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Steve Rogers

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Real nameSteve Rogers

CodenameCaptain America

ContinentAvengers

In DoomsdayChris Evans, as Steve Rogers¹

First seenCaptain America Comics #1, March 1941²

Created byJoe Simon, Jack Kirby²

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WhoThe original Captain America: a sickly young New Yorker made into a super-soldier in World War II, frozen in Arctic ice for decades, then revived by the Avengers.³

AbilitiesPeak human ability from the Super-Soldier Serum, his round shield and battlefield leadership.³

In DoomsdayMarvel's first teaser (23 December 2025) revealed Chris Evans returning as Steve Rogers, and at D23 in August 2026 Marvel confirmed the return alongside Hayley Atwell's Peggy Carter.¹

Last seenAvengers: Endgame (2019), as Steve Rogers / Captain America: He stays in the past to build a life with Peggy Carter, then hands his shield to Sam Wilson.⁸

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Level 2 // Surveillance recordOn screen · 14 sightings, 11 in the MCU

Every live-action sighting of Steve Rogers, and everything Marvel has confirmed.

1979
Captain America (TV film) OTHER
Reb Brown In this CBS television film Steve is a former Marine turned travelling artist whose late father developed a strength serum called F.L.A.G. After an attempt on his life, doctors give him the serum to save him. He adopts a costume built on one of his own sketches and stops a villain who has built a neutron bomb.¹²
1979
Captain America II: Death Too Soon (TV film) OTHER
Reb Brown The second CBS film sends Steve after General Miguel, a terrorist who has kidnapped a scientist and forced him to produce a chemical that speeds up ageing. Miguel tests it on a small town and then threatens a city with it. Captain America tracks down his base, the villain is caught by his own weapon, and Steve secures the antidote.³²
1990
Captain America OTHER
Matt Salinger Barred from the draft because of polio, Steve volunteers for a secret super-serum project in World War II and becomes Captain America, facing an Italian-made Red Skull. He reawakens decades later in a very different 1990s America. There he discovers the Skull is still active and plotting against the President, his wartime comrade Tom Kimball.⁴
2011
Captain America: The First Avenger MCU
Chris Evans A frail Brooklyn volunteer is chosen by Abraham Erskine for Project Rebirth and emerges as a super-soldier, only to be sent out to sell war bonds on a USO stage. He goes rogue to rescue captured troops, including Bucky Barnes, then leads the Howling Commandos against Hydra and the Red Skull. To stop a bomber aimed at America he brings the Valkyrie down in the Arctic ice, waking almost seventy years later.⁵⁶
2012
The Avengers MCU
Chris Evans Still adjusting to the modern world, Steve is recruited by Nick Fury to help recover the Tesseract from Loki. He butts heads with Tony Stark aboard the Helicarrier, but in the Battle of New York he takes tactical command and directs the team against the Chitauri invasion.⁷⁶
2014
Captain America: The Winter Soldier MCU
Chris Evans Working as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, Steve uncovers that Hydra has hollowed out the agency from within and plans to use Project Insight's Helicarriers to kill millions. Branded a fugitive, he teams with Natasha Romanoff and new ally Sam Wilson. The masked assassin hunting them turns out to be Bucky, and Steve refuses to fight him as the Helicarriers fall.⁸⁶
2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron MCU
Chris Evans Steve leads the Avengers in the raid on Hydra that recovers Loki's sceptre, then against Ultron, the rogue artificial intelligence that grows out of Tony Stark's peacekeeping plan. After the Battle of Sokovia he stays behind with Natasha to train a new Avengers lineup.⁹⁶
2015
Ant-Man MCUCameo
Chris Evans Cameo in the post-credits scene. Steve and Sam Wilson have finally tracked down Bucky Barnes, but the Sokovia Accords mean they cannot call Tony Stark for help. Sam says he knows someone who might do instead. Chris Evans is uncredited.¹⁰⁶
2016
Captain America: Civil War MCU
Chris Evans Steve refuses to sign the Sokovia Accords and goes on the run to protect Bucky, who has been framed for a deadly bombing. The split between the Avengers explodes in a clash at a German airport. It ends in a brutal fight with Tony Stark in Siberia, after which Steve leaves his shield behind.¹¹⁶
2017
Spider-Man: Homecoming MCUCameo
Chris Evans Cameo through archive classroom videos. Steve appears in the fitness challenge and public service films that Midtown School still plays for its students. The post-credits scene is one of these clips, a talk on patience that ends with him asking how many more he has to film.¹²⁶
2018
Avengers: Infinity War MCU
Chris Evans Living as a fugitive since the Civil War, Steve resurfaces with Natasha and Sam to rescue Wanda Maximoff and Vision. He leads the defence of Wakanda against Thanos's armies, but cannot prevent the Snap that wipes out half of all life.¹³⁶
2019
Captain Marvel MCUCameo
Chris Evans Cameo in the credits scene set in 2018. Steve, Natasha, Bruce Banner and James Rhodes are studying Nick Fury's pager after the Snap when it goes dead. Carol Danvers suddenly appears and asks where Fury is. Chris Evans is uncredited.¹⁴⁶
2019
Avengers: Endgame MCU
Chris Evans Five years after the Snap, Steve helps plan the Time Heist to recover the Infinity Stones, and in the final battle proves worthy of lifting Mjolnir. Afterwards he returns the Stones to their places in time, stays in the past to build a life with Peggy Carter, and as an old man hands his shield to Sam Wilson. The MCU Wiki notes that the September 2026 Encore re-release extends his scene with Peggy, which Loki interrupts at the door.¹⁵⁶
2026
Avengers: Endgame (Encore re-release) MCU
Chris Evans Marvel Studios returned Endgame to theaters in September 2026. Co-director Anthony Russo told Marvel that the Encore plays one beat past the moment where Steve Rogers’ story ended with Peggy Carter, and that the moment carries a different meaning.¹⁶

