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Submitted by Sassmo
Captain America has been around since 1941! How Epic is that? He’s traveled through alternate futures, traveled through time, and even caused the creation of an alternate universe. He doesn’t even have super powers, just an indestructible shield with which he’s been kicking ass for the last 68 years. He died back in 2007, but they couldn’t even keep him dead – he’s been resurrected in a new series that just hit the shelves.
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Captain America does indeed have super powers. Ever heard of the Super Soldier Serum? Superhuman strength and reflexes.
Superhero knowledge FAIL!
Technically, no.
Cap was enhanced to the peak of the human condition with the serum, but that doesn’t imply superpowers, merely powers somewhat above normal.
“powers somewhat above normal” ? Are you aware that the word super simply means “above”??? By your own admission and the definition of the word “super,” Captain America had/has “super” powers.
LOL That statement by itself is a FAIL. He has super powers. That’s why it was called the SUPER soldier program. They injected him with SUPER soldier serum, making him a SUPER soldier by giving him SUPER POWERS.
admittedly steve rodgers as captain america is a win, classic everyman doing his best for the country he loves, but sadly this story has spawned one of the WORST movies in history and also the “death” of captain america is fail because it’s just another play for more money. bad marvel, bad!
ABSOLUTELY. I’m thirteen and I have been introduced (not literally, of course. Captain America is fictional…or is he??!?!1?) to the epic win that is Captain America.
If only Captain America would destroy Liberty’s greatest enemy, Adolf Obama and his lovely Bride, Worf.
To all the Obama voters out there, thanks for destroying my country, assholes.
Oh please…
Obama is doing just fine, unless you’re one of the mouth-breathing redneck Republicans who can’t face the fact that your outdated ideals are dead, then he sucks because Rush “Oxycotin” Limbaugh “done told ya so”…
Please stop menstruating about Obama and get back to your fry machine, idiot.
Obama is doing just fine, if you’re stupid enough not to see your liberties being stripped from you at every turn. Open your eyes and listen to a neutral news broadcast. I suggest BBC America. Fox is right-slanted, so they’re going to hate on him no matter what. MSNBC, CNN et al. are so far left you’ll never get a story from them where the facts aren’t outnumbered by socialist agenda opinions.
Wake up. He’s Joseph Stalin reborn.
“Wake up. He’s Joseph Stalin reborn.”
If you are unable to make an argument without making patently outlandish comparisons, nobody is going to take you seriously. “Joseph Stalin reborn”? Read a history book. They’re nothing alike.
And you think Obama’s stripping liberties from you? Of course he is. He’s a politician. That’s what they /do/. Do you think he’s any worse than anybody who’s come before him? I encourage you to look up the PATRIOT Act.
May I refer you to one of many George Carlin’s works…and I’ll even use of one his quotes, “Blow it out your *@#!”
Captain America! I command you to– WANK
Cap is awesome. He’s a million times cooler than Captain Planet, simply because while Planet is crippled by Hitler’s AURA OF HATE, Captain America beat up Hitler for his lunch money every week from 1941-1945, and continues to beat up other random Nazis to this day. Cap is hardcore.
Seriously? Can’t one single, solitary marvel hero just freaking STAY DEAD?
If you don’t see the body, they aren’t dead.
Hmm… uhh… Uncle Ben is still dead. He’s… a good guy, if not a hero. He’s the only one of The Rule (“nobody in comics stays dead except for Bucky, Uncle Ben, and Jason Todd”) who is, indeed, still dead right this moment.
But no, not the superheroes. I don’t know why superheroes bother with the crying and the funeral and stuff, and don’t just set somebody with a stopwatch to keep an eye on the grave, because whoever died will be back again within just a couple of issues.
It isn’t just Marvel. DC has killed both Superman and Batman. Herck in the first few years of Detective Comics, the Batman died like 14 times, or something. It was ridiculous. Marvel’s just late getting to the “let’s kill our hero and the resurrect him/her later” party.
