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Captain America ( Steven " Steve " Rogers ) is a superhero appearing in books published by Marvel Comics . He appears in the Ultimate Marvel line of books, and is an alternative version of Captain America . The character first appeared in The Ultimates #1 (March 2002), and was created by writer Mark Millar and artist Bryan Hitch (based upon the original version of the character by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby ).

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64-802: Steve Rogers grew up in Brooklyn during the Great Depression , a scrawny child protected from neighborhood bullies by his best friend "Bucky" Barnes . Horrified by newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe , Rogers was inspired to enlist in the Army around the time that the United States entered World War II . However, because of failing the physical test, he was rejected. Refusing to work in factories, he reattempted enlistment several times. His luck changed during another visit to

128-567: A Nazi spy sent to murder Rogers in the event that he survived the entire experiment. Rogers stopped him from destroying the experiment, but not before the spy murdered Doctor Erskine and other soldiers who attempted to stop him. Fully committing himself to the American war efforts, Rogers bid farewell to his sweetheart Gail Richards , becoming Captain America. For the next three years, he underwent numerous covert operations, often accompanied by Bucky, now

192-442: A Recruitment Center when Military Sergeant Dugan recruited him for Project: Rebirth , after hearing Rogers' pleas. After voluntarily subjecting to surgery, steroid treatments, and other experimental treatments supervised by Doctor Erskine , Rogers became the first genetically-enhanced super-soldier. During the final treatment, he noticed a suspicious soldier focusing on him instead of standing guard. The shady man revealed himself as

256-429: A commercial hit, consistently outselling its sister titles, X-Treme X-Men and Uncanny X-Men . After Mark Millar's run, Ultimate Spider-Man writer Brian Michael Bendis took over for a year. Bendis stated that his run on the book would be more character-driven, especially concerning Wolverine, who had previously tried to kill his teammate Cyclops. Bendis' run was marked by the introductions of Angel and Dazzler to

320-556: A corrupt TV producer and a mutant felon, respectively in "The Most Dangerous Game" (#54–57). Both are of non-alien origin in this world and have the civilian names "Arthur Centino" and "Mojo Adams", a play on the names of their creators, writer Ann Nocenti and artist Art Adams . Further arcs were centered on Professor X (#58) and Deathstrike in "Shock and Awe" (#59–60). Lady Deathstrike possesses adamantium claws and regenerative powers. Vaughan also reintroduced Magneto, and established Ultimate Colossus to be homosexual. On working within

384-461: A group of Nazi soldiers who had captured him, but eventually realized that he was in a different time after seeing a modern New York City . He discovers that his best friend Bucky Barnes is now married to his fiancée and that all of his loved ones are dead. After catching up to his new era, Captain America is inducted into the Ultimates , the superhero task force maintained by S.H.I.E.L.D. Soon after,

448-586: A more traditional school and consequently disband the X-Men. When this was done an alternate team of X-Men was formed by Bishop as part of the upcoming fight against Apocalypse. After the Ultimatum storyline, nearly all of the X-Men were killed, and the team disbanded. After the events in Ultimatum the book, along with Ultimate Fantastic Four , was canceled after its 100th issue. A follow-up one-shot, called Requiem ,

512-511: A motorcycle. Captain America is also shown to have fast healing while nowhere near as powerful as Wolverine and Sabretooth's, in "Blade vs the Ultimates" a remembrance by Cap shows scientists saying he can heal gunshots and knife wounds in hours. Cap himself in Ultimates volume 1 says he should be able to heal broken bones in about a day or two. During the Secret Wars storyline, a variation of

576-478: A number of occasions characters have described his strength as enhanced (Nick Fury described him as being able to bench press a Toyota). He has been shown bending steel with his bare hands, catching a tree heavy enough to crush a Jeep. He is also shown jumping large distances, and the Ultimate Red Skull, when he was fourteen and scientists said he had abilities comparable to his father, is shown running alongside

