.D. weapons laboratory, as well as a custom-built battle van, constructed by the Wakanda Design Group with the ability to change its color for disguise purposes (red, white and blue), and fitted to store and conceal the custom motorcycle in its rear section with a frame that allows Rogers to launch from the vehicle riding it.<br/><strong>KNOWN ENEMIES:</strong><br/>Captain America has faced numerous foes in over 70 years of published adventures. Many of his recurring foes embody ideals contrary to the American values Captain America is shown to strive for and believe. Some examples of these opposing values are Nazism (Red Skull, Baron Zemo), Neo-Nazism (Crossbones, Doctor Faustus), technocratic fascism (AIM, Arnim Zola), Communism (Aleksander Lukin), anarchism (Flag Smasher), and international and domestic terrorism (HYDRA).                                                     <br/><br/><br/></div></div>