Steven Rogers

"Not just a soldier but a good man."


 * -Abraham Erskine

Steven Rogers was the only successful test subject of the Super Soldier Serum developed by Abraham Erskine during World War II. He was given the title of Captain America. Rogers was frozen for more than sixty years and awoke in the twenty-first century, where he joined The Avengers.

Captain America: The First Avenger
Steve Rogers was born July 4, 1920, to poor Irish immigrant parents, Sarah and Joseph Rogers, and grew up a frail youth during the Great Depression. His father died when he was a child, and his mother died from pneumonia later when he was in his late teens.

In New York City,Brooklyn native Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is rejected for World War II military duty as 4-F for the fifth time. Rogers' friend, Sergeant James "Bucky" Barnes (Sebastian Stan), takes Rogers to the Modern Marvels of Tomorrow exhibition, where Rogers slips into a recruitment center for another attempt at enlisting. When Barnes attempts to dissuade him, Rogers' fervent patriotic conviction catches the ear of expatriate German scientist Dr.Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci), who is with the U.S. government's Strategic Scientific Reserve. He recruits Rogers to a squad of soldiers at Camp Lehigh in New York state, where - under Colonel Chester Phillips (Tommy Lee Jones) and SSR officer Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) - one will be chosen as the first in a "super-soldier" experiment. Phillips suggests Sergeant Gilmore Hodge (Lex Shrapnel), but Rogers' conscience, ingenuity and courage convince Erskine to use the sickly man.

Erskine tells Rogers about the super soldier serum he will be using, explaining that he was first forced to test the formula on Schmidt. However, as the serum had not been perfected, Schmidt experienced physical side effects and enhanced his sinister nature and intentions, causing Erskine to flee to the United States. Erskine, having now perfected the serum, tells Rogers he was chosen because his weak physical nature has given him humility. In a secret lab behind a Brooklyn antique store, Erskine and others gather with military inventor Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper), Senator Brandt (Michael Brandon) and U.S. State Department employee Fred Clemson. Rogers is given micro-injections of serum and then doused with what Erskine calls "vita-rays", causing him to have a tall and muscular physique. Clemson is exposed as Schmidt's assassin Heinz Kruger (Richard Armitage), and shoots Erskine dead before fleeing to his submarine. Rogers pursues and captures Kruger, but the spy commits suicide with a cyanide capsule.

Brandt has Rogers don a colorful costume for a War Bonds promotional stage show that has an unimpressed soldier audience in Italy, November 1943, jeering Rogers. When he hears Barnes is among a number of soldiers captured by Schmidt, Rogers convinces Carter and Stark to fly him behind enemy lines for a solo rescue mission. Breaking into what turns out to be a HYDRA base, Rogers frees several prisoners with instructions to seize weapons to fight their way out. In the resulting successful insurrection, Rogers memorizes a map of HYDRA bases while finding Barnes, and briefly confronts Schmidt, who reveals himself as the Red Skull. The Skull and Dr. Zola retreat, and Rogers returns the men to his base, along with high-tech guns and vehicles that use the tesseract's energy.

Now convinced of Rogers' usefulness, Col. Philips charges him with destroying HYDRA's bases. To that end, Rogers recruits a team consisting of the men he rescued: Barnes, Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan (Neal McDonough), Gabe Jones (Derek Luke), Jim Morita (Kenneth Choi), James Montgomery Falsworth (J. J. Feild), and Jacques Dernier (Bruno Ricci). Now wearing a more practical version of his Captain America costume with a circular shield made of vibranium that can also be used as a throwing weapon, Rogers and his squad take out all but one base. Finally, Rogers and Barnes zipline onto a train transporting Zola; during the ensuing battle, Barnes falls to his death.

Rogers, using information Phillips has gleaned from Zola, leads the commandos to the Skull's final redoubt: a base dug into the Alps. Rogers scrambles onto the Skull's jet, the Valkyrie, as it takes off on a mission to obliterate the U.S. using the tesseract energy, and eventually confronts the Skull. The Skull attempts to use the tesseract but instead is transported to Asgard. The tesseract melts through the plane and falls to Earth. Rogers, as Carter listens on radio, crashes the plane into the ocean to prevent it from reaching the United States. Shortly after, the Allies celebrate V-E Day. Carter, Stark, and Phillips recover the tesseract, but are unable to locate Rogers.

