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66-824: The character first appeared as Marvel Boy in Captain America #217 (Jan. 1978). He continued to make guest appearances in Captain America , The Incredible Hulk , Marvel Two-in-One , and The Avengers . He was revamped as Quasar by Mark Gruenwald , and first appeared under this new name in The Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #234 (April 1979). Quasar received an eponymous series in October 1989, written by Mark Gruenwald and illustrated by Paul Ryan and Danny Bulanadi. The title crossed over with Infinity Gauntlet , Operation: Galactic Storm , and The Infinity War . Later,

132-493: A 96 ml/kg/min. Another man, Dean Karnazes ran 50 marathons in 50 days in all 50 states in the United States in 2006. On February 4, 2015 actor and power lifter Hafthor Bjornsson broke a 1000-year-old record by carrying a 650 kilogram (1,433 pound) log on his back for 5 steps. Outside of athletics, many people have performed superhuman feats. The Blue Angels flight acrobatics team regularly pulls maneuvers equal to 4–6 times

198-502: A correlation between the actions of man, and the patterns of the earth, in which this unity established with God, nature and man can allow for super human feats to become possible. The Nietzschean notion of bettering one's self as an individual was expanded within the philosophy of Nazism to apply to whole groups and nations. Nazi racialist thinkers proposed perfecting the Aryan race through controlled breeding and coercive eugenics (including

264-818: A failed war with the Elder God Set and the deaths of every hero on Earth save the Silver Surfer, Quasar is merged with Captain Universe to form a super-being capable of capturing and defeating Set. Using the Eye of Agamotto, Quasar traps himself and Set within its pocket dimension. Once, during a trip through alternate realities, the Earth-616 version of Quasar viewed his Captain Universe-enhanced counterpart and Set battling each other. Tricked by Eon's evil "child" Era, Quasar jumps to

330-615: A form of achieving superhuman capabilities is a well known concept in fiction, such as films like Limitless and the Marvel Comics character Nuke , in real life the current substances that are known and available do not produce such fantastical abilities. The results from some of these drugs are minimal, and often short term. However, they can still produce detrimental side effects , including many adverse psychological effects. SARMS and DMAA are safer forms to enhance physical performance. Other forms of enhancement include strengthening

396-431: A meaning to life greater than one person, and positively influencing the lives of others with an overarching goal of humanity. These goals help one overcome life's feeling of meaninglessness. In transhumanism and futurology , superhuman abilities are the technological aim either of human enhancement by genetic modification or cybernetic implants or of future superhuman artificial intelligence . Human enhancement

462-478: A recurring role in Nova vol 4 beginning with issue #17, as the writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (known collectively as DnA) thought he was too useful a character to stay dead: the writers felt Vaughn's unique powers, never say die attitude, and everyman perspective made him too good of a character to stay dead. "His return was always on the cards because of his power set," DnA told CBR News. "We were just waiting for

528-460: A scientist in the alternate timeline. There is no indication that he possesses the quantum bands in this universe. Quasar is briefly mentioned as having gone insane in Last Avengers Story #1, but does not appear. In Marvel Zombies: Dead Days #1, Quasar is one of the heroes attending the briefing given by Nick Fury about defending their world from the zombie plague. A zombified Quasar

594-562: A sentient nexus of energy and is killed. He ends up in the 'White Room', where all Quantum Band wielders go after death. Eon is entrapped with him, in the form of a centerpiece on the Room's table. Her, now called Kismet , teams up with the long-lost son she had with Quasar, Starhawk . They visit Quasar's grave and learn what Era has done. With the aid of the Hawk-God Starhawk worships, the two vow to stop Era. Wendell Vaughn briefly appears as

660-404: A specific task. Examples of where computers have achieved superhuman performance include Backgammon , Bridge , Chess , Reversi , Scrabble , Go and Jeopardy! . It is suggested that there is a relationship between the fall of a society and the perfection of mankind. Many economic, social and environmental factors, which all contribute to the sustainability of a society, are built upon

726-665: A stargate being used by the Shi'ar during the Kree-Shi'ar War threatens to destroy Earth's sun, Quasar is able to undo the damage with the help of Binary . During the 1992 storyline " Infinity War ", Quasar travels to the Dimension of Manifestations to gather intelligence. With the aid of the Contemplator , he discovers the cosmic being Eternity in a catatonic state. He leaves the dimension to join with his fellow superheroes. Quasar attempts to use