640-563: A plot to which he would place Fury's Ultimates who were coming for him to capture him, with tracers, and allow him to later find his son, whom the Avengers were also in pursuit. Cap fought the Avengers, managing to defeat all of them. He was subsequently subdued and captured by the Avengers. But this was all a part of his plan to get to the Red Skull as during the fight Cap managed to place tracers on War Machine , Red Wasp, and Black Widow . Escaping

704-509: A prototype atomic bomb, made with alien technology, and was meant to target the White House. Captain America managed to get to the bomb as it was launched. In a successful attempt to stop it in mid air, he fell into the sea and was lost, presumed dead. Years later, Captain America was found in the Arctic Ocean , frozen in a block of ice, and was revived. Initially he thought S.H.I.E.L.D. were

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768-520: A relationship between them bloomed. The relationship would later become sour as Rogers's 1940s personality created a generation gap, causing Janet to secretly go back to her ex-husband. During the events of Ultimate War, the Ultimates battle with the X-Men after Magneto was found alive and members of The Brotherhood of Mutants bombed the Brooklyn Bridge . S.H.I.E.L.D. believe the X-Men have teamed up with

832-806: A secret village deep in the Vietnamese forest. Unfortunately, the source of this news along with the rest of the village has a synthesis of the Super Soldier Serum via Simpson's blood flowing through them and Steve is captured and taken prisoner. Day after day he is physically and psychologically tortured and Simpsons attempts to brainwash him with anti-American diatribes. One day two S.H.I.E.L.D. employees sent to rescue Steve are captured and later executed because they are mistaken for assassins. Steve upon seeing this begins to pray and Simpson decides to indulge in his beliefs before executing him. The page then fades to black as Simpson enters to execute Steve, but with

896-538: A sound of physical pain emanating from the prison cell. The sound of pain was the result of Frank screaming after having snake venom spat directly into his eyes from Steve. After a lengthy hand-to-hand fight with an argument about morality, Steve was able to emerge victorious over Simpson. Aware of the fact that he was surrounded by gun toting villagers with Super Soldier Serum flowing in their veins, he warns them that if they persisted in aiming to kill him, he will treat them as enemy combatants and show them no mercy. After

960-514: A war photographer, and sometimes alongside James "Lucky Jim" Howlett . During one mission, Captain America was able to infiltrate Arnim Zola 's facility and kill his first experimental monster, which Zola dubbed "Siegsoldat" ("Victory soldier"). The experiment's dead body then fell on Zola, seemingly killing the latter. During one of his few leaves he met up with Gail and they spent the night together, which resulted in her becoming pregnant. He would later come into battle with Herr Kleiser, who possessed

1024-551: Is a superhero comic book series, which was published by Marvel Comics , from 2001 to 2009. The series is a modernized re-imagining of Marvel's long-running X-Men comic book franchise as part of the Ultimate Marvel imprint. The Ultimate X-Men exist alongside other revamped Marvel characters in Ultimate Marvel titles including Ultimate Spider-Man , Ultimate Fantastic Four and The Ultimates . The protagonists are

1088-619: Is similar to the circumstances of Steve Rogers. Swept up in nationalistic pride, he attempted to join the United States Army in order to serve overseas, but due to his original physical stature he is rejected. He is then inducted into a secret program similar to that of "Project: Rebirth". Due to the formula of the Super Soldier Serum having died with the death of Dr. Erskine, he went through a painful combination of steroids as well as physical and psychological training in order to prepare for his assignment. Danvers reveals that originally, Simpson

1152-567: The French S.H.I.E.L.D. guards, Cap jumped into a tele-plane (a jet which teleports), to where the Avengers were fighting the Red Skull in Alaska . When he arrived, Red Skull, who was wielding the Cosmic Cube, subdued Rogers's jet. However, Cap ordered Hawkeye the coordinates for the Red Skull's position in which he had the jet teleport to the Red Skull and fatally impale his son on the tele-plane's nose. After

