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Watson, Mary Jane

MikeFichera — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:30:06 GMT

MikeFichera: cleaned up occupation and abilities

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Mary Jane Watson
| identity = No dual identity
| occupation = Nightclub owner, television show host, actress; former model
| place_of_birth = Montoursville, PA
| groups = Actors' Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Screen Actors Guild
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| education = College educated
| aliases = MJ, Crimson She-Devil
| relatives = Anna May Watson (aunt), Philip (father), Madeline (mother, deceased), Gayle Watson-Byrnes (sister), Timothy Byrnes (ex-brother-in-law), Kevin and Tommy Byrnes (nephews), Judge Spenser Watson (uncle), Frank Brown (mother's cousin), Kristy Watson (cousin), Lou and Lorraine Watson (uncle and aunt, parents of Kristy)
| height = 5'8"
| weight = 120 lbs.
| eyes = Green
| hair = Red
| powers = None
| abilities = Professional actress, dancer, and model
| paraphernalia = None
| weapons = None
| debut = (mentioned) Amazing Spider-Man #15 (1964), (cameo) Amazing Spider-Man #25 (1965), (fully) Amazing Spider-Man #42 (1966)
}}{{Headshot|
|main_image=MJ_2008.jpg
}}
{{bio|
bio_text= Mary Jane Watson was the guiding light in Peter Parker's life, and their love had overcome countless obstacles. But her upbringing certainly gave her no reason to believe in happiness. Her parents, Madeline and Philip, met at high school and married aged eighteen. Madeline followed her strong-willed husband across the country as he began his academic career in modern American literature, and by twenty she had one daughter, Gayle. Mary Jane arrived four years later. Philip became a popular college professor and Mary Jane's mother devoted her life to their children - to the casual observer they seemed like the perfect couple.

But Philip had visions of himself as a great writer, another Fitzgerald, a Faulkner... though in truth, he possessed no such talent. Unable to accept his own failings, he turned his fury on his family. He dragged his wife and children from college to college, searching for inspiration.

Gayle Watson turned inwards, seeking solace in her ballet, while Mary Jane hid behind an exuberant personality. At every new school, she was the class clown and party animal. In public, nothing was ever wrong with Mary Jane, while in private, little was ever right. Eventually, Philip's frustrations boiled over, and he struck his elder daughter over the cost of her dancing lessons. While Madeline was prepared to endure her husband's bitterness, she would not stay to see her children suffer his violence.

A few weeks later, as Philip was receiving honors during his college's awards ceremony, Madeline left home with her daughters and two suitcases. She received nothing from the courts, and was left to shuffle from relative to relative. For Mary Jane, life was scarcely improved. They were resented by those who took them in, with one exception - her father's elderly sister, Aunt Anna Watson, who lived in Forest Hills.

[[image:MJ-headshot-JRSR-mini.jpg|left]]Mary Jane loved her visits with Aunt Anna, though one downside was that Anna and her neighbor May Parker were always trying to get Mary Jane together with May's nephew, Peter. Mary Jane was thirteen when she first laid eyes on Peter, aged fourteen. Peter had just started high school, and through her window Mary Jane saw a serious-looking bookworm - kind of cute, in a nerdy sort of way. But Mary Jane had other priorities, and other worries.

Madeline Watson and her family had finally settled down in Pittsburgh, staying with her cousin, Frank Brown. A widower, with three children of his own, Frank paid the bills while Madeline looked after the household. Frank was harsh, but not violent, and at last the tortured family found some stability. But while Mary Jane was breaking hearts as a high-school freshman, Gayle ignored her mother's entreaties and married her high school sweetheart - football star and honours student Timmy Byrnes. Gayle became pregnant when Timmy was just nineteen.

In Timmy's trapped eyes, Mary Jane saw the roots of the desperation which destroyed her father. Turning away from Gayle's impending misery, Mary Jane buried herself in acting, parties, and the nation's new celebrity sensation... Spider-Man. Mary Jane saw that she and Spider-Man shared two things in common - a determined to enjoy life, and a mask which hid their true faces.

The following Thanksgiving break, Mary Jane went to stay with Aunt Anna, when a break-in at the Parker household cost the life of Peter's [[Parker, Ben (Uncle Ben)|Uncle Ben]]. In shock, May Parker had been brought over to Anna Watson's house, but Mary Jane had little stomach for the misery of others. So it was that she watched as Peter arrived home and rushed inside. A minute later, she could hardly believe her eyes as she saw Spider-Man crawl out of an upstairs window, off to seek revenge on his Uncle's killer.

Burying that secret deep within her, Mary Jane watched as Gayle became pregnant again, and her young husband abandoned her. She saw her own mother become sick and die. Desperate, Gayle assumed that Mary Jane would stay and help raise the two young children, but Mary Jane saw nothing but a cage. She ran from Gayle's life, all the way to New York.

Staying briefly with Aunt Anna, Mary Jane found work waiting tables and dancing on stage in discos. She put a deposit on a downtown studio apartment, cheap, but at last a place of her own. In-between, she managed to avoid the date with Peter Parker that their respective aunts were so keen to arrange. But she couldn't put it off for ever.

[[Image:MaryJanemakinoutwithSpidey.jpg|right]]
Peter, expecting a dowdy girl, was stunned by Mary Jane's beauty and exuberant charm. Mary Jane remembered a bookish, bespectacled nerd, and never imagined the confident young college student Peter had become. Nor, when a television bulletin announced that the [[Rhino (Aleksei Sytsevich)|Rhino]] was at large in the city, did she expect him to suggest they ride into town on his motorcycle and catch the action. Of course, Peter immediately disappeared to "take photos", and Spider-Man turned up moments later. Mary Jane bit her tongue, and feigned surprise at these, and many such future "coincidences".

Mary Jane dated Peter a couple more times, and became part of his circle of friends, joining [[Green Goblin (Harry Osborn)|Harry Osborn]], [[Stacy, Gwen|Gwen Stacy]], and [[Thompson, Flash|Flash Thompson]]. But Peter and Gwen fell deeply in love, and Mary Jane could offer no such commitment. Instead, Mary Jane began casually dating Harry, though she flirted shamelessly with Peter, and others. But when Harry developed a drug addiction, his relationship with Mary Jane suffered greatly, and it never truly recovered.

With the death of Gwen Stacy and [[Green Goblin (Norman Osborn)|Norman Osborn]], Mary Jane's friendship with Peter remained true, and she comforted him through his loss. Harry meanwhile had become increasingly unstable, and Mary Jane abandoned him completely. Over time, Peter began to realise that there was more to Mary Jane than the "party girl" persona she affected. As Peter departed on a trip to Europe, he left Mary Jane with a kiss which at last reflected the depth of feeling that had developed between them. In her words... "Wow!"

Over the following months, they became lovers, although Peter's commitments as Spider-Man caused no less grief with Mary Jane than they had when he dated Gwen Stacy or [[Brant, Betty|Betty Brant]]. Even though she secretly knew the reasons for his unreliable behaviour, Mary Jane still felt the need to punish him - occasionally dating sports jocks, like Flash Thompson and others, to get her point across.

Peter eventually proposed to Mary-Jane, but after consideration, she declined, saying that she wasn't the sort of girl who could be happy with just one man. Feeling uncomfortable, Mary Jane left New York for some time, and furthered her modeling career in Florida. In her absence, Peter dated several different women, and pursued a tempestuous relationship with the [[Black Cat]].

When Mary Jane returned, both she and Peter were having some problems with their lives, and relied on one another as good friends. But after another round of the usual Peter Parker lies following a battle with the [[Puma]], Mary-Jane revealed to Peter that she knew that he was Spider-Man. Since his mask was now gone, she removed hers, and told Peter about the other side of Mary Jane, and her own difficult past. In their shared honesty, the two realised how close they had become in their lives. A few months later, Peter proposed once more, and was accepted.

[[Image:Pete-MJ-Wedding-Coipel-mini.jpg|left]]They married, and shared many moments of great happiness. But the reality of being wedded to a [[Glossary:S#super hero|super-hero]] was far more demanding than Mary Jane ever imagined. Between [[Glossary:S#super-villain|villains]] like [[Brock, Eddie|Venom]] invading their personal lives, MJ struggle with Peter's extended absences, and the very real fear that one day, she might get a phone call saying her husband was in a morgue, dressed in a Spider-Man costume.

Mary Jane's fame brought its own problems. She was kidnapped by Jonathan Caeser, a wealthy admirer. Following her escape and his being sent to jail, Caeser still managed to use his influence to ensure that she was forced out of the modelling business. MJ managed to find well-paid work in the day-time drama "Secret Hospital", although she was consequently subjected to several other attacks from crazed fans.

Whether at home at night, or out being the social animal her soap opera fans expected her to be, the young bride found herself increasingly alone - a super-hero widow. She took up smoking, and was nearly tempted into an affair by smooth-talking actor Jason Jerome. Miserable, tense, her life was a far cry from the happy carefree days before her marriage.

But things started looking up for the young couple when Mary Jane became pregnant. Even more significant was the return of Peter's long-lost [[Glossary:C#clone|clone]], [[Scarlet Spider (Ben Reilly)|Ben Reilly]], who assumed the role of Spider-Man. Though Norman Osborn's plans caused the loss of her unborn child, Peter and MJ undertook marriage guidance, and Mary Jane took up psychology at ESU, befriending [[Stacy, Jill|Jill Stacy]]. Mary Jane was given an opportunity to resume her beloved modelling, for which she was very well paid - a fact which caused Peter some embarrassment. They moved into an expensive apartment, along with Aunt May. Their happiness seemed assured.

Though Ben Reilly had tragically been killed by the Green Goblin, Peter told Mary Jane that he was done with being Spider-Man, once and for all. But the spider-bite ran deep in his blood. While MJ's busy modeling schedule was straining their relationship, the truth came out that her husband was still Spider-Man. Their marriage on the rocks, Mary Jane faced further problems as a stalker harassed her constantly on the phone - a secret she withheld from Peter.

As their love hung in the balance, Mary Jane took off on a plane trip. Pete was supposed to catch up with her and have time away to patch things up. With the stalker on board, the plane exploded in mid-air. Peter refused to believe his wife dead, until convinced by the weight of evidence.

[[Image:Mary jane inline.jpg|right]]But Peter was right the first time. MJ was held captive by "the Stalker", a man who supernaturally began to become like Peter after absorbing his memories. Spider-Man rescued MJ, but after the mental trauma of her captivity, she was unable to return to the lifestyle which had torn them apart. The two separated, with Mary Jane moving to the West Coast.

After a painful time apart, the two of them recently decided to make one last move. As Mary Jane flew to New York, Peter flew to Los Angeles. Each finding the other absent, they returned home. But Peter's flight was met an electrical storm, and made an unscheduled stop in Denver, as Mary Jane's plane touched down for a stopover. The two of them met in the airport.

Their reunion was nearly sabotaged when [[Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom)|Doctor Doom]] arrived at the airport, a guest of the American government. When a [[Latveria|Latverian]] resistance group launched an all out attack in the waiting lounge, Spider-Man aided [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]] to defend Doctor Doom. Mary Jane could have no clearer proof that loving Peter Parker meant accepting Spider-Man. But amongst the rubble, Peter told Mary Jane that he needed her, that he loved her, and that he was nothing without her. Watching them, Captain America could see the truth. He offered Peter a word to the wise, from someone who had been down that road a while. "The mask is supposed to hide your face. Don't let it hide your heart." Reunited with Peter, Mary Jane focused on developing her acting skills with serious stage performances, overcoming the stereotype of being an unintelligent supermodel.

Mary Jane, Aunt May, and Peter resided in [[Iron Man (Anthony Stark)|Tony Stark's]] [[Avengers Tower|tower]] since Peter joined the [[Avengers|New Avengers]]. She has suffered watching Peter die at the hands of [[Morlun]], only to watch him re-emerge from his own corpse reborn. She supported Peter's decision to unmask before the world in response to the [[Civil War|Superhuman Registration Act]], despite the increased risk to her own safety. After Peter withdrew his support for the Act, she and Aunt May went into hiding.

The Kingpin, learning of Spider-Man's unmasking, sent a sniper to locate and shoot the Parkers. While Peter saved Mary Jane from the gunfire, Aunt May was shot and sent into a coma. Peter desperately searched for a means to save Aunt May's life, blaming his unmasking for endangering his family. With the Parkers at a dead-end, [[Mephisto]] took advantage of the situation, offering to restore May to health if Peter and Mary Jane agreed to have their holy bond of matrimony removed from time. Mephisto also agreed to erase all memories and records of Spider-Man's unmasking to ensure May would not be simply shot by another sniper. After offering something additional in secret to Mephisto, Mary Jane selflessly agreed to the deal, believing that the love between her and Peter would be strong enough to bring them back together again. Following Mary Jane's lead, Peter consented. Now, time has been altered such that Mary Jane, though she shared a relationship with Peter, never married him, and is currently no longer romantically involved with him.

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[[category:Women]]

Bloodscream

MikeFichera — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:16:45 GMT

MikeFichera: No Spanish, "armada" is a Spanish term

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Unrevealed
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Mercenary; former enforcer, soldier, naval surgeon
| place_of_birth = Unrevealed
| groups = Former servant of [[Mauvais]], former partner of [[Roughouse]], former employee of [[Black Tarantula]], former employee of [[General Coy]]
| citizenship = England, possibly legally deceased
| education = Unrevealed, presumably some medical training.
| aliases = Bloodsport
| relatives = None
| height = 6'5"
| weight = 175 lbs.
| eyes = Black
| hair = White
| powers = Bloodscream can absorb the life forces of others by touch, withering them to a mummy-like state as they bleed uncontrollably from the point they were touched. Those who survive his touch receive a red scar in the shape of his hand, whilst those that die he can transform into mindless [[Glossary:Z#Zombie|zombies]] to do his bidding. Bloodscream can use the life force he absorbs to enhance his strength to undetermined superhuman levels as well as to heal any injury.

Although apparently invulnerable to any mortally-created weapon, Bloodscream can be harmed, and presumably slain, by weapons forged by non-human means.
| abilities =
| weapons =
| paraphernalia =
| creators =
| debut = Wolverine #4 (1989)
| origin =
| significant_issues = Partnered with Roughouse, vs Wolverine (Wolverine #4, 1989); allied with Cylla, vs Wolverine (Wolverine #78, 1994); allied with Belasco, vs X-Men (X-Men Unlimited #9, 1995); reunited with Roughouse, vs Wolverine (Wolverine #123, 1998); with Roughouse, vs Spider-Man (Amazing Spider-Man #435, 1998); enslaved by Mauvais, vs Wolverine (Wolverine 2001 Annual, 2001)
}}{{Headshot|
main_image=bloodscr.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text= Born in the mid-16th Century, the man who would become Bloodscream was a naval surgeon in Sir Francis Drake's fleet. Mortally wounded in battle, he was taken by Drake to a sorcerer named Dagoo to save his life but was instead transformed into a [[Glossary:V#vampire|vampire-like]] creature. Doomed to a macabre existence, Bloodscream learned his condition could only be reversed with an elixir distilled from the blood of a man who does not age. Bloodscream set out to locate such a man and became a soldier, hoping to encounter fellow immortals on the battlefield.

After centuries of combat, Bloodscream fought in the Battle of Normandy in 1944 during which he encountered a Canadian soldier named Logan. Decades later, Bloodscream joined the [[Asgard]]ian brawler [[Roughouse]] as enforcers for the crimelord [[General Coy]] on the island nation of [[Madripoor]]. Under Coy's orders, the pair clashed with rival crimelord [[Tyger Tiger]] and her ally Logan, now the mutant adventurer [[Wolverine]]. Seeing that his foe had not aged since their last encounter, Bloodscream believed he could use Wolverine’s blood in his elixir. After numerous encounters with Wolverine, they had what was almost their final encounter in the snowy wilderness of Canada. After draining the blood from his cybernetic partner [[Cylla]], Bloodscream faced Wolverine (who was virtually powerless after his last encounter with [[Magneto]]), but was unaware of the weapon which Wolverine had in his possession, the demonically-forged Honor Sword of the [[Clan Yashida]]. Wolverine ran him down on his motorcycle and apparently killed the centuries-old vampire with the sword.

However, Bloodscream survived by draining nearby life energy and subsequently allied himself with the sorcerer [[Belasco]]. After clashing with the team of [[Glossary:M#mutant|mutant]] adventurers known as the [[X-Men]], whose number included Wolverine, Bloodscream was sucked into another dimension. Returning to Earth under unrevealed circumstances, Bloodscream was reunited with Roughouse. The pair were recruited as enforcers by the South American crimelord named the [[Black Tarantula]] who set them against both Wolverine and the costumed crimefighter [[Spider-Man]].

Later, Bloodscream came under the control of the cannibalistic sorcerer [[Mauvais]]. Alongside the savage criminal [[Vermin]], he again fought Wolverine but met defeat once more. Mauvais was subsequently exiled into the dimension of the [[Great Beasts]] of Canada, presumably freeing Bloodscream from his control.

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[[category:Villains]]
[[category:Magic]] [[category:Horror]]

Watson, Mary Jane

MikeFichera — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:04:04 GMT

MikeFichera: update to occupation

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Mary Jane Watson
| identity = No dual identity
| occupation = Actress; former model
| place_of_birth = Montoursville, PA
| groups = None
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| education = College educated
| aliases = MJ, Crimson She-Devil
| relatives = Anna May Watson (aunt), Philip (father), Madeline (mother, deceased), Gayle Watson-Byrnes (sister), Timothy Byrnes (ex-brother-in-law), Kevin and Tommy Byrnes (nephews), Judge Spenser Watson (uncle), Frank Brown (mother's cousin), Kristy Watson (cousin), Lou and Lorraine Watson (uncle and aunt, parents of Kristy)
| height = 5'8"
| weight = 120 lbs.
| eyes = Green
| hair = Red
| powers = None
| abilities = Nightclub owner, television show host, actress;
| paraphernalia = None
| weapons = None
| debut = (mentioned) Amazing Spider-Man #15 (1964), (cameo) Amazing Spider-Man #25 (1965), (fully) Amazing Spider-Man #42 (1966)
}}{{Headshot|
|main_image=MJ_2008.jpg
}}
{{bio|
bio_text= Mary Jane Watson was the guiding light in Peter Parker's life, and their love had overcome countless obstacles. But her upbringing certainly gave her no reason to believe in happiness. Her parents, Madeline and Philip, met at high school and married aged eighteen. Madeline followed her strong-willed husband across the country as he began his academic career in modern American literature, and by twenty she had one daughter, Gayle. Mary Jane arrived four years later. Philip became a popular college professor and Mary Jane's mother devoted her life to their children - to the casual observer they seemed like the perfect couple.

But Philip had visions of himself as a great writer, another Fitzgerald, a Faulkner... though in truth, he possessed no such talent. Unable to accept his own failings, he turned his fury on his family. He dragged his wife and children from college to college, searching for inspiration.

Gayle Watson turned inwards, seeking solace in her ballet, while Mary Jane hid behind an exuberant personality. At every new school, she was the class clown and party animal. In public, nothing was ever wrong with Mary Jane, while in private, little was ever right. Eventually, Philip's frustrations boiled over, and he struck his elder daughter over the cost of her dancing lessons. While Madeline was prepared to endure her husband's bitterness, she would not stay to see her children suffer his violence.

A few weeks later, as Philip was receiving honors during his college's awards ceremony, Madeline left home with her daughters and two suitcases. She received nothing from the courts, and was left to shuffle from relative to relative. For Mary Jane, life was scarcely improved. They were resented by those who took them in, with one exception - her father's elderly sister, Aunt Anna Watson, who lived in Forest Hills.

[[image:MJ-headshot-JRSR-mini.jpg|left]]Mary Jane loved her visits with Aunt Anna, though one downside was that Anna and her neighbor May Parker were always trying to get Mary Jane together with May's nephew, Peter. Mary Jane was thirteen when she first laid eyes on Peter, aged fourteen. Peter had just started high school, and through her window Mary Jane saw a serious-looking bookworm - kind of cute, in a nerdy sort of way. But Mary Jane had other priorities, and other worries.

Madeline Watson and her family had finally settled down in Pittsburgh, staying with her cousin, Frank Brown. A widower, with three children of his own, Frank paid the bills while Madeline looked after the household. Frank was harsh, but not violent, and at last the tortured family found some stability. But while Mary Jane was breaking hearts as a high-school freshman, Gayle ignored her mother's entreaties and married her high school sweetheart - football star and honours student Timmy Byrnes. Gayle became pregnant when Timmy was just nineteen.

In Timmy's trapped eyes, Mary Jane saw the roots of the desperation which destroyed her father. Turning away from Gayle's impending misery, Mary Jane buried herself in acting, parties, and the nation's new celebrity sensation... Spider-Man. Mary Jane saw that she and Spider-Man shared two things in common - a determined to enjoy life, and a mask which hid their true faces.

The following Thanksgiving break, Mary Jane went to stay with Aunt Anna, when a break-in at the Parker household cost the life of Peter's [[Parker, Ben (Uncle Ben)|Uncle Ben]]. In shock, May Parker had been brought over to Anna Watson's house, but Mary Jane had little stomach for the misery of others. So it was that she watched as Peter arrived home and rushed inside. A minute later, she could hardly believe her eyes as she saw Spider-Man crawl out of an upstairs window, off to seek revenge on his Uncle's killer.

Burying that secret deep within her, Mary Jane watched as Gayle became pregnant again, and her young husband abandoned her. She saw her own mother become sick and die. Desperate, Gayle assumed that Mary Jane would stay and help raise the two young children, but Mary Jane saw nothing but a cage. She ran from Gayle's life, all the way to New York.

Staying briefly with Aunt Anna, Mary Jane found work waiting tables and dancing on stage in discos. She put a deposit on a downtown studio apartment, cheap, but at last a place of her own. In-between, she managed to avoid the date with Peter Parker that their respective aunts were so keen to arrange. But she couldn't put it off for ever.

[[Image:MaryJanemakinoutwithSpidey.jpg|right]]
Peter, expecting a dowdy girl, was stunned by Mary Jane's beauty and exuberant charm. Mary Jane remembered a bookish, bespectacled nerd, and never imagined the confident young college student Peter had become. Nor, when a television bulletin announced that the [[Rhino (Aleksei Sytsevich)|Rhino]] was at large in the city, did she expect him to suggest they ride into town on his motorcycle and catch the action. Of course, Peter immediately disappeared to "take photos", and Spider-Man turned up moments later. Mary Jane bit her tongue, and feigned surprise at these, and many such future "coincidences".