What Marvel confirmed

The film. Avengers: Doomsday opens 18 December 2026.¹⁹
23 December 2025 Steve Rogers will return. The first teaser revealed Chris Evans returning as Steve Rogers.¹⁷
14 August 2026 A special look. At D23, Downey, Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell unveiled a special look. Marvel confirmed that Evans and Atwell return as Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter.¹⁸

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Level 3 // Deep archiveThe comics · since March 1941

Origin, the comics by era, abilities and recorded feats.

Origin

Steve Rogers was born in New York City in 1922 and grew up thin and sickly through the Great Depression. His father died while he was a boy and his mother was lost to pneumonia in his late teens, but both left him with a stubborn sense of duty. He studied art, and when newsreels showed fascist armies tearing through Europe and Asia he tried to enlist, only to be turned away as unfit. General Chester Phillips overheard how badly he wanted to serve and offered him a place in a secret programme called Operation Rebirth.

In a hidden Washington laboratory, Dr. Abraham Erskine, working under the cover name Professor Reinstein, gave Steve the Super-Soldier Serum and then flooded him with vita-rays. He walked out of the chamber at the very peak of human ability. Minutes later a Nazi spy shot Erskine dead, and because the scientist had never fully written down his formula, Steve remained its only success. After months of intensive training he was given a star-spangled costume as America's answer to the Red Skull, plus a cover identity as a clumsy private at Camp Lehigh, where the camp mascot Bucky Barnes stumbled on his secret and became his partner.

