Name: Steven «âSteveâ» Grant Rogers
Aliases: Captain America, Captain, Super Soldier, The greatest soldier in history, Hero of the nationÂ
Created by: Joe Simon and Jack Kirby
Allies: James «âBuckyâ» Barnes, Ian (his grandfather), Joseph and Sarah Rogers (his parents), Abraham Erskine, Sam Wilson, the Avengers, Beast, Black Widow, Nova
Enemies: Heinz Kruger (nazi), Red Skull, George Maxon, Hydra, the Vernichtungs Kommandos, Baron Zemo, Crossbones, the Skrulls, Norman Osborn and the Dark Avengers, Sentry
First appearance: Captain America Comics #1, on December 1940
âSteve Rogers does not have any supernatural powers, but, thanks to the super soldier serum, all his skills are enhanced speed, strength, agility, stamina, reflexes, healing capacities⊠He also perfectly uses his shield.
âMilitary training and fight experience: Rogers is an expert in fight strategies, military, survival, acrobaties, parkour, flying and demolition. He is an expert strategist and an excellent major on site. Thor declared that Rogers is one of the rare humans he would accept following «âthrough the Gates of hell.â»
âCaptain is also an expert fighter, mastering many forms of martial arts that he combines to his own style. He is often considered by the other fighters as one of the best fighters in this fictional universe. He is also known for training many heroes or persons of this universe like Bucky, Sam Wilson or Nick Fury.
Biography: Rogers is born on the July 4th 1917, in lower East Side street (in Manhattan district) in New York, from immigrated Irish and poor parents Joseph and Sarah Rogers, and grows up during the great depression.Â
Rogers's father, a chronic alcoholic, dies when Steve is still a child. Young Steve spends a fragile childhood where he develops an artistic taste and such love for imagination (he is talented at drawing). Because of his weak stature, Steve is often bullied by other children. When he graduates during his last year of high school, Steve loses his mother, sick with pneumonia. At the beginning of 1940, before the USA takes part in the Second World War, Rogers is a student at the Beaux-arts specialized in illustration, tall but thin and a writer and illustrator of comics.
While the second world war is raging in Europe, young Steve Rogers only wants one thing: to fight nazism by joining the army. Judging him too thin to make a soldier, the military medics of the army reform him. However, Rogers' determination is such that an officer, general Chester Phillips, spots him and offers him to take part in a secret experiment in a laboratory in Washington, the Renaissance project. Rogers is then used as a subject for the super soldier project and gets a special serum, the super soldier serum created by doctor Joseph Reinstein (who took the codename âAbraham Erskineâ for this project). This serum, combined with vita rayons to stabilize its effect, can transform a sickly person into a super soldier. Steve Rogers, desperate, accepts to try this unreliable experiment. Â
The experiment is a success that transforms Rogers into an almost perfect human who gets strength, agility, stamina and intelligence at the peak of human capacity. The success of the program encourages Erskine to think about the replica of the experiment on other human beings. But at the same time Heinz Kruger, a Nazi spy infiltrated among the officials watching the experiment comes into the room and kills professor Reinstein, the only one who knows the super soldier formula. Captain America hurries after his transformation to avenge him. Then he deals with an intense military training program.Â
The process has been incoherently detailed: Erskine refused to write each crucial element for the treatment. He leaves behind him an imperfect knowledge of the steps to create the serum. So, when the spy Heinz Kruger kills him, his method to create new super soldiers dies with him. The resources of the Renaissance project are finally integrated in an international research project on the super soldiers, rebaptized Weapon Plus. However, the attempts at recreating super soldier serum's formula created mostly psychopaths super villains: the most notorious examples were the impostor of Captain America in the 50ÂŽs and the psychopath Nuke.Â
Steve Rogers is then enlisted in the army as a normal soldier, to better follow the battles. He participates as Captain America and quickly becomes a symbol for his comrades. He has for sidekick a young boy: James âBuckyâ Barnes. His first mission consists of arresting the Nazi agent Red Skull. At that time, he receives his blue, white and red costume, conceived thanks to his own drawings and that later becomes Captain America's symbol. His first opponents are Red Skull and George Maxon, an agent of Red Skull posing as him, as well as the Vernichtungs Kommandos, results of Nazis's attempts to recreate Erskine's super soldier serum.Â
Towards the end of the conflict, Captain America tries, with the help of his loyal ally Bucky, to defuse a missile sent on the USA by Baron Zemo, but the latter explodes in flight. If Bucky is left for dead, Captain America sinks in the arctic waters and remains inanimate for a long period, in a state comparable to a cryogenisation. This was made possible due to the super soldier serum that prevented his bodily fluids's crystallization. It seems that he comes back in the 1950's, period where he fights communists, but this comeback is short and, later, we learn that this Captain America was an impostor. The real Captain America only wakes up years way later, in the 1960's, when he is fished out by the team of superheroes named the Avengers. He later becomes an unfailing member and a pillar of the team.Â
