Editing Marvel Comics (section)

==== Captain America ====
Rejected from normal military service for being too scrawny, all-American patriot and scholar Steve Rogers volunteers as a 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 starts out fighting "spies" because the writers can't have him killing soldiers from a country America isn't technically at war with, though that didn't stop them from printing the now-famous cover where Cap punches Hitler in the face. After Pearl Harbor, he leads America's superpowered forces during World War II against mad scientists and Axis supervillains.

Near the end of the war, Captain America was lost and frozen in an iceberg, surviving thanks to the serum putting him in suspended animation. He is recovered near the start of the modern age (whenever that currently is) and revived, where he's a living anachronism in a world that has largely moved past him, but he's still the best leader of supermen in the world (if not beyond). After the Silver Age he's been defined by his whole-hearted, idealistic belief in America's self-proclaimed values, which clashes something fierce with whichever grim realities the writer is spotlighting at that particular moment. At various points Steve has either quit the job, been killed off or lost his super soldier powers; when this happens other people have taken up the shield, most notably Bucky Barnes (his kid sidekick from the 40s, who was once up their with Uncle Ben in deadness before being brought back as the "Winter Soldier") and Sam Wilson (the Falcon, and yes they already made the [[/v/|Captain Falcon]] joke so don't bother.) There was also that one time a different black guy took an experimental serum recreation and got Cap's powers, but it was in a limited series and he was effectively written out at the end because it was meant to be Marvel's version of the Tuskegee experiments.