4th Of July 2018

Captain America and Wonder Woman 2018

Character Study: What does Captain America Bring to the Team?

Besides proving himself one of the best soldiers the United States and their Allies had in the second great war, Steve Rodgers, aka Captain America, has become the anchor to the greatest team of super-powered Avengers in the Marvel Universe. In present day lore, he is considered to be a founding member of the Avengers (despite originally written as being thawed out by an already assembled Avengers in the 1960s). Despite that, let's look at what Captain America could possibly bring to an Avengers team.

I'm not a sociologist, but I'll give it a try.

Since being branded in the movie universe as the first hero, he instantly has the developed credibility of veteran experience. He's been there and done that! He's even been a part of another eclectic team, according to movie and comic book lore, during world war 2. The Howling Commandos, though not having any super powers, were a mush-mash soldier team put together by situation and necessity. The movies don't reveal much of the camaraderie between Steve Rogers and the rest of the Howling Commando unit, but it's not too much of a stretch to learn to discern each diverse personality.

Steve is a gentleman. He isn't boastful of himself or take any kind of pride in the battles he's won. As stated in the 2011 movie, he "don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from."

He has also an endless supply of indomitable willpower. So much of it that it's often inspiring others around him.

Steve's personality has always been one that held the Avengers in check. His old-fashioned demeanor and perspective keeps the Avengers from flying around half-cocked or worse by unprepared impulses. His keen strategical foresight that makes him a battlefield leader.

Steve has also the benefits of support. His shield and super-athleticism makes him the perfect companion in battle. He often cares so much about defending other innocents and teammates so much to the detriment of his own well-being. In the most drastic of occasions, this part of Steve's personality could be a liability to the Avengers.

Captain America has in the Marvel universe some of the most compelling and just as charismatic rouges gallery. His arch-rival the Red Skull represents pure evil as a nazi or Crossbones as a neo-fascist mercenary.

Modes of transportation! He can ride a Triumph motorcycle in battle. I bet he's even spent time in the motorpool during the war. He could probably be a good mechanic if needed.

No matter what he does, Captain America will always be an integral and intangible part to the Avengers.

(If I have forgotten anything please leave a comment in the appropriate spaces.) 

Character Profile: Captain America

The dynamic of Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America, as an icon is that his greatest strength didn't come from 1940's science fiction. Even before Steve Rogers was a soldier just looking for a way in to the American military, he had the heart and the idealism of a true hero. He recognized that he had the responsibility to correct the wrongs happening in his time, but understood that he also had to recognize that his powers of strength, stamina, and skill is tempered with humility and service.

Steve's nobility is what makes him likable.

Through Captain America's origins, we are treated to an allegory of a man who's idealism is thrust forward into a future that can be seen as obsolete and almost extinct. He is revered as a hero to his fellow soldiers, but to his teammates in present day, he's unable to connect or relate to those around him because they didn't grow up in his generation.

Captain America can get incredibly lonely.

In literature, Steve Rogers is a man who had unrequited love that got delayed with his interment in Arctic ice. It was his love for his country that his decision to make what he believed his final act of self-sacrifice cost him more than just his own needs. Peggy Carter was kept waiting. Captain America now lives on knowing that his decision to protect the people he loves has also denied him his own true love.

Many super heroes use guns, swords, or other weapons at their disposal. But despite Captain America's origins based on military tactics in wartime, readers rarely see him posed with a gun. His main weapon of choice is a red, white, and blue shield. It's a defensive weapon. A reader might conclude that his role as a patriot representing American idealism, he's not a conquer or an invader, but a defender.

In the Marvel comics story arc titled Streets of Poison published in 1994, Steve gets accidentally exposed to a designer drug that wreaks havoc on his super soldier serum. During the story, Captain encounters young teens and preaches to them about the dangers of drugs. But instead of the teens meeting him with eventual co-operation and comprehension, Captain America is countered with the teens discord claiming that Captain was a hypocrite because it took drugs to make him big and strong. In a way, the teens were right and Cap didn't have a comeback on hand.

Everything that the Captain America in 1940's once stood for is now flipped in the opposite direction. This dichotomy only fuels his loneliness further. A man who's sole existence is to represent a country no longer has a country to call home.

Captain America continues his mission as a soldier. That's all he can do. It's all he knows how to do. But for his alter-ego Steve Rogers, he just knows that the measure of a man is by the size of his heart and by the choices he makes.

Patriotic Pairing: The Super-Powered Couple as It Should Be

It was a long time ago that I was first inspired by the possibilities to create a story script based on my favorite YouTube channel. He was mixing and matching the Marvel and DC universe and formed one of the greatest pairings in Harley Quinn and Green Goblin. It inspired me to start writing again on my own and hopefully become just as good as that person.
Thus became the unpublished spin-off series that developed in my imagination and daydreams. I researched my pairing in popular fan-fiction websites as well as Google searching to see if anyone else in the fan fiction writing community had similar inspiration. I only saw a few mash up pictures, a YouTube video that mashed up the Lynda Carter and Matt Salinger roles, and quite a number of cosplay pictures. This unique pairing would only have to come from the fan fiction community - as both characters are owned by rival publishing companies.
Captain America and Wonder Woman.
I've studied relationships for a very long time and have arrived through my own thesis have come to several observations on the dynamics of real functioning relationships. Granted that this blog is about a proposed fictional fantasy relationship, it still needs to function under the same guidelines as real-world relationships.
There are several aspects of this featured relationship that I think could make Captain America and Wonder Woman successful fictional exploration.

1. Opposites attract. It's good for some couples to have similar world views and perspectives, but for other people, finding a mate in which traits and personalities conflict, can be an attractive connection that completes two people - making them whole. This is not to be confused with co-dependency. Offering a different context helps many couples.
2. Physical attractiveness. There is not an exact science to what chemicals in the human brain or body causes people to be attractive. But it is a key ingredient to any relationship.
3. Common goals/directives. Failed relationships find that peoples lives grow apart from one another. So, it is wise that long-term monogamous relationships function on the belief that the couple aims for similar aspirational achievements.
4. Shared Experiences and Teamwork. Couples need to grow together in harmony along with their own individual growth. A great way to grow as a couple, people must share the "workload" and exemplify a teamwork strategy of partnership.

Captain America and Wonder Woman are two fictional characters who have survived over time in popular culture. Their origins were born into a 1940s era who needed beacons of hope for humanity's potential for greatness. Within that same greatness each respective characters fictional exploits lies the drive and determination of the human spirit. They exist to understand and explore our own needs for wish-fulfillment and to study the complexities of raw human existence.