In 1969, he meets a new partner, Sam Wilson, who later takes the name Falcon, and becomes an important ally of Captain. Together, they are the symbol of white and black America fighting the evil forces.Â
From 2006, a law bill forces the superheroes to register to the authorities. This event pushes Captain America to fight it by force and to lead the rebellion in Civil War, as a parallel to the attacks on individual freedoms in the USA, the war in Iraq and Guantanamo prison. The Avenger Iron Man also has a determining role in this story, directing the party for the accords. Moreover, his old nemesis, Red Skull, has also come back to the modern times, and orchestrates Captain's death. On March 7th 2007, Steve Rogers is assassinated, killed by a shooter lying in ambush, Crossbones as he entered a law court.Â
Soon after, the heroes have to face a Skrull invasion, during the Secret Invasion series. The Secret Avengers are sent to the Savage Land where a Skrull ship has crashed. Many heroes from the silver era, including some with their 1980's costumes, come out of the ship. Among them, Captain America who, according to all the present heroes, is the true Steve Rogers.Â
In January 2008, it is Bucky who takes on Captain's identity. Tony Stark hands him Rogers's costume and shield, after his posthum demand in a letter. However, Iron Man has previously offered the role to Clint Barton, alias Hawkeye. Frank Castle (the Punisher) also briefly shoulders Captain America's identity (with a personalized costume with a skull and crossbones to âtake careâ of the case of a neonazi, the new Master Hate, wearing a nazi âversionâ of Captain America costume.Â
Captain America's great return arrives in the USA on July 1st 2009, in the mini-series Captain America: Reborn by Ed Brubaker and Bryan Hitch. The story reveals that Steve was actually not dead, but that the weapons Sharon Carter used against him had actually taken Rogers through time and space. His mind was sent in a body during events from his past. Red Skull brings back Rogers in the present and takes control of his body and his mind.Â
Captain America finally gets back his control on himself and, with the help of his allies, defeats Red Skull, who is left for dead. Rogers leaves Captain's title to Bucky after a vision of the future where he sees Bucky, under his Winter Soldier costume, dead in an apocalyptic land. The American president then pardons Rogers for his actions during the Civil War and places him as SHIELD's leader.Â
Well alive, Rogers participates at a siege where, with several other heroes, he stops Norman Osborn and his Dark Avengers's acts, who were laying into Asgard. He participates with his Captain America costume but confesses he preferred that it would be Bucky who assumes this identity alone.Â
The heroes then have a lot to do with an uncontrollable Sentry possessed by a certain "Angel of Death." As a result, Rogers permanently relinquishes his hero title to Bucky and begins with the rest of the Marvel Universe, the Heroic Age event. He became the new director of SHIELD and reformed several groups of Avengers. He then took the direction of the group the Secret Avengers, composed of the Falcon, Black Widow, Nova, and War Machine. This group works clandestinely to curb threats before they appear, including trying to recover various artifacts.
MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE
Original Name: Steven «âSteveâ» Grant RogersÂ
Aliases: Captain America, Captain, Super Soldier, the Greatest Soldier of All Time, Hero of the Nation
Birthplace: New York City
Allies: Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson, Natasha Romanoff, Peggy Carter, the Avengers, the Howling Commandos (Seconde World War), Wanda Maximoff, Scott Lang, Nick Fury, Maria Hill, TâChalla, Shuri, Peter Parker, Captain Marvel, les Gardiens de la Galaxie (during Endgame).
Enemies: H.Y.D.R.A., Red Skull, Alexander Pierce, Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, Arnim Zola, Thanos, Ultron, Loki, Baron Helmut Zemo, Crossbones, Secretary Thaddeus Ross.
First appearance: Captain America: First Avenger
Pouvoirs et aptitudes: Superhuman strength, speed, resilience and natural recovery, all granted by a serum taken during World War Two, making him a super soldier.Â
Biography: Captain Steven Grant "Steve" Rogers is a World War II veteran, a founding member of the Avengers, and Earth's first known superhero. Rogers grew up suffering from numerous health problems and, when the United States entered the war during World War II, the American army refused to allow him to enlist, despite several attempts. Rogers eventually volunteered for the Renaissance Project, where he was the only one to receive the super-soldier serum developed by Abraham Erskine as part of the Scientific Reserve Section's research. The serum greatly enhances Rogersâ physical abilities, taking them to superhuman levels. After Erskine's assassination, SSR Chief Director Chester Phillips expressed doubts about his abilities. Rogers was relegated to war bond campaigns, where he became a patriotic mascot under the nickname Captain America.