Mary Jane dated Peter a couple more times, and became part of his circle of friends, joining [[Green Goblin (Harry Osborn)|Harry Osborn]], [[Stacy, Gwen|Gwen Stacy]], and [[Thompson, Flash|Flash Thompson]]. But Peter and Gwen fell deeply in love, and Mary Jane could offer no such commitment. Instead, Mary Jane began casually dating Harry, though she flirted shamelessly with Peter, and others. But when Harry developed a drug addiction, his relationship with Mary Jane suffered greatly, and it never truly recovered.

With the death of Gwen Stacy and [[Green Goblin (Norman Osborn)|Norman Osborn]], Mary Jane's friendship with Peter remained true, and she comforted him through his loss. Harry meanwhile had become increasingly unstable, and Mary Jane abandoned him completely. Over time, Peter began to realise that there was more to Mary Jane than the "party girl" persona she affected. As Peter departed on a trip to Europe, he left Mary Jane with a kiss which at last reflected the depth of feeling that had developed between them. In her words... "Wow!"

Over the following months, they became lovers, although Peter's commitments as Spider-Man caused no less grief with Mary Jane than they had when he dated Gwen Stacy or [[Brant, Betty|Betty Brant]]. Even though she secretly knew the reasons for his unreliable behaviour, Mary Jane still felt the need to punish him - occasionally dating sports jocks, like Flash Thompson and others, to get her point across.

Peter eventually proposed to Mary-Jane, but after consideration, she declined, saying that she wasn't the sort of girl who could be happy with just one man. Feeling uncomfortable, Mary Jane left New York for some time, and furthered her modeling career in Florida. In her absence, Peter dated several different women, and pursued a tempestuous relationship with the [[Black Cat]].

When Mary Jane returned, both she and Peter were having some problems with their lives, and relied on one another as good friends. But after another round of the usual Peter Parker lies following a battle with the [[Puma]], Mary-Jane revealed to Peter that she knew that he was Spider-Man. Since his mask was now gone, she removed hers, and told Peter about the other side of Mary Jane, and her own difficult past. In their shared honesty, the two realised how close they had become in their lives. A few months later, Peter proposed once more, and was accepted.

[[Image:Pete-MJ-Wedding-Coipel-mini.jpg|left]]They married, and shared many moments of great happiness. But the reality of being wedded to a [[Glossary:S#super hero|super-hero]] was far more demanding than Mary Jane ever imagined. Between [[Glossary:S#super-villain|villains]] like [[Brock, Eddie|Venom]] invading their personal lives, MJ struggle with Peter's extended absences, and the very real fear that one day, she might get a phone call saying her husband was in a morgue, dressed in a Spider-Man costume.

Mary Jane's fame brought its own problems. She was kidnapped by Jonathan Caeser, a wealthy admirer. Following her escape and his being sent to jail, Caeser still managed to use his influence to ensure that she was forced out of the modelling business. MJ managed to find well-paid work in the day-time drama "Secret Hospital", although she was consequently subjected to several other attacks from crazed fans.

Whether at home at night, or out being the social animal her soap opera fans expected her to be, the young bride found herself increasingly alone - a super-hero widow. She took up smoking, and was nearly tempted into an affair by smooth-talking actor Jason Jerome. Miserable, tense, her life was a far cry from the happy carefree days before her marriage.

But things started looking up for the young couple when Mary Jane became pregnant. Even more significant was the return of Peter's long-lost [[Glossary:C#clone|clone]], [[Scarlet Spider (Ben Reilly)|Ben Reilly]], who assumed the role of Spider-Man. Though Norman Osborn's plans caused the loss of her unborn child, Peter and MJ undertook marriage guidance, and Mary Jane took up psychology at ESU, befriending [[Stacy, Jill|Jill Stacy]]. Mary Jane was given an opportunity to resume her beloved modelling, for which she was very well paid - a fact which caused Peter some embarrassment. They moved into an expensive apartment, along with Aunt May. Their happiness seemed assured.

Though Ben Reilly had tragically been killed by the Green Goblin, Peter told Mary Jane that he was done with being Spider-Man, once and for all. But the spider-bite ran deep in his blood. While MJ's busy modeling schedule was straining their relationship, the truth came out that her husband was still Spider-Man. Their marriage on the rocks, Mary Jane faced further problems as a stalker harassed her constantly on the phone - a secret she withheld from Peter.

As their love hung in the balance, Mary Jane took off on a plane trip. Pete was supposed to catch up with her and have time away to patch things up. With the stalker on board, the plane exploded in mid-air. Peter refused to believe his wife dead, until convinced by the weight of evidence.

[[Image:Mary jane inline.jpg|right]]But Peter was right the first time. MJ was held captive by "the Stalker", a man who supernaturally began to become like Peter after absorbing his memories. Spider-Man rescued MJ, but after the mental trauma of her captivity, she was unable to return to the lifestyle which had torn them apart. The two separated, with Mary Jane moving to the West Coast.

After a painful time apart, the two of them recently decided to make one last move. As Mary Jane flew to New York, Peter flew to Los Angeles. Each finding the other absent, they returned home. But Peter's flight was met an electrical storm, and made an unscheduled stop in Denver, as Mary Jane's plane touched down for a stopover. The two of them met in the airport.

Their reunion was nearly sabotaged when [[Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom)|Doctor Doom]] arrived at the airport, a guest of the American government. When a [[Latveria|Latverian]] resistance group launched an all out attack in the waiting lounge, Spider-Man aided [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]] to defend Doctor Doom. Mary Jane could have no clearer proof that loving Peter Parker meant accepting Spider-Man. But amongst the rubble, Peter told Mary Jane that he needed her, that he loved her, and that he was nothing without her. Watching them, Captain America could see the truth. He offered Peter a word to the wise, from someone who had been down that road a while. "The mask is supposed to hide your face. Don't let it hide your heart." Reunited with Peter, Mary Jane focused on developing her acting skills with serious stage performances, overcoming the stereotype of being an unintelligent supermodel.

Mary Jane, Aunt May, and Peter resided in [[Iron Man (Anthony Stark)|Tony Stark's]] [[Avengers Tower|tower]] since Peter joined the [[Avengers|New Avengers]]. She has suffered watching Peter die at the hands of [[Morlun]], only to watch him re-emerge from his own corpse reborn. She supported Peter's decision to unmask before the world in response to the [[Civil War|Superhuman Registration Act]], despite the increased risk to her own safety. After Peter withdrew his support for the Act, she and Aunt May went into hiding.

The Kingpin, learning of Spider-Man's unmasking, sent a sniper to locate and shoot the Parkers. While Peter saved Mary Jane from the gunfire, Aunt May was shot and sent into a coma. Peter desperately searched for a means to save Aunt May's life, blaming his unmasking for endangering his family. With the Parkers at a dead-end, [[Mephisto]] took advantage of the situation, offering to restore May to health if Peter and Mary Jane agreed to have their holy bond of matrimony removed from time. Mephisto also agreed to erase all memories and records of Spider-Man's unmasking to ensure May would not be simply shot by another sniper. After offering something additional in secret to Mephisto, Mary Jane selflessly agreed to the deal, believing that the love between her and Peter would be strong enough to bring them back together again. Following Mary Jane's lead, Peter consented. Now, time has been altered such that Mary Jane, though she shared a relationship with Peter, never married him, and is currently no longer romantically involved with him.

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[[category:Civil War]]
[[category:Spider-Man]]
[[category:Women]]

Dementoid

MikeFichera — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:43:56 GMT

MikeFichera: Real name revealed in Spider-Man Saga 2010; "Vic" moved to an alias

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universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb =
| real_name = Richard Earle Amtower IV
| aliases = Vic
| identity = Known to authorities
| occupation = Professional criminal; former scientist
| citizenship = Unrevealed
| place_of_birth = Unrevealed
| relatives = Unrevealed
| groups = [[Redeemer's Gang]]
| education = Unrevealed
| height = Unrevealed
| weight = Unrevealed
| eyes = Unrevealed
| hair = None
| powers = Dementoid created the Dementoid Gel and slathered it all over his body, mutating him into a green-hued individual and grew two extra arms out of his back. His touch, as a result of the gel, can drive men insane. [[Venom (Mac Gargan)|Venom]], either because of the symbiote or his current mental state is immune to Dementoid’s touch.
| abilities = None
| weapons = None
| paraphernalia = Dementoid was outfitted with two steel claw-like appendages to replace the parts of his mutated arms Venom ate
| debut = Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man #1 (2009)
| origin = Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man #2 (2009)
| significant_issues = Part of Redeemer's group therapy session, joined Redeemer’s gang, defeated by Venom and ended up being arrested (Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man #1-4, 2009)
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bio_text= Once a normal man, Vic was a scientist who created what he called his Dementoid Gel. Slathering himself in it, Vic changed and adapted the name of his creation to himself. Now a mutated human, in more ways than one, Dementoid was able to drive men insane with just a touch. The only person to escape this cruel fate was [[Venom (Mac Gargan)|Venom]], posing as [[Spider-Man (Peter Parker)|Spider-Man]]. One of Dementoid's teammates, [[Doctor Everything]], proposed it could be because of immunity to Dementoid's touch or an already insane mental state. Either way, Venom ate parts of both Dementoid's arms growing out of his back.

Dementoid, perhaps partially insane himself, met up with a psychiatrist determined to rehabilitate super-villains, and joined his [[Redeemer's Gang|group]]. The doctor, also known as the [[Redeemer]], enlisted the help of a few others who have had similar misfortunes at the hands of the web-swinger. [[General Wolfram]], [[Eleven]], and the [[Hippo]] rounded out the gang, but even by combining forces they were no match for Venom. Dementoid was one of the lucky few to have survived the event and was merely carted off to prison.
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Redeemer

MikeFichera — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:20:41 GMT

MikeFichera: Edits, as per profile in Spider-Man Saga 2010

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universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb =
| real_name = Shep Gunderson
| aliases = None
| identity = Known to authorities
| occupation = Former psychiatrist
| citizenship = USA, with a criminal record
| place_of_birth = Omaha, Nebraska
| relatives = None
| groups = [[Redeemer's Gang]]
| education = M.D. in psychiatry from Creighton College of Medicine
| height = 3'2" (formerly 5'4")
| weight = 105 lbs. (formerly 136 lbs.)
| eyes = Blue
| hair = Brown
| powers = None
| abilities = Redeemer fancies himself as a skilled therapist, specializing in behavioral problems
| weapons = None
| paraphernalia = None
| debut = Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man #1 (2009)
| origin = Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man #1 (2009)
| significant_issues = Announced his plan to rehabilitate Venom, formed a gang, failed miserably and ended up being arrested (Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man #1-4, 2009)
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bio_text= Dr. Shep Gunderson had a plan to take convicted super villains and rehabilitate them. He even took his idea to the mayor of New York, [[Jameson, J. Jonah|J. Jonah Jameson]], but he was humiliated when Jameson refused to even hear him out. The good doctor went ahead with his plan under the guise of the Redeemer, but he was going to need help. A recent admission to the hospital he worked in gave him the last recruit to a [[Redeemer's Gang|group]] he formed. [[General Wolfram]], seriously injured during a foiled bank robbery by [[Venom (Mac Gargan)|Venom]], posing as [[Spider-Man (Peter Parker)|Spider-Man]], went with Gunderson without question.

Redeemer had private sessions with each member in his therapy group and was determined to help set them on the right path, so they could rejoin society in a productive manner. He also found they all had one thing in common. Each of his patients, except for [[Doctor Everything]], had come into contact with Venom and had all been mutilated in some form or another because of his cannibalistic behavior. Redeemer sought to find and redeem Venom's evil ways. His plan, not well thought out, and his group, not tremendously experienced, were easily defeated with two members, [[Eleven]] and the [[Hippo]], being killed and eaten. Redeemer couldn’t escape Venom's wrath either and was left horribly disfigured even as Doctor Everything was handed over to the authorities.

Unwilling to accept defeat so easily, Redeemer wanted to try his luck again and face Venom a second time. With only Wolfram and [[Dementoid]] to aid him, Redeemer enlisted the help of two rival gangs set against each other by a double-crossing Venom. To make matters worse, [[Green Goblin (Norman Osborn)|Norman Osborn]], looking to teach Venom a lesson, secretly sent [[Daken]] and [[Bullseye]] to eliminate him. Regardless of the numbers on his side, Redeemer ultimately failed in his quest to rehabilitate Venom and ended up in jail along with the rest of his surviving teammates.
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Eleven

MikeFichera — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:16:28 GMT

MikeFichera: Added real name as revealed in Spider-Man Saga 2010

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universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb =
| real_name = Jenni Pate
| aliases = None
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Former professional criminal
| citizenship = Unrevealed
| place_of_birth = Unrevealed
| relatives = Unrevealed
| groups = Formerly [[Redeemer's Gang]]
| education = Unrevealed
| height = Unrevealed
| weight = Unrevealed
| eyes = Unrevealed
| hair = Unrevealed
| powers = Eleven displayed sonic powers capable of harming the alien symbiote better known as [[Venom (Mac Gargan)|Venom]]
| abilities = None
| weapons = None
| paraphernalia = Eleven wore a prosthetic leg to replace the one Venom ate
| debut = Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man #1 (2009)
| origin = Unrevealed
| significant_issues = Part of Redeemer’s group therapy session, joined Redeemer's gang, defeated by Venom and ended up being eaten (Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man #1-3, 2009)
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main_image= Eleven.jpg
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bio_text= The only person who could say they even remotely knew the fiery personality called Eleven would be Eleven herself. The [[Redeemer]] brought Eleven into his [[Redeemer's Gang|therapy group]] in hopes she would share her story with the others, leading up to her run in with [[Venom (Mac Gargan)|Spider-Man]] and the loss of her leg. Eleven wasn't the sharing type – about her past or her clash with the wall-crawler - but she was completely on board with "rehabilitating" the man who disfigured her. Perhaps if she knew it was Venom who was impersonating the actual [[Spider-Man (Peter Parker)|web-head]], she would have been more frightened. Luck on her side, Eleven was gifted with a sonic voice capable of harming the alien symbiote, but her inexperience, perhaps coupled with a case of mistaken identity, led to her demise after she let up on her scream and Venom bit her in half at the waist.
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Hippo

MikeFichera — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:53:58 GMT

MikeFichera: Real Name added (as per 2010 Spider-Man Saga)

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universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb =
| real_name = Mrs. Fluffy Lumpkins
| aliases = None
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Professional criminal; former zoo animal
| citizenship = None
| place_of_birth = Presumably the zoo
| relatives = Unrevealed
| groups = Formerly [[Redeemer's Gang]]
| education = Unrevealed
| height = Unrevealed
| weight = Unrevealed
| eyes = Blue
| hair = None
| powers = Hippo is semi-human, thanks to the [[High Evolutionary]], and presumably has the strength, durability and endurance of an average hippo of his size
| abilities = None
| weapons = None
| paraphernalia = Hippo has metal, prosthetic limbs to replace the ones [[Venom (Mac Gargan)|Venom]] ate
| debut = Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man #1 (2009)
| origin = Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man #2 (2009)
| significant_issues = Part of Redeemer's group therapy session, joined Redeemer's gang, defeated by Venom and ended up being eaten (Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man #1-3, 2009); Possibly alive and well and battling the Avengers (New Avengers: Luke Cage #1, 2010)
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main_image= Hippo.jpg
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bio_text= Years ago, the Hippo was just that – a regular hippo living in the zoo until the [[High Evolutionary]] came along and changed his life forever. In the name of science, the hippo was transformed into the Hippo – a semi-human creature belonging to neither race. Hippo tried to make a go of it in the real world, but when things weren't going his way, he started robbing banks. Managing to stay under the radar for quite some time, Hippo's luck ran out when the sinister [[Venom (Mac Gargan)|Spider-Man]] took notice of his evil ways and bit his legs off.

Hippo eventually found himself in the care of the [[Redeemer]], or rather his alter-ego, Dr. Shep Gunderson, and was drafted into Gunderson's [[Redeemer's Gang|therapy group]]. Surrounded by others who have shared a similar fate, the Hippo was eager to dish out some revenge to the man who maimed him. Replacing his missing limbs with metal appendages, the Hippo was ready to go. Unfortunately, he was believed murdered, along with his teammate, [[Eleven]], and the two were reportedly eaten by the very creature they sought to save.

* Note: The details of Hippo's death may have been grossly exaggerated as two members of the [[Avengers]], the real [[Spider-Man (Peter Parker)|Spider-Man]] and [[Ronin (Clint Barton)|Ronin]], were seen battling the creature just before [[Cage, Luke|Luke Cage]] dropped on his head, rendering him unconscious.

[[image: Hippoaction.jpg|400px|center|thumb|Hippo versus Ronin and Spider-Man]]
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File:Iron patriot.jpg

MikeFichera — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:21:39 GMT

MikeFichera: removed profile data from jpg image

Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

MikeFichera — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 02:40:06 GMT

MikeFichera: Update

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universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb = The bite of an irradiated spider granted high-school student '''Peter Parker''' incredible powers. When a burglar killed his Uncle Ben, Peter vowed to use those abilities to protect his fellow man, driven by his uncle's words: '''With great power comes great responsibility!'''
| real_name = Peter Benjamin Parker
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Scientist and inventor; former freelance photographer, assistant high school coach, science teacher
| place_of_birth = Forest Hills, New York
| groups = [[Avengers]], formerly the Secret Defenders, "New Fantastic Four", the [[Outlaws]]
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| education = College graduate (biophysics major), doctorate studies in biochemistry (incomplete)
| aliases = Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, the Amazing Spider-Man, the Sensational Spider-Man, the Spectacular Spider-Man, "Tiger," Spidey, Webhead, Webslinger, Wall-crawler, "Little Man"; formerly "the Amazing Octo-Spidey", Bag-Man, "Bookworm," Captain Universe, Dusk, Hornet, Mad Dog #336, Man-Spider, Prodigy, "Puny Parker," Ricochet, Scarlet Spider, Spider-Hulk, Spider-Phoenix
| relatives = [[Parker, Richard|Richard Parker]] (father, deceased), [[Parker, Mary|Mary Parker]] (mother, deceased), [[Parker, Ben (Uncle Ben)|Benjamin Parker]] (uncle, deceased), [[Parker, May (Aunt May)|May Parker]] (aunt), [[Fitzpatrick, Will|Will Fitzpatrick]] (grandfather), [[Scarlet Spider (Ben Reilly)|Benjamin Reilly]] (Scarlet Spider, clone, deceased), [[Kaine]] (clone), other clones (deceased)
| height = 5'10"
| weight = 167 lbs.
| eyes = Hazel
| hair = Brown
| powers = Peter can cling to most surfaces, has superhuman strength (able to lift 10 tons optimally) and is roughly 15 times more agile than a regular human. The combination of his acrobatic leaps and web-slinging enables him to travel rapidly from place to place. His spider-sense provides an early warning detection system linked with his superhuman kinesthetics, enabling him the ability to evade most any injury, provided he doesn't cognitively override the autonomic reflexes.

Note: his power enhancements through his transformation by the Queen and after battling Morlun - including his organic web glands and stingers - have been undone after Spider-Man's deal with Mephisto.
| weapons = None
| paraphernalia = Spider-Man designed and constructed several devices that he traditionally carries as part of his full costume. This includes twin artificial [[Spider-Man's Web-Shooters|web-shooters]] worn at the wrists, spare web cartridges attached to his belt, spider-tracer devices attuned to his spider-sense, the spider-signal light, and a compact camera. He has reconstructed his web shooters out of a high density plastic to avoid metal detectors, and has added modifications to detect low web-fluid levels, and propel spider-tracers.

For a time while allied with Iron Man, Spider-Man wore a costume that was equipped with filters in the mouth area to keep out toxins and allow him to breathe underwater, audio amplification, visual amplification (including vision in the infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths), a short-range GPS microwave communication system (with a built-in fire, police, and emergency scanner), and retractable webbing under his arms that allow short bursts of gliding. The costume was made of a material that could serve as a bulletproof jacket against small caliber bullets. For the first upgrade to the costume, Stark added three mechanical waldo arms, which can grab and move objects as well housing cameras which transmit images back to the costume's eyepiece. The waldoes can also be used offensively in combat. The costume is now built out of a liquid metal nanofiber material allowing it to quickly change in appearance upon mental command into anything from Spider-Man's civilian clothes to his former costumes, as well as providing camouflage by blending with the surrounding colors.

| abilities = Peter is an accomplished scientist, inventor and photographer.
| debut = Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962)
| origin = Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962)
| significant_issues =
First cross-over with the Fantastic Four (Amazing Spider-Man #1, 1963); J. Jonah Jameson explained why he hates Spider-Man (Amazing Spider-Man #10, 1964); Spider-Man and Green Goblin discovered each other's identities, Green Goblin becomes amnesiac (Amazing Spider-Man #40, 1966); Green Goblin remembered Spider-Man's identity (Spectacular Spider-Man Magazine #2, 1968); Peter discovered the truth about his parents' occupation and cause of death (Amazing Spider-Man Annual #5, 1968); Green Goblin killed Gwen Stacy (Amazing Spider-Man #121, 1973); Harry Osborn discovered Spider-Man's identity (Amazing Spider-Man #134, 1974); Peter encountered the first Gwen Stacy clone (Amazing Spider-Man #143, 1975); Spider-Man's clone Ben Reilly first appeared (Amazing Spider-Man #149, 1975); Peter's life history told and origin retold (Amazing Spider-Man #181, 1978) Peter proposed to Mary Jane for the first time (Amazing Spider-Man #182, 1978); first appearance of the alien symbiote (Secret Wars #8/Amazing Spider-Man #252, 1984); Peter proposed to Mary Jane for the second time (Amazing Spider-Man #290, 1987); Mary Jane accepted Peter's proposal for marriage (Amazing Spider-Man #292, 1987); Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson married (Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21, 1987); Mary Jane announced she is pregnant (Spectacular Spider-Man #220, 1995); Spider-Man (temporarily) quit being Spider-Man (Spectacular Spider-Man #229, 1995); Aunt May discovered Peter is Spider-Man (Amazing Spider-Man #35, 2001); joined the New Avengers. (New Avengers #3, 2005); died after battle with Morlun (Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #3, 2006); reborn (Amazing Spider-Man #527, 2006); discovered new powers (Amazing Spider-Man #529, 2006); received new costume from Tony Stark (Amazing Spider-Man #529, 2006), publicly revealed identity (Civil War #2, 2006)
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|main_image= SpiderMan0001.jpg
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bio_text=The bite of an irradiated spider granted high-school student '''Peter Parker''' incredible powers. When a burglar killed his Uncle Ben, Peter vowed to use those abilities to protect his fellow man, driven by his uncle's words: '''With great power comes great responsibility!'''