1216-520: The Brotherhood. Captain America then vows that he will kill Magneto. Later the X-Men are framed to make it look like they teamed up with Magneto. The Ultimates with the support of numerous S.H.I.E.L.D agents succeed in capturing the X-Men and Professor Xavier is taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody. During the Ultimate Six story arc Captain America leads the Ultimates in the arrests of Electro and Kraven

1280-613: The Colonel in the chest with one end of the double-bladed energy sword that the Colonel used. After the Liberators are defeated, Steven Rogers somberly looked over the Colonel's body being transferred away by S.H.I.E.L.D., and thought of what he said to him about America's current role in the world. Seeing how having the Ultimates working with the United States government "policing" the world would produce similar results to their battle against

1344-640: The Hunter . Later those two–along with the Sandman , Doctor Octopus , and the Green Goblin —escape from S.H.I.E.L.D. He becomes very disheartened when he finds out that these villains were all a result of trying to duplicate the Super Soldier serum. During an attack on the White House lawn, Captain America wrestled with Spider-Man with neither out-powering the other. He then explained the truth to Spider-Man that his aunt

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1408-474: The Liberators, Rogers and his team decided to leave S.H.I.E.L.D. and to continue to work as an independent team instead. After the Liberators short occupation, Captain America helped in the rebuilding of New York City until he found out that his old Nazi nemesis Arnim Zola did not die; instead the O.S.S. rescued him so as to harvest his intellect on the post-war super soldier program. Later they mapped his brain and created an artificial intelligence out of it before

1472-576: The Millar period was an edgy tone, featuring quick action-driven plots and less moral X-Men. For instance, Wolverine tries to kill Cyclops in "Return of the King" because he is envious of Jean's love. In an interview with Sequential Tart , Millar commented, "You're not competing with Cartoon Network on these books; you're competing with ' Buffy '...Superhero comics aren't adult, but they shouldn't be written for five-year-olds either." Millar shaped Ultimate X-Men into

1536-674: The Red Skull was in custody, Rogers emotionally bore witness to Gail being briefly reunited with their dying son. Steve Rogers is currently a member of the New Ultimates, and helped Valkyrie, Zarda, Iron Man and Hawkeye fight off an attack from the Defenders , who managed to steal Thor's hammer before they retreated. Rogers learns that the Captain America project was maintained after he was lost in World War II. A more aggressive successor

1600-513: The Triskelion where he is hospitalized under supervision and begins to read the Bible to him. Ultimate Cap is largely absent during the series of events initiated by Reed Richards , leading to the destruction of Washington and death of POTUS Barack Obama . He returns to assist new President Howard during the events of "Divided they Fall." The US is on the brink of civil war as some States decide to leave

1664-761: The Ultimate Captain America resides in the Battleworld domain called the Kingdom of Manhattan where he also co-exists with a variation of his Earth-616 counterpart. Brooklyn Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 764914414 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:48:39 GMT Ultimate X-Men Ultimate X-Men

1728-523: The Ultimate Universe, Vaughan wrote: "In my mind, the X-Men shouldn't be teachers or celebrities or even traditional superheroes. They're students, confused, sometimes reckless teenagers who are feared and hated because their bodies are undergoing frightening changes... The Ultimate Universe restores that small but crucial element." Vaughan's run was followed by Robert Kirkman , author of The Walking Dead and Invincible comic books. Kirkman's run

1792-688: The Ultimates are faced with the Hulk . Rogers was able to put down the Hulk briefly during combat. When he was about to inject the Hulk with an antidote, the Hulk made a surprise attack and broke the needle and the Hulk then began beating Cap, until Thor came to the rescue. After the Hulk had reverted to Bruce Banner, Cap knocked the former out and had Banner taken back to the Triskelion . After learning that his teammates Hank and Janet Pym's quarrels with each other had left Janet hospitalized and nearly dead, Rogers tracked