In 1943, Rogers joined the SSR after single-handedly releasing Allied prisoners from a H.Y.D.R.A. base. From then on, he got his own team, the Howling Commandos, which he led in many operations against H.Y.D.R.A. His exploits made Steve a living legend, and for a time, he formed a close relationship with SRG officer Peggy Carter. Eventually, Rogers helped the Allies win the war and defeat H.Y.D.R.A.'s leader, Red Skull. But he sacrifices himself and crashes in the Arctic during his last mission by stopping a plane carrying German bombs to the United States. Rogers then spent 66 years unconscious and frozen in ice, without aging, before finally being found by the S.H.I.E.L.D. at the beginning of the 21st century.
When he wakes up, Rogers finds himself alone in a modern world he barely recognizes, without knowing what to do with his life. After Loki steals the Tesseract from the S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury asks him for help to retrieve the Tesseract and prevent Loki from destroying the world. Joining the Avengers, Rogers played a key role in the Battle of New York by succeeding with the team in stopping the invasion, capturing Loki, and recapturing the Tesseract.
Rogers then joined S.H.I.E.L.D. as an anti-terrorist agent and soon after became a major player in exposing a conspiracy within the organization. Indeed, he meets the Winter Soldier and discovers that H.Y.D.R.A. has infiltrated the S.H.I.E.L.D., intending to use the Insight project as a means to create a despotic new order. He then learns that the Winter Soldier is none other than his childhood best friend, Bucky Barnes, whom he thought had died in action during the Second World War. In reality, Bucky had been captured, physically enhanced, and brainwashed by H.Y.D.R.A. Alongside Black Widow, Maria Hill, and Falcon, Rogers prevents H.Y.D.R.A. from taking over the world.
Shortly after, Rogers and the Avengers regroup and then embark on an all-out war against H.Y.D.R.A., taking over the scepter used by Loki. They captured Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker. Rogers and the team then meet Ultron, the new peacekeeping A.I. program designed by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner. The robot had rebelled and was plotting to exterminate humanity. Following a prolonged and brutal conflict, during which Vision was created, Ultron was defeated in the Battle of Sokovia. Several of the original Avengers then left, leaving Rogers and Romanoff to lead and form the new Avengers team.
The new Avengers lead several international missions. Some time later, during an encounter with Crossbones and his mercenaries, Scarlet Witch fails to contain an explosion triggered by the mercenary. The explosion caused the death of innocent civilians in Lagos, and the United Nations used the disaster to ratify the Sokovia Accords. However, Rogers sees their draconian nature and refuses to sign, resulting in a rift between him and Avengers co-leader Tony Stark. Bucky Barnes then resurfaces as the prime suspect in a terrorist attack: Rogers chooses to protect his best friend, and he and his allies, opposed to the agreements, become renegades. Learning that Helmut Zemo was responsible for the situation, Rogers fought Stark and his pro-deal allies before finding Zemo. Unfortunately, the terrorist's plan succeeds when he reveals to Stark that Barnes was the murderer of his parents. Iron Man then attacks the former Winter Soldier. Rogers engages in a fierce personal fight against him and emerges victorious, but the Avengers are deeply divided.
Rogers manages to save some of the anti-deal heroes who were prisoners of the Raft, and has Barnes sent to Wakanda so that the latter can be cured of his brainwashing. Rogers, Black Widow, Falcon, and Scarlet Witch then become fugitives, but when Thanos and his Black Order attack Earth in search of the last stones of infinity, Rogers emerges from his hiding place to protect Vision. Rogers had Vision brought to Wakanda, where he participated with the country's army in repelling the onslaught of the Outriders sent by Thanos. Although he helped destroy his army, Thanos effortlessly overpowered Rogers and all the other heroes before killing Vision and taking the Spirit Stone. Thanos then snaps his fingers and wipes out half of the universe's population, leaving Rogers to see many people die. Surviving Avengers Hunt Down Thanos after the disaster and confront him in order to take back the stones and bring back the other half of the population. Their enemy tells them that he has already destroyed them before being killed.
Five years after the Snap, Captain America and his fellow Avengers finally find a way to travel through time via a modified quantum wormhole, allowing them to visit several moments in the past to gather the six gems. The stones collected over time are used to resurrect every single person killed by the Snap, and Captain America takes part in the battle, where he is judged worthy of Mjolnir and wields it during his fight against Thanos and his army, who followed the Avengers through the wormhole until they all reached the present. After Tony Starkâs sacrifice to destroy the Mad Titan, Rogers attends his funeral before going back in the past to take back Mjolnir and the Infinity Stones when they belong. Once his duty is done, he chooses to stay in the 40âs, and he marries Peggy Carter. Rogers then ages up normally and finally sees his friends again in the present, when he gives his iconic shield to Sam Wilson.