=== The Boy, the Bite, and the Burglar ===
[[image: Ditko-Parker-shadow.jpg|frame|border|left|middle|125px]]Orphaned as a baby when his parents were killed overseas in a plane crash as U.S. government spies, only child Peter Parker was raised by his elderly [[Parker, Ben (Uncle Ben)|Uncle Ben]] and [[Parker, May (Aunt May)|Aunt May]]. Academically gifted, Peter displayed an uncanny affinity for science that was nothing short of genius. Socially, however, he was painfully shy and the target of much cruelty by his peers at [[Midtown High School]]. Attending a public science exhibit when Peter was 15-years old, he was bitten on the hand by a radioactive spider accidentally irradiated by a particle beam, empowering Peter with the arachnid's proportional strength and agility, and the ability to cling to almost any surface. [[image: spiderbite-LWeeks.jpg|frame|right]]Most incredibly, he had gained a sixth sense that provided him with early warning of impending danger. Disguised, Peter tested his new-found abilities defeating professional wrestler [[Crusher Hogan]] in the ring, and earning some cash. Using his scientific prowess, he constructed a pair of artificial web-shooters that attached to his wrists. With an agent, a costume, and a new name, Spider-Man became an overnight sensation on television. Unconcerned with the rest of the world, he vowed to use his powers only to take care of himself and his aunt and uncle. After his first TV special ended, he allowed a burglar that he could have easily restrained to run past him and escape. A few days later, Peter returned home to find his beloved Uncle Ben had been shot and killed. When Spider-Man confronted the killer hiding in the old Acme Warehouse at the waterfront, he discovered to his horror that his uncle's murderer was the burglar he apathetically allowed to pass. Consumed with guilt, he became aware at last that with great power comes great responsibility, just as his beloved uncle had once said.

To help his Aunt May with finances, Peter took a freelance job at the Daily Bugle selling pictures of himself as Spider-Man to publisher [[Jameson, J. Jonah|J. Jonah Jameson]]. Despite Spider-Man rescuing his son, astronaut John Jameson, from a malfunctioning space capsule, Jonah used his newspaper to publicly condemn Spider-Man as a menace. Unlike heroes like the [[Fantastic Four]] or the [[Avengers]], Spider-Man was mistrusted and feared by the public. At school, his popularity was no greater, as "Puny Parker" frequently clashed with bully [[Thompson, Flash|Flash Thompson]] and his followers. Flash's girlfriend, [[Osborn, Liz|Liz Allan]], often complicated matters, harboring a crush on "Petey" and making Flash jealous.

=== A Gathering of Enemies ===
Spider-Man soon found himself facing a rogue's gallery of powerful thieves, gangsters, and megalomaniacs including the [[Chameleon]], the [[Tinkerer]], the [[Vulture (Adrian Toomes)]], [[Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius)]], the [[Sandman]], [[Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom)|Doctor Doom]], and [[Electro]]. In Florida, he befriended Dr. Curtis Connors after administering an antidote to reverse his transformation into the terrible [[Lizard]]. Though he had many enemies, he also shared adventures with the [[Fantastic Four]] (including rival the Human Torch), the [[Avengers]], the [[X-Men]] and [[Daredevil]]. At the Daily Bugle, he discovered a friend and his first love, Jameson's secretary, [[Brant, Betty|Betty Brant]]. Even more villains clashed with Spider-Man including the [[Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn)|Green Goblin]], the Big Man and the Enforcers, [[Mysterio (Quentin Beck)]], and [[Kraven (Sergei Kravinoff)|Kraven the Hunter]]. Dating Betty became awkward after her brother, Bennett, was murdered in a clash between Doctor Octopus and Spider-Man. Betty at first held Spider-Man responsible. Though she later recanted, the thought of Spider-Man reminded her of losing her brother. At home, Aunt May suffered a heart attack, causing Spider-Man to abandon a fight with the Green Goblin. For a while after, the public viewed Spider-Man as a coward, before he made a comeback. May's fragile health and poor finances, however, remain a lingering concern. Frustrated by their defeats at the hand of Spider-Man, six of his top villains gathered forces under Doctor Octopus to form the [[Sinister Six]]. Through wits and determination, Spider-Man defeated the group one at a time.

Peter Parker’s confidence gradually increased. At the same time, his relationship with Betty crumbled as handsome reporter Ned Leeds stole her heart. Jameson took his campaign against Spider-Man to a new level, sponsoring the creation of the deranged [[Venom (Mac Gargan)|Scorpion]], under Dr. Farley Stillwell. Though the Scorpion turned on Jameson, the publisher persisted with attacks against Spider-Man, and rented the first of a series of robotic Spider Slayers invented by Dr. Spencer Smythe. Spider-Man was able to use his technical know-how to defeat the Slayer. While Aunt May persisted with attempts to introduce Peter to [[Watson, Mary Jane|Mary Jane Watson]], the niece of neighbor Anna Watson, Spider-Man tackled organized crime led by the Crime Master and the Green Goblin. Tired of the Bugle's harassment, Peter tried selling pictures for the Daily Globe but gave up when the Globe's editor proved too nosy.

=== Big Super-Hero on Campus ===
[[image:Pete-Gwen-gang-JRSR.jpg|frame|left]]After capturing a new foe, the Molten Man, Peter Parker graduated high school and earned a science scholarship to Empire State University (ESU) for achieving the highest scholastic average in Midtown High's history. College brought a fresh start with new peers including the wealthy [[Osborn, Harry|Harry Osborn]], son of industrialist Norman Osborn, and beauty queen of Standard High, Gwen Stacy; Flash Thompson followed Peter to ESU on an athletic scholarship. Consumed with worry about his aunt's hospitalization, Peter was misunderstood as an unfriendly snob by Harry and Gwen. Because a previous transfusion of his radioactive blood to Aunt May was slowly killing her, Spider-Man enlisted aid from [[Lizard (Curtis Connors)|Dr. Connors]]. The antidote that had been called in to cure Aunt May was stolen, and Spider-Man fought like a madman to retain it. Before Spider-Man could deliver the antidote, ISO-36, he was trapped under rubble in a battle with the "Master Planner” (revealed to be Doctor Octopus). Spider-Man courageously forced his way out to administer the elixir to Aunt May.

While Aunt May convalesced, Peter relaxed and befriended Harry and Gwen. Soon after, the Green Goblin negated Spider-Man's spider-sense, and kidnapped him. There, the Goblin revealed himself to be Harry's father, Norman. The two battled, but Spider-Man triumphed knocking the Goblin into live wires and chemicals. Norman was left with partial amnesia, blocking his memories of being Goblin and of Spider-Man's identity.

The Avengers invited Spider-Man to join their ranks, but after facing the Hulk, he declined the offer, preferring the freedom of working alone. Meanwhile, Peter could no longer evade meeting Mary Jane. Assuming the worst, Peter was stunned to discover she was both gorgeous and vivacious. Their first date involved riding into the city on Pete's new motorcycle take pictures of the Rhino. After another battle with the Lizard and new foe, the Shocker, Peter moved into Harry's apartment, rent free. Despite his new found independence, happiness eluded him. Worn out by Jameson's editorials, the public's fear of him, Aunt May's fragile health, slipping grades, and floundering love life, Peter decided to become Spider-Man no more. While Peter enjoyed time studying, and being with friends and family, crime escalated as the Kingpin's initiated his master plan to oversee the criminal underworld. After Peter rescued a watchman resembling Uncle Ben from two robbers, he renewed his vow to never let an innocent come to harm because he failed to act. Subsequently, Spider-Man battled the [[Kingpin]], Doctor Octopus (who became Aunt May's boarder), a new Vulture, a new Spider Slayer, and Mysterio. He and the [[Human Torch (Johnny Storm)|Human Torch]] went to Hollywood where they tackled Mysterio and the [[Wizard]].

=== The Girl, the Goblin, and the Great Heartbreak ===
Though Peter dated MJ on occasion, he soon fell for the more serious-minded Gwen, causing tension between Harry and himself. Peter met Gwen's father, retired police Captain [[Stacy, George|George Stacy]], who studied Spider-Man, and questioned Peter about his first-hand experience. The Kingpin brainwashed Capt. Stacy (using Norman Osborn's equipment) into stealing police records. After Peter published pictures exposing Stacy, the Kingpin kidnapped George and Gwen. Spider-Man and Osborn rescued the two, but the Kingpin escaped. The Kingpin next focused on stealing a legendary stone tablet but Spider-Man retrieved it, and left it with Capt. Stacy. The Shocker stole it back, and Dr. Connors was forced by Man Mountain Marko to translate it for an aged gangster, [[Silvermane]]. Connors revealed a formula for a youth potion. Silvermane drank the liquid, and became a young man again. Tragically, he could not stop the de-aging process, and shrank so small, he ultimately disappeared. Meanwhile, the stress on Dr. Connors triggered a transformation again. After a fierce melee across the city, with unwelcome help from the Human Torch, Spider-Man rescued Connors.

[[image:Gwendeath01.jpg|frame|right]]Though Peter's frequent unexplained disappearances as Spider-Man have caused friction with Gwen, their love for each other gave Peter hope for a happy future together. As the bond between Peter and Gwen grew ever stronger, it was approvingly observed by Gwen's father, Police Captain George Stacy, who also supported the efforts of Spider-Man. But tragedy struck when Captain Stacy was crushed by a falling chimney, saving an innocent child during a battle between Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus. With his dying breath, Captain Stacy told Spider-Man, "take care of Gwen, Peter". Spider-Man had lost a great ally.

Gwen blamed Spider-Man for her father's death. Peter's conscience, already tormented by the ever present need to lie to Gwen, became even more troubled. Yet their love prevailed through life's challenges - including Harry's drug addiction, and Spider-Man's aborted attempt to remove his own powers, that instead resulted in him being transformed into a six armed freak. In the end, it was death which separated the two lovers. The Green Goblin kidnapped Gwen, and dropped her off the Brooklyn Bridge. Spider-Man tried, but failed to save her. In the vicious battle which followed, Norman was accidentally impaled by his own Goblin Glider. His apparent death was secretly observed by his son, Harry, who swore his own revenge on Spider-Man. Harry soon succumbed to the Osborn Legacy, kidnapping those whom Peter loved most, only barely being stopped from finishing the work that Norman Osborn had started.

=== A Clone is Born ===
Meanwhile Peter and Gwen's college Professor, Miles Warren, had begun his own deadly schemes as the [[Jackal]]. Miles blamed Spider-Man for the death of Gwen, whom he had himself fallen in love with. The climax of the Jackal's plan was his creation of a [[Scarlet Spider (Ben Reilly)|Spider-Man clone]], but at the conclusion of the final battle, both the Jackal and the clone were killed. With their departure, Peter's life returned to normality, as much as it ever could for a college student who was secretly a costumed super-hero.

In the meantime, Peter and Mary Jane realized that their relationship had become far more than just friendship. So much so that, shortly before his college graduation, Peter proposed to Mary Jane. But she had seen too much pain in her own family, and she turned him down. She left New York to pursue her modeling career in Florida, and Peter Parker moved on to post-graduate studies. It was a time for new challenges, and new friends. But one thing would never change; the ever-present responsibility he faced as Spider-Man.

=== Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places ===
Entering his post-graduate studies, Peter's close college friends began to find their own lives. Liz Allan was dating (later to marry) a recovering Harry Osborn. Flash Thompson was looking for a life after football and the army, with his girlfriend Sha Shan. Betty Brant had married Bugle reporter [[Hobgoblin (Ned Leeds)|Ned Leeds]]. Even Peter's Aunt May had found romance with [[Lubensky, Nathan|Nathan Lubensky]], fellow occupant of the convalescent home she had moved into. With his friends all in cozy couples, Mary Jane's departure was all the more unsettling. But it was not long before Peter began dating again. He enjoyed several dates with Cissy Ironwood. Also, departmental secretary Deborah Whitman was attracted to Peter, but failed to win his heart. Dawn Starr, undergraduate student, pretended to date Peter though actually wanting to sneak a look at an upcoming exam. Amy Powell tried to use Peter to make her fiancé Lance Bannon jealous.

=== A Partner in Crimefighting ===
These women had one thing in common - Peter Parker. But when [[Black Cat|Felicia Hardy]], crossed Spider-Man's path, things were different. Felicia was beautiful, talented, and determined. She was also an unrepentant burglar who had a romantic fascination with her web-slinging hero. Spider-Man persuaded Felicia to turn away from crime, and the two of them became lovers - and crime-fighting partners. Felicia urged Peter to spend more and more time in costume. The glamorous Black Cat could never bear to see her super-hero living the squalid life of post-grad student. Becoming Spider-Man was made easier since Aunt May had recovered enough to return home and open the Parker residence as a boarding home for retired people, aided by Nathan. Aided by the Black Cat, Spider-Man faced Doc Ock and the [[Owl]] - a battle which nearly cost Felicia her life. Peter was brought crashing down to earth. He realized that without super-powers, Felicia was just like the others from his past, who had so often paid the price for Peter being Spider-Man.

=== The Redhead Returns ===
When Mary Jane returned from Florida she found Peter and the Black Cat in a shaky and tempestuous relationship. Felicia could not bear the thought of Peter not allowing her to accompany him into battle, and she embarked on a secret search for super-powers at any price. Tricked by the Kingpin, and twisted in her own deceit, the Black Cat and Spider-Man finally parted ways. In contrast, Mary Jane was determined not to let lies come between her and Peter Parker. She finally told Peter that she had known for some time about his secret identity. With Spider-Man's secret finally out in the open, Peter and Mary Jane's relationship found new depth.

=== Peter Makes a New Friend from Outer Space ===
[[image:BlackCostume-CVess-WOS1.jpg|frame|left]]Certainly there always was plenty of action for Spider-Man in New York, especially with the appearance of the deadly [[Hobgoblin]], and Peter's troubles with his symbiotic black costume he obtained after being whisked away to the [[Secret Wars]], a battle on a far away world between the Earth's greatest heroes and villains orchestrated by the enigmatic [[Maker|Beyonder]]. His costume shredded, Spider-Man thought he obtained a new black and white costume (similar in design to the new [[Spider-Woman (Julia Carpenter)|Spider-Woman]]) from a costume making machine. After returning home to Earth, Peter discovered his costume was actually a living entity, feeding off his adrenalin as it possessed his body while he slept. Thanks to [[Mister Fantastic]], the costume was removed by sonic blasts, and captured. It escaped, still emotionally dependant on Spider-Man and reattached itself. Spider-Man forced it off by the loud noise atop the bell-tower of a church (where the alien costume would later attach itself to Eddie Brock forming [[Anti-venom (Eddie Brock)|Venom]]).

=== Wedding Bells for the Webhead ===
As Spider-Man, Peter faced the death of his good friend [[Dewolff, Jean|Police Captain Jean DeWolff]] at the hands of the [[Sin-Eater]]. He watched Flash Thompson be taken for a criminal, and Ned Leeds killed, both for their involvement with the Hobgoblin. But things were different now - he had Mary Jane by his side. Peter proposed for a second time, and was accepted. As newlyweds, Peter and Mary Jane shared happiness, but faced many perils also. Mary Jane was menaced by both Kraven the Hunter, and by Venom, both of whom knew Peter's identity. Mary Jane loved Peter, and had deep respect for his sense of responsibility. But she was unprepared for the loneliness, the fear for his life, and the nagging doubt that perhaps Peter needed Spider-Man far more than he needed her. During this time, Spider-Man gained the cosmic powers of [[Captain Universe]] making him virtually indestructible, able to fly, shoot cosmic energy blasts, and possess unimaginable strength. This temporary augmentation allowed Spider-Man to defend himself against a new assortment of foes (including [[Graviton]], [[Magneto (Magnus)|Magneto]], [[Titania (Mary MacPherran)|Titania]], and [[Dragon Man]]), as villains attempted to aid each other by targeting each others' enemies. At the opposite extreme, Spider-Man temporarily lost all of his powers under the trickery of the [[Chameleon]], but was aided by the Black Cat in restoring his abilities. Spider-Man, along with the [[Hulk (Bruce Banner)|Hulk]], [[Ghost Rider (Daniel Ketch)|Ghost Rider]], and [[Wolverine (James Howlett)|Wolverine]] briefly formed an unofficial ad-hoc Fantastic Four team, while the real Fantastic Four were captured by Skrulls. The group quickly disbanded.

Amongst the daily battles with New York's villains, and the challenges of keeping his marriage alive, Peter soon faced the inexplicable return of his parents, [[Parker, Mary|Mary]] and [[Parker, Richard|Richard Parker]]. Long since believed dead, they claimed to have lost their memory of the intervening years. Aunt May was not ready to accept them, but Peter finally believed them to be what they claimed to be, even showing them his identity as Spider-Man. But Peter's heart had over-ridden his instincts. The pair were eventually revealed as robot agents of the Chameleon, part of a plan prompted by Harry Osborn, recently returned as the Green Goblin. Spider-Man was filled with anger at this deeply personal attack. It seemed to him that those he loved were fated to die, while the evil in his life would always return to haunt him.

=== I Am the Spider ===
A darkness began to fill Spider-Man's heart, like never before. Still brooding over the Chameleon's invasion of his life, and Harry's death after a twisted attack on both the Osborn and Parker families, Peter was then faced with Aunt May's serious heart attack. May hospitalized, and not expected to recover. Peter's frustration at life's injustices boiled over into violence. Encountering the recently reformed and powerless Scorpion, Spider-Man cruelly beat his former foe close to death - ignoring his victim's pleas for mercy. Calling himself "the Spider", it seemed that Peter was even beyond Mary Jane's powers to heal him. In the end, his salvation came at the hands of [[Judas Traveller]], a psychologist with most unusual methods. Peter's recovery from his dark madness coincided with the return of a figure from Peter's distant past - his clone, created by the Jackal. The clone had survived, and had wandered the U.S. using the adopted name "Ben Reilly". Learning that Aunt May was very ill, the clone returned to New York, just in time to see her pass away. He adopted a costumed identity as the "Scarlet Spider", and portrayed himself as Peter's long-lost cousin. Peter and Ben became friends, even almost brothers. The Jackal himself had also survived. Deceived at the hands of Norman Osborn, the Jackal declared that in fact Ben was the original, and Peter the clone. Though Peter took the revelation badly, Ben subsequently took over the role of Spider-Man, leaving Peter and pregnant Mary Jane free to enjoy a "normal" life. Peter returned to his scientific career, though hampered by having never completed his doctorate. He and MJ also tried moving to Portland, until they realized that New York was where they truly belonged. But all too soon, their new world was shattered when Norman Osborn burst back into their lives. He also had survived his apparent death, and was the mastermind behind all of the Jackal's schemes. Norman killed Ben, revealing him to be the clone after all. But Norman's schemes went even deeper and deadlier than ever - he apparently caused Mary Jane to miscarry the baby and held Peter's Aunt May hostage. The woman believed to have been Aunt May that had died was a genetically modified actress, part of a subtle plot which was never carried to fruition.

=== A New Chapter ===
Reunited at last, Peter, Mary Jane, and Aunt May moved into a luxurious apartment. With the Green Goblin defeated in battle, driven more deeply insane by a mystical ceremony, Peter promise Mary Jane that he would give up being Spider-Man and concentrate on their family. He took a job at Tri Corp Research while Mary Jane returned to modeling. But after various emergencies and the appearance of a new Spider-Man (actually [[Spider-Woman (Mattie Franklin)|Mattie Franklin]]), Peter could not seem to keep his word.

While Mary Jane was being increasingly threatened by an anonymous stalker, Peter was secretly breaking his promise and returning to web-slinging. Mary Jane, preoccupied with modeling, was distraught feeling a space grow between her and Peter. After catching Peter still active as Spider-Man, MJ vanished when a plane she had boarded exploded. Peter was devastated. Aunt May returned to her home in Forest Hills, while Peter returned to his bachelor lifestyle moving in with Randy Robertson. He socialized with Randy, [[Grant, Glory|Glory Grant]] (now a couple), and Gwen's cousin [[Stacy, Jill| Jill Stacy]] while his attractive neighbor, Caryn intrigued him. But with Peter still emotionally adrift, Norman picked the perfect time to drug Peter and incite him to becoming his heir. But even lost and confused as he was, Peter proved that his could resist Osborn's brainwashing attempt. Meanwhile, Mary Jane was not dead, but had been kidnapped by her stalker. Spider-Man managed to rescue Mary Jane, only to discover that she needed time away from him. Mary Jane left for the West Coast, leaving Peter to struggle with a loss almost as traumatic as her apparent death. While Peter turned to his Aunt May for support, May discovered Peter's greatest secret, visiting unannounced, and finding him asleep in costume after his grueling victory against [[Morlun]]. After coming to terms with the truth, May quickly became Spider-Man's strongest supporter, and the two became closer than ever. At May's suggestion, Peter returned to Midtown High, now more rundown that Peter remembered it, to teach science part-time. With renewed hopes, Peter and Mary Jane agreed to try once to make things work between them. After their time apart, Peter earnestly assured Mary Jane that he truly needs her in his life.

=== A Mystical Connection? ===
The mysterious [[Ezekiel]], who shared similar spider-like abilities, made Peter question the source of his powers, implying a mystical reason the spider chose to bite him. Ezekiel had stolen his powers through an arcane ceremony and needed to sacrifice Spider-Man to keep them. When his ritual joined their minds, however, Ezekiel realized Spider-Man was the worthy hero and sacrificed himself.

=== A Past Indiscretion ===
[[image: Spidey banner.jpg|frame|right|200px]]Back home, Spider-Man fought the two adult children of his ex-love, Gwen Stacy. Years before, Gwen had an affair with Norman Osborn, subsequently became pregnant and rapidly gave birth to twins, [[Stacy, Gabriel|Gabriel]] and [[Stacy, Sarah|Sarah]]. After his own apparent 'death,' Osborn raised the pair, who were aging rapidly due to their genetic inheritance of the Goblin formula. Osborn told them that Peter was their father and had killed their mother but Spider-Man eventually made them face the truth.