Nightcrawler in the Ultimate X-Men universe died, and as far as I know, he’s still dead.
But of course, in that universe they twisted him from a fun-loving, 29-year-old do-gooder Catholic into a 14-year-old homophobic Nazi weirdo who breathes gold air. :/
Surprise, surprise… The “Epic Win” today, July 4th 2009, is the ever-Jingoistic and sickeningly “patriotic” bore Captain America…
Predictable as a laxative, kids. You DO know there are more countries on Earth than just “America” and “Over Yonder”, right?
No. I don’t think there are.
Stop being a douchenozzle. Yes, we know. Yes, some of us even care. YOUR reaction is just as cliche and predictable as the post you’re bitch-whining about.
You know what’s also predictable? Schmucks whining about other people who might have a little bit of national pride. Get over yourself. If you hate America so much, LEAVE. If you’re not already here, STAY OUT. I love my country, screwed-up government and all.
I wasnt gonna say anything, but i will. I agree with the previous reply to you, you are a red neck and people like you should be lined up and shot. you try and preach about the government. “oh ma god, comma here an looky at this momma, we gots oursels a black pressydent” you are a loser, and you’re just cranky because you miss mr george dubya. And the reference to stalin, thats like comparing ghandi to hitler. get a grip of yourself. on a more positive note captain america kicks ass!
Captain America wasn’t the only patriotic super soldier you know. Great Britain has one, Canada has a couple, the list goes on and on really. Except France, their super soldier candidate gave up as soon as the program started.
Captain America is appreciated just like any other super-hero in other countries too, don’t try this lame attack
french dude btw
I just got back from France! Bonjour! Je m’apples Meg-Meg!
How do ya like them je m’apples?
Who the chuff is he? I’ve never heard of him? Is this a comic book character or on TV or something? I don’t read comics (except manga ;P) and rarely watch TV other than music channels…
Captain America was born Steve Rogers. During WW2 he was injected with the Super Soldier Serume, a kind of early 20th century experimental anabolic steroid.
This made him the most muscly human being ever to live with the unfortunate side effect of leaving him a eunuch. In this state he had nothing else to do but defend America thus assuming his new identity of Captain America.
A Nazi beating up other Nazis, how funny. No, seriously – why is american Nationalism and Patriotism good and the german not. (well, they both are a bad thing, just to ensure that)
Patriotistic and glorifying towards war that’s just the worst things on earth, ‘Captain America’ is absolutley disgusting!
Err…because German Nationalism ended up with the slaughter of millions of Jews and other “undesireables” while American nationalism has not.
Does this mean that Stephen Colbert has to give the shield back?
Epic nationalist propaganda win, maybe.
Captain America = Win.
Marvel’s price-gouging on the mini-series where he comes back (not to mention half of their publishing line as a whole) = fail.
So not my fave superhero… infact Captian America is probably the lamest one I can think of off the top of my head.
not as epic as Superman, Last Son Of Krypton, stands for Truth Justice and the AMerican Way!
Captain America’s best, defining virtue is that he loves his country — and he recognizes that ‘country’ is not the same thing as ‘government.’
He stands up for what he believes is right, and follows his conscience. It’s easy to look at the red, white, and blue suit and mistake him for a blind, jingoistic example of disdain and arrogance. But he’s a genuine, compassionate hero. He’s made of only the best parts of the optimism, courage and relative innocence of a younger United States, without the xenophobia and reactionary paranoia of the McCarthy era. He’s not perfect — and he has never claimed to be — but he always tries to be the best example that he can.
This quote is Cap’s crowning moment of awesome:
“Doesn’t matter what the press says. Doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world – ‘No, you move.’ ”
We will always need at least one hero who can deliver a line like that, with a straight face and entirely in earnest. Somehow, Captain America makes that sound awesome.
And that’s what Win is.
thank you sir (or ma’am) possibly the most intelligent thing said on this thread
Jeez, all this hate for a fictional character from the funny-books. I wonder if Casper the Friendly Ghost got this much heat.