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792-436: A successful human one would focus on the realities of our world, rather than the beyond world, or afterlife. Nietzsche explores the idea of a superhuman in his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra , in which he discusses the reality of humans existing as just that, and their potential to be more, through risks taken to advance humanity. This belief focuses not on a man who is bettering oneself but instead establishes values which create

858-589: A team of cosmic heroes with the Silver Surfer and Beta Ray Bill . He also appeared in the Avengers: Infinity miniseries, Maximum Security (2000), and Fantastic Four #521-524 (2006). Quasar appeared and died in the four-issue mini-series Annihilation : Nova (June-Sept. 2006). He appeared as a spirit in Annihilation: Conquest : Quasar #1-4 (Sept.-Dec. 2007), by writer Christos Gage and penciller Mike Lilly . An astral form of Quasar had

924-475: A young S.H.I.E.L.D. agent named Avril Kincaid and agrees to mentor her so she can become the next Quasar. Wendell Vaughn is an athletic man with no inherent superhuman powers. He received extensive training in hand-to-hand combat, and moderate experience in the same. He is an expert in all basic espionage skills, as a S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy graduate. While he possessed the power of the Star Brand , Quasar gained

990-519: Is a comic book title featuring the character Captain America and published by Marvel Comics . The original Captain America comic book series debuted in 1968. Atlas Comics published the short-lived title Captain America #76–78 from May 1954 to September 1954. Atlas came to adopt the name Marvel Comics in 1961. During the Marvel era, Captain America was starring in the title Tales of Suspense , which

1056-539: Is a movement of art by the people, for the people, and about the people. It is about tolerance and human understanding. Initially, a superhumanist work will move you to feel—to laugh, to cry, to shudder, to be overwhelmed with compassion. They do not include any aesthetic gesture to distract from the vivid nature of the image. A superhumanist work will take a down to earth subject, and use original technical means to exaggerate it, achieving an over-the-top impact of its humanist theme". Treadwell used this art movement to emphasize

1122-399: Is an attempt to temporarily or permanently overcome the current limitations of the human body through natural or artificial means. Human enhancement may be through the use of technological means to select or alter human characteristics and capacities, whether or not the alteration results in characteristics and capacities that lie beyond the existing human range. Some bioethicists restrict

1188-567: Is featured in the 2009 limited series Marvel Zombies Return , part of a super-powered zombie force including the Super-Skrull , Namor , Moon Knight , and Thundra . The group destroys many of the somewhat heroic zombies featured in Marvel Zombies 2 . Quasar murders his reality's human Kitty Pryde , holding her underwater until she is forced to turn solid, upon which it is implied that Namor eats her. Quasar and his zombie cohorts are killed at

1254-729: The Dire Wraiths and brings an end to the generations long war between the two worlds. The Annihilators learn of an attempt to revive the Magus by the Universal Church of Truth , and they prevent his resurrection with the aid of the Avengers. Quasar and the other Annihilators later confront Thanos and Adam Warlock while the two are on a cosmic crusade, and are defeated. During the Avengers: Standoff! storyline, Vaughn begins to lose control of

1320-732: The Falcon , and Hulk , he battles Moonstone and the Corporation . Later, as security chief of Project: Pegasus , he battles the original Deathlok , Nuklo , the Grapplers , and the Nth Man when they attack the facility. Quasar later journeys with the Thing into an alternate reality. His mind is temporarily taken over by the Serpent Crown . Quasar journeys to Uranus , where the original Marvel Boy had received

1386-677: The New Universe 's Star Brand was introduced into the Marvel Universe. Its presence precipitated into the " Starblast " storyline, which was intended to stir up interest in Quasar's solo series or a prospective cosmic team series starring Quasar, but it failed to do so. Quasar was cancelled at issue #60. He would appear sporadically over the next several years. The character appeared in the 1996 Star Masters miniseries (as well as Cosmic Powers Unlimited & Silver Surfer vol 3 #123) as part of

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1452-777: The cloud of the future greatly expanded Internet through brain–computer interfacing ) by gradually replacing their biological cells with new cells having a more efficient cellular energy processing system that will be based on nanobots manufactured using nanotechnology . These nanobot based cells will enable those who possess these initially quasi android bodies ("Human body 2.0") to have much greater physical endurance as if they were permanently on steroids , and many Olympic records will be routinely broken. The five senses will be enhanced first by genetic enhancement and then by additional brain–computer interfacing. By about 2040, most humans will have become fully android ("Human body 3.0"). Finally, predicts Kurzweil, by 2045, because of