Osborn also revealed Spider-Man's identity to the [[Venom (Mac Gargan)|Scorpion]], and had him kidnap Aunt May. Osborn had been publicly revealed as the Green Goblin and jailed after murdering journalist Terri Kidder. He knew big businesses had been conspiring for decades to create super-villains and, as a potential whistle-blower, was an easy target in prison. Osborn wanted Peter to break him out in return for May's freedom, but when Peter did, a battle erupted with the [[Sinister Twelve]], including Gargan himself - now the new Venom after bonding with the alien symbiote. Spider-Man, with the help of other super-heroes, was able to defeat the Sinister Twelve and save his Aunt May. Around this time, Spider-Man met the [[Queen]] who had powers allowing her to control the world's insects, eventually causing Spider-Man to mutate into a giant spider. She planned to detonate a bomb that would kill everyone except those with the "insect" gene but Peter returned to his human form and stopped her, augmented with enhanced powers including silk glands within his forearms.

=== Major League ===
After a breakout at the [[Raft|Raft Security Prison]], Spider-Man joined the Avengers (newly formed in the aftermath of the [[Scarlet Witch]]'s attack on her own team). An old classmate of Peter's named [[Weiderman, Charlie|Charlie Weiderman]] went on an insane rampage after his experiments covered him in [[Vibranium]], and burned down the Parker's home in Forest Hills. Peter moved into Tony Stark's tower with Aunt May and Mary Jane. For this and various other reasons, Spider-Man's secret identity was shared with many of the world's heroes including the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, providing him with an venue to communicate among his peers.

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=== The Other ===
Morlun returned again, viciously beating Spider-Man, removing an eye, and hospitalizing him. Mary Jane tried to stop Morlun from finishing off her husband. But when Morlun threatened to kill her, Spider-Man gave the last of his energy to protect her. With stingers that burst from his wrists, Spider-Man slayed Morlun. Spider-Man then apparently died; however, a new Peter Parker emerged from the old corpse, now more fully embracing his "other" self - his spider personae. Retaining his stingers, he discovered other new abilities including night vision, greater control of his skin adhesive properties, and enhanced sensory perceptions, such as being able to sense the vibrations traveling through his webline. [[Iron Man (Anthony Stark)|Tony Stark]] looking at Peter as his protégé, gave Spider-Man a new technologically advanced costume with a red and gold color scheme as a gift.

=== Choosing Sides, Unmasking, and Switching Teams ===
In the aftermath of a tragedy in Stamford, Connecticut, in which a band of televised heroes were unable to prevent the villain [[Nitro]] from killing an entire elementary school full of children and parts of the surrounding community, the U.S. government propelled forward the Superhuman Registration Act requiring the superhero community to register themselves as living weapons of mass destruction, and reveal their identities to the government. The act was supported by Tony Stark, who became the leader of the Pro-Registration side. The superheroic community was split between registering or refusing and becoming an outlaw. Leading the opposition to the act was [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]], in defense of heroes' right to privacy. To support Iron Man, and perhaps obtain the ever-elusive respect from the public by compliance with the Act, Spider-Man made the difficult decision (with support from May and Mary Jane) to reveal his identity to the world during a press conference. As Spider-Man now faces the danger of public exposure to his family and loved ones, and the prospect of having to capture his renegade friends in what has become an all-out [[Civil War]] in the superpowered community, Peter regretted his decision. After witnessing a prison in the Negative Zone for super humans who refused to register, Parker fled Avengers Tower with his family, clashing with Iron Man during his exit. He aided Captain America and the forces opposing registration, culminating in a major battle during the jailbreak of the heroes imprisoned in the Negative Zone, Captain America's surrender, and the end of the Civil War. Spider-Man has remained a member of the unsanctioned Avengers team in the aftermath. Since Spider-Man's identity is now public knowledge, the Kingpin arranged a sniper to slay the Parker family. Though Mary Jane was spared, Parker was unable to prevent his aunt from getting shot. May was left in a coma on the verge of death. The anguish of yet another loved one injured because of his life as Spider-Man embittered the hero. He resumed wearing his black cloth costume, reflective of the dark times while his Aunt May was precariously close to death. Spider-Man confronted the Kingpin in Ryker's Island prison, and, while unmasked, beat him within an inch of his life, vowing to come back and kill him if Aunt May died.

=== A Brand New Day and Hitting the Big Time ===
With time running out, Peter tried several avenues, from the technological to the mystical, to save May's life. At a dead-end, [[Mephisto]] appeared to Peter and Mary Jane offering to prevent May’s death, but at the cost of their holy bond of matrimony. After spending one more day together, Mary Jane selflessly took the initiative and agreed to the bargain, knowing Peter would never forgive himself if he rejected a chance to save May. She had faith that their love would be strong enough to reunite them. As a result, one event was removed from the lives of Peter and Mary Jane - they were never married, and Aunt May survived the shooting. Realizing how dangerous it was to reveal his secret identity, Peter, through the combined efforts of Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, and Reed Richards, had the world not only forget he was Spider-Man, but be mystically confused if ever considering they were the same person. Mary Jane was exempted from forgetting, but later broke up with him, unable to cope with the strain of being Spider-Man's girlfriend.

Single and jobless, Peter was reunited with his old friend Harry Osborn - whose death had been part of an elaborate hoax by his father. Spider-Man also returned to using web-shooters, rather than his own self-generated organic webbing, for reasons that have not yet been revealed. Over time, Peter unmasked again to a select group of heroes including the Fantastic Four and the Avengers. Through connections with Marla Jameson, Peter acquired a dreat job at Horizon Labs, where his skills as a brilliant scientist and inventor have earned him a steady paycheck. Marla's death, killed by Spider-Slayer Alistaire Smythe, inspired Spider-Man to promise that nobody else dies on his watch. The Jackal (or possibly a clone), partnered with the Queen and turned New York City into "Spider-Island" wherein bedbugs gave many the powers of Spider-Man. Peter and his colleagues at Horizon helped stop the plague. Peter's girlfriend at the time, forensic detective Carlie Cooper, temporarily gained powers in the event. Afterwards, she discovered Peter's secret identity and broke up with him. Despite their differences, she remains an ally.

One of Parker's experiments at Horizon accidentally bestowed super powers into an irresponsible teen (Andrew Maguire). As Alpha, Maguire became Spider-Man's arrogant sidekick, with little regard for Spider-Man's concern for his well being.

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Daily Bugle

MikeFichera — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:38:07 GMT

MikeFichera: Fixed spelling on Thorton, added Winters, Day, and Miss Jones

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Founded in 1897, the Daily Bugle was purchased a few decades after its inception by businessman [[Goodman, William|William Walter Goodman]], who prized selfless human achievement above all else and who lent his name to the building the newspaper called home. In 1939, when the android [[Human Torch (Jim Hammond)|Human Torch]] and [[Sub-Mariner|Namor the Sub-Mariner]] began alternately terrorizing and protecting the city, Bugle photographer [[Sheldon, Phil|Phil Sheldon]] immortalized many of their exploits. Following [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]]'s debut in late 1940, Bugle reporter [[Patriot (Jeff Mace)|Jeff Mace]] became one of his earliest imitators as the costumed Patriot, although he was just as often active against evil as a correspondent alongside [[Miss Patriot|Mary Morgan]] and freelancer [[Casey, Jack|Jack Casey]], while [[Sites, C. Thomas|C. Thomas]] Sites and others chronicled the battlefield missions of the [[Howling Commandos]].
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In later decades, the Bugle's destiny became inexorably linked with that of [[Jameson, J. Jonah|J. Jonah Jameson]], known for uncovering secret details of the [[Invaders]]' wartime missions. Jameson, inspired by the past Bugle editor [[Jameson, Walter|Walter "Old Man" Jameson]] (often mistakenly assumed to be Jonah's father) mimicking his signature flat-top and mustache. He rose through the Bugle's ranks as copy boy, reporter, editor and editor-in-chief, championing civil rights and opposition to organized crime. Some twenty years ago, having already emptied his inheritance to buy the Bugle corporation years before, he purchased the entire Goodman Building housing the newspaper to which he had dedicated his life.

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[[image:DailyB-Betty.jpg|thumb|[[Brant, Betty|Betty Brant]], reporter|100px|left]]
[[image:DailyB-PParker.jpg|thumb|[[Spider-Man (Peter Parker)|Peter Parker]], former photographer|100px|left]]
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In recent years, Jameson's obsession with [[Spider-Man (Peter Parker)|Spider-Man]] has shaped the Bugle's perspective on superheroes, centered on suspicion toward masked vigilantes and superhuman feats upstaging straightforward human heroism. The Bugle's offices have been the sites of Spider-Man's battles with [[Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius)|Doctor Octopus]], the [[Fly]], the [[Venom (Mac Gargan)|Scorpion]], the [[Vulture (Adrian Toomes)|Vulture]] and many others. The Bugle building has been twice destroyed during such battles, once by [[Graviton]] and once by the [[Green Goblin (Norman Osborn)|Green Goblin]], but it has been rebuilt each time to remain as active as ever. Despite lukewarm attempts to cover superhuman activity more objectively in its short-lived Pulse feature, the Bugle formally supported the recent passage of the [[Civil War|Superhuman Registration Act]], but the exposure of longtime Bugle photographer Peter Parker as Spider-Man has undermined the paper's credibility.

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===Daily Bugle Staff===
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'''A'''
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*[[Abernathy, Abner|Abner Abernathy]] (reporter), Marvel Team-Up #115 (1982)
*[[Amos, Tom|Tom Amos]] (reporter), Marvel Vision #21 (1997)
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'''B'''
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*[[Bandouveris, Nick|Nick Bandouveris]] (reporter, deceased), Uncanny X-Men #339 (1996)
*[[Bannon, Lance|Lance Bannon]] (photographer, deceased), Amazing Spider-Man #208 (1980)
*[[Barney, Ron|Ron Barney]] (reporter), Marvel Vision #14 (1997)
*[[Bazooka, Joe|Joe Bazooka]] (reporter), Marvel Vision #10 (1997)
*[[Beckford, Noel|Noel Beckford]] (reporter), Amazing Spider-Man/Devil Dinosaur '98 Annual (1998)
*[[Benerstein, Abe|Abe Benerstein]] (film critic), Spider-Man's Tangled Web #20 (2003)
*[[Bering, Mike|Mike Bering]] (reporter), Marvel Vision #14 (1997)
*[[Walters, William|William "Billy" Walters]] (former reporter), Spectacular Spider-Man #235 (1996)
*[[Birchwood, Miriam|Miriam Birchwood]] (columnist), Marvel: Heroes and Legends (1996)
*[[Bostwich, Phil|Phil Bostwich]] (reporter), Marvel Vision #29 (1998)
*[[Brant, Betty|Betty Brant]] (administrative assistant, reporter), Amazing Spider-Man #4 (1962)
*[[Brant, Eleonore|Eleonore Brant]] (administrative assistant), Untold Tales of Spider-Man #12 (1996)
*[[Brown, Kenny|Kenny Brown]] (reporter), Annex #1 (1994)
*[[Browne, Blaine|Blaine Browne]] (reporter), Spectacular Spider-Man #120 (1986)
*[[Brythe, Jill|Jill Brythe]] (reporter), Spider-Man's Tangled Web #11 (2002)
*[[Bunsen, Isabel|Isabel "Izzy" Bunsen]] (science editor), Spectacular Spider-Man #124 (1987)
*[[Butler, Marge|Marge Butler]] (receptionist) Spider-Man Unlimited #13 (1996)

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'''C'''
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*[[Cahill, Harrison|Harrison Cahill]] (chairman of the board of directors), Amazing Spider-Man #198 (1979)
*[[Campbell, Meredith|Meredith Campbell]] (former intern), Green Goblin #7 (1996)
*[[Clarke, Ken|Ken Clarke]] (reporter), UK Spider-Man Annual (1982)
*[[Rose (Jacob Conover)|Jacob Conover]] (Rose) (columnist/reporter, fired), Daredevil #131 (1976)
*[[Cooper, Cole|Cole Cooper]] (photographer), Web of Spider-Man #113 (1994)
*[[Cushing, Kathryn|Kathryn "Kate" Cushing]] (city editor, fired), Web of Spider-Man #5 (1985)

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'''D'''
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*[[Danner, Vickie|Vickie Danner]] (Washington, DC, liaison), Spider-Man: The Arachnis Project #3 (1994)
*[[Davis, Dan|Dan Davis]] (reporter), Captain America '99 Annual (1999)
*[[Day, Phil]] (night editor), (mentioned) Savage Action #11 (1981)
*[[Dickinson, Albert|Albert Dickinson]] (reporter), Deadline #1 (2002)
*[[Dillman, Nick|Nick Dillman]] (reporter), Daredevil #71 (1970)
*[[Donaldson, Herman|Herman Donaldson]] (fact checker), Amazing Spider-Man #192 (1979)
*[[Drunter, Kim|Kim Drunter]] (financial reporter) Amazing Spider-Man #349 (1991)
*[[DuFour, Rich|Rich DuFour]] (reporter), Daredevil #242 (1987)
*[[Dunne, Sam|Sam Dunne]] (national editor), Captain America '99 Annual (1999)
*[[Dupres, Anthea|Anthea Dupres]] (reporter), Clan Destine #7 (1995)

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'''E'''
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*[[Edwards, Edwin E.|Edwin E. Edwards]] (photographer), Spider-Man's Tangled Web #11 (2002)
*[[Edwards, Ethan|Ethan Edwards]] (Virtue/Tiller/Moral-Man) (former reporter), Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #13 (2005)
*[[Ellis, Ken|Ken Ellis]] (reporter), Web of Spider-Man #118 (1994)
*[[Exmore, Samuel|Samuel Exmore]] (apprentice editor), Peter Parker: Spider-Man #11 (1999)

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'''F'''
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*[[Falcone, Tony|Tony Falcone]] (copy writer), Amazing Spider-Man #254 (1984)
*[[Farrell, Katherine|Katherine "Kat" Farrell]] (reporter), Deadline #1 (2002)
*[[Fate, Ian|Ian Fate]] (former reporter), Defenders #104 (1982)
*[[Ferrano, Debby|Debby Ferraro]], Spider-Man #33 (1993)
*[[Finch, Nicholas|Nicholas Finch]] (reporter), Daredevil #230 (1986)
*[[Puma|Thomas Fireheart]] (Puma) (former owner), Amazing Spider-Man #256 (1984)
*[[Casey, Jack|Jack "Flash Gun" Casey]] (1940s reporter/photographer), Human Torch Comics #4 (1941)
*[[Foswell, Frederick|Frederick Foswell]] (Big Man) (reporter, deceased), Amazing Spider-Man #10 (1964)
*[[Fox, Phil|Phil Fox]] (reporter, deceased), Hero for Hire #4 (1972)
*[[Franken, Sid|Sid Franken]] (reporter), Captain America '99 Annual (1999)

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'''G'''
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*[[Gluohy, Tim|Tim Gluohy]] (reporter), Marvel Vision #15 (1997)
*[[Goodman, Simon|Simon J. Goodman]] (1940s editor-in-chief), Marvels #1 (1994)
*[[Goodman, William Walter|William Walter Goodman]] (former owner), Web of Spider-Man #52 (1989)
*[[Gooner, Melvin|Melvin Gooner]] (reporter), Spider-Man #8 (1991)
*[[Grant, Amber|Amber Grant]] (photographer), Omega the Unknown #1 (1976)
*[[Grant, Glory|Glory Grant]] (administrative assistant), Amazing Spider-Man 140 (1975)
*[[Gratham, Derek|Derek Gratham]] (former intern), Green Goblin #7 (1996)
*[[Mystique|Randy Green]] (Mystique) (reporter), Ms. Marvel #16 (1978)

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'''H'''
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*[[Haight, Jeffrey|Jeffrey Haight]] (photographer), Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Negative Exposure #1 (2003)
*[[Harris, Toni|Toni Harris]] (apprentice editor), Peter Parker: Spider-Man #1 (1999)
*[[Hickville, Matt|Matt Hickville]] (reporter), Marvel Vision #21 (1997)
*[[Holt, Edward|Edward Holt]] (purchasing officer), Punisher War Journal #15 (1990)

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'''I'''
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*[[Idelson, Matt|Matt Idelson]] (reporter), Marvel Vision #8 (1996)
*[[Igoe, Max|Max Igoe]] (sports writer), Peter Parker: Spider-Man/Elektra '98 (1998)

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'''J'''
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*[[Jameson, Walter|Walter "Old Man" Jameson]] (former editor-in-chief), Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #110 (1973)
*[[Janson, Frank|Frank Janson]] (rewrite man), Daredevil #230 (1986)
*[[Jerkins, Hal|Hal Jerkins]] (typesetter), Amazing Spider-Man #178 (1978)
*[[Johnson, Bud|Bud Johnson]] (page designer), Spider-Man's Tangled Web #20 (2003)
*[[Jameson, J. Jonah|J. Jonah Jameson]] (publisher), Amazing Spider-Man #1 (1963)
*[[Jones (first name unrevealed)]] (administrative assistant), Spider-Man Special: Black and Blue and Read All Over #1 (2006)
*[[Jones, Charles|Charles Jones]] (member of the board of directors), Amazing Spider-Man #198 (1979)
*[[Jones, Jessica|Jessica Jones]] (reporter, consultant), Alias #1 (2001)

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'''K'''
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*[[Katrobousis, Dick|Dick Katrobousis]] (editor), UK Spider-Man Annual (1982)
*[[Karzenberg, Nick|Nick Katzenberg]] (photographer, deceased), Web of Spider-Man #50 (1989)
*[[Keene, Steve|Steve Keene]] (accountant), UK Spider-Man Annual (1982)
*[[Kidder, Terri|Terri Kidder]] (reporter, deceased), Pulse #2 (2004)
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'''L'''
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*[[LaGrange, Simon|Simon LaGrange]] (reporter, fired), Daredevil #242 (1987)
*[[Hobgoblin (Ned Leeds)|Ned Leeds]] (Hobgoblin) (reporter, deceased), Amazing Spider-Man #18 (1964)
*[[Lessman, Richard|Richard Lessman]] (reporter), Amazing Spider-Man #191 (1979)
*[[Lichtenstein, Yusef|Yusef Lichtenstein]] (editor), Daredevil #230 (1986)
*[[Lorca, Maggie|Maggie Lorca]] (reporter), Spider-Man #29 (1992)
*[[Lumley, Judy|Judy Lumley]] (society and fashion reporter), Peter Parker: Spider-Man #3 (1999)
*[[Lutomski, Eileen|Eileen Lutomski]] (proofreader), Spider-Man's Tangled Web (2003)
*[[Lynton, Laurie|Laurie Lynton]] (columnist, deceased), Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #15 (2005)

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'''M'''
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*[[Patriot (Jeff Mace)|Jeff Mace]] (Patriot/Captain America) (1940s reporter), Human Torch Comics #3 (1941)
*[[MacIntosh, Ann|Ann MacIntosh]] (columnist, classifieds editor), Amazing Spider-Man Annual #18 (1984)
*[[Marder, Midge|Midge Marder]] (editor), X-Man #21 (1996)
*[[Markarian, Ralfie|Ralfie Markarian]] (reporter), X-Man #26 (1997)
*[[Marts, Michael|Michael Marts]] (reporter), Marvel Vision #6 (1996)
*[[McCulloch, Maggie|Maggie McCulloch]] (chief librarian), Marvel Team-Up #83 (1979)
*[[McTeer, J.J.|J.J. McTeer]] (reporter, deceased), Punisher: Year One #1 (1994)
*[[Mercado, Joy|Joy Mercado]] (reporter), Moon Knight #33 (1983)
*[[Merryweather, Irene|Irene Merryweather]] (reporter, fired), Cable #48 (1997)
*[[Michaels, Dawn|Dawn Michaels]] (investigative reporter),Hulk #10 (1978)
*[[Michaelson, Harvey|Harvey Michaelson]] (reporter) Amazing Spider-Man #196 (1979)
*[[Cohn, Ksitigarbha|Ksitigarbha "Miss Kay" Cohn]] (reporter), Spider-Man's Tangled Web #11 (2002)
*[[Miss Patriot|Mary Morgan]] (Miss Patriot) (1940s reporter), Human Torch Comics #3 (1941)
*[[Morton, Daniel|Daniel Morton]] (photographer), Daredevil #230 (1986)

<CENTER>
'''N'''
</CENTER>
*[[Nasimoff, Danny|Danny Nasimoff]] (night editor), Amazing Spider-Man #243 (1983)

<CENTER>
'''O'''
</CENTER>
*[[Oakley, Bill|Bill Oakley]] (reporter), Daredevil #242 (1987)
*[[O'Breen, Glorianna|Glorianna O'Breen]] (photographer, deceased), Daredevil #205 (1984)
*[[Green Goblin (Norman Osborn)|Norman Osborn]] (Green Goblin) (former owner), Amazing Spider-Man #14 (1963)

<CENTER>
'''P'''
</CENTER>
*[[Spider-Man (Peter Parker)|Peter Parker]] (Spider-Man) (former photographer), Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962)
*[[Parsec, Jan|Jan Parsec]] (reporter), Marvel Vision #25 (1998)
*[[Patton, Jess|Jess Patton]] (reporter, deceased), Spider-Man's Tangled Web #1 (2001)
*[[Paunchilito, Victor|Victor Paunchilito]] (reporter, columnist), Amazing Spider-Man #223 (1981)
*[[Pei, Victor|Victor Pei]] (assistant photo editor), Spider-Man #33 (1993)
*[[Pelkey, Suzie|Suzie Pelkey]] (receptionist), Daredevil #242 (1987)
*[[Pitney, Robert|Robert Pitney]] (typesetter), Omega the Unknown #5 (1976)

<CENTER>
'''Q'''
</CENTER>
*[[Qualen, Gus|Gus Qualen]] (photographer), Amazing Spider-Man #230 (1982)

<CENTER>
'''R'''
</CENTER>
*[[Rabinowitz, David|David Rabinowitz]] (reporter), Amazing Spider-Man #187 (1978)
*[[Reed, Carl|Carl Reed]] (reporter), Spider-Man #13 (1991)
*[[Reeves, Tony|Tony Reeves]] (reporter), Spider-Man Unlimited #3 (1994)
*[[Reynolds, Patrick|Patrick Reynolds]] (reporter), UK Spider-Man Annual (1982)
*[[Robertson, Joe|Joe "Robbie" Robertson]] (editor-in-chief), Amazing Spider-Man #51 (1967)
*[[Rossi, Fabio|Fabio Rossi]] (advertising salesman), Web of Spider-Man #40 (1988)
*[[Ruiz, Armando|Armando Ruiz]] (janitor, deceased), Spectacular Spider-Man #137 (1988)
*[[Ryan, Christine|Christine Ryan]] (reporter, resigned), Generation M #2 (2006)

