Editing Marvel Comics (section)

===Captain America===
Rejected from normal military service for being too scrawny, all-American patriot and scholar Steve Rogers instead decides to serve his country by volunteering as test subject for an experimental super soldier formula. The formula works, transforming Steve into the "peak human" Captain America, but a spy kills the formula's creator and destroys the lab, causing the formula to be forever lost. Gets a shield made of super metal capable of reflecting stuff, which he can throw as a weapon with uncanny ability. He spends a few years fighting spies and criminals and after Pearl Harbor, he leads America's superpowered forces during World War II.  His true, idealistic, belief in American values contrasts his commander-in-chief's views that the Constitution was "marvelously elastic", to the point of believing it was OK to suppress exonerating evidence in order implement crimes against humanity on American citizens.

Near the end of the war, Captain America was lost and frozen in an iceberg, surviving thanks to being a super soldier. He is recovered near the start of the modern age (whenever that currently is) and revived, where he's living anachronism in a world that has largely moved past his values, but he's still the best leader of supermen in the world (if not beyond). Presumably sterile, since clones have his powers yet he's never had his sperm harvested to created peak human superbabies.

Somewhat infamous for having one of the widest rogues galleries of any Marvel character; he's tangled with a ''lot'' of foes and many of them are actually borrowed from other superheroes. There are multiple themes in his gallery, but few of his individual rogues have really caught on with the public. The most notable ones tend to be either super-powered Nazis/Neo-Nazis/terrorists or evil knock-offs of Cap himself. The latter category includes Nuke (insane drug-addicted cyborg created as a Captain America for the Vietnam War), and William Burnside, a right-wing intellectual who tried to fill Cap's shoes and bash commies during the 50s, but went mad from a bad reaction to the failed super-serum, which combined with culture shock has caused him to become a super-terrorist. It would later be <s>retconned</s> revealed that the good Captain was the first result of what was called the Weapon Plus program, essentially [[Adeptus Astartes|a conspiracy to create super soldiers]], and Cap was <s>retroactively</s> designated as Weapon I. While the project has resulted in the creation of supervillains (including the knock-off Captains above), it also created its own fair share of superheroes, particularly a gruff, Canadian berserker on the project's 10th iteration...

====James "Bucky" Barnes====
Captain America's old sidekick during WWII. He was believed to have died in an explosion, and for a while he was considered one of the only comic book characters that wouldn't be brought back to life, alongside Jason Todd. 

Of course, this was until they undid this by revealing that he barely survived with a missing arm and brain damage. The Soviets found him, gave him a cybernetic arm and brainwashed him into being an assassin called the Winter Soldier, cryogenically freezing him and periodically thawing him for missions. He eventually reunited with Steve and his brainwashing was undone, remaining a bit of an edgy antihero He also bore the mantle of Captain America for a little while when Steve was assassinated until the ''Fear Itself'' event.