1518-542: The murder of those deemed unfit ) as a way of improving their racial stock and purifying their society. They intended to create a herrenvolk (race of masters) wherein the Germanic " Übermenschen " would rule over so-called inferior " untermenschen " such as Slavs and West Asians. The Neo-Nazi David Myatt advocated in the early 1990s that after the Western Imperium , a proposed future autocratic state governing all

1584-445: The plants and animals in their natural ecosystems ) on large fleets of interplanetary spaceships that will rocket outward into the solar system and convert all the matter they encounter into megacomputers made of computronium (such as Jupiter Brains ) in order to continually expand the computer capacity of the solar system and thus create ever more realistic virtual reality and solve ever more complex computer problems . Once

1650-408: The "Singularity", the worldwide supercomputer will deploy other humanoid androids and robots in the meat world . A space navy of these androids and robots will radiate outward from Earth (by now itself a gigantic worldwide supercomputer , except for extensive areas of the surface of Earth set up as nature reserves for those humans who wanted to remain in their natural state as well as to preserve

1716-523: The 1940s series Captain America Comics (1941–1949, 1954) and Captain America's Weird Tales (1949–1950). This series was almost immediately followed by the 13-issue Captain America vol. 2 (Nov. 1996 – Nov. 1997, part of the " Heroes Reborn " crossover), the 50-issue Captain America vol. 3 (Jan. 1998 – Feb. 2002), the 32-issue Captain America vol. 4 (June 2002 – Dec. 2004), and Captain America vol. 5 (Jan. 2005 – Aug. 2011). Beginning with

1782-478: The 2009 " War of Kings " storyline. During the trip, he regains physical form and discovers an alternate universe planning to invade his universe. Trying to return to his reality, Quasar encounters an Imperial Guard exploration ship. Quasar joins Nova's team to resist the invasion. In an effort to prevent further galactic catastrophes, Quasar joins the Annihilators . The team protects Galador from an invasion of

1848-477: The 600th overall issue (Aug. 2009), Captain America resumed its original numbering, as if the series numbering had continued uninterrupted after #454. As part of the aftermath of Marvel Comics' company-crossover storyline " Civil War ", Steve Rogers was ostensibly killed in Captain America vol. 5, #25 (March 2007). Series writer Ed Brubaker remarked, "What I found is that all the really hard-core left-wing fans want Cap to be standing out on and giving speeches on

1914-827: The Infinity War. He saves the Living Tribunal from power-hungry Deviant Ereshkigal and stops Skeletron and The Black Fleet from acquiring the Star Brand for themselves. When the Presence threatens to kill his loved ones, Quasar fakes his death and leaves Earth. Quasar helps defend the universe from aliens called Infinites. When Earth is threatened by Ego the Living Planet , Quasar absorbs Ego's essence and exiles himself into space, for fear of Ego expanding to planet-size. Quasar helps to operate an Avengers deep-space sensing station with

1980-518: The Quantum Bands and willingly allows his memories and appearance to be altered by Kobik in Pleasant Hill, a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. prison disguised as a gated community run by Maria Hill , who poses as its mayor . During this time, he works as the curator of the Pleasant Hill museum. When Wendell's memories are restored during Baron Helmut Zemo 's prison revolt, he bequeaths the Quantum Bands to

2046-673: The Quantum Zone. He also battles Deathurge . After returning to Earth, he resumes his role as a superhero and assists the Avengers in battle against Super-Nova. He is inducted into the Avengers shortly after. Quasar meets Uatu the Watcher . He encounters the Stranger , and solves the Watcher's "Oblivion Plague". After a falling-out with both his estranged father and Eon, he quits his role as Protector of

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2112-493: The Universe. During this time Maelstrom , the "Cosmic Assassin", kills both Quasar and Eon. However, Quasar is recreated in an energy form by the cosmic being Infinity and battles Maelstrom and Oblivion . Quasar saves the universe from collapse. Maelstrom is destroyed by the Quantum-bands and Quasar resurrects himself. Quasar fights Thanos at Eon's funeral. Eon is reincarnated in the form of its newborn offspring Epoch . When