<CENTER>
'''S'''
</CENTER>
*[[Self, Chuck|Chuck Self]] (reporter, deceased),
*[[Sheldon, Phil|Phil Sheldon]] (photographer, retired), Marvels #1 (1994)
*[[Sidesaddle, Joe|Joe Sidesaddle]] (reporter), Marvel Vision #27 (1998)
*[[Simms, Gabriel|Gabriel Simms]] (security guard, deceased), Punisher War Journal #15 (1990)
*[[Sites, C. Thomas|C. Thomas Sites]] (1940s reporter), Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #110 (1973)
*[[Snow, Charley|Charley Snow]] (reporter), Marvel Team-Up #79 (1979)
*[[Stern, Jeff|Jeff Stern]] (reporter), UK Spider-Man Annual (1982)
*[[Swanson, Paul|Paul Swanson]] (reporter, fired), Deadline #1 (2002)

<CENTER>
'''T'''
</CENTER>
*[[Tatters, Bill|Bill Tatters]] (reporter), Marvel Vision #23 (1998)
*[[Taylor, Leila|Leila Taylor]] (reporter), Captain America #139 (1971)
*[[Thorton, Wendy|Wendy Thornton]] (sports writer), Amazing Spider-Man #252 (1984)
*[[Toeitch, Maury|Maury Toeitch]] (reporter), Marvel Vision #26 (1998)
*[[Toomey, Reginald|Reginald Toomey]] (security guard), Spider-Man's Tangled Web #11 (2002)
*[[Trilby, Dilbert|Dilbert Trilby]] (obituary writer), Spider-Man Unlimited #3 (1993)
*[[Urich, Ben|Ben Urich]] (reporter), Daredevil #153 (1978)
*[[Green Goblin (Phil Urich)|Phil Urich]] (Green Goblin) (former intern), Web of Spider-Man #125 (1995)

<CENTER>
'''U'''
</CENTER>

<CENTER>
'''V'''
</CENTER>
*[[Verreos, Charlie|Charlie Verreos]] (reporter), Amazing Spider-Man #230 (1982)

<CENTER>
'''W'''
</CENTER>
*[[Walsh, Lynn|Lynn Walsh]] (former intern), Green Goblin #1 (1995)
*[[Webb, Bill|Bill Webb]] (photographer), UK Spider-Man Annual (1982)
*[[Weiss, David|David Weiss]] (copy editor, deceased), Spider-Man Unlimited #3 (2004)
*[[Williams, Sarah|Sarah Williams]] (photographer), UK Spider-Man Annual (1982)
*[[Williams, Spence|Spence Williams]] (intern), Spider-Man's Tangled Web #11 (2002)
*[[Winters, Norah]] (reporter), Amazing Spider-Man #575 (2008)
*[[Wormly, Richard|Richard Wormly]] (editor-in-chief's assistant), Amazing Spider-Man #19 (1964)

<CENTER>
'''X'''
</CENTER>
*[[Xanthis, Bill|Bill Xanthis]] (rewrite man), Amazing Spider-Man #230 (1982)

<CENTER>
'''Y'''
</CENTER>
*[[Yin, Angela|Angela Yin]] (photographer), Spectacular Spider-Man #215 (1994)

<CENTER>
'''Z'''
</CENTER>
*[[Zimmer, Mickey|Mickey Zimmer]] (photographer), UK Spider-Man Annual (1982)
</td>
</tr>
</table>

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{{place}}
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OHOTMU:FAQ

MikeFichera — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:36:23 GMT

MikeFichera: fixed comixfan link, Marvel's new address, other minor updates

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= Welcome! =
Welcome to the official online FAQ page for the [[OHOTMU|Official Handbooks of the Marvel Universe]]. Here we hope to answer some of the more common queries Marvel and the Handbook writers have received regarding the current incarnation of the OHOTMU.

'''Last Updated:''' 01/26/2007

== Contact Us ==
If you've found something in a Handbook that you believe to be in error, an omission, something else you wish to bring to our attention, or just comments in general, you can either write to us care of Marvel at:

Marvel Handbooks
c/o Marvel Enterprises, Inc.
135 West 50th St, 7th Floor
NY, NY 10020

or e-mail us at ''ohotmu @ gmail.com'' (please note this is not an active link. You will have to type it in, minus the spaces around the @. This is to reduce spam.)

Please note that while the various writers have other e-mail addresses, either personal or for their own websites, using these other e-mail addresses to bring up Handbook topics is likely to mean you will have a long wait before you get a reply, if you get one at all.

Fans can also visit the Official Handbook Discussion Forum @ the Comixfan Website, [http://www.comixfan.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=375 "Who Watches The Watchers?"], to find out more about the recent Handbooks and related titles as well as chat with the writers!

== What does OHOTMU stand for? ==
The ''Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe'', a series of reference guides which have been released over the years describing and chronicling many of the characters, groups, organizations, places and events which have been shown within that fictional universe.

== What were the previous editions of the OHOTMU? ==
The original ''Official Handbook'' series was released between 1982 and 1984, and ran for 15 issues. The first twelve listed characters alphabetically, followed by two issues which covered dead and inactive characters, then a final issue detailing "Weapons, Hardware, and Paraphernalia".

The ''Deluxe Edition'' ran for twenty issues between 1985 and 1988; fifteen were devoted to alphabetical listings of active characters, and the last five were given over to this edition's "Book of the Dead". This was supplemented in 1989 with ''Update '89'', adding an additional eight issues to bring this run to a total of 28 issues.

A ten issue Trade Paperback collection of the twenty issue ''Deluxe Edition'', with a few old entries replaced by new ones.

The ''Master Edition'', a 36 issue series of loose leaf pages.

In addition to the above, there have also been a few other guides to aspects of the Marvel universe not considered part of any version of the ''Official Handbooks'' above. These were:

''The Official Handbook of the Conan Universe'' - a single issue released in 1986 covering the world of Conan, which was, at the time, a licensed part of the Marvel Universe.

''The Gamer's Handbook to the Marvel Universe'' - released by TSR for their licensed Marvel Universe Role-Playing Game, these large format titles used a similar layout to the Official Handbook line of comics with gaming statistics added. Four volumes were released in 1988, followed by a yearly update volume each year from 1989 to 1992, bringing the total count to eight.

Dorling Kindersley's ''Ultimate Guide'' range, which has covered such characters as Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk and the Fantastic Four.

The ''Marvel Encyclopedia'' range, larger, hardcover volumes. To date there have been six volumes of this released:

* Vol. 1 - General
* Vol. 2 - X-Men
* Vol. 3 - Hulk
* Vol. 4 - Spider-Man
* Vol. 5 - Marvel Knights
* Vol. 6 - Fantastic Four

== What Handbooks are in the current incarnation? ==
Beginning in 2004, the current incarnation of Handbooks began with a series of "themed" one-shots. These continued throughout 2005. 2006 saw the publication of the 12-issue All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z maxi-series, as well as the Marvel Legacy decade themed one-shots. During this time, several other Handbook-like titles have also been released as companions for various Marvel storylines and events.

2007 saw a mix of "themed" one-shots and an A-Z Update mini-series.

For a quick index, see below. For a more comprehensive list, please visit our [[OHOTMU:Listings|Listings]] page here @ Marvel.com.

=== 2004 Handbooks ===
* X-Men 2004
* Spider-Man 2004
* Avengers 2004
* Hulk 2004
* Daredevil 2004
* Wolverine 2004
* Book of the Dead 2004
* Golden Age 2004

=== 2005 Handbooks ===
* Women of Marvel 2005
* Marvel Knights 2005
* X-Men: Age of Apocalypse 2005
* Spider-Man 2005
* Teams 2005
* Fantastic Four 2005
* Avengers 2005
* Ultimate Spider-Man / Ultimate Fantastic Four 2005
* Alternate Earths 2005
* Horror 2005
* X-Men 2005
* Ultimates / Ultimate X-Men 2005

=== 2006 Handbooks ===
* A-Z #1: Abraxas to Batwing
* A-Z #2: Benny Beckley to Crazy Eight
* A-Z #3: Copperhead to Ethan Edwards
* A-Z #4: Damon Dran to Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Holliway
* A-Z #5: Gorgon to Jury
* A-Z #6: Justice to Marvel
* A-Z #7: Victor Mancha to Phantazia
* A-Z #8: Nekra to Quoi
* A-Z #9: Puppet Master to Shamrock
* A-Z #10: Shadowoman to Tara
* A-Z #11: Stranger to Ultimo
* A-Z #12: Ultragirl to Arnim Zola

=== 2007 Handbooks ===
* A-Z Update #1: Amatsu-Kami to Walker
* A-Z Update #2: Adam II to Zodiak
* Spider-Man: Back in Black

=== Marvel Legacy Handbooks ===
* Marvel Legacy: The 1960s Handbook
* Marvel Legacy: The 1970s Handbook
* Marvel Legacy: The 1980s Handbook
* Marvel Legacy: The 1990s Handbook

=== Other Related Titles ===
* New Avengers #1 Director's Cut
* Young Avengers #1 Director's Cut
* Secret War: From the Files of Nick Fury
* Secrets of the House of M
* Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters
* New X-Men: Academy X - Yearbook Special #1
* New Avengers: Most Wanted Files
* X-Men: The 198 Files
* Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files
* Planet Hulk: Gladiator Handbook
* Civil War Files
* Phoenix/Jean Grey profile in Scholastic-exclusive Marvel Encyclopedia: X-Men 2 TPB
* Santa Claus profile in Marvel Holiday Special (2006)
* Civil War Battle Damage Report

== Where can I find the A-Z series bibliographies? ==
For space-saving reasons, it was decided to move the bibliography online @ Marvel.com as of the 2006 series. The bibliographies can be found [[OHOTMU:Bibliography-Contents|by clicking here]].

== What profiles have been featured? ==
For a breakdown of who has been profiled where in all the various and sundry series of current Handbooks, please visit our [[OHOTMU:Listings|Listings]] page here @ Marvel.com.

== What Handbooks are due to be released next? ==
We are currently hard at work on a range of Handbook product for 2007, including an A-Z Update mini-series and more themed books.

== Who are the current Handbook writers? ==
The head writer for the majority of the current Handbooks has been Jeff Christiansen, who also founded the unofficial [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/ Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe] Website. The other writers to date have been:

Chris Biggs, Heather Buchanan, Ronald Byrd, Anthony Cotilletta, Jonathan Couper-Smartt, Patrick Duke, Wale Ekunsumi, Eric Engelhard, [[User:MikeFichera|Mike Fichera]], Anthony Flamini, Kevin Garcia, Jason Godin, Richard Green, Michael Hoskin, Bill Lentz, Sean McQuaid, [[User:ComiX-Fan|Eric J. Moreels]], Mark O'English, Mike O'Sullivan, Roger Ott, Mike Raicht, Barry Reese, Jacob Rougemont, Patrick Ryall, Gabriel Shechter, Al Sjoerdsma, Bryan Thiessen, [[User:Stuart Vandal|Stuart Vandal]], Kerry Wilkinson, [[User:DragynWulf|David Wiltfong]].

== How do I become a Handbook writer? ==
We're really the wrong people to answer that question. You would need to contact Marvel directly. Their submissions guidelines are available by [http://www.marvel.com/company/subs.htm clicking here].

== How do you go about writing each profile? ==
Once the list of profiles for each book has been chosen, the writers discuss the characters on it, and pick the entries they feel best suited to write. Once each writer has their list, they use a checklist of appearances our head writer, Jeff Christiansen, assembled and maintains, which lists virtually every character in the Marvel universe and where they appeared. From this point we follow similar methods to those established by the writers of the original (and Deluxe) volumes of the Marvel Handbooks (where appropriate and applicable, I will quote original Handbook scribe Mark Gruenwald's words on the subject, because he said it well, and there's no point trying to improve on perfection). The writer goes to the original comics, and reads "''through the entry-subject's every appearance in chronological order, making notes of the significant data.''"

Like the original series (though on a lesser scale) we sometimes "''look at the various gaps in the data, be it a never-disclosed real name or an unrecorded episode describing how an entry-subject got from point A to point B where we see it next. We then solicit original material from the writer and / or editor most closely associated with the entry-subject. Writers and/or editors either provide us with the material we request''", give us permission to suggest options to fill that gap ourselves "''or inform us that they would prefer to keep a bit of information a secret. We are proud to have certain information appear here in the Handbook for the first time anywhere.''" We also consider cases where there are conflicting historical accounts (inevitable in such an old and large mythos as Marvel's) or gray areas (such as who is actually a member of a team with informal membership requirements and who is just an ally who hangs around), and again, where possible, contact the original writers or original and current editors, to see if a ruling can be made to clarify the situation. Taking the information from these first two steps, an initial profile is assembled - unlike the method used on the Deluxe edition, we do not go to the previous Handbooks until after assembling the initial profile. This is firstly because we do not wish to short-change owners of the original volumes by consciously or unconsciously regurgitating what is simply an updated copy of something they bought many years ago, and secondly because any Handbook entry is a summary of the entry-subject's history, and going to the original comics may bring up relevant aspects of that history missed out from the previous summaries. We do, however, always check previous Handbook volumes where appropriate, as they can be the source of canonical information not given anywhere else; physical dimensions, true identities, names of relatives, and historical background have all been provided for the first (and in some cases only) time in those Handbooks, and must not be missed out if the new profile is to be accurate. Once any such information is added, the draft is then submitted to the writer group for comments and proof checking. Profiles will generally go through multiple drafts, with us repeating the initial steps of re-checking the original comics and querying the people who wrote and edited the character as often as required.

When we have finished our drafts, the profiles are all sent to our editor Jeff Youngquist, who likewise checks through all the profiles for mistakes and unclear information: in many cases, other editors relevant to given sections of the Marvel universe (such as Mike Marts for X-Men related entries) or writers closely associated with given entry-subjects will also check profiles; in all cases, continuity supremo Tom Brevoort scrutinizes our work, correcting anything he feels we have got wrong. Only then, once all these people have checked and double checked the work, does it gain the official Marvel seal of approval, and get sent to be put into Handbook format ready for the printers.

== Is it true you are "just a bunch of fan writers"? ==
Every person working on the Handbooks is a fan. However, please don't take that as a negative judgment on either how much Marvel cares about the Handbooks, or on the quality of our work for same. Remember - Chris Claremont was and is a fan; John Byrne likewise; Peter David too. Walt and Louise Simonson - fans. Jim Starlin - fan. Neil Gaiman - fan. Alan Moore - fan. Mark Gruenwald - fan. Joe Quesada - fan. In fact, probably without exception, any artist or writer who started working in comics since the 1960s was and is a fan. Unless you are very successful, there are better paid jobs, and ones with more public prestige; most people working in the industry (on the creative side at least) started doing so because they are fans. And while we don't count ourselves on the same level as the comic luminaries I've listed, my point is that being a "fan" does not mean the work somehow automatically loses validity; instead please judge the Handbooks on the quality or otherwise of our work. Some of the Handbook writers make their professional living as writers; all of us are employed as writers of these books by Marvel. We work as a group collectively reviewing all of the profiles; over time we have assembled a panel of experts that function synergistically to identify the most obscure points, making the material as complete as possible, as well as identifying errata, making the material as correct as possible. All material published is reviewed and sanctioned by both Tom Brevoort and Jeff Youngquist. In addition, any time we are not certain about material, we will send it to the writers of the relevant stories for checking and clarification.

Fans? Absolutely, and proud of it. ''Just'' fans? No.

== Which characters are going to be covered? ==
Unfortunately we are not at liberty to reveal who is featured in forthcoming Handbooks ahead of their scheduled release outside of those depicted on preview covers or in solicitation copy.

== Why haven't you covered (insert character name)? ==
Marvel estimates it has nearly 5,000 "properties" (e.g. characters); over at the unofficial Marvel Appendix site, which many of the Handbook writers are involved with, we've already covered got more entries than that, and we haven't even listed any of the "big names". So far, we've produced some 380 entries over 13 Handbooks, and it doesn't take a Math genius to realize that's only just scratched the surface of what's there. The current format is for themed books, and in some cases, a given character hasn't been covered yet simply because an appropriate theme hasn't come round yet (Speedball, to take a random example, wouldn't fit any of the themes so far); in most other cases, it's because we simply haven't had enough Handbooks to get round to them yet. Groups such as the X-Men or Avengers (for example) have lengthy membership lists and hordes of enemies, and a single Handbook can't contain them all. Even if we were to only give every character within a single page entry, which we don't want to do because it would short-shift many characters, we still couldn't fit them all in a single volume. The Handbooks is a series, not a string of individual and unconnected books, and if you view it this way, the omission of a character from a given volume isn't quite so devastating. Sometimes, when deciding who makes the cut for a given book, we will have two equally worthy candidates vying for a place, and our decision can get swayed by which one is more likely to fit the remit of a subsequent book; if one of the characters could fit into a later book and another couldn't, then the character with more options will get held back. A good example of this was the Rhino; considered for the Spider-Man Handbook 2004, he was dropped to make more space for other Spidey villains, and included in the Hulk Handbook instead.

We've covered just over 420 entries in 15 Handbooks; the most comprehensive of the older Handbooks, the Deluxe Edition, covered just under 900, but it had a 20 volume run plus 8 update volumes to reach this total. Give us time :)

== Are there any characters you cannot profile? ==
Sadly, yes. Licensed characters for whom Marvel no longer own the license are the main ones; you won't be seeing Rom the Spaceknight, the Micronauts (at least, the ones based on the toys), Conan, Fu Manchu, Red Sonja, Godzilla, the Shogun Warriors, the Human Fly, etc, any time soon. Creator-owned characters are also off limits, so no Groo, Coyote, or Alien Legion, I'm afraid. And obviously we can't do profiles for characters from other companies who have interacted with Marvel characters in various mini-series or one-shot crossovers - in other words, don't hold your breath for the Official Marvel Handbook of the Justice League of America. As reference volumes, we are usually okay to mention most of the above in chronicling the history of Marvel characters who they might have interacted with; we just can't do individual entries for them. There are also some characters who were part of a licensed properties' comic who belong to Marvel Comics - Starshine and Hybrid from Rom, Bug from the Micronauts, Dr. Demonicus from Godzilla, for example - and who we conceivably could cover one day.

== Why don't you number characters? ==
In the past, the Handbooks would distinguish between characters of similar name by numbering them, eg Captain America I, Captain America II, etc. However, numbering is an inefficient way of tracking characters who share the same name. Is Betty Ross "Golden Girl I" because she appeared in the Marvel Universe several decades before Gwen Sabuki "Golden Girl II"? Or, since Gwen was active during WWII and Betty wasn't active until after the war, should the numbers be the other way around? Many people call Adrian Toomes "Vulture I" to distinguish him from Blackie Drago "Vulture II" and Clifton Shallot "Vulture III"... except there were at least two costumed criminals called the Vulture who pre-date Toomes and are simply less well-known than he is (and even more Vultures if you count Robert E. Howard related stories such as Conan). The trouble with the numbering is that:

* it's easy to get wrong, because you overlook some obscure prior character with the same name (the Vulture)
* it's easy to get wrong because some writer creates a retcon characters who now pre-dates everyone else on the list (the 1700s Captain America, the Gwen Sabuki Golden Girl, etc)
* different people figure their numbering different ways (Golden Girl being the perfect example of this)
* it doesn't actually supply any info to people who didn't realise there was more than one person of that name until they saw the numbering.

That's why the Handbooks now put the real name (or other clarifier if the real name is unknown or likewise identical) in parentheses after the names of characters where this kind of confusion could arise. It is longer, but makes more sense in the long run.

== Why do you number Earths? ==

Initially, Alan Moore started it. In a Captain Britain strip written by Moore, the hero was involved in traveling to a number of alternate Earths, and encountered beings so used to dimension travel that they had numbered each reality the way we number highways. In Daredevils #7, p.8, commentators at the trial of Saturnyne speculated as to which alternate Earth Captain Britain originated from, listing a variety of numbered realities, before his home reality was identified on p.9 by the defendant as as being Earth-616, thereby providing the designator for the mainstream Marvel Earth, which has since been used in titles such as Excalibur, 1602, Exiles and others. Numerous theories as to why Mr. Moore chose that specific number have proliferated across the net since then, ascribing various hidden meanings to it; however we recently asked his daughter Leah Moore and her partner John Reppion if they could ask Alan and solve the mystery once and for all, which they graciously did. The response: 616 "was just a random number of no significance chosen because people always seemed to be talking about "earth 2" or "earth 4" but never any higher numbers."
Earth-616 is the shortest and most concise way we have of saying "mainstream Marvel Earth/reality/universe", and we continue to use this designation in the Handbooks when we need to distinguish characters from that Earth from any extradimensional counterparts. To say "our Earth" would be wrong; last time we checked, our NYC wasn't home to a range of superhero teams. To say "Marvel universe" is inexact; the future timelines of Spider-Girl, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Killraven, etc, are all Marvel universes.

Additionally, we give Earth designators for characters from other realities. While some timelines could be briefly distinguished using the names of the series or imprint they originated from (Earth X, Earth MC2, Earth Mutant X), many more cannot. The meaning of Earth DoFP (Days of Future Past) is no less confusing to a comics newcomer than Earth-811 is. There are two distinct Earth 2099A.D.s. More importantly, some alternate timeline characters have multiple distinct versions running around; Killraven for example (his original series, the version seen in Avengers Forever, the version from his 2004 mini-series, and possibly the one who traveled to Earth X), or Hyperion (the Squadron Supreme version, the Supreme Power version, the evil Exiles version, the Earth-616 version and the older version who traveled to Earth X). By providing a designator number with any such character, a reader can compare mentions of Killraven or Hyperion in different Handbook entries, and know that if the designator matches, it is the same Killraven / Hyperion.