In the present day, Rogers awakens in a room which for all intended appearances was 1940's leaning up from his bed and listening to the broadcast. Until a woman remarkably close in appearance to Agent Carter enters the room which leads Rogers to question where he is. She greets him informing him he is in a recovery room in New York City. Rogers again questions her on his where about's standing up approaching her informing her the radio broadcast was of a baseball game he attended in 1941. She clicks a security alert device in her palm triggering two armed guards to enter the room. Reacting in a combat situation Rogers pummels both men through the paper wall and attempts to escape the building. Running through the streets to time square where he deduces he is no longer in 1940 at all. Rogers is surrounded by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and ordered by Fury to stand down learning from leader S.H.I.E.L.D director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) that he has been asleep for nearly 70 years, and they had wanted to acclimate his reentry into the modern era. Rogers' despondent over the new is asked by Fury if he will be alright which he response he will be. Its just that he is late for a dance he had promised to Carter nearly 70 years ago.

Later Rogers in an attempt to work through his sleeplessness works out in a gym smashing the bag across the floor. Fury enters the gym questioning Rogers on his sleep troubles which leads Rogers to question if Fury is there with orders which Fury promptly admits he does. Rogers then responds "Trying to get me back into the world Sir?" Fury dismisses the notion responding. "Trying to save it."

The Avengers
After being frozen for more than sixty years, Captain America was discovered by SHIELD agents and then he teamed up with Iron Man, Thor, Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff to stop a threat thought to be too great for one of them to defeat alone.

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Friends and Allies

 * Bucky Barnes - Sidekick and Partner.
 * Peggy Carter - Love interest.
 * Abraham Erskine - The scientist who created him.
 * Chester Phillips - Comander.
 * Nick Fury
 * Dum Dum Dugan - ally.
 * Montgomery Falsworth - ally.
 * Jim Morita - ally.
 * Gabe Jones - ally.
 * Howard Stark- weapons producer.
 * Thor - Avengers teammate.
 * Iron Man/Tony Stark - Avengers teammate.
 * the Hulk - Avengers teammate.
 * Hawkeye - Avengers teammate.
 * Black Widow - Avengers teammate.
 * Maria Hill
 * Phil Coulson

Enemies

 * Red Skull - archenemy.
 * Arnim Zola
 * Heinz Kruger

Behind the scenes

 * Digital processing was used to make Chris Evans look small and skinny for the pre-Super Soldier Serum scenes in Captain America: The First Avenger.
 * Chris Evans almost turned the role down.

Appearances/Actors

 * Canon (3 films)
 * Captain America: The First Avenger (First appearance) - Chris Evans
 * The Incredible Hulk - (Mentioned only)
 * The Avengers - Chris Evans

Trivia

 * In Iron Man, a prototype of Captain America's shield is visible in the background in the scene where Pepper Potts discovers Tony Stark is Iron Man.
 * In an alternate opening to The Incredible Hulk which can be found on the DVD, Bruce Banner can be seen attempting to commit suicide on top of a glacier, instead transforming into The Hulk before he can do it, smashing the Glacier. A freeze frame shot of the crumbling glacier shows Captain America in the ice.
 * The Super Soldier Serum is a main plot element in The Incredible Hulk, giving Emil Blonsky his powers. The 'one successful test subject' (Captain America) is also referred to in the film.
 * In Iron Man 2, Phil Coulson finds another prototype of Captain America's shield in Tony's house.
 * In the movie the goverment doesn't want Steve to be in the field, instead they wanted him to be a preformer to inspire the soldiers. But when he hears that his good friend Bucky and many more soldiers had been captured and were being held by Hydra he breaks out with the help of Howard Stark to go rescue the captured troops.
 * In The Incredile Hulk General Ross refer to the Super Soilder formula.
 * Due to the Super Soldier Serum his matabilizum burns faster therefore he can not get drunk.