2178-420: The abilities of flight, superhuman strength and resilience. He also was able to regenerate his entire body from minute remains and did not need to eat, drink or breathe. However, virtually all of the energy derived from the Star Brand was depleted not long after he gave it away. The Living Tribunal later stated that Quasar's body retains only an insignificant trace amount of energy. Quasar also briefly possessed

2244-614: The areas inhabited by the Aryan race , is established, and the birth rate of the Aryan race is brought up from its present level of about 1.6 to a replacement rate of 2.1, that then a new super-race called Homo Galactica should be created by genetic engineering from the most perfect Aryans, which by then will have themselves been improved through genetic enhancement . This new super race would be genetically engineered to have super brains, super senses, and more delicate hands to be able to travel in starships , which would be sent out to colonize

2310-515: The bands. The bands' true nature and origins are revealed to him by the cosmic entity called Eon . Eon explains the bands were intended to be worn by his agent, the Protector of the Universe (previously the late Captain Mar-Vell ). Quasar is offered the role and accepts. As a result, his mind is opened to the true extent of the bands' power, including how to use the bands to teleport via a dimension called

2376-611: The best opportunity to fit it in as an organic part of the story. The Secret Invasion tie-in, and the return of Project Pegasus in particular, gave us that opportunity. The character regained a physical form in the Realm of Kings one-shot (2009) and played a role in The Thanos Imperative (2010). Quasar assumed the leadership role of the titular team in Annihilators #1-4 (2011) and Annihilators: Earthfall (2011). Wendell Vaughn

2442-725: The characters from the X-Men franchise and cyborgs such as those found in the Ghost in the Shell franchise. In 2005, the inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that over a 40-year period between 2005 and 2045, most human beings will gradually evolve into a super race of immortal cyborgs called Transhumans with super-bodies and super-brains (the super brains of the humanoid androids will have greater capacity not only in and of themselves, but also because they will be able to function more efficiently by storing some of their mental capacity in

2508-426: The connection between mundane nature of humans, and the superior characteristics that exist in that simplicity. Stan Lee's Superhumans was a television show devoted to finding people around the world who exhibit abilities that exceed normal human capabilities. Daniel Browning Smith , the most flexible man in the world, is an example of a superhuman who travels the world finding physical and mental feats that expand

2574-475: The deceased Crusader . A test pilot selected to wear the bands proves spectacularly successful at wielding them, but he perishes when the energy output reaches a critical mass beyond his control. Vaughn dons the bands when the criminal scientists A.I.M. launch a full-scale assault on the facility. Using the bands' power to generate solid energy constructs, he repulses the attack. When the energy buildup begins to overwhelm him, he decides to simply relax and "go with

2640-776: The end of the series. In the Ultimate Marvel universe, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Wendell Vaughn is the head of security for the top secret Project Pegasus in Devil's Point, Wyoming. He first appears in Ultimate Power #1, when Project Pegasus is attacked by the Serpent Squad until stopped by the Fantastic Four . Quasar appears as a playable character in Lego Marvel's Avengers . Captain America (comic book) Captain America

2706-482: The entire Milky Way Galaxy with the descendants of Aryans. Many acts performed by elite athletes are seen as superhuman. Elite athletes perform at a level that is perceived as unattainable by normal standards of performance. These are the result of a mixture of performance enhancing drugs, genetics, physical training, and mental conditioning. For example, the highest VO2 max test results ever recorded were from Norwegian cross-country skier, Bjorn Daehlie , who scored

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2772-424: The entire Milky Way Galaxy. When these nanobots arrive in a planetary system , the nanobots will be programmed with software to begin converting some of the matter they encounter into more androids and robots. While in the process of doing so, they will continue converting all other matter they encounter not being used to create additional androids and robots into more megacomputers—the androids and robots created by

2838-505: The flow". To his surprise, the buildup abruptly dissipates. Vaughn realizes the key to wielding the bands is a flexible will, rather than an indomitable, uncompromising one. Ultimately, his lack of a killer instinct makes him a more suitable wielder of the bands. Wendell Vaughn becomes a superhero, using the codename Marvel Boy in his first appearance alongside S.H.I.E.L.D.'s superhuman Super-Agents. He later becomes Marvel Man , and finally settles on Quasar. Alongside Captain America ,