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Warrior Woman

MikeFichera — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:13:37 GMT

MikeFichera: fixed main image, added ä

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universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb =
| real_name = Julia Frieda Koenig Lohmer
| aliases = Kriegerfrau, Frau Rätsel / Madame Mystery, Agent Drei
| identity = Publicly known
| occupation = Terrorist; former Third Reich operative, spy, scientist
| citizenship = German
| place_of_birth = Hanover, Germany
| relatives = Wilhelm Lohmer (Ubermench/Master Man, husband, legality disputed), Max Lohmer (Master Man, great-nephew-in-law)
| groups = [[Axis Mundi]], [[Super-Axis]], Formerly [[Nazi Party]]
| education = PhDs in chemistry and biology
| height = 6'5" (originally 5'6")
| weight = 205 lbs.(originally 130 lbs.)
| eyes = Blue
| hair = Black
| powers = Superhuman strength (lifting 50 tons) and durability
| abilities = Hypnotism, espionage, and whip skills. She's a capable scientist and bilingual in German and English.
| weapons = Leather whip
| paraphernalia =
| debut =Invaders #16
| origin =
| significant_issues =
}}{{Headshot|
main_image= MikeFichera--Warwmn.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text= Julia Koenig was a [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] spy called Frau Rätsel (Madame Mystery) during [[World War II]]. She hypnotized an American soldier in telling her the formula to the Super Soldier Serum, the same one [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]] was injected with. She was put into cryogenic suspension after the war. The suspension chamber malfunctioned and she suffered brain damage which left her comatose. She was restored to health using the original Human Torch's blood. Frieda faced off against old foes including the Sub Mariner, Captain America, and others. The building she was in was destroyed leaving her current whereabouts unknown.
}}
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File:MikeFichera--Warwmn.jpg

MikeFichera — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:08:21 GMT

MikeFichera: uploaded a new version of "File:MikeFichera--Warwmn.jpg"

File:MikeFichera--Warwmn.jpg

MikeFichera — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:08:17 GMT

MikeFichera:

Warrior Woman

MikeFichera — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:07:20 GMT

MikeFichera: updated with info in Captain America: America's Avenger (2011)

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universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb =
| real_name = Julia Frieda Koenig Lohmer
| aliases = Kriegerfrau, Frau Ratsel / Madame Mystery, Agent Drei
| identity = Publicly known
| occupation = Terrorist; former Third Reich operative, spy, scientist
| citizenship = German
| place_of_birth = Hanover, Germany
| relatives = Wilhelm Lohmer (Ubermench/Master Man, husband, legality disputed), Max Lohmer (Master Man, great-nephew-in-law)
| groups = [[Axis Mundi]], [[Super-Axis]], Formerly [[Nazi Party]]
| education = PhDs in chemistry and biology
| height = 6'5" (originally 5'6")
| weight = 205 lbs.(originally 130 lbs.)
| eyes = Blue
| hair = Black
| powers = Superhuman strength (lifting 50 tons) and durability
| abilities = Hypnotism, espionage, and whip skills. She's a capable scientist and bilingual in German and English.
| weapons = Leather whip
| paraphernalia =
| debut =Invaders #16
| origin =
| significant_issues =
}}{{Headshot|
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Abomination

MikeFichera — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:09:03 GMT

MikeFichera: specified former citizenship

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universe = Marvel Universe
| real_name = Emil Blonsky
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Professional Criminal, Former Spy
| place_of_birth = Zagreb, Yugoslavia
| groups = Ally of the [[Abominations]] and the Forgotten; Formerly partner of the [[Rhino]], crew of the starship Andromeda, agent of the [[Galaxy Master]], and [[MODOK]].
| citizenship = Citizen of Croatia; former citizen of Yugoslavia
| education = Unrevealed
| aliases = Agent R-7, the Ravager of Worlds
| relatives = Nadia Dornova Blonsky (wife, divorced)
| height = (Abomination) 6'8"; (Blonsky) 5'10"
| weight = (Abomination) 980 lbs.; (Blonsky) 180 lbs.
| eyes = (Abomination) Green; (Blonsky) Blue
| hair = (Abomination) None; (Blonsky) Blond
| powers = Blonsky's transformation into the Abomination substantially increased his strength and durability. Like the Hulk, the Abomination can use his superhumanly strong leg muscles to leap great distances, covering miles in a single bound. The Abomination has vast physical strength.

Unlike the Hulk, the Abomination's transformation has proved stable: he cannot change back and forth between his human state and his superhuman state, despite his wishes to the contrary. Though the Abomination has proven able to regenerate lost eyes and recover from other forms of massive cellular damage, his ability to regenerate tissue is much slower than that of the Hulk. One possible explanation for this is that the Hulk's remarkable regenerative abilities increases in efficiency as he becomes enraged, much like his strength. The Abomination is resistant to extremes of temperature, and can hold his breath for extended periods of time; in the case of lack of air or heat, he may enter a coma-like state of suspended animation.
| abilities = None
| weapons = None
| paraphernalia = None
| debut = Tales to Astonish #90 (1967)
| origin = Tales to Astonish #90 (1967)
| significant_issues =
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}}{{bio|
bio_text= Formerly known as Emil Blonsky, a spy of Soviet Yugoslavian origin working for the KGB, the Abomination gained his powers after receiving a dose of gamma radiation similar to that which transformed Bruce Banner into the incredible [[Hulk (Bruce Banner)|Hulk]]. As a result he was permanently transformed into a massive green-skinned monster whose physical power was equivalent to, if not greater than, that of the Hulk. While he was able to maintain his normal level of self-control and intelligence after this transformation, he is unable to return to human form.

Given his gamma-spawned origins, Blonsky blames his condition on Banner and his alter ego, the Hulk. The Abomination and the Hulk have clashed on numerous occasions, with Blonsky perpetually playing the role of the aggressor. Although Blonsky occasionally gains the upper hand in their battles, the Hulk manages to triumph in the end. But not always; the Abomination is one of the few who can lay claim to victory over the green-skinned goliath.

In recent years, it was revealed that his hideous new visage had served to alienate Blonsky from his ex-wife, Nadia. Coupled with constant defeats at the hands of the Hulk, this has driven Blonsky nearly insane in his hatred for Banner. The Abomination also grew incensed upon learning that Banner had married [[Ross-Banner, Betty|Betty Ross]], the daughter of [[Ross, Thaddeus|General "Thunderbolt" Ross]]. With the loss of his wife, Blonsky figured it is only fair to him that Banner should lose Betty. Out of jealousy, he caused the apparent death of Bruce Banner's wife Betty. While she was recovering from radiation sickness caused by exposure to the gamma radiation within Banner, he poisoned her with his radioactive blood, causing Banner and his associates to believe that her close proximity to the Hulk had given her a fatal case of radiation poisoning. Banner later exposed the Abomination's role in Betty's seeming death, and defeated him in combat.

Not only had his grand scheme failed, but Banner also forgave Blonsky. The Abomination could not comprehend and endure his enemy's absolution, and his moment of triumph was twisted into crushing defeat. Blonsky realized he had become what he abhorred the most - it was he who was the rampaging, inhuman monster; not the Hulk as he had religiously believed all these years.

Months later, the still-grieving General Ross manipulated the Hulk into attacking and almost killing Blonsky. The Abomination was taken into custody by the military; as punishment, he was forced to watch a film loop of himself and his wife prior to his transformation, making his incarceration a constant reminder of what he has lost.

Recently, the Abomination was among the first victims murdered at the hands of the [[Red Hulk]].
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Abomination

MikeFichera — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:36:02 GMT

MikeFichera: Corrected height/weight stats as per Handbook; OK on Croatia for citizenship post-Yugoslavian breakup

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universe = Marvel Universe
| real_name = Emil Blonsky
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Professional Criminal, Former Spy
| place_of_birth = Zagreb, Yugoslavia
| groups = Ally of the [[Abominations]] and the Forgotten; Formerly partner of the [[Rhino]], crew of the starship Andromeda, agent of the [[Galaxy Master]], and [[MODOK]].
| citizenship = Citizen of Croatia
| education = Unrevealed
| aliases = Agent R-7, the Ravager of Worlds
| relatives = Nadia Dornova Blonsky (wife, divorced)
| height = (Abomination) 6'8"; (Blonsky) 5'10"
| weight = (Abomination) 980 lbs.; (Blonsky) 180 lbs.
| eyes = (Abomination) Green; (Blonsky) Blue
| hair = (Abomination) None; (Blonsky) Blond
| powers = Blonsky's transformation into the Abomination substantially increased his strength and durability. Like the Hulk, the Abomination can use his superhumanly strong leg muscles to leap great distances, covering miles in a single bound. The Abomination has vast physical strength.

Unlike the Hulk, the Abomination's transformation has proved stable: he cannot change back and forth between his human state and his superhuman state, despite his wishes to the contrary. Though the Abomination has proven able to regenerate lost eyes and recover from other forms of massive cellular damage, his ability to regenerate tissue is much slower than that of the Hulk. One possible explanation for this is that the Hulk's remarkable regenerative abilities increases in efficiency as he becomes enraged, much like his strength. The Abomination is resistant to extremes of temperature, and can hold his breath for extended periods of time; in the case of lack of air or heat, he may enter a coma-like state of suspended animation.
| abilities = None
| weapons = None
| paraphernalia = None
| debut = Tales to Astonish #90 (1967)
| origin = Tales to Astonish #90 (1967)
| significant_issues =
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bio_text= Formerly known as Emil Blonsky, a spy of Soviet Yugoslavian origin working for the KGB, the Abomination gained his powers after receiving a dose of gamma radiation similar to that which transformed Bruce Banner into the incredible [[Hulk (Bruce Banner)|Hulk]]. As a result he was permanently transformed into a massive green-skinned monster whose physical power was equivalent to, if not greater than, that of the Hulk. While he was able to maintain his normal level of self-control and intelligence after this transformation, he is unable to return to human form.

Given his gamma-spawned origins, Blonsky blames his condition on Banner and his alter ego, the Hulk. The Abomination and the Hulk have clashed on numerous occasions, with Blonsky perpetually playing the role of the aggressor. Although Blonsky occasionally gains the upper hand in their battles, the Hulk manages to triumph in the end. But not always; the Abomination is one of the few who can lay claim to victory over the green-skinned goliath.

In recent years, it was revealed that his hideous new visage had served to alienate Blonsky from his ex-wife, Nadia. Coupled with constant defeats at the hands of the Hulk, this has driven Blonsky nearly insane in his hatred for Banner. The Abomination also grew incensed upon learning that Banner had married [[Ross-Banner, Betty|Betty Ross]], the daughter of [[Ross, Thaddeus|General "Thunderbolt" Ross]]. With the loss of his wife, Blonsky figured it is only fair to him that Banner should lose Betty. Out of jealousy, he caused the apparent death of Bruce Banner's wife Betty. While she was recovering from radiation sickness caused by exposure to the gamma radiation within Banner, he poisoned her with his radioactive blood, causing Banner and his associates to believe that her close proximity to the Hulk had given her a fatal case of radiation poisoning. Banner later exposed the Abomination's role in Betty's seeming death, and defeated him in combat.

Not only had his grand scheme failed, but Banner also forgave Blonsky. The Abomination could not comprehend and endure his enemy's absolution, and his moment of triumph was twisted into crushing defeat. Blonsky realized he had become what he abhorred the most - it was he who was the rampaging, inhuman monster; not the Hulk as he had religiously believed all these years.

Months later, the still-grieving General Ross manipulated the Hulk into attacking and almost killing Blonsky. The Abomination was taken into custody by the military; as punishment, he was forced to watch a film loop of himself and his wife prior to his transformation, making his incarceration a constant reminder of what he has lost.

Recently, the Abomination was among the first victims murdered at the hands of the [[Red Hulk]].
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User talk:Wezqu

MikeFichera — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:30:22 GMT

MikeFichera: Moving pages

== Blacklash and Whiplash ==

We were editing both of them at the sametime. While I was waiting for the image of the female Whiplash to upload (already had the text to add, just waiting for image), you were adding her. :-)<BR>
And while I was making ajustments to the Blacklash character, you were as well. Because of this it looks like the new character you added didn't go through. So, you will have to do it again, unless you'd like me to. --[[User:DragynWulf|DragynWulf]] 08:37, 7 August 2006 (EDT)

Well it was trough, but you approved your own edit after it even if it wasn't necessary. I already changed it when I edited it to your definition and just added the character. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 09:34, 7 August 2006 (EDT)

== Disambig entires ==

If there is only one version that has no real name, then make the quoted name "unrevealed". If there are more than one character who's name has not been revealed, then go ahead and distinguish between the two by using team/orgainization/occupation or something to that effect. --[[User:DragynWulf|DragynWulf]] 15:34, 9 August 2006 (EDT)

Ok, I have usually used the something of the character to separate him from other characters, but I will use that unrevealed thing now on. Also just siding the subject because you happened to mention that. You should check this character [[Blackwing (Heavy Mettle)]]. If you want me to apply it to this one too then you have to move it to [[Blackwing (unreleaved)]] because there is just this one character unnamed and the other one is named. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 20:31, 9 August 2006 (EDT)

When making the disambig pages, in the Marvel Universe area the most popular character should be first because this is the character most likely the reason for people clicking on the link. The rest should be alphabetical after that. For the imposter and alternate reality area, the characters should all be alphabetical. --[[User:DragynWulf|DragynWulf]] 13:21, 22 August 2006 (EDT)

I know Dr. Stranger Yet never used Dr. strange but I figured it belonged. I looked at it this way. Say soemone who hasnt collected in awhile decides to start back up and wants to read up on some of the alternate reality characters he remembers, only problem is he cant remember the exact name but knows that it was Dr. Strange in some form. That person can find the disambiguation page and see if its there.(I know the Stranger Yet profile has not been created yet but this scenario could work for other characters). I won't add anymore disambiguation characters like this again so don't worry. I just wanted to share my thinking with you. Thanks for the heads up. - --[[User:mickeys4life|mickeys4life]] 16:49, 27 July 2007 (CDT)

Well moderators have said that no characters in disambiguation page if they haven't used the alias. Think it like this even if you have a character that is in main universe uses that alias and then you have character in other reality that doesn't use it but is the carbon copy of this character. They are still different characters with different history and quite frankly I don't see them at all as the same character. If I would met me from different universe he would not be me because only me is me. If this would be allowed it would make disambiguation pages quite a free zone. Like if you have several characters there from main universe that used the alias this would allow to add all their different carbon copies in there that would quite frankly make it more useless and also giving several people wrong information they would tought that that character used the alias even if he/she never did and that he/she was only on the page because the main universe character did. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 19:14, 27 July 2007 (EDT)

== Prodigy and Spellcheck ==

Wezqu I understand that you have been told this before and i don't mean to nark on you since your english is rusty and that is not your fault. But PLEASE use a good spellcheck on your entries PLEASE. I just spent the last 15 mins trying to fix the Prodigy page. (I know thats bizzare, but Im somewhat Obsessive Compulsive so it really bugs me). Im not tyring to disrespect you, you have done fantastic work, just please be sure to spellcheck your entries. Thanks. --[[User:mimicx35|mimicx35]]

Spellcheck its funny that when I put that text I wrote through one it doesnt even tell that there is any mistakes. It seems that its enogh that the words are english words. Also many of the sentenses you corrected weren't really wrong writen but differently writen you just made then sound better. There is several pages with more mistakes than that. I cant fix every mistake in my post because for one I dont notice every mistake and when even Word and Spellchecker doesn't say that the sentence is wrong writen how could I know. If there is mistakes I'm not going to get mad about someone fixing them who knows the language better than me. I usually read them through, but of course I'm just a human. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 06:24, 10 August 2006 (EDT)

Yeah I Can understand that. Thanks for editing that disambiguous page by the way. --[[User:mimicx35|mimicx35]]

== Apostrophe ==

Wezqu - thanks for catching the redundant text I added in Macendale. Thought I deleted the armor information and moved it to paraphernalia. I see you changed many apostrophies - like Jack O'Lantern. It looks the same to me before and after the edit. What did it look like on your computer? --[[User:MikeFichera|MikeFichera]] 13:20, 13 May 2007 (CDT)

Heh no need to thank me. I did wrote it so I usually check the new edits and you did a very detailed work. You would be the one who deserves to get praised. Well I would think you used word or something else when you wrote that text so you wouldn't make any stupid writing mistake or anything. I have noticed when you copy text from somewhere else to here it uses different mark than this wiki itself. Here is how its shown when you write the letter in this wiki ' and here is when I copy it for excample from microsoft word ’. I usually edit it on the bios that I happen to edit to change this ’ to this ', because to me its just look odd when there is two different types in one text. I thougth this ' is the right one because this wiki uses it so I change them to that. Also all names that need that mark use this ' and when that other mark happens to be in the link it doesn't work like the Jack O'Lantern links often didn't. If you still don't see the differens in the letters I will give little descripition what they look like to me. The one that this wiki uses is straight but the one that comes when you copy text from word is leaning to the right. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 18:10, 13 May 2007 (EDT)

I see the difference now...have to check which apostrophie comes from which software program. thanks, --[[User:MikeFichera|MikeFichera]] 17:01, 14 May 2007 (CDT)

== Alternate reality links ==

I was looking at [[Avengers (MC2)]] when I noticed the links for some of the heroes are just their names. Example: Iron Man is listed as [[Stark, Anthony (MC2)]]...is this how they should be listed? If they use Iron Man shouldn't it be Iron Man (Anthony Stark) MC2, or something of that nature? - --[[User:mickeys4life|mickeys4life]] 21:49, 16 August 2007 (EDT)

I'm not sure I aren't too familiar with the MC2 universe but I know that is the period when childs of the superheros and villians are running around. I would think Stark is listed like that because he is not anymore Iron Man he used to be but now has retired. So he is listed as Stark, Anthony and not Iron Man. Also alternative reality characters should always be listed as "Alias (Earth designation)". These ultimate and mc2 should not be used anymore. I would think admins would appreciate that you use the earth designation. Earth designation is not needed if the character is now living or has frequently visited Earth-616. Like Deathlok (Luther Manning). Also I think you forgot to put the earth designation on your latest adition Sabreclaw. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 07:09, 17 August 2007 (EDT)

The Avengers wasn't mine...I just noticed them when I was adding to it. I did forget to designate Sabreclaw. I think he is the only one using it right now so it shouldn't be a problem. If it is then it can be changed I guess. Thanks for the info....I wasn't sure about the Tony Stark. - --[[User:mickeys4life|mickeys4life]] 07:10, 17 August 2007 (CDT)

It doesn't matter if he is the only one. When there is no earth designation on the nick means he is main universe character. Now some people might think he is in Earth-616 as he doesn't have the designation on him. Every non Earth-616 character should be listed with its earth designation if he is not living in Earth-616 or is frequent visitor of Earth-616. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 10:12, 17 August 2007 (EDT)

Even though he is listed in the MC2 category as well as having his Earth designation listed on his bio page? If someone mistakes him as main universe with all that then they aren't reading LOL. I guess a mod will have to fix his name then as well as the link on the online bibliography, which lists it as just Sabreclaw. - --[[User:mickeys4life|mickeys4life]] 10:30, 17 August 2007 (CDT)

==Tenebrous==

Hey thanks, your image is very cool, but the edit that was made to the Antiphon The *Over Seer* was incorrect. He has only appeared in one comic to date. Annihilation: Heralds of Galactus #2 where his title is spelled Antiphon the Overseer. Overseer is one word, I know that the spell checker sees this different.--[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 22:16, 2 September 2007 (CDT)

You are barking on the wrong tree now ohitsme. That Overseer mistake was in the page before I even edited it and I didn't even notice that it was listed wrong. Yes I know that he is mentioned in only one magazine where he is shown as he was when he was alive and where his corpse also was found inside the Kyln by Tenebrous and Aegis. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 12:50, 3 September 2007 (EDT)

Hey Wezqu, I'm not saying that you changed the profile. I am asking you to correct the mistake because I can't. I put that other information up there just in case it was needed. I have been asked several times to list where my information came from. Like you I'm just try to put up good work too. I like what you did as far as the image goes. Forgive me if I offended you.--[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 23:13, 3 September 2007 (CDT)

Well if you check your text you didn't exactly asked me to change it. It sounded more that you said I did it. Also I didn't get upset about it just missunderstood what you ment. Well I will change it there is also another thing that I noticed to be wrong in it. Tenebrous didn't never appeared in Annihilation: Prologue. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 12:36, 4 September 2007 (EDT)

Yeah I noticed that mistake it should have read Annihilation: Silver Surfer #3. Thanks for your help Wezqu.--[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 22:38, 4 September 2007 (CDT)

== Earth-93246 ==
Any reason you deleted Earth-93246 Dazzler from the disambig? It's the correct designation for the What If #46-47 "Cable killed the X-Men" story. --[[User:MikeFichera|MikeFichera]] 12:38, 21 December 2007 (CST)

Ou, sorry I didn't find any reference to that earth designation anywhere. Can you tell me if its refered anywhere as Earth-93246 (in comic books or handbooks I mean)? I will add it back. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 15:52, 21 December 2007 (CST)

The Earth-# designations have not all been published yet (many more will be soon in 2008 in the upcoming Hardcover compilations of the Handbooks), but are an exception to the rule here regarding sourcing of information for this page. Naming alternate universes by Earth-# designations is very helpful for the sake of the Handbooks and this website. (Much easier to give the number rather than "Earth where Cable killed all the X-Men"...which may have happened in more than 1 universe.) Jeff Christiansen is head writer of the Handbooks and the man Marvel relies upon to keep track of the Earth-# designations for books like the Exiles. So, if a mod posts an Earth-#, rest assured it's been approved by Jeff. If you have a question on a universe designation, feel free to ask me. --[[User:MikeFichera|MikeFichera]] 23:44, 21 December 2007 (CST)

Yeah thats not really so suprising as several earth's have been numbered here before they have been numbered in handbooks or comics. If I remember correctly I was the one who added that earth long time ago to the Dazzler page. I was just going trough the list and noticed that I haven't found any reference to that earth and as there is several "unofficial" designation out there so I deleted it for to be save. I know why it makes more sence to label them with earth designation than anything else as it clearly separates the realities that are close to eachother. I rely on a list of earth designations that have been put up from handbooks and comics so I only can be sure about the realities that are published somewhere. I intentionally leave some characters out of the disambiguation page when I don't know their earth designation, but some I have added as some description as those realities stories might be quite interesting to read. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 05:35, 22 December 2007 (CST)

==Lilin==

Hey Wezqu changing the template is not a problem for me, because I started to do it myself, but I noticed that they are listed in the Legacy HB under a team template. So went with the way it was originally published, it provides consistency to the readers. It really is confusing when the handbook and our information is different. At least to me it is.
Keep up the good work. --[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 19:00, 10 January 2008 (CST)

Well in that handbook the bio was really more like crossbreed of team and species template. As the members where listed as known members and not current members and former members. When you think about it they are a race more than a team they usually didn't work together and they are not all trying to get the same thing as many of them has individual goals. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 01:41, 11 January 2008 (CST)