Through the war Captain America fought alongside Bucky and the Invaders, and President Roosevelt later presented him with the round shield that became his signature. In the closing days of the conflict the pair tried to stop a drone plane packed with explosives launched by Baron Zemo. The blast seemed to kill Bucky and hurled Steve into icy Arctic waters, where the serum preserved him in suspended animation. Decades later the Sub-Mariner found the frozen figure being worshipped by an Inuit tribe and flung it into the sea, and the newly formed Avengers pulled it out and revived him.¹²³⁴⁵

The record, by era

1941
Meet Captain America Golden Age
Captain America arrives fully formed in his first issue, with his super-soldier origin, his teenage partner Bucky and a sinister Red Skull all introduced in one go. Its cover, which went on sale in December 1940, famously shows him knocking Hitler flat. The origin was later expanded and reconciled in Silver Age retellings, including Captain America #109 and #255.¹²³⁴
Key issues: Captain America Comics #1 (1941) · Captain America #109 (1969) · Captain America #255 (1981)
1964-1965
Man out of time Silver Age return
Thawed out by the Avengers, Steve joins as the team's first new recruit and is later treated as an honorary founder. He clashes with his wartime enemy Baron Zemo and his Masters of Evil while still grieving the partner he believes he lost. When the founders step away, he takes command of a scrappy new lineup of Hawkeye, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, later nicknamed Cap's Kooky Quartet.¹⁵⁶
Key issues: Avengers #4 (1964) · Avengers #16 (1965)
1974-1975
Nomad Bronze Age crisis
Investigating the Secret Empire, Steve discovers its leader is a senior figure in the US government, and the cover-up that follows shakes his faith in the flag he wears. He gives up the shield and becomes Nomad, a hero with no country. When a young admirer who took up the role is murdered by the Red Skull, Steve returns as Captain America, now standing for the nation's ideals rather than its officials.¹⁷⁸⁹
Key issues: Captain America #176 (1974) · Captain America #180 (1974) · Captain America #183 (1975)
1984-1987
Battleworld and the mansion siege Event era
Steve is among the heroes the Beyonder snatches away to fight on Battleworld in the original Secret Wars. Back home, Helmut Zemo's Masters of Evil seize Avengers Mansion, torture Jarvis in front of him and destroy irreplaceable mementos of his past, including his only photo of his mother. He ends the siege by beating Zemo in a rooftop duel.¹¹⁰¹¹
Key issues: Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1 (1984) · Avengers #277 (1987)
1988-1989
The Captain Late 1980s
A government commission tells Steve he was never discharged and orders him to serve as a directed operative. Unwilling to take orders blindly, he hands the shield and the name to John Walker and carries on in a new uniform as the Captain. Once the Red Skull is exposed as the hidden hand behind the commission, Walker steps aside and Steve takes the shield back.¹¹²¹³
Key issues: Captain America #337 (1988) · Captain America #351 (1989)
2005-2007
The Winter Soldier and Civil War Modern era
Steve learns that a Soviet assassin called the Winter Soldier is his old partner Bucky, brainwashed and kept on ice between missions, and he uses a Cosmic Cube to give Bucky back his memories. When the Superhuman Registration Act divides the hero community, Steve goes underground to lead the resistance against Tony Stark's side. He wins the final battle but surrenders when he sees the damage the fight is doing to the people he wants to protect.¹¹⁴¹⁵¹⁶¹⁷
Key issues: Captain America Vol 5 #1 (2005) · Captain America Vol 5 #14 (2006) · Civil War #7 (2007)
2007-2010
The Death of Captain America and Reborn Death and return
On the courthouse steps, a Red Skull plot ends with a sniper's bullet and shots from a brainwashed Sharon Carter, and Steve dies. In truth his mind had been cast adrift in time, reliving moments of his life, until he fights his way back into his own body. After helping topple Norman Osborn during the Siege of Asgard, he lets Bucky keep the shield and becomes America's chief of security.¹¹⁸¹⁹²⁰
Key issues: Captain America Vol 5 #25 (2007) · Captain America: Reborn #4 (2010) · Siege #4 (2010)
2013-2014
Dimension Z and passing the shield Now era
Arnim Zola drags Steve into the hostile realm of Dimension Z, where he spends more than a decade raising a rescued boy named Ian as his son, only to learn that no time at all has passed on Earth. Not long after his return, the villain Iron Nail switches off the serum in his body and Steve ages rapidly to his real age of over ninety. He names Sam Wilson as the new Captain America.¹²¹²²²³
Key issues: Captain America Vol 7 #1 (2013) · Captain America Vol 7 #10 (2013) · Captain America Vol 7 #25 (2014)
2016-2017
Secret Empire All-New, All-Different
Kobik, a living Cosmic Cube with the mind of a child, restores Steve's youth, but she has been secretly schooled by the Red Skull and rewrites history to produce a Captain America loyal to Hydra. That double seizes the United States while the real Steve survives only as a memory inside Kobik's mind. When the Cube is made whole again, the true Steve returns and defeats his fascist counterpart.¹²⁴²⁵²⁶
Key issues: Captain America: Steve Rogers #1 (2016) · Secret Empire #1 (2017) · Secret Empire #10 (2017)
2019-2022
Framed, empowered and sharing the shield Recent years
Framed for murder by a shadowy group, Steve is broken out of prison and declares Captain America dead, fighting on for a while under his own name. Back in the role, he is drawn into the Phoenix Force's tournament for a new host, where a Phoenix-powered Doctor Doom yields to him and the Phoenix later names him the winner of his bout with Shang-Chi. Afterwards he and Sam Wilson agree that both of them will carry the title of Captain America.¹²⁷²⁸²⁹
Key issues: Captain America Vol 10 #12 (2019) · Avengers Vol 8 #42 (2021) · Captain America Vol 11 #0 (2022)