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Nom original : Steven «âSteveâ» Grant RogersÂ
Nom dans la version française : Steve Rogers
Alias : Captain America, Captain, Super Soldat, le Plus Grand Soldat de lâHistoire, HĂ©ros de la Nation
Créé(e) par : Joe Simon et Jack Kirby
Lieu de naissance : New YorkÂ
Citoyenneté : Américaine
AlliĂ©s : James «âBuckyâ» Barnes, Ian (son grand-pĂšre), Joseph et Sarah Rogers (ses parents), Abraham Erskine, Sam Wilson, les Avengers, Le Fauve, la Veuve Noire, Nova
Ennemis : Heinz Kruger (nazi), CrĂąne Rouge, George Maxon, les Vernichlungs, Baron Zemo, Crossbones, les Skrulls, Norman Osborn et ses vengeurs noirs (Dark Avengers), Sentry
PremiÚre apparition : Captain America Comics #1, paru en décembre 1940
â Steve Rogers nâa pas de pouvoir surhumain, mais, grĂące au SĂ©rum du super-soldat, toutes ses compĂ©tences sont dĂ©cuplĂ©es : vitesse, force, agilitĂ©, endurance, rĂ©flexes, capacitĂ©s de guĂ©rison⊠Il manie Ă©galement son bouclier Ă la perfection.
â Formation militaire et expĂ©rience au combat : Rogers est expert en stratĂ©gie de combat, militaire, survie, acrobatie, parkour, pilotage et en dĂ©molition. Câest un expert tacticien et un excellent commandant sur le terrain. Thor a ainsi dĂ©clarĂ© que Rogers est lâun des rares ĂȘtres humains quâil accepterait de suivre «âĂ travers les portes dâHadĂšs.â»
â Captain est Ă©galement un combattant expert, maĂźtrisant de nombreuses formes dâarts martiaux quâil combine dans son propre style. Il est dâailleurs souvent considĂ©rĂ© par les autres combattants comme lâun des meilleurs combattants au corps Ă corps de cet univers de fiction. En outre, il est aussi rĂ©putĂ© pour avoir entraĂźnĂ© au combat nombre de super-hĂ©ros ou dâindividus de cet univers comme Bucky, Sam Wilson ou Nick Fury.
Biographie : Rogers nait le 4 juillet 1917, dans le quartier du Lower East Side (de lâarrondissement de Manhattan) Ă New York, de parents immigrĂ©s irlandais pauvres, Joseph et Sarah Rogers, et grandit pendant la Grande DĂ©pression.
Le pĂšre de Rogers, un alcoolique chronique, dĂ©cĂšde quand Steve est enfant. Le jeune Steve passe une jeunesse fragile oĂč il dĂ©veloppe un gout artistique et un amour pour lâimagination (il a un don pour le dessin). En raison de sa stature plutĂŽt faible, Steve est souvent opprimĂ© par les autres enfants. DiplĂŽmĂ© durant sa derniĂšre annĂ©e de lycĂ©e, Steve perd sa mĂšre, atteinte dâune pneumonie. Au dĂ©but de 1940, avant que les Ătats-Unis dâAmĂ©rique ne prennent part Ă la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Rogers est un Ă©tudiant des Beaux-Arts spĂ©cialisĂ© dans lâillustration, de grande taille, mais malingre, ainsi quâun auteur et un dessinateur de bande dessinĂ©e.
Alors que la Seconde Guerre mondiale fait rage en Europe, le jeune Steve Rogers nâaspire quâĂ une seule chose : combattre le nazisme en sâenrĂŽlant dans lâarmĂ©e. Le jugeant trop maigre pour faire un soldat, les mĂ©decins militaires de lâUS Army le rĂ©forment. Pourtant, la dĂ©termination de Rogers est telle quâun officier, le gĂ©nĂ©ral Chester Phillips, le remarque et lui propose de participer Ă une expĂ©rience secrĂšte dans un laboratoire Ă Washington, le «âProjet Renaissanceâ». Rogers est alors utilisĂ© comme cobaye pour le projet «âSuper-Soldatâ» et reçoit un sĂ©rum spĂ©cial, le «âSĂ©rum du super-soldatâ» conçu par le docteur Joseph Reinstein (qui a pris pour ce projet le nom de code «âAbraham Erskineâ»). Ce sĂ©rum, combinĂ© Ă une irradiation de «âVita-Rayonâ» pour stabiliser son effet, peut transformer un ĂȘtre chĂ©tif en super-soldat. Steve Rogers, prĂȘt Ă tout, accepte de tenter cette expĂ©rience hasardeuse.