==Zarathos==
Wezqu I am currently working on Zarathos I was wondering if you could hook up the main image. --[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 19:14, 10 January 2008 (CST)

Well hope you like it. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 03:13, 11 January 2008 (CST)

I just checked it and I did not see any image. It looks like there might be a problem with the page or something. --[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 05:58, 11 January 2008 (CST)

The picture works for some reason this page sometimes shows picture as white instead of the picture. Press the image and it will take you to the pictures page. To me it works fine. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 09:26, 11 January 2008 (CST)

You are right it works and it looks great. --[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 19:11, 11 January 2008 (EST)

==The Overseer==

Hey Wezqu, the image looks awesome but it is not showing up as the main image, at least not where I am sitting. You might want to check it out.
BTW, if you are up to it could you create a Head image for Equinox? --[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 08:56, 27 January 2008 (CST)

I think you mean that the picture is white? The pictures have somekind of bug that makes them look like they are not showing up in the bio when in fact they are working. I have witnessed this as well in other bios. To me it works fine. Check it again later and it should be visible. I don't know why that happens but it sometimes happens. Yeah I can create it I quite frankly like that character so it would have been on the table soon anyway. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 09:37, 27 January 2008 (CST)

Thanks Wezqu! --[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 09:59, 27 January 2008 (CST)

== Oblivion ==

Hey Wezqu, could you work up a Head shot for Oblivion? I am just starting on him today, so it could be a couple of days before I'm finished, So there is no rush or anything like that. Let me know if you are interested or have time. --[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 16:06, 3 February 2008 (CST)

Hey Wezqu, are you working on the Oblivion image? --[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 12:33, 8 February 2008 (CST)

I will do it when I can haven't started it yet. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 14:40, 8 February 2008 (EST)

== Hellstorm ==

Hey Wezqu I get what you are saying, I see what is happening. The Character's last name and aliases are even mixed in some of the books I am going through. However it is clearly in Hellstorm #1, 1993 that the correct spelling is Hellstrom, Thanks. --[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 12:02, 17 February 2008 (CST)

Yeah just said it because you repeated the mistake so you notice it. In reality Hellstorm changed his last name to Hellstorm but he is still listed in all Handbook's as Daimon Hellstrom. So both ways are really right but as Handbook's list his lastname as Hellstrom. I would use it in the bios as his real name because of it. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 14:22, 17 February 2008 (EST)

==One Above All disambiguation page==

Thanks Wezqu, I am not well versed in doing disambiguation pages or the rules, so your help is greatly appreciated. As far as Protege goes. he did use the name of the One Above All in Guardains of the Galaxy #49 and 50 (1994), although it was just for a couple of issues. As the One Above All, he battled the Living Tribunal, the Hawk God, Eternity and a Celestial. I think I have corrected the One Above All (celestial) page from being connected to the main page?--ohitsme 15:28, 26 May 2008 (EDT)

Ok, if he used it then he can be listed, but not among the Main universe characters. It should be listed on the alternate universe characters. I will add it back to the right place. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 06:45, 27 May 2008 (EDT)

==Nightside (Sydney Taine)==

Hey Wezqu, do you have any idea what Universe she would be listed in? I have looked through the mini series, but it is not clearly stated anywhere. Her dimensions is referred to as the Nightside Dimension, is it a reality within the 616 universe, or something altogether different. --[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 11:08, 15 June 2008 (CDT)

Well officially her reality hasn't got a designation at least not in any handbooks. You could ask about it from one of the moderator as her reality designation is most likely known to the handbook makers its just not listed in any publications. I still would think that she is from alternate earth and not from pocket dimension in Earth-616. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 15:48, 15 June 2008 (EDT)

Thanks Wezqu, I will ask Mike and see if he knows. --[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 16:14, 15 June 2008 (CDT)

== Stinger ==

I've got a new disambiguation page suggestion for you: [[Stinger]]. I had to check to see if there was more than just the MC2 character, and there is. Cheers, [[User:Lonesome Pinky|Lonesome Pinky]] 20:58, 18 September 2008 (CDT)

:Great job! Thanks! --[[User:Lonesome Pinky|Lonesome Pinky]] 17:19, 19 September 2008 (CDT)

== Iron Man: The End ==

Hey Wezqu, check out IRON MAN: THE END. The USAgent image you did appears on a computer screen. --[[User:DragynWulf|DragynWulf]] 12:20, 8 November 2008 (EST)

Indeed it does even if its a small picture but the background looks the same. Still all of those images on the screen comes from this site. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 13:48, 12 November 2008 (CST)

== Skullbuster ==

Hi Wezqu. I've got another disambiguation page for you to create--[[Skullbuster]]. I noticed that this was an alias used by [[Cylla]] and others. Currently, there's [[Skullbuster (male)]] page and a [[Skullbuster (female)]] page. If nothing else, I feel the Skullbuster page should point to those two. --[[User:Lonesome Pinky|Lonesome Pinky]] 16:12, 14 December 2008 (EST)

:Looks good. Thanks! --[[User:Lonesome Pinky|Lonesome Pinky]] 17:36, 15 December 2008 (EST)

::Ah, I wondered why you didn't include the picture. I thought that perhaps it was an oversight. Now I understand. Thanks. [[User:Lonesome Pinky|Lonesome Pinky]] 17:26, 16 December 2008 (EST)

Yeah the pictures can't have speech bubbles or sound effects sounds. Still if there is for example a newspaper that has text on it you can read. Those are allowed as they are stuff that the characters themself can see. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 18:44, 16 December 2008 (EST)

== Hellfire Club ==

It's me again. It looks as though we have disambiguation pages for [[Black King]] and [[Black Queen]], but not for [[White King]] and [[White Queen]]. I didn't check ''all'' of the chess pieces, but these two seemed of importance. --[[User:Lonesome Pinky|Lonesome Pinky]] 16:56, 14 December 2008 (EST)

:Thanks again! --[[User:Lonesome Pinky|Lonesome Pinky]] 17:26, 16 December 2008 (EST)

I will do the White Queen in couple of days still I didn't overlook the need to the disambiguation pages as I do them in alphabetical order and I'm on "Q" at the moment. Still if you want some others to be done just let me know. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 18:44, 16 December 2008 (EST)

:Nice work on [[Hellfire Club]]! That was a lot of cleanup. --[[User:Lonesome Pinky|Lonesome Pinky]] 13:12, 21 December 2008 (EST)

==Bast/Osiris==
Bast appears in both male and female forms the information is correct in the All-New OHOTMU A-Z Update #2 printed in 2007. Thus the information on Osiris was correct. --[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 13:09, 11 February 2009 (EST)

Well my point mostly was that you listed him as half-sister of Horus when in reality Horus is his great-grand-nephew. Also note I use term "he" as in most recent handbooks Panther God is always refered as male. I can for example list you few books and bios where he is listed as male in characters relatives section. Lets start with Khonshu bio in All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z: Update #1 listed as "half-brother" and then Seth bio in Marvel Zombies: The Book of Angels, Demons & Various Monstrosities listed as "granduncle". I would list him in relatives as male as so are the handbook makers listing the character. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 14:16, 11 February 2009 (EST)

==Mary Walker==
Hey Guys, While creating the Dusk (demon) profile, I noticed that Mary Walker had a profile on the site. However, I am confused if the "Mary Walker" from the Daredevil is the same character from the Marvel Comics Present story. As far as the images goes it seems that they are, although there is no mention of this storyline in the Daredevil 2004 hand book. If you have the answer to this question please help.--[[User:ohitsme|ohitsme]] 19:36, 19 February 2009 (EST)

==Dark Avengers==

Sorry i'm wasting your time but about the dark avengers Iron Patriot(who is Norman Osborn)
Has lost his green goblin powers and WEapons now he wears the Iron Patriot.Also Daken has his own profile and thundra too Anti Venom(is Eddie Brock),Venom is Spider-Man Nor vahh is Captain Marvel Moonstone is MS Marvel Bullseye is Hawkeye pls bring back rhoded as war machine Plus he has iron man powers because he is a cyborg and merged with the armor.Also Armor height and weight 6'7" and weighs 710 lbs

Hey holo78, I know you left this message for someone else, but I can't stop myself from responding to it. I read the information you updated on the Norman Osborn profile, and it seemed very clear and accurate. I still am not a moderator, so I could not approve the edits, but there is one thing I will tell you about this site that I may not have mentioned before. The moderators wouldn't approve those edits either because you plagiarized them from another site. I read the other marvel fan site's entry, and you took the information from there and pasted it here word for word even down to the note to readers in parentheses. The mods here are not fans of plagiarism, and my last bit of advice to you is don't do it - EVER. Your posts will never get approved if you plagiarize and if it is done too often, you might even get banned for it. The writing must be in your own words or taken out of a Marvel Handbook as long as you cite the source (you should always cite sources anyway, but especially if they are word for word, and that is only out of an Official Marvel Handbook). Again, just trying to pass along some friendly advice to help you out. -- [[User:acotilletta2|acotilletta]]

==Young Gods - Mielikki==
Wezqu - I had received a reply from Jeff Christiansen regarding Mielikki in June...and I never passed it on, sorry!
He said:
It was intentional. Most of the gods are named for their home dimension (Asgardians, Olympians, Heliopolitans) or other names for their races by their worshippers or other sources. Tuatha de Danaan (sp?) means children of Danu. Several of the races are named for translation of the word "god."
Why would the name of the Finnish national epic have to be the name for the race of gods? I know a person who chose that name, and it was not approved as the official name; past handbook entries have used that name, which is now considered just an alternate version. Every profile in the Encyclopaedia Mythologica was approved as the official Marvel version, and that's what the Young Gods entry was based upon.
Until in-story evidence ret-cons things as different, Jumala is the name for Marvel's Finnish Pantheon.
Thanks for reading!

Heh, I was going to ask about it again soon if you would have not answered. Thanks for the answer. The thing why the national epic name could be used is as Kalevala is a mythological place where magical things are possible. Its also a place where many of the gods are present and have places like Tuonela (finnish version of Hades). Some of the main characters in the story could be considered as gods. Väinämöinen is atleast partly god as his mother is Ilmatar maiden of the air. Lemminkäinen is brought back to life with mystical honey taken from the halls of the over-god Ukko. The honey could be compared to appels of Olympians. Still it doesn't matter that much just wanted to know why it was just Jumala (god) and not plural or something else. Well I hope some writers of marvel would use some of the finnish gods in their stories there could be interesting things they could do with them. Its also a nice fact that Lord of the Rings writer used Kalevala as inspiration when he wrote Lord of the Rings. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 07:14, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

==Moving Pages==
Users aren't supposed to be able to move pages - but a bunch of things still need adjusting after the upgrade. If you have a page you want to move, run it past acotilletta2 first before you do, OK? Thanks.--[[User:MikeFichera|MikeFichera]] 14:30, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Gladiator (disambiguation)

MikeFichera — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:51:50 GMT

MikeFichera: Pic of Gladiator (Lemmick)

{{disambig}}
<div class="full_border" align="center" style="margin-left: 4px;margin-right: 4px;">
There are multiple individuals who have used this name in the Marvel Universe.

<gallery>
image:Gladiator_head.jpg|[[Gladiator (Kallark)]] - leader of the alien [[Shi'ar]] [[Imperial Guard]]
image:image_not_available.gif|[[Gladiator (Hugo Danner)]] - World War I hero
image:MikeFichera--Gladiator-Wylie Lemmick.jpg|[[Gladiator (Wylie Lemmick)]] - wore revamped version of [[Gladiator (Melvin Potter)|Potter]]'s costume, member of Gang of Four
image:MikeFichera--Gladiator-Potter-head.jpg|[[Gladiator (Melvin Potter)]] - reformed villain, former member of the [[Emissaries of Evil]]
image:image_not_available.gif|[[Gladiator (wannabe)]] - sought alternate version of [[Gladiator (Melvin Potter)|Potter]]'s costume
</gallery>
</div>
<div class="full_border" align="center" style="margin-left: 4px;margin-right: 4px;">
There are multiple individuals who have used this name in alternate realities.

<gallery>
image:image_not_available.gif|[[Gladiator (Earth-148611)]] - Randy Kellogg, last known paranormal in the [[Earth-148611]]
</gallery>
</div>

File:MikeFichera--Gladiator-Wylie Lemmick.jpg

MikeFichera — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:49:05 GMT

MikeFichera: From Daredevil/Spider-Man #3 (2001)

From Daredevil/Spider-Man #3 (2001)

Gladiator (disambiguation)

MikeFichera — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:09:56 GMT

MikeFichera: fixed Potter head image

{{disambig}}
<div class="full_border" align="center" style="margin-left: 4px;margin-right: 4px;">
There are multiple individuals who have used this name in the Marvel Universe.

<gallery>
image:Gladiator_head.jpg|[[Gladiator (Kallark)]] - leader of the alien [[Shi'ar]] [[Imperial Guard]]
image:image_not_available.gif|[[Gladiator (Hugo Danner)]] - World War I hero
image:image_not_available.gif|[[Gladiator (Gang of Four)]] - wore revamped version of [[Gladiator (Melvin Potter)|Potter]]'s costume
image:MikeFichera--Gladiator-Potter-head.jpg|[[Gladiator (Melvin Potter)]] - reformed villain, former member of the [[Emissaries of Evil]]
image:image_not_available.gif|[[Gladiator (wannabe)]] - sought alternate version of [[Gladiator (Melvin Potter)|Potter]]'s costume
</gallery>
</div>
<div class="full_border" align="center" style="margin-left: 4px;margin-right: 4px;">
There are multiple individuals who have used this name in alternate realities.

<gallery>
image:image_not_available.gif|[[Gladiator (Earth-148611)]] - Randy Kellogg, last known paranormal in the [[Earth-148611]]
</gallery>
</div>

File:MikeFichera--Gladiator-Potter-head.jpg

MikeFichera — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:07:04 GMT

MikeFichera:

Gladiator (Melvin Potter)

MikeFichera — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:06:04 GMT

MikeFichera: fixed main image

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| blurb =
| real_name = Melvin Potter
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| occupation = Terrorist; former costume designer
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Initially, Melvin Potter was a costume designer, however, later became a criminal,
using the name Gladiator. He fought with [[Daredevil]] on several occasions and and also was member of [[Maggia]] and [[Emissaries of Evil]].
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[[category: Villains]]

File:MikeFichera--Gladiator-Potter.jpg

MikeFichera — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:00:31 GMT

MikeFichera:

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MikeFichera — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:10:55 GMT

MikeFichera:

File:MikeFichera--Happy-Hogan-Main.jpg

MikeFichera — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:27:21 GMT

MikeFichera: uploaded a new version of "File:MikeFichera--Happy-Hogan-Main.jpg"

Art by Ron Lim

Sub-Atomica

MikeFichera — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:21:09 GMT

MikeFichera: Homeworld, Kaliklak, and Spartak were not part of Sub-Atomica

{{Placebox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| location = Sub-Atomica is located within the Microverse
| builder =
| owner = [[Psycho-Man]]
| points_of_interest =
| features =
| debut = Fantastic Four #16 (1963)
| significant_issues =
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place_text= Sub-Atomica was located in the [[Microverse]] (a universe accessed via the energies of shrinking). It was said that the [[Psycho-Man]] ruled at least five planets in this planetary system, one of which was the planet [[Traan]], which was the planet that he inhabited at the time of his birth. Another planet in this system is [[Tok]] which is inhabited by the savage Lizard Men that were ruled by [[Zorak]]. Another planet in Sub-Atomica was [[Mirwood]], ruled by an unnamed King and Princess [[Pearla]] who sought to live a relatively peaceful existence. Sub-Atomica and all other "microverses" were merged together into a unified Microverse.
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File:MikeFichera--BlackWidow-Petra-head.jpg

MikeFichera — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:38:18 GMT

MikeFichera:

File:MikeFichera--BlackWidow-Petra-main.jpg

MikeFichera — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:38:01 GMT

MikeFichera: From Pale Little Spider #2

From Pale Little Spider #2

Doctor Octopus (disambiguation)

MikeFichera — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:59:57 GMT

MikeFichera: Jordan Harrison headshot-Sens.SM28

{{disambig}}
<div class="full_border" align="center" style="margin-left: 4px;margin-right: 4px;">
There are multiple individuals who have used this name in the Marvel Universe.

<gallery>
image:DragynWulf--DoctorOctopus(Octavius) Head.jpg|[[Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius)]] - nuclear physicist who had a accident that fused four tentacled arms to his body
image:Trainer, Carolyn Head.jpg|[[Doctor Octopus (Carolyn Trainer)]] - [[Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius)|Octo Octavius]]' apprentice and [[Trainer, Seward|Seward Trainer]]'s daughter
image:MikeFichera--JordanHarrison-head.jpg|[[Harrison, Jordan|Doctor Octopus (Jordan Harrison)]] - student of Peter Parker. Later in life, gains nickname because of his interest in octopi and other mollusks
image:image_not_available.gif|[[Steel Spider (Ollie Osnick)|Doctor Octopus (Ollie Osnick)]] - teenage hero, designed robotic limbs patterned after [[Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius)|Doctor Octopus]], currently known as the Steel Spider
</gallery>
</div>

<div class="full_border" align="center" style="margin-left: 4px;margin-right: 4px;">
There are multiple individuals who have used this name in alternate realities.

<gallery>
image:image_not_available.gif|[[Doctor Octopus (Earth-9939)]] - agent of [[Doctor Doom (Earth-9939)|Doctor Doom]], killed by [[Death Metal (Earth-9939)|Death Metal]]
image:Dococult_head.jpg|[[Doctor Octopus (Ultimate)]] - scientist who worked for Norman Osborn and whose arms fused to his body in an explosion
</gallery>
</div>

[[category: Spider-Man]]

File:MikeFichera--JordanHarrison-head.jpg

MikeFichera — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:58:49 GMT

MikeFichera:

Aardwolf

MikeFichera — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:29:48 GMT

MikeFichera: main image

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb = He’s more savage than Sabretooth! He’s more savvy than Trump! He’s Aardwolf!
| real_name = Chon Li
| identity =
| occupation = Crimelord
| place_of_birth = unrevealed
| groups = unrevealed
| citizenship = Madripoor
| education = unrevealed
| aliases = unrevealed
| relatives = unrevealed
| height = unrevealed
| weight = unrevealed
| eyes = Brown
| hair = Brown
| abilities = a keen business mind granting him the ability to run organized crime
| weapons = unrevealed
| paraphernalia = none
| powers = Aardwolf is a mutant possessing super human strength and reflexes. He also has fur, azor sharp claws and superhumanly acute senses.
| debut = Night Thrasher #3 (1993)
| origin =
| significant_issues =
}}{{Headshot|
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{{bio|
bio_text= Little is known about Aardwolf’s past except that he runs his own crime ring in Madripoor. Aardwolf prefers to run things behind the scenes but has been shown to get his hands dirty. Much like the animal he is named after, Aardwolf shares the same features. He once captured [[Night Thrasher]] through deceit and held him prisoner in his hotel suite. Believing that [[Midnight's Fire]] was planning to overthrow his empire, Aardwolf talked Night into helping him get rid of the [[Folding Circle]]. Night Thrasher breaking free of his bonds attacked Aardwolf, who allowed him to put his armor back on as a sign of trust. Aardwolf told Dwayne that [[Silhouette]] was still working with the Concrete Dragons and when he wouldn’t listen Aardwolf showed Thrash tapes confirming what he had said. Enraged Night Thrasher once again engaged him in battle but was losing until he outsmarted the crime boss sending him off a balcony. Landing underneath Thrasher, Aardwolf became unconscious. After they had landed the Folding Circle confronted them and asked for Aardwolf. Seeing Sil on the opposite team Dwayne attacked giving enough time for Aardwolf to flee the scene. Seeking the help of [[Tyger Tiger]], Aardwolf ran to her only to be betrayed. The Folding Circle lay in wait and ambushed him defeating him easily. Bound and gagged, Aardwolf was thrown into the ocean but was saved by Thrash. Together Silhouette, Night Thrasher and Aardwolf held off the members of the Folding Circle until an agreement was struck. The feuding crime bosses got to keep their territory and Night Thrasher and Sil were no longer part of the fight.
}}

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[[category:Villains]]
[[category:Mutants]]

File:MikeFichera--Aardwolf-main.jpg

MikeFichera — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:27:09 GMT

MikeFichera:

File:MikeFichera--Secret-Invasion-Logo.jpg

MikeFichera — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:51:31 GMT

MikeFichera: uploaded a new version of "File:MikeFichera--Secret-Invasion-Logo.jpg"

Captain America (Steve Rogers)

MikeFichera — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:10:03 GMT

MikeFichera: Signif Issues - link to Bibliography, expanded 1st app and origin

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Steven "Steve" Rogers
| identity = Publicly known
| occupation = Adventurer, formerly WPA artist, soldier, police officer, teacher, freelance illustrator, special [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] operative
| place_of_birth = New York, New York
| groups = [[Secret Avengers]]; formerly the [[Avengers]], [[Invaders]], [[Captain's Unnamed Superhero Team]], [[Redeemers]]; formerly partner of [[Winter Soldier|Bucky]], [[Jones, Rick|Rick Jones]], [[Falcon (Sam Wilson)|Falcon]], [[Demolition Man]] and [[Nomad (Jack Monroe)]]
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| aliases = Nomad, The Captain, Steven Grant Rogers, Roger Stevens, Yeoman America, Cap, The Sentinel of Liberty, Star-Spangled Avenger; also has impersonated [[Crossbones]]
| relatives = Joseph and Sarah Rogers (parents, deceased), unidentified grandfather (presumed deceased), Steven Rogers (Captain America, 18th century ancestor, presumed deceased)
| education = High school graduate; one year of art school; military basic training; private tutoring in hand-to-hand combat, gymnastics, military strategy, piloting, demolition, and other disciplines
| height = 6'2"
| weight = 220 lbs
| eyes = Blue
| hair = Blond
| weapons = Captain America's only weapon was his [[Captain America's Shield|shield]], a concave disk 2.5 feet in diameter, weighing 12 pounds. It is made of a unique [[Glossary:V#Vibranium|Vibranium]]-metal alloy that has never been duplicated. The shield was cast by American metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain, who was contracted by the U.S. government to create an impenetrable substance to use for tanks during World War II. MacLain was never able to duplicate the process due to his inability to identify a still unknown factor that played a role in it. The shield was awarded to Captain America by the government several months after the beginning of his career.