Capabilities

Super-Soldier physiology

Strength, speed, stamina, agility and reflexes at the highest human level and slightly beyond, kept that way by the serum.¹

Master tactician

Widely seen as one of the greatest battlefield strategists on Earth, able to rework a plan as a fight changes.¹

Master martial artist

Blends boxing, judo, jujutsu, karate and other styles with gymnastics into his own acrobatic fighting style.¹

Shield mastery

Throws the shield with near-perfect aim, ricochets it off several targets in one throw and judges its rebound almost to the millimetre.¹

Pressure-point strikes

Precise nerve strikes can knock out or immobilise opponents, including superhumanly strong ones.¹

Worthy of Mjolnir

Has been judged worthy to lift and wield Thor's enchanted hammer on several occasions.¹

Source of power

The Super-Soldier Serum permanently raised every bodily function to the peak of human potential and let him survive decades frozen in ice.¹

Elite wartime training and decades of combat made him a master martial artist and one of the finest tacticians alive.¹

His near-indestructible shield, a one-off vibranium and proto-adamantium alloy, is his main weapon.¹³⁰

Recorded feats

comics Fighting beside Thor against demons, he lifted Mjolnir and sent it back to Thor, proving himself worthy of the hammer. Thor Vol 1 #390 (April 1988)³¹
comics Disguised as Crossbones in an A.I.M. arena, he beat General Wo and Razor Fist in turn, then took on a horde of villains. Captain America Vol 1 #412 (February 1993)³²¹
comics With the Galactic Council ready to surrender, he planned a counterstrike that freed the captured Avengers and smashed much of the Builders' force. Infinity Vol 1 #3 (November 2013)³³¹
screen Infiltrated a Hydra fortress alone, slipped past the guards and freed the captured Allied soldiers, Bucky Barnes among them. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)³⁴³⁵
screen Beat an elevator full of STRIKE agents, broke a magnetic cuff, dropped several floors onto his shield and downed a Quinjet. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)³⁶³⁵
screen Proved worthy of Mjolnir, then used it with his shield and called down lightning to drive back Thanos. Avengers: Endgame (2019)³⁷³⁵

Notes from the archive

Joe Simon briefly considered calling the character Super American before settling on Captain America, reasoning that comics had plenty of Supers but few Captains.¹
Captain America Comics #1 went on sale on 20 December 1940 with a cover of Cap punching Hitler, an image later parodied in Captain America: The First Avenger.²
His first shield was a wedge-shaped badge design; the familiar round disc arrived in his second issue.²
In the comics Steve has been shown worthy of lifting Thor's hammer more than once, including Thor #390, Fear Itself #7, Secret Empire #10 and Avengers Vol 8 #28.¹³⁵

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