Captain America, Commie Smasher
After the tip of World Warfare II restricted the quantity of Nazis that Captain America might punch, Marvel’s predecessor Atlas Comics reimagined Cap and Bucky as foes of Communists within the US. The extra conservative model didn’t take, and when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby (who co-created Cap with Joe Simon) introduced Steve again for 1964’s Avengers #4, they retconned the Commie Smasher model of Cap.
Now, the Nineteen Fifties Cap was William Burnside, a right-wing historical past PhD who idolized Rogers. When Cap disappeared, Burnside discovered the Tremendous Soldier Serum and modified his face to seem like Rogers, and even legally modified his identify to Steve Rogers. Burnside labored for the FBI for some years as an anti-Commie Captain America.
He didn’t disappear after Rogers got here again, however moderately continued his reactionary exercise. Ultimately Burnside, nonetheless a dead-ringer for Rogers, turned the Nationwide Director, the chief of a Neo Nazi group known as the Nationwide Power. As a lot enjoyable as it will be to see Marvel tackle such a politically charged character, the studio has performed so much to separate Hydra from the Nazis, making its movies as center of the highway as potential. However in brief, the multiverse signifies that we might get some model of Evans as Burnside.
Monster Cap
We’ve already seen Colonel America within the MCU, the Steve Rogers who turns into an undead flesheater within the sequence Marvel Zombies. He’s hardly the one monster Cap on the market, although. There’s the notorious Cap Wolf, who was mainline Earth-616 Steve Rogers who generally turned a werewolf, after which there was the Vampire King Captain America of Earth-3931, who was turned by the evil Baron Blood.
The perfect of the monster Caps, nevertheless, is the one from the Cancerverse. In 2009’s Realm of Kings #1, a continuation of the Annihilation storyline that created the preferred model of the Guardians of the Galaxy, Quasar visits the nightmarish Earth-10011. The Captain Marvel (the Kree male Mar-Vell, not Carol Danvers) has destroyed Demise with the assistance of the Lovecraft creatures the Many-Angled Ones. By Mar-Vell’s corruption, Earth-10011 turns into a hellscape, defended by the Defenders of the Realm, the Ex-Males, and the Ftaghn 4.
The horrific Cancerverse Captain America fights with the Revengers, who lead an assault on Earth-616 to destroy their Demise and make manner for the Many-Angled Ones. The Revengers nonetheless stand as one of many scariest takes on the Avengers, and there’s one thing horrific about seeing Evans play such a demonic Cap as a stark distinction to once we final noticed him in Endgame. Nonetheless, thrilling because it may be, there are extra possible tales for the return of Chris Evans.
