Post by Captain America on Apr 30, 2006 8:02:55 GMT -5
Name: Steve Rogers
Alias: Captain America, "Cap" to friends.
Age: Thirties
Gender: Male
Side: Against the Super-Human Registration Act (Leader)
Appearance:
Steve Rogers is a tall blonde man with bright blue eyes. As Captain America, he dresses in a costume remniscent of the American flag; blue with with white sleeves, red boots and gloves, and a white star in the centre of his chest with red and white stripes on his lower stomach. He also wears a blue mask with a white "A" in the centre and tiny wings on either side.
Height 6ft 2 in.
Weight 240lbs
Eye Colour Blue
Hair Colour Blonde
Mutation/Powers:
Captain America has superior agility, strength, speed and endurance to normal humans thanks to the Super Soldier Serum he took during World War II. He also has superior reaction times and is a master of unarmed combat.
Weapons:
Captain America's only weapon is his shield, a concave disk 2.5 feet in diameter, weighing 12 pounds. It is made of a unique Vibranium-Adamantium alloy that has never been duplicated.
The shield has great aerodynamic properties: it is able to slice through the air with minimal wind resistance and deflection of path. Its great overall resilience, combined with its natural concentric stiffness, enables it to rebound from objects with minimal loss of angular momentum. It is virtually indestructible: it is resistant to penetration, temperature extremes, and the entire electromagnetic spectrum of radiation. The only way it can be damaged in any way is by tampering with its molecular bonding.
History/Background:
Steve Rogers was born during the Depression and grew up a frail youth in a poor family. His father died when he was a child, his mother when he was in his late teens. Horrified by newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe, Rogers was inspired to try to enlist in the Army. However, because of his frailty and sickness, he was rejected. Overhearing the boy's earnest plea to be accepted, General Chester Phillips of the U.S. Army offered Rogers the opportunity to take part in a special experiment called Operation: Rebirth. Rogers agreed and was taken to a secret laboratory in Washington, D.C. where he was introduced to Dr. Abrahan Erskine (code named: Prof. Reinstein), the creator to the Super-Soldier formula.
After weeks of tests, Rogers was at last administered the Super-Soldier serum. Given part of the compound intravenously and another part orally, Rogers was then bombarded by "vita-rays," a special combination of exotic (in 1941) wavelengths of radiation designed to accelerate and stabilize the serum's effect on his body. Steve Rogers emerged from the vita-ray chamber with a body as perfect as a body can be and still be human. A Nazi spy who observed the experiment murdered Dr. Erskine mere minutes after its conclusion. Erskine died without fully committing the Super-Soldier formula to paper, leaving Steve Rogers the Sole beneficiary of his genius. He became Captain America.
During the war, he served as both a symbol of freedom and America's most effective special operative. Then, during the final days of the war, he was trying to stop a bomb-loaded drone-plane launched by Nazi technician Baron Heinrich Zemo when the plane exploded, killing his partner Bucky; and throwing him unhurt into icy Arctic waters. The Super-Soldier formula prevented crystallization of Captain America's bodily fluid, allowing him to enter a state of suspended animation. Decades later, he was rescued by the newly-formed Avengers and became a cornerstone of the team.
He was the leader of the team for a large portion of it's existence, always fighting heroically and well for his country and for the Avengers. Although a man out of his time, he adjusted and was always the face of the Avengers. When the Avengers were disbanded following the madness of the House of M, it was Cap who gave Wanda Maximoff over to Magneto. It was he who brought the New Avengers together. It is also he who will fight heroically and fiercely to defend the ideals of liberty and democracy, whatever it takes.
Alias: Captain America, "Cap" to friends.
Age: Thirties
Gender: Male
Side: Against the Super-Human Registration Act (Leader)
Appearance:
Steve Rogers is a tall blonde man with bright blue eyes. As Captain America, he dresses in a costume remniscent of the American flag; blue with with white sleeves, red boots and gloves, and a white star in the centre of his chest with red and white stripes on his lower stomach. He also wears a blue mask with a white "A" in the centre and tiny wings on either side.
Height 6ft 2 in.
Weight 240lbs
Eye Colour Blue
Hair Colour Blonde
Mutation/Powers:
Captain America has superior agility, strength, speed and endurance to normal humans thanks to the Super Soldier Serum he took during World War II. He also has superior reaction times and is a master of unarmed combat.
Weapons:
Captain America's only weapon is his shield, a concave disk 2.5 feet in diameter, weighing 12 pounds. It is made of a unique Vibranium-Adamantium alloy that has never been duplicated.
The shield has great aerodynamic properties: it is able to slice through the air with minimal wind resistance and deflection of path. Its great overall resilience, combined with its natural concentric stiffness, enables it to rebound from objects with minimal loss of angular momentum. It is virtually indestructible: it is resistant to penetration, temperature extremes, and the entire electromagnetic spectrum of radiation. The only way it can be damaged in any way is by tampering with its molecular bonding.
History/Background:
Steve Rogers was born during the Depression and grew up a frail youth in a poor family. His father died when he was a child, his mother when he was in his late teens. Horrified by newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe, Rogers was inspired to try to enlist in the Army. However, because of his frailty and sickness, he was rejected. Overhearing the boy's earnest plea to be accepted, General Chester Phillips of the U.S. Army offered Rogers the opportunity to take part in a special experiment called Operation: Rebirth. Rogers agreed and was taken to a secret laboratory in Washington, D.C. where he was introduced to Dr. Abrahan Erskine (code named: Prof. Reinstein), the creator to the Super-Soldier formula.
After weeks of tests, Rogers was at last administered the Super-Soldier serum. Given part of the compound intravenously and another part orally, Rogers was then bombarded by "vita-rays," a special combination of exotic (in 1941) wavelengths of radiation designed to accelerate and stabilize the serum's effect on his body. Steve Rogers emerged from the vita-ray chamber with a body as perfect as a body can be and still be human. A Nazi spy who observed the experiment murdered Dr. Erskine mere minutes after its conclusion. Erskine died without fully committing the Super-Soldier formula to paper, leaving Steve Rogers the Sole beneficiary of his genius. He became Captain America.
During the war, he served as both a symbol of freedom and America's most effective special operative. Then, during the final days of the war, he was trying to stop a bomb-loaded drone-plane launched by Nazi technician Baron Heinrich Zemo when the plane exploded, killing his partner Bucky; and throwing him unhurt into icy Arctic waters. The Super-Soldier formula prevented crystallization of Captain America's bodily fluid, allowing him to enter a state of suspended animation. Decades later, he was rescued by the newly-formed Avengers and became a cornerstone of the team.
He was the leader of the team for a large portion of it's existence, always fighting heroically and well for his country and for the Avengers. Although a man out of his time, he adjusted and was always the face of the Avengers. When the Avengers were disbanded following the madness of the House of M, it was Cap who gave Wanda Maximoff over to Magneto. It was he who brought the New Avengers together. It is also he who will fight heroically and fiercely to defend the ideals of liberty and democracy, whatever it takes.