LâexpĂ©rience est un succĂšs qui transforme Rogers en un ĂȘtre humain presque parfait bĂ©nĂ©ficiant dâune force, dâune agilitĂ©, dâune endurance et dâune intelligence Ă lâapogĂ©e du potentiel humain. Le succĂšs du programme incite Erskine Ă penser Ă la rĂ©plication de lâexpĂ©rience sur dâautres ĂȘtres humains. Mais, au mĂȘme moment, Heinz Kruger, un espion nazi infiltrĂ© parmi les officiels regardant lâexpĂ©rience, fait irruption dans la salle et abat le professeur Reinstein, le seul Ă connaitre la formule du super-soldat. Captain America sâempresse dĂšs sa transformation de le venger. Par la suite, il subit un programme dâentraĂźnement militaire et physique intensif.
Le processus lui-mĂȘme a Ă©tĂ© dĂ©taillĂ© de maniĂšre incohĂ©rente : Erskine refusait dâĂ©crire chaque Ă©lĂ©ment crucial du traitement. Il laisse donc derriĂšre lui une connaissance imparfaite et erronĂ©e des Ă©tapes de fabrication du sĂ©rum. Ainsi, lorsque lâespion Heinz Kruger le tue, sa mĂ©thode pour crĂ©er de nouveaux super-soldats sâĂ©teint avec lui. Les ressources du Projet Renaissance sont finalement intĂ©grĂ©es dans un projet international de recherches sur les super-soldats, rebaptisĂ© Weapon Plus. Cependant, les tentatives ultĂ©rieures pour rĂ©crĂ©er la formule du SĂ©rum du Super Soldat aboutissent le plus souvent Ă la crĂ©ation de super-vilains psychopathes : les exemples les plus notoires Ă©tant lâimposteur de Captain America dans les annĂ©es 1950 et la psychopathe Nuke.
Steve Rogers est ensuite enrĂŽlĂ© dans lâarmĂ©e en tant que simple soldat, pour mieux suivre les combats. Il participe en tant que Captain America et devient rapidement un symbole pour ses camarades. Il a pour alliĂ© un jeune comparse : James «âBuckyâ» Barnes. Sa premiĂšre mission consiste Ă arrĂȘter lâagent nazi CrĂąne Rouge. Pour cette occasion, il reçoit son costume bleu-blanc-rouge, conçu grĂące Ă ses propres esquisses et qui devient plus tard le symbole de Captain America. Ses premiers adversaires sont CrĂąne Rouge et George Maxon, un agent de CrĂąne Rouge se faisant passer pour lui, ainsi que les Vernichlungs Kommandos, rĂ©sultat des tentatives des nazis pour recrĂ©er le sĂ©rum du super-soldat dâErskine.
Vers la fin du conflit, Captain America tente, avec lâaide de son fidĂšle alliĂ© Bucky, de dĂ©samorcer un missile envoyĂ© sur les Ătats-Unis par le baron Zemo, mais celui-ci explosa en vol. Si Bucky est laissĂ© pour mort, Captain America sombre dans les eaux arctiques et reste inanimĂ© pendant une longue pĂ©riode, dans un Ă©tat comparable Ă une cryogĂ©nisation. Cela Ă©tait rendu possible grĂące au sĂ©rum du super-soldat qui empĂȘcha la cristallisation des fluides de son corps. Il semble quâil revient dans les annĂ©es 1950, pĂ©riode oĂč il combat des communistes, mais ce retour est de courte durĂ©e et, plus tard, on apprend que ce Captain America Ă©tait un imposteur. Le vrai Captain ne se rĂ©veille que bien plus tard, dans les annĂ©es 1960, lorsquâil est repĂȘchĂ© par lâĂ©quipe de super-hĂ©ros des Vengeurs, dont il devient par la suite un membre indĂ©fectible et un pilier de lâĂ©quipe.
En 1969, il rencontre un nouveau partenaire, Sam Wilson, qui prend plus tard le nom de Faucon et devient un alliĂ© important de Captain. Ensemble, ils sont le symbole de lâAmĂ©rique blanche et noire combattant les forces du mal.