1856-690: The Ultimates members Captain America, Iron Man, Giant-Man, Wasp, and Hulk were revived where they were to help Eternity fight the First Firmament. When Earth-616's version of the Ultimates arrived on Counter-Earth to confront Maker about his actions, he ordered the Earth-1610 Ultimates to attack. As both versions of Ultimates concluded that there is no reason to fight each other, Maker killed the Earth-1610 Captain America for disobeying his orders. Captain America later turns up alive with

1920-542: The Ultimates when it is shown that Earth-1610 has been recreated. However, following the events of Absolute Carnage and King in Black , when The Maker finally finds passage back to his native dimension via a chronal Portal gateway of his own invention, as well as utilizing the codexes of many of the Symbiotes he'd obtained, Earth-1610, he finds his alternate New York devastated and burning from an undisclosed cataclysm. As such,

1984-675: The Ultimates, enabling the real Black Panther the chance to return home. Following the Ultimates' separation with S.H.I.E.L.D., Rogers secretly adopted the identity of the Black Panther. Eventually his secret was blown when Juggernaut literally beat Rogers's costume off of him. Iron Man and the Wasp arrived with Cap's shield and uniform. He then led the Ultimates against their robotic doppelgangers. Captain America drowned when Magneto's Ultimatum Wave hit New York. While in Valhalla, Thor appeared to save

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2048-606: The Union, and the legitimacy of President Howard is being put into question. Captain America takes on the role of being the President of the United States after being made a write-in candidate and reunites the warring states of America." When the Maker collaborated with High Evolutionary to destroy the Superflow that kept the different universes separate in order to merge them into one reality,

2112-400: The X-Men, a group of teen-aged mutants : a subspecies of the human race, who possess latent super-human abilities from birth, due to the presence of the mysterious "X-Gene" within their genetic codes. It sets them apart from the rest of humanity and despite being feared and distrusted by the general public and authorities, they use their super-powers to prevent and stop unnatural threats to both

2176-510: The aftermath of Ultimatum . Ultimate X-Men was later relaunched by Nick Spencer and Paco Medina, with the title now called Ultimate Comics: X-Men . Upon its debut in February 2001, Ultimate X-Men was the second comic of the Ultimate Marvel line, preceded a few months by its sister title Ultimate Spider-Man . The heads of the Ultimate Universe line, Bill Jemas and Joe Quesada , originally tried to hire Brian Michael Bendis to write

2240-812: The anti-human and genetic terrorist group Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy . The series also features the amoral, Mengele -like mutant super-weapon project Weapon X , the shady Hellfire Club and many more. In addition, the Academy of Tomorrow is the Ultimate Marvel version of a spin-off X-Men team called the New Mutants . In this world, the group consists of: headmistress Emma Frost , who can turn her skin into organic diamond; Cyclops' older brother Havok (Alex Summers), who shoots concussive blasts from his hands; airborne Sam Guthrie, or Cannonball ; mutant genius Doug Ramsey, also known as Cypher ; Canadian speedster Jean-Paul Beaubier, or Northstar ; Havok's girlfriend, Lorna Dane,

2304-742: The coming of Apocalypse . "Syndicate" is the name of two mutants, psi-resistant conjoined twins named Luke and Matthew. They try to rob a bank to help their terminally ill sister, but are stopped by Professor X. Realizing their plight, he gives them a chance to redeem themselves by working as his private agents. Created by Brian K. Vaughan and Steve Dillon , they first appeared in Ultimate X-Men #58. The characters have an unusual heart which pumps out electromagnetic pulses with each beat; this disables almost any electrical system. Their interlinked brain matter also makes them immune to telepathic control, although they are still susceptible to mind readings. In