2904-718: The force of gravity (g), with some turns as high as 8g. One man, Greg Poe, is a pilot who was able withstand turns of 12g. There are also many stories of people lifting extremely heavy objects under extreme stress, known as hysterical strength . These situations are created when abnormal tasks are completed due to the brain's heightened need for achievement. One modern day method of achieving above average abilities include performance-enhancing drugs ; these include substances such as painkillers , blood boosters , stimulants , and anabolic steroids , but can also encompass substances that are not fully recognized as enhancers such as caffeine , protein supplements, and vitamins . While drugs as

2970-429: The high levels of advancements being achieved hence correlating with a need for power, eventually leading to an ultimate state of anarchy. As a major defining factor of the superhumanism philosophy, humans are expected to possess traits that are considered to be those of high moral grounds, dignity and intrinsic values. Many people who believe in superhumanism value the importance of independent responsibility in making

3036-503: The material properties of bone by integrating it with titanium foam. More studies are needed to assess the long term effects of these emerging technologies. Technology can also be used to improve on human sensory and communication abilities as has been shown through experimentation with nervous system implants. In this way humans can take on senses such as ultrasonics for an accurate indication of distance and communicate much more directly between brains. Speculation about human nature and

3102-416: The matter of the solar system has been mostly converted to computer substrate, forming a Matrioshka brain , according to Kurzweil, by about the beginning of the 22nd century, life will then expand outward into interstellar space in all directions, deploying miniature starships (to save on expensive anti matter starship fuel) that will be Von Neumann probes crewed by swarms of nanobots , to colonize

3168-500: The nanobots will build interplanetary spaceships to fan out into the planetary system and themselves help get this job done. Some of the androids and robots will then settle down in the meat world as immortal colonists on the surfaces of the Matrioshka brains thus constructed (regularly making backup copies of the contents of their brains so they can be reconstructed if they are killed in an accident), while others will upload themselves into

3234-464: The near-omnipotent Ultimate Nullifier against the god-like villain Magus , but Magus uses the Infinity Gauntlet to turn the weapon against Quasar, wiping him from existence. He is briefly replaced by a supervillain who claims his Quantum Bands for himself but Quasar is able to resurrect himself through means of the Star Brand , which he had acquired during a trip to the New Universe prior to

3300-508: The need for a solution to a problem. Superhumanism requires the ability to overcome these problems, either through physical, mental or emotional triumphs of purity and self-actualization. Through the elimination of these problems, many economies and social structures would be collapsed. Also, through advancement in areas such as Transhumanism , some believe that people humans will advance to a point of education and readiness that war will break out between one another, or tyrannies will reign, due to

3366-717: The new Captain America in vol. 5, #34 (March 2008). As of 2007, an estimated 210 million copies of "Captain America" comic books had been sold in 75 countries. The storyline of Rogers' return began in issue #600. Marvel stated in May 2011 that Rogers, following the public death of Bucky Barnes in the " Fear Itself " crossover, would resume his Captain America identity in a sixth volume of Captain America , by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Steve McNiven . The Captain America title continued from issue #620 featuring team up stories with Bucky (#620-#628), Hawkeye (#629-#632), Iron Man (#633–635), Namor (#635.1), and Black Widow (#636-#640), and

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3432-520: The operation of Moore's law , supercomputers linked together by the Internet will have developed enough memory capacity such that most of the now mostly android human race (except those who do not want to) will be able to upload themselves into the worldwide Internet supercomputer of 2045 and live forever after in virtual reality —an event he calls the Singularity . Kurzweil predicts that soon after

3498-533: The possibilities of both human enhancement and future human evolution have made superhumans a popular subject of science fiction . Superhuman abilities are also associated with superhero fiction . In 1979, the British artist Nicholas Treadwell wrote a book entitled Superhumanism , followed by Superhumanism 2 in 1982. Treadwell defined his movement as "the first people's art movement—a movement, first and foremost, inspired by life, as opposed to inspired by art. It

3564-616: The process of human evolution . Throughout history, the discussion of superhuman traits and the idea of the ideal human in physical, mental, or spiritual form has influenced politics, policy, philosophy, science and various social movements, as well as featuring prominently in culture. Groups advocating the deliberate pursuit of superhuman qualities for philosophical, political, or moral reasons are sometimes referred to as superhumanist . Modern depictions of this have evolved and are shown in superhero fiction or through technologically aided people or cyborgs . The Übermensch or "Superman"