Ă partir de 2006, un texte de la loi oblige les super-hĂ©ros Ă sâenregistrer auprĂšs des autoritĂ©s. Cet Ă©vĂ©nement pousse Captain America Ă sây opposer par la force et Ă mener la rĂ©bellion dans Civil War, dans une parabole des attaques contre les libertĂ©s individuelle aux Ătats-Unis, la guerre dâIrak et la prison de Guantanamo. Le Vengeur Iron Man a Ă©galement un rĂŽle dĂ©terminant dans cette histoire, dirigeant le parti soutenant les accords. De plus, son vieux nĂ©mĂ©sis, CrĂąne Rouge, est lui aussi revenu Ă lâĂ©poque contemporaine, et il orchestre la mort du Captain. Le 7 mars 2007, Steve Rogers est assassinĂ©, tuĂ© par un tireur embusquĂ©, Crossbones, alors quâil entrait dans un palais de justice.
Peu aprĂšs, les hĂ©ros doivent faire face Ă une invasion des Skrull, durant la sĂ©rie Secret Invasion. Les Vengeurs Secrets sont envoyĂ©s en Terre sauvage oĂč un vaisseau Skrull sâest Ă©crasĂ©. Divers hĂ©ros de lâĂąge dâargent, dont certains avec leurs costumes des annĂ©es 1980, sortent du vaisseau. Parmi eux, Captain America qui, selon tous les hĂ©ros prĂ©sents, est le vĂ©ritable Steve Rogers.
En janvier 2008, câest Bucky qui reprend lâidentitĂ© du Captain. Tony Stark lui lĂšgue le costume et le bouclier de Rogers, Ă la suite de sa demande posthume dans une lettre. Cependant, Iron Man avait auparavant proposĂ© le rĂŽle Ă Clint Barton, alias Ćil de Faucon. Frank Castle (le Punisher) endosse aussi briĂšvement lâidentitĂ© de Captain America (avec un costume personnalisĂ© avec une tĂȘte de mort) pour «âsâoccuperâ» du cas dâun nĂ©onazi, le nouveau Maitre de la Haine, lui-mĂȘme affublĂ© dâun costume de Captain America «âfaçonâ» nazi.
Le grand retour de Captain America arrive outre-Atlantique le 1er juillet 2009, dans la mini-sĂ©rie Captain America : Reborn de Ed Brubaker et Bryan Hitch. Lâhistoire rĂ©vĂšle que Steve Rogers nâĂ©tait en rĂ©alitĂ© pas mort, mais que lâarme que Sharon Carter a utilisĂ©e contre lui avait en fait entraĂźnĂ© Rogers Ă travers le temps et lâespace. Son esprit a Ă©tĂ© envoyĂ© dans un corps durant des Ă©vĂ©nements de son passĂ©. CrĂąne Rouge ramĂšne Rogers dans le prĂ©sent et prend le contrĂŽle de son corps et de son esprit. Captain rĂ©cupĂšre finalement le contrĂŽle de lui-mĂȘme et, avec lâaide de ses alliĂ©s, vainc CrĂąne Rouge, qui est laissĂ© pour mort. Rogers laisse le titre de Captain Ă Bucky Ă la suite dâune vision du futur oĂč il voit Bucky, sous son costume de Soldat de lâHiver, mort dans un paysage apocalyptique. Le prĂ©sident amĂ©ricain accorde alors une grĂące Ă Rogers pour ses actions durant les Ă©vĂ©nements de Civil War et le place Ă la tĂȘte du SHIELD.
Bel et bien vivant, Rogers participe Ă un siĂšge oĂč, avec plusieurs autres hĂ©ros, il met fin aux agissements de Norman Osborn et de ses vengeurs noirs (Dark Avengers) qui sâen prenaient Ă Asgard. Il y participe avec son costume de Captain America, mais avoue quâil prĂ©fĂ©rait que ce soit Bucky qui continue seul Ă assumer cette identitĂ©.
Les hĂ©ros ont ensuite fort Ă faire avec un Sentry incontrĂŽlable et possĂ©dĂ© par un certain «âAnge de la mortâ». Ă la suite de cela, Rogers cĂšde dĂ©finitivement son titre de hĂ©ros Ă Bucky et entame avec le reste de lâunivers Marvel, lâĂ©vĂ©nement Heroic Age. Il devient le nouveau directeur du SHIELD et reforme plusieurs groupes de vengeurs. Il prend ensuite la direction du groupe les Vengeurs Secrets, composĂ©e du Fauve, de la Veuve Noire, de Nova ainsi que de War Machine. Ce groupe travaille dans la clandestinitĂ© pour juguler les menaces avant quâelles nâapparaissent, notamment en tĂąchant de rĂ©cupĂ©rer divers artefacts.