2368-624: The conclusion of Ultimate Invasion and the creation of a brand new Ultimate Universe , a new volume of Ultimate X-Men would launch in March 2024 written and illustrated by Peach Momoko . Ultimate X-Men quickly established itself as a hit comic, lauded by critics and popular with the fans. The following table shows the development of comic sales in comparison to the mainstream titles. Ultimate X-Men introduced revised versions of classic X-Men villains, such as mutant supremacist, would-be world conqueror, and evil genius mastermind Magneto . He heads

2432-528: The fallen X-Men. Months after Ultimatum, Captain America and Hawkeye fought a group of AIM terrorists at the Baxter Building who were stealing the building's valuable and powerful technologies. After defeating a majority of the terrorists, Cap encountered the Red Skull who easily beat him. The Red Skull then shockingly revealed to Rogers that he was his own son before throwing him out of a helicopter, which Cap

2496-464: The fate of Ultimate Captain America, as well as all the rest of the Ultimate Universe's superheroes and villains, or even populists, are left unknown. Like his Earth-616 counterpart, Ultimate Captain America underwent the super soldier procedure which turned him into America's first super soldier. Unlike his Earth 616 counterpart, however, Ultimate Captain America's physical attributes have been augmented to superhuman, rather than peak human, levels. On

2560-431: The final issues of the series were written by Aron Coleite and penciled by Mark Brooks . Ultimate X-Men was met with considerable commercial success, even outselling most of the other X-Men comic titles and received a generally positive response from critics and readers, who praised the art-work by various artists, the writing runs of Millar, Bendis, Vaughan, Kirkman and Coleite, the character development and progression of

2624-563: The human and mutant race, while being mentored by Professor Charles Xavier , The X-Men's founder and a world-renowned expert on genetics and the world's most powerful telepath . The series features many characters and storylines similar to those of the original X-Men series. Ultimate X-Men almost completely ignores supernatural or mystical elements as plot devices, and the X-Men have no secret identities, and mutants are distrusted and hunted down. The series began in 2001 under writer Mark Millar and artists Adam Kubert and Andy Kubert , while

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2688-402: The life of his love, Valkyrie, and traded his own life for Valkyrie and Steve Rogers. Cap then led a team of Ultimates, while Jean Grey led a team of X-Men against Magneto and vowed to not let Thor's sacrifice be in vain. Magneto was defeated and the world began its rebel against mutants. Shortly after defeating Magneto, Captain America, Iron Man, and the military are searching for survivors in

2752-528: The magnekinetic Polaris ; Roberto da Costa, the Brazilian solar-powered Sunspot ; and recently Angel. The Shi'ar are a religious movement, led by "Majestrix Lilandra ". They worship the " Phoenix God ", which they think is reincarnated in the X-Man Marvel Girl (Jean Grey). The Ultimate version of Cable is revealed to be a future version of Wolverine, who kidnaps Charles Xavier in an attempt to prevent

2816-623: The man until he was approximately 20-foot (6.1 m) tall and installed armor plating (and Zola's AI brain) on him with a hologram of Zola projected from the chest. He then took over the "Marauders" and got them to gather people for his experiments. Once they found the Marauder's camp Cap held off the marauders and Zola's new monster Seigsoldat-X while the Falcon freed the Prisoners. Together with the freed prisoners they tore apart Seigsoldat-X until all that remained

2880-410: The now fugitive Hank to a bar and engaged him in combat, emerging victorious. He then takes Janet flowers and other gifts, but she was not amused by his actions and rejected his gifts. Rogers soon discovered that his nemesis, Herr Kleiser, had survived World War II and was an alien soldier. This was why he would always seem to survive, Cap saying that he has killed Kleiser "twice". When Kleiser resurfaced,

2944-423: The ruins of New York City. Captain America finds the maskless Spider-Man in the rubble and digs the latter out. Later while the X-Men dig graves for the fallen, Sabretooth, Mystique, and Assemble arrive, claiming that they have come to pay their respects. However, Jean Grey blames them for the destruction, and a fight ensues. Captain America arrives, decapitating Assemble and stating that he also came to pay respect to