3630-492: The realm of what humans can do. Human Body: Pushing the Limits is a Discovery Channel show that explains what happens to people's strength, sight, brainpower, and sensing abilities when placed under extreme stress. These circumstances can lead to short-term superhuman abilities, which allow people to excel in advanced, or impossible tasks. How to Be Superhuman is a podcast series by Red Bull about people who have gone close to

3696-446: The same powers of cosmic awareness that Eon granted to Kree soldier Mar-Vell (later known as the original Captain Marvel ). By simply concentrating for a moment, he could gain complete knowledge about virtually anything in the universe. While Quasar's powers are quite powerful and diverse, since he doesn't make it a habit of using all of his power to destroy his opponent, it is important to note his standard operating procedure: After

3762-462: The street corner against the George W. Bush administration, and all the really right-wing fans all want him to be over in the streets of Baghdad, punching out Saddam Hussein ." The character's co-creator, Joe Simon , said, "It's a hell of a time for him to go. We really need him now." Artist Alex Ross designed a slightly revised Captain America costume that former sidekick Bucky Barnes began to wear as

3828-545: The support of Living Lightning and Monica Rambeau , and then becomes involved in Kang's War. He later assists the Fantastic Four in a battle with Galactus . When the Annihilation Wave strikes, Quasar and Nova try to stop it. Quasar is killed by Annihilus . Wendell is restored to life in a Quantum Energy form thanks to the scientists of Project Pegasus . Wendell volunteers to scout the rip in spacetime that occurs during

3894-418: The term to the non-therapeutic application of specific technologies — neuro- , cyber- , gene- and nano-technologies —to human biology . According to transhumanist thinkers, a posthuman is a hypothetical future being "whose basic capacities so radically exceed those of present humans as to be no longer unambiguously human by our current standards." Fictionalized accounts of transhumanism include

3960-600: The title by writer Steve Englehart and artist Sal Buscema saw the series become one of Marvel's top-sellers. In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Englehart and Buscema's run on Captain America fourth on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels". Kirby returned to the series as writer and penciler with issue #193 (Jan. 1975) and remained through #214 (Oct. 1977). This series – considered Captain America volume one by comics researchers and historians – ended with #454 (Aug. 1996). Captain America Vol. 1 should not be confused with

4026-631: The title ended its print run with issue #640. Superhuman The term superhuman refers to humans, humanoids or other beings with qualities and abilities that exceed those naturally found in humans . These qualities may be acquired through natural ability, self-actualization or technological aids. The related concept of a super race refers to an entire category of beings with the same or varying superhuman characteristics, created from present-day human beings by deploying various means such as eugenics , euthenics , genetic engineering , nanotechnology , and/or brain–computer interfacing to accelerate

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4092-671: The virtual reality based on these Matrioshka brains, keeping their bodies in cryonic storage . Eventually, the entire Galaxy, then the Local group , then the Virgo Supercluster , then the Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex and ultimately the entire Universe will be turned into a gigantic megacomputer. Superhuman is one of the stages in classification of progress in artificial intelligence where an entity of artificial intelligence performs better than most humans do in

4158-415: The world a better, and more moral place. This often means being in, or establishing some sort of spirituality which allows one to follow guidelines and grounds of a moral structure, and achieve a certain level of clarity and purity in their self and their path to righteousness and betterment. Superhumanism is often referred to as a combination between religion and philosophy, which suggests that there should be

4224-468: Was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin . He graduated from S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy. Although considered highly capable by his superiors, they nonetheless deem him unfit for field work, sensing that Vaughn lacked the necessary "killer instinct"—the will to win at all costs. His first assignment is security detail for a research facility where a team of scientists were performing experiments on the Quantum Bands taken from

4290-405: Was postulated in the later writings of Friedrich Nietzsche as a type of supreme, ultra- aristocratic achievement which becomes possible in the transcendence of modernity, morals or nihilism. Nietzsche believed in creating the perfect human, or at least a definition of one, and achieving this perfection through the enhancement of individual and cultural health, creativity, and power, and that to be

4356-481: Was retitled Captain America with issue #100 (April 1968). The new title Captain America continued to feature artwork by Jack Kirby , as well as a short run by Jim Steranko , and work by many of the industry's top artists and writers. It was called Captain America and the Falcon from #134 (Feb. 1971) to #222 (June 1978), although the Falcon's name was not on the cover for issues #193, 200, and 216. The 1972–1975 run on

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