Rogers opĂšre avec un tout nouveau costume, tout en restant quand mĂȘme le symbole de lâAmĂ©rique avec son Ă©toile, mais nâutilise plus le nom de Captain. Il conserve juste le surnom de «âsuper-soldatâ».
Ă la suite des Ă©vĂ©nements du crossover Fear Itself, durant lequel Bucky Barnes est laissĂ© pour mort (en rĂ©alitĂ©, il refait surface quelque temps plus tard avec son identitĂ© de Soldat de lâHiver), Rogers reprend lâidentitĂ©, le costume et le bouclier de Captain. Rogers, affaibli par lâĂąge, laisse alors le costume de Captain Ă son ancien alliĂ©, Sam Wilson, alias le Faucon, tout en restant Ă ses cĂŽtĂ©s en tant que conseiller technique et stratĂ©gique.
En 2017, au dĂ©but de lâarc narratif Secret Empire, un clone de CrĂąne Rouge sâempare du Cube Cosmique et façonne Ă sa guise la trame historique, de maniĂšre Ă transformer Rogers en membre dâHYDRA depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Les Ă©vĂ©nements se produisirent Ă lâidentique dans cet univers altĂ©rĂ©, puisque Rogers devient le directeur du SHIELD, Ă cette diffĂ©rence prĂšs quâil attendait le moment opportun pour prendre le contrĂŽle des USA, en tant que chef dâHYDRA. Le pays devient une dictature et Steve Rogers instaure un culte de la personnalitĂ© Ă sa gloire.
MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE
Nom original : Steven «âSteveâ» Grant RogersÂ
Nom dans la version française : Steve Rogers
Alias : Captain America, Captain, Super Soldat, le Plus Grand Soldat de lâHistoire, HĂ©ros de la Nation
Interprété(e) par : Chris Evans
Birthplace: New York City
Allies: Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson, Natasha Romanoff, Peggy Carter, the Avengers, the Howling Commandos (WWII), Wanda Maximoff, Scott Lang, Nick Fury, Maria Hill, TâChalla, Shuri, Peter Parker, Captain Marvel, the Guardians of the Galaxy (during Endgame).
Enemies: HYDRA, Red Skull, Alexander Pierce, Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, Arnim Zola, Thanos, Ultron, Loki, Baron Helmut Zemo, Crossbones, Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross.
First apparition: Captain America : First avenger
Powers and abilities: Superhuman strength, speed, resilience and natural recovery, making him a super soldier, thanks to a serum taken during World War Two.Â
Biography: Captain Steven Grant âSteveâ Rogers is a World War II veteran, a founding member of the Avengers, and Earthâs first known superhero. Rogers grew up suffering from numerous health problems, and when the United States entered World War II, the U.S. Army refused to enlist him, despite several attempts. Rogers eventually volunteered for Project Renaissance, where he was the only one to receive the Super Soldier Serum developed by Abraham Erskine as part of the Scientific Reserve Sectionâs research. The serum significantly enhanced Rogersâ physical abilities, bringing them to superhuman levels. After Erskineâs assassination, SSR Director-General Chester Phillips expressed doubts about Rogersâ capabilities. Rogers was therefore relegated to war-effort campaigns, where he became a patriotic mascot under the nickname Captain America.
In 1943, Rogers officially joined the SSR after single-handedly rescuing Allied prisoners from a HYDRA base. From that point on, he was given his own team, the Howling Commandos, which he led in numerous operations against HYDRA. His exploits made Steve a living legend, and for a time he developed a close relationship with SSR agent Peggy Carter. Ultimately, Rogers helped the Allies win the war and defeat HYDRAâs leader, Red Skull. But he sacrifices himself and crashes in the Arctic during his final mission while stopping a plane carrying German bombs bound for the United States. Rogers then spends 66 years unconscious and frozen in the ice, without aging, before finally being found by S.H.I.E.L.D. at the beginning of the 21st century.
When he wakes up, Rogers finds himself alone in a modern world he barely recognizes, unsure of what to do with his life. After Loki steals the Tesseract from S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury asks him for help in retrieving the Tesseract and stopping Loki from destroying the world. Joining the Avengers, Rogers plays a key role in the Battle of New York, working with the team to stop the invasion, capture Loki, and recover the Tesseract.
Rogers then joins S.H.I.E.L.D. as a counterterrorism agent and soon becomes a key figure in uncovering a conspiracy within the organization. He encounters the Winter Soldier and discovers that HYDRA has infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., intending to use Project Insight as a means to create a new despotic order. He then learns that the Winter Soldier is none other than his best friend from childhood, Bucky Barnes, whom he had believed to have died in action during World War II. In reality, Bucky had been captured, physically enhanced, and brainwashed by HYDRA. Alongside Black Widow, Maria Hill, and Falcon, Rogers prevents HYDRA from taking over the world.