3008-408: The shared universe of Ultimate Marvel , the X-Men have more than once crossed the paths of other superheroes: Peter Parker is a good friend of the X-Men and is Shadowcat's ex-boyfriend. The X-Men share a wary truce with Nick Fury and the Ultimates , who have been both their best benefactors ("New Mutants" arc) and as adversaries ( Ultimate War ) in the past. The Ultimate Fantastic Four have met

3072-468: The surrender of the villagers, a rescue by S.H.I.E.L.D., and some time to recuperate, Steve is seen having a beer with Hawkeye where he tells Hawkeye that he did not know if he would make it out of that jungle alive and it was God that sent him the cobra. Hawkeye intimates that the Devil is not a possibility. Feeling the need to put Frank on the right path and to lead him on the right path, Rogers visits Simpson in

3136-425: The team, relative absence of major villains and was also notorious for killing Beast, who was killed when a Sentinel attacked the White House. This made Beast the first dead Ultimate X-Man. As a side note, Ultimate X-Men #40 features what Marvel claims to be the first marriage proposal in a comic book letters column, which is answered in Ultimate X-Men #44 with a positive response. The third Ultimate X-Men writer

3200-647: The title, but he declined. Marvel hired Scottish writer Mark Millar , who was best known at the time for his run on The Authority and was largely ignorant of the X-Men franchise. With the 2000 X-Men film as his only reference, Millar reinvented the X-Men. As a result, Millar's original X-Men consisted of telepath Professor X, Cyclops, whose eyes shoot concussive beams, telepathic and telekinetic Jean Grey, weather-manipulating Storm, simian genius Beast, metal-skinned Colossus, and cryokinetic Iceman. Millar's roster soon expanded to include teleporting Nightcrawler, intangible Kitty Pryde and power absorbing Rogue. Common to

3264-663: The titular superheroes throughout the series and the unique and interesting twists on conventional X-Men themes and concepts, along with the fresh and distinctively modernized re-imagining of the classic X-Men mythos, while the uneven quality of the writing, the somewhat edgy and unnecessarily adult-oriented tone and direction of the comics and some of the changes and deviations from the original X-Men comics were singled out for criticism. A quasi-sequel/spinoff titled Ultimate Comics: X began in February 2010, but only lasted for 5 issues. The series focused on Wolverine's secret son Jimmy Hudson, Jean Grey, and several other mutants dealing with

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3328-542: The tumors he had could degrade his mind. A white survivalist group called the "Marauders" attacked the military base where Zola's AI was being held and stole this intelligence, along with some other weaponry. Cap was furious at this and immediately went with the Falcon to Missouri to stop the Marauders and Zola. Unknown to Cap, Zola was then able to convince the leader of the "Marauders" to allow Zola to experiment on him. Zola mutated

3392-453: The two resumed their enmity. During the Chitari invasion, Rogers fought Kleiser in combat, but was unable to defeat him due to his regeneration abilities. When the Hulk was dropped into their battle, Captain America convinced the Hulk that Kleiser was "hitting on Betty ", causing the Hulk to mutilate and then eat Kleiser. After the successful battle against the Chitari, Rogers danced with Janet and

3456-479: Was Brian K. Vaughan , best known at the time for his work on Y: The Last Man , and, subsequently, Saga . His run was marked by the relative absence of Wolverine as the main character and the re-imagining of second-string X-Men characters. He introduced Mr. Sinister as a mutant-killing scientist with hypnosis and stealth powers in "The Tempest" (#46–49), German twins Fenris as mutant corporate criminals in "Cry Wolf" (#50–53), as well as Mojo and Longshot as

3520-579: Was heavily damaged and that these injuries caused his muteness, he pressed Fury for more information. Fury lied about the origin of T'Challa's scars, and about T'Challa's history with the Weapon X Program, while also telling him that everything about the "Black Panther" was classified. Captain America eventually established a means of communicating with T'Challa and learned of the man's desire to return to Wakanda to see his father. Since no one but Cap had ever seen T'Challa's true face, he decided to take his place in