Shortly thereafter, Rogers and the Avengers assemble and launch an all-out war against HYDRA, seizing the scepter used by Loki. They capture Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. Rogers and the team then encounter Ultron, the new peacekeeping artificial intelligence program designed by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner. The robot had rebelled and was plotting to exterminate humanity. Following a prolonged and brutal conflict, during which Vision is created, Ultron is defeated in the Battle of Sokovia. Several of the original Avengers then leave, leaving Rogers and Romanoff to lead and train the new Avengers team.
Les nouveaux Avengers mĂšnent plusieurs missions internationales. Quelque temps aprĂšs, lors dâune rencontre avec Crossbones et ses mercenaires, Scarlet Witch Ă©choue Ă contenir une explosion dĂ©clenchĂ©e par le mercenaire. Lâexplosion cause la mort de civils innocents du Lagos et les Nations Unies utilisent la catastrophe pour ratifier les accords de Sokovie. Cependant, Rogers voit leur nature draconienne et refuse de signer, ce qui entraĂźne une rupture entre lui et le co-leader des Avengers, Tony Stark. Bucky Barnes refait ensuite surface en tant que principal suspect dâun attentat terroriste : Rogers choisit de protĂ©ger son meilleur ami, et lui et ses alliĂ©s opposĂ©s aux accords deviennent des renĂ©gats. En apprenant que Helmut Zemo est responsable de la situation, Rogers se bat contre Stark et ses alliĂ©s, favorables aux accords, avant de trouver Zemo. Malheureusement, le plan du terroriste rĂ©ussit lorsquâil rĂ©vĂšle Ă Stark que Barnes Ă©tait lâassassin de ses parents. Iron Man attaque alors lâancien Soldat de lâHiver. Rogers sâengage dans un combat personnel fĂ©roce contre lui et en sort vainqueur, mais les Avengers sont profondĂ©ment divisĂ©s.
Rogers rĂ©ussit Ă sauver certains des hĂ©ros opposĂ©s aux accords qui Ă©taient prisonniers du Raft, et fait envoyer Barnes au Wakanda pour que ce dernier puisse ĂȘtre guĂ©ri de son lavage de cerveau. Rogers, Black Widow, Falcon et Scarlet Witch deviennent ensuite des fugitifs, mais lorsque Thanos et son Ordre noir attaquent la Terre Ă la recherche des derniĂšres pierres dâinfinitĂ©, Rogers Ă©merge de sa cachette afin de protĂ©ger Vision. Rogers fait amener Vision au Wakanda, oĂč il participe avec lâarmĂ©e du pays Ă repousser lâassaut des Outriders envoyĂ©s par Thanos. Bien quâil ait aidĂ© Ă dĂ©truire son armĂ©e, Thanos maĂźtrise sans effort Rogers et tous les autres hĂ©ros avant de tuer Vision et de prendre la pierre de lâEsprit. Thanos claque ensuite des doigts et anĂ©antit la moitiĂ© de la population de lâunivers, laissant Rogers voir de nombreuses personnes mourir. Les Avengers survivants traquent Thanos aprĂšs la catastrophe et lâaffrontent dans le but de lui reprendre les pierres et de ramener lâautre moitiĂ© de la population. Leur ennemi leur apprend quâil les a dĂ©jĂ dĂ©truitent avant de se faire tuer.
Cinq ans aprĂšs le Snap, Captain America et ses compagnons Avengers trouvent finalement un moyen de voyager dans le temps en utilisant un tunnel quantique modifiĂ©, revenant Ă divers moments du passĂ© pour amasser les six gemmes. Les pierres rĂ©cupĂ©rĂ©es Ă travers le temps sont utilisĂ©es pour ressusciter toutes les personnes tuĂ©es par le Snap, et Captain America participe Ă la bataille de la Terre, oĂč il est jugĂ© digne de Mjolnir et oĂč il le brandit durant son combat contre Thanos et son armĂ©e, qui avaient suivi les Avengers jusquâau prĂ©sent Ă travers le tunnel quantique. AprĂšs le sacrifice de Tony Stark pour dĂ©truire le Titan Fou, Rogers assiste Ă ses funĂ©railles, puis il retourne dans le temps pour rendre Mjolnir et les pierres dâinfinitĂ© Ă leurs Ă©poques respectives. Une fois la mission rĂ©ussie, il choisit de retourner dans les annĂ©es 1940 oĂč il Ă©pouse Peggy Carter. Rogers vieillit normalement et retrouve ses amis dans le prĂ©sent, confiant Ă Sam Wilson son bouclier.