3584-451: Was noted for adapting several major storyarcs from the regular X-Men series. These included Jean Grey's transformation into Phoenix, the arrival of Cable and Bishop, and the appearance of Apocalypse. Kirkman reintroduced Wolverine as an important character, and played with issues of team loyalty. Under his authorship, major characters such as Nightcrawler and Colossus left the team. His tenure also featured Cyclops' decision to turn Xavier's into

3648-541: Was overjoyed about serving his country and amassed a high enemy casualty count. But then the psychological pressure began to wear down on him and after an operation for the Phoenix Program he simply disappeared. Rogers, sensing that Carol told him this in order for him to make it look like he went AWOL, subdued Danvers and left to hunt down Frank Simpson. Once in Vietnam, Rogers's search for Simpson results in being told about

3712-453: Was released and concluded the series' story. A new series, Ultimate Comics: X , debuted in early 2010 and featured Kitty Pryde, Wolverine's son, Jimmy Hudson and Jean Grey. Ultimate X-Men was then relaunched as Ultimate Comics: X-Men with writer Nick Spencer and artist Paco Medina . The series stars Jimmy Hudson, Kitty Pryde, Johnny Storm, Bobby Drake and Rogue. In October 2023 at New York Comic Con Marvel revealed that, following

3776-419: Was removed by Quicksilver . From then on the Ultimates became involved in foreign affairs wherein America attempted to control Third World countries' nuclear resources. The Ultimates' actions led to Third World countries forming their own superhuman team, dubbed " the Liberators ". Captain America was framed by Black Widow for the assassination of Hawkeye 's family and was hastily subdued and arrested when he

3840-637: Was safe with S.H.I.E.L.D. Captain America then fought the Goblin landing several hits while not being hit once. The Ultimates and Spider-Man defeat the five villains and they are taken back into custody. Cap and the Ultimates were later under fire from the press and public due to the belief that Thor had revealed that Bruce Banner was indeed the Hulk. In a meeting with Thor, Thor brought up the fact that Captain America killed many people and still goes to church, saying that he's confused with his morals. The Ultimates fought Thor and eventually captured him when his power belt

3904-540: Was saved by Hawkeye. After learning that the Red Skull's words to him were true and that his mother is Gail Richards, Captain America decided to personally confront his son, in which he abandoned the Ultimates and attacked S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in the process. Rogers later infiltrate the Army's computer database and discovered the truth of the Red Skull. Sometime later Captain America was in Paris, France for his own reasons. Rogers created

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3968-614: Was selected for USA operations during the Vietnam War. The "1960s Captain America" ( Frank Simpson ) has returned and is not pleased with the return of the World War II Cap and seeks to make himself the only active Cap. Rather than kill Rogers, Simpson instead beats him to the point of collapse. Steve wakes up two days later in the French hospital where he is given a briefing by SHIELD Director Danvers about Simpson. Frank Simpson's background

4032-629: Was the Arnim Zola AI whereupon, Captain America collapsed a support strut onto the Zola AI, finally bringing an end to the Nazi. Before the events of the Liberators' attack, Steve befriended T'Challa , the Black Panther, and trained him in preparation for making him a member of the Ultimates. As the team's deputy leader, Rogers was uncomfortable with the notion of working with a man that he knew so little about. After Steve alarmingly discovered that T'Challa's throat

4096-647: Was visiting Bucky for consolation after his relationship with Janet ended bitterly for him. He was imprisoned in the Triskelion. When the Liberators attacked the United States, he was freed by the Wasp and defeated multiple copies of the Schizoid Man rather than killing him while escaping the prison. He and the Wasp soon reached the White House where they met with Hawkeye, Nick Fury , the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Captain America dueled with his Liberators counterpart, The Colonel , and emerged victorious after stabbing

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