The shield has great aerodynamic properties: it is able to slice through the air with minimal wind resistance and deflection of path. Its great overall resilience, combined with its natural concentric stiffness, enables it to rebound from objects with minimal loss of angular momentum. It is virtually indestructible: it is resistant to penetration, temperature extremes, and the entire electromagnetic spectrum of radiation. The only way it can be damaged in any way is by tampering with its molecular bonding.
| powers = Captain America represented the pinnacle of human physical perfection. He experienced a time when he was augmented to superhuman levels, but generally performed just below superhuman levels for most of his career. Captain America had a very high intelligence as well as agility, strength, speed, endurance, and reaction time superior to any Olympic athlete who ever competed. The Super-Soldier formula that he had metabolized had enhanced all of his bodily functions to the peak of human efficiency. Most notably, his body eliminates the excessive build-up of fatigue-producing poisons in his muscles, granting him phenomenal endurance.
| abilities = Captain America had mastered the martial arts of American-style boxing and judo, and had combined these disciplines with his own unique hand-to-hand style of combat. He had also shown skill and knowledge of a number of other martial arts. He engaged in a daily regimen of rigorous exercise (including aerobics, weight lifting, gymnastics, and simulated combat) to keep himself in peak condition. Captain America was one of the finest human combatants Earth had ever known.
| debut = (Captain America) Captain America Comics #1 (1941); (Nomad) Captain America #180 (1974); (Captain) Captain America #337 (1988)
| origin = Captain America Comics #1 (1941); Tales of Suspense #63 (1965); Captain America #109 (1969); Captain America #255 (1981); Adventures of Captain America #1-2 (1991)
| significant_issues = See [[OHOTMU:Bibliography-AZ Update 2#Captain America|OHOTMU Bibliography]]
}}{{Headshot|
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}}{{bio|
bio_text=[[image: CapsShield-mini.jpg|left|100 px]]In World War II patriotic solider '''Steve Rogers''' recipient of the '''"Super Soldier Serum"''' became the living symbol of freedom, '''Captain America.''' Left for dead while frozen in ice, the star-spangled hero with an indestructible shield awoke years later to continue his never-ending battle for liberty.
----
=== Early Years and World War II ===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap am SupSoldSerum.jpg|left|thumb]]Steve Rogers was a scrawny fine arts student growing up during the Great Depression. His alcoholic father died when Steve was a child, and his mother passed away from pneumonia after he graduated high school. In early 1940, appalled at Nazi Germany’s horrific atrocities, Steve attempted to enlist in the army. Failing to pass physical requirements, he was invited to volunteer for Operation: Rebirth, a project intended to enhance US soldiers to the height of physical perfection via the inventions and discoveries of Professor Abraham Erskine. Rogers eagerly accepted and became the first test subject. After injections and ingestion of the "Super Soldier Serum," Rogers was exposed to a controlled burst of "Vita-Rays" that activated and stabilized the chemicals in his system. The process successfully altered his physiology from its frail state to the maximum of human efficiency, including greatly enhanced musculature and reflexes. Soon after, Professor Erskine was assassinated by a Nazi operative, leaving Steve the sole beneficiary of Erskine’s genius. Renamed “Project: Rebirth,” variations of the Super-Soldier serum were subsequently tested, under inhuman conditions, on African-American soldiers. The most successful of these was Isaiah Bradley, and Project: Rebirth’s resources were eventually absorbed into a multinational superhuman research project dubbed Weapon Plus.

Rogers was assigned to serve as an who served both as a counter-intelligence agent and a symbolic US hero to counter Nazi Germany's propaganda successes head by the [[Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)]]. Wearing a costume based on his own design modeled after the American flag, Steve was given a triangular bulletproof shield, a personal sidearm and the codename Captain America, the Sentinel of Liberty. He was also provided a cover identity as a clumsy infantry private at Camp Lehigh in Virginia. His first opponents included the Red Skull himself and Nazi attempts to duplicate Erskine’s serum with their own super soldiers. During a mission to the African nation of Wakanda, “Cap” befriended the nation’s ruler T’Chaka and obtained a sample of the rare metal [[Glossary:V#Vibranium|Vibranium]]. Subsequent experiments with this metal produced a uniquely indestructible Vibranium-steel alloy disc, which proved impossible to duplicate. The disc was given to Cap as his new shield.

[[Image:CAP inline.jpg|left|Cap and Bucky]]Barely out of his teens himself, Rogers made friends with the army’s camp mascot, teenager [[Winter_Soldier|James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes]]. Barnes accidentally learned of Rogers' dual identity and offered to keep the secret if he could become Captain America's sidekick. Rogers agreed, and trained Barnes. Throughout 1941, Cap and Bucky shared many adventures stateside and throughout the world. When the US entered World War II, Cap and Bucky teamed with the android Human Torch, his mutant sidekick Toro, and Namor the ocean-dwelling Sub-Mariner as the Allied force the [[Invaders]].

In the closing days of World War II in early 1945, Cap broke through Nazi troops for his final wartime confrontation with the Red Skull, who was seemingly slain by bombing debris (but lived on in suspended animation). Days later, Cap and Bucky arrived in England too late to prevent brilliant Nazi scientist [[Baron Zemo (Heinrich)|Baron Zemo]] from obtaining and launching an experimental drone plane armed explosive device on it. Rogers and Barnes reached the plane, but when Bucky tried to defuse the bomb, it exploded in mid-air. Rogers was hurled into the freezing waters of the North Atlantic. The US government presumed both were dead. However, Bucky was secretly retrieved by Soviet operatives, while Cap was recovered by Nazi agent Lyle Dekker, who hoped to exchange bodies with him. Cap escaped Dekker’s base by air, but was shot down and fell back into the ocean. Due to the Super-Soldier serum Captain America survived, entering a state of suspended animation and eventually freezing in solid ice.

=== The Awesome Thaw and the Mighty Thor ===
Years later, a team of super-heroes called the Avengers discovered Rogers' frozen body in the North Atlantic, where he had been preserved since 1945. Once revived, Rogers was devastated by Bucky’s supposed death and the loss of everything once familiar to him. The Avengers were attacked by Namor’s ally, the extraterrestrial Vuk the D’bari, who transformed the heroes into stone. Cap confronted the alien, making him their ally, and helped the restored Avengers defeat Cap’s former teammate from the Invaders, Namor. After that adventure, Captain America was invited to join the Avengers as their first recruit. Cap formed close friendships with his teammates Thor, Iron Man (Tony Stark), Giant-Man (Hank Pym), the Wasp, and the Avengers’ butler Edwin Jarvis.

Cap’s revival, reported worldwide, brought the long-retired Baron Zemo out of seclusion. Enraged that his enemy still lived, Zemo organized several superhuman criminals as the Masters of Evil and set them against the Avengers, the first of many such battles with various incarnations of the Masters. Soon afterward, Cap and the Avengers repelled an invasion by the time-traveling menace Kang the Conqueror, clashed with Kang’s alternate version of himself from the future, Immortus, and encountered the heroic team of mutants, the X-Men, during an investigation of the extraterrestrial Lucifer. Zemo had his Masters launch a final assault on the Avengers. While the other Avengers defeated the Masters, Cap stormed Zemo’s South American stronghold, where Zemo accidentally killed himself by triggering an avalanche in battle with Cap.

Returning to New York, Cap learned the other Avengers were taking leaves of absence from the team and had already recruited repentant outlaws including the archer Hawkeye (Clint Barton), mutant speedster Quicksilver and his sister the probability-altering Scarlet Witch as their replacements. Unperturbed by the new trio’s earlier crimes, Cap became fulltime Avengers leader as the only remaining senior member. His leadership helped quell public skepticism about the new roster, nicknamed “Cap’s Kooky Quartet.” Cap became a mentor to the trio, assisting Quicksilver and the Witch’s assimilation in the US and bearing the brunt of Hawkeye’s youthful rebellion.

===Hearts and Skulls===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap-vs-RedSkull-Sleeper-CA148.jpg|left|thumb]]During Cap’s early solo adventures and as an Avenger, he persistently protected the world from global threats. In Germany he almost single-handedly saved the world from three monstrous Sleeper robots, created by the Red Skull. Soon afterward, he aided SHIELD agent Sharon Carter in retrieving the explosive “Inferno 42” stolen from the subversive group Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM) by Batroc the Leaper, a flamboyant mercenary who came to regard Cap as his favorite adversary. Cap’s wartime friend Nick Fury, now SHIELD Director, recruited him in further anti- AIM operations and offered him SHIELD membership, which Cap declined, preferring to remain active with the Avengers and as a solo operative. During SHIELD’s continued conflicts with AIM, Cap learned the enemy organization had discovered and revived the Red Skull, who repaid their hospitality by stealing their near-omnipotent Cosmic Cube. Battling his oldest enemy for the first time since the war, Cap manipulated the Skull’s ego to force him into physical combat, and then struggled with him for the Cube itself. Lashing out with its power, the Skull caused an earthquake and again vanished beneath rubble. Following his recovery, the Skull lured his enemy into a trap via a robot duplicate of Bucky, but failed to extort Cap into supposed treason via a threat to New York.

After several shared adventures, Cap and Sharon fell in love, but when she rejected his marriage proposal, Cap decided to give up crimefighting and revealed his true identity to the public. He soon recanted his decision to retire and returned to action. Cap again clashed with the Red Skull, who had revived the Fourth Sleeper to wreak havoc. With Sharon’s help, Cap deactivated the robot, and forced the Skull to flee.

===The Sidekick, the Secret, and the Switch===
Meanwhile Rick Jones, the young friend of the Hulk, pursued Captain America to become his partner, and Cap allowed the youth to accompany him into battle against the terrorists of Hydra, then led by Madame Hydra. When Hydra later abducted Rick, Cap rescued his new sidekick. During that mission, regretting his decision to make his identity public, Cap made himself appear to be shot down, leaving a realistic Steve Rogers mask to convince the world the Rogers identity had been false to protect his privacy. In addition, Cap and Rick ran afoul of old Avengers foe the shape-changing Space Phantom, who as part of his own plot removed the world’s knowledge of Cap’s secret identity.

The Red Skull continued to toy with Captain America’s life, using the Cosmic Cube to switch bodies with the hero. The Skull in Cap’s body alienated Rick into quitting his sidekick role, while Rogers in the Skull’s body was sent to Exile Island, where he was attacked (by those thinking he was the Skull) and befriended by adventurer [[Falcon_%28Sam_Wilson%29|Sam Wilson]]. Wilson, formerly criminal “Snap” Wilson, had undergone personality alteration by the Skull, and was planted so as to eventually become Cap’s partner, setting the stage for a potential future betrayal. As the costumed Falcon, accompanied by his trained bird Redwing, Wilson helped Cap confront the Skull, who returned his foe and himself to their rightful bodies so as to better savor a triumph. Before the Skull could destroy the pair, however, AIM avenged the Skull’s earlier betrayal by robbing the Cube of its power. The Skull escaped yet again.

===Street Fights to Space Wars===
[[Image:CAP inline 2.jpg|left]]In the adventures that followed, Cap encountered an android replica of Bucky planted by mutated AIM leader MODOK’s. The android replicated Bucky’s altruism and sacrificed itself, foiling MODOK’s schemes. In New York City, Cap and the Falcon became crimefighting partners, as the Red Skull had intended, and found a number of local villains. Beyond pedestrian-level threats, Captain America became involved with cosmic battles. With the Avengers team, and the alien Kree Captain Mar-Vell, Cap intervened in the millennia-old Kree-Skrull War after it threatened Earth.

Back home, with Earth safe from the Skrulls, Cap and the Falcon battled gangsters and the Red Skull’s Fifth Sleeper robot unleashed in Las Vegas. The surrogate Captain America and Bucky (Jack Monroe) of the 1950s were freed after being driven mad by faulty Super-Soldier treatments and placed in suspended animation for decades. Cap and Falcon defeated the madmen. The Viper (Jordan Dixon), teamed with Eel (Edward Lavell) and Cobra (Klaus Voorhees) to battle Cap and Falcon as the Serpent Squad, and variations on this serpent-themed group would plague Cap repeatedly. Baron Zemo’s son Helmut surfaced, heir to Heinrich’s barony, genius, and above all his hatred of Captain America. When Falcon intervened in a grudge match between Hemut and Cap, the younger Zemo seemingly perished in a vat of his father’s chemical “Adhesive X.”

===The Secret Empire and Time-Traveling Turmoil===
On the home front, Captain America was disheartened to discover the Secret Empire, an underground organization tied to a high-ranking US government official. Cap and other heroes protected the White House against the Empire’s assault, but Cap was left deeply shaken by the affair. Standing beside past and future versions of the Avengers, Cap battled to save humanity from the Time-Keepers, extraterrestrial beings from the “End of Time.” He returned from the battle victorious, but with no memories of his journey outside of the bounds of time. After he and the Avengers joined the powerful alien Kree soldier, Captain Mar-Vell, against the cosmic menace Thanos, Cap and Sharon accompanied the rocky hero, the Thing, to 31st century (a possible future designated Earth- 691). With the heroes known as the Guardians of the Galaxy, they helped battle against the Earth’s conquerors from the alien Badoon race.

===Nomad===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap_as_nomad.jpg|left|thumb|Nomad]]Back in the present day, Rogers felt disillusioned by the corruption of the US government by the Secret Empire, and abandoned his role as Captain America while adopting a new costumed identity as the Nomad. In his new guise, he and Namor confronted Viper, the former Madame Hydra, who had embarked on a campaign of terror as leader of the Serpent Squad. The two heroes prevented Viper and her Atlantean ally Krang from using the ancient and powerful Serpent Crown. Later, the savagery of the Red Skull prompted Steve to reclaim his Captain America identity.

===A Partner’s Past Exposed===
In a subsequent battle, the Red Skull revealed his role in Falcon’s origin, giving Cap’s partner his own identity crisis. Despite learning of his partner’s checkered past, Cap stayed by his side and accompanied Falcon to court, where his partner faced charges for the crimes of his earlier self. Though placed on parole, Falcon was able to continue fighting crime at Cap’s side.

===Global Chaos===
Captain America continued his incredible war against injustice across the globe. He partnered with Captain Britain (Brian Braddock in Great Britain against the Red Skull’s terrorism against London, prevented the Royalist Forces of America from driving the USA insane with their Madbomb, and formed an uncomfortable alliance with Doom against yet another of the Skull’s schemes; the Skull was revealed to be bankrolling worldwide chaos caused by the mutated creatures of former Nazi scientist Arnim Zola. During a period Captain America suffered from amnesia of his early memories, a new threat arose with hypnotist Dr. Faustus’ National Force, whose puppet leader, the Grand Director, was actually the 1950s Captain America Faustus had brainwashed. Sharon Carter infiltrated the Force but was seemingly brainwashed and burned to death. In fact, Sharon faked her death and went under deep cover for SHIELD.

===Personal Life===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap-Classic-red-white-blue.jpg|left|thumb]]With his memories restored, Cap has an opportunity to run for president, but ultimately declined. He grew closer to fellow senior Avengers Iron Man and Thor when he learned their secret identities while they were all briefly imprisoned by the villainous Molecule Man. Meanwhile, In his private life, after the pain of losing Sharon had finally faded, Cap established a romance with new neighbor Bernadette “Bernie” Rosenthal. Cap faced a new Baron Zemo (Helmut, now hideously scarred after his earlier defeat), whose machinations led to Bernie discovering her boyfriend’s secret identity. While failing to stop Iron Man’s descent into alcoholism, Cap had a better influence on Jack Monroe, formerly the 1950s Bucky, who found new purpose as Cap’s sidekick wearing a version of Cap’s old Nomad costume. Upon returning from a bleak dystopian future world, recruited by the cyborg soldier Deathlok, to defeat the dictator Hellinger, Cap faced a brighter tomorrow as Bernie proposed marriage to him.

===The Secret Wars===
Before Rogers could settle down with Ms. Rosenthal, Cap, multiple Avengers and many other heroes were transported to an artificial planet called Battleworld and pitted against Dr. Doom’s super-villain army by the near-omnipotent being called the Beyonder. As loyalties changed throughout the conflict, Cap battled his wartime comrade Logan, now the X-Man Wolverine. Briefly seizing the Beyonder’s power, Doom wrought havoc, even breaking Cap’s shield, but Doom was defeated and Cap used Battleworld’s unique properties to re-form his beloved weapon through sheer will. The heroes and villains were returned back to Earth.

===Death Dodged Again by the Red Skull===
Meanwhile, the Red Skull began aging rapidly as the effects of his suspended animation faded, and was determined to die in battle with his oldest enemy. Though Cap was poisoned and tricked to belive Bernie and the Falcon were killed, overwhelming grief and pending death could force Cap to kill the Skull, who thus died of old age rather than in the battle he craved. Cap was soon restored by the Avengers, but none knew Zola had cloned Cap, and transferred the consciousness of the dying Skull into the new body. The Skull allowed Cap to believe he was dead while he remained behind the scenes for months.
Later, Cap looked on with pride as his teammate Hawkeye became leader of a separate Avengers branch on the West Coast, and both teams joined Earth’s other heroes in repelling the alien Dire Wraiths’ long-planned all-out invasion. Following clashes with the teleporting criminal mercenary Sidewinder’s Serpent Society, and the radical anti-nationalist Flag-Smasher, Cap confronted the Beyonder, manifested on Earth in human form to gain an understanding of human desires. Cap was dealt a personal blow when Bernie left New York to attend law school, ending their relationship.

===The Scourge===
Cap next investigated the villain-killing vigilante, the Scourge of the Underworld. The Scourge that Cap captured was himself killed by another, for several Scourges were active in a vigilante program designed by the Angel (Thomas Halloway) but co-opted by the still supposedly dead Red Skull. Another Skull project, the extremist group ULTIMATUM, surfaced with Flag-Smasher as its apparent leader. While battling the terrorists, Cap was forced to shoot an ULTIMATUM agent in order to rescue hostages; despite his victory, he was sickened at having been forced to kill an opponent for the first time since World War II. He was also unsettled by his subsequent losing skirmish with super-strong, glory-hungry rival adventurer Super-Patriot (John Walker).

===The Captain===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap_am_captain.jpg|left|thumb|The Captain]]Following an attack on Avengers Mansion by Helmut Zemo and his new Masters of Evil, and a conflict with Florida drug-lord the Slug, Cap became an ally of wrestler-turned-adventurer Demolition-Man (or D-Man). The Commission on Superhuman Activities (CSA), manipulated by the still hidden Red Skull, unfairly demanded Cap return to active government duty. Cap, in an echo of his earlier retirement following the Secret Empire debacle, surrendered his Captain America identity and shield rather than risk compromising his integrity via potential government misdeeds. The CSA appointed John Walker as a replacement Captain America, with his sidekick Battlestar (Lemar Hoskins). Rogers formed a mobile crimefighting team with Falcon, Nomad and D-Man and assumed a new costumed identity as the Captain. He adopted a new Adamantium shield provided by Iron Man, but Iron Man’s vigilante crusade to incapacitate armor wearers using his technology set him against the government’s Mandroids and Guardsmen, soldiers defending the nation Rogers still cherished. The Captain returned the shield during an attempt to apprehend Iron Man, the first serious break in their years of friendship.

With a Vibranium shield from the Black Panther, Rogers continued his adventures with his fellow travelers. Alongside the Avengers; while battling the Egyptian death god Seth’s forces, he briefly wielded Thor’s hammer, proving his worthiness among only a few privileged to lift the enchanted weapon. When the eastern Avengers roster disbanded soon afterward, Cap led a team of one-time members in halting the High Evolutionary’s worldwide experimentation, then joined D-Man and Battlestar in an assault on ULTIMATUM. D-Man seemingly perished at the organization’s Arctic base, but Cap had little time to grieve as demons overran New York during what was called the “Inferno Crisis”. Cap was allied with various heroes during the fray as a new team of Avengers, while the mutant X-Men ended the unholy invasion. After the Inferno Crisis ended, he and a maddened John Walker were manipulated into battle by the Red Skull, his survival finally revealed. With the Skull’s involvement exposed, the CSA offered Steve the return of his former identity; though Rogers initially declined. He was encouraged to accept by Walker, who subsequently wore a version of the Captain uniform as the USAgent and joined the West Coast Avengers, wielding Cap’s Vibranium shield.

===Back in Uniform===
While Cap led a reorganization of the Avengers, he became romantically involved with ex-Serpent Society member Diamondback (Rachel Leighton), although their relationship was strained by her continued loyalties to some of her former criminal cohorts.

Hostilities flared between the interstellar Kree and Shi’ar Empires, and their conflict destabilized Earth’s sun. Cap led the Avengers in protecting Earth’s interests and following a series of space adventures that set them against both the Shi’ar Imperial Guard and the Kree Starforce, the Avengers learned all parties had been manipulated by the Kree’s Supreme Intelligence in an effort to advance the Kree race’s evolution via the near-annihilation of the Kree empire. After allegedly 98% of the Kree Empire’s population were killed, Iron Man and other Avengers attempted to kill the Supreme Intelligence despite the protests of Cap, who felt the Earth team had no right to execute an extraterrestrial ruler; although the Intelligence secretly survived, Cap was disturbed by his teammates’ willingness to kill and he took another leave of absence from the team just as D-Man turned up alive.

Back on Earth, Cap’s adventures continued as he was turned into a werewolf for a time, and was attacked by an evil “doppelganger” version of himself, a harbinger of the cosmic “Infinity War” waged against Earth’s superhumans by the tyrannical Magus, an aspect of the artificially constructed man, Adam Warlock.

===A Super-Soldier Fatigued===
In the wake of his many crises, Cap received the hardest blow yet when he learned that, due to his long years of adrenaline-boosting action, his body had finally overtaxed the Super-Soldier serum’s ability to replenish his augmented physique, threatening paralysis. Knowing further exertion would worsen his condition but unwilling to retire, Cap slowed his deterioration by using various accessories in place of physical feats, eventually taking novice heroes Free Spirit and Jack Flag as apprentices. When his health finally collapsed, Cap used armor provided by Iron Man to overcome paralysis, but his condition continued to deteriorate. Cap, finally resigned to his fate, prepared to succumb to death; but he vanished, and his friends found only his armor.

Although the world believed him dead, Cap had been abducted and cured by Sharon Carter, finally learning she was still alive. She was reluctantly allied with the Red Skull, who believed Cap was the only person able to defeat their mutual enemy Hate-Monger, a Hitler clone who had assimilated the Cosmic Cube’s power and changed the world into one the Skull could never rule. Cap prevented both Hate-Monger and the Skull from using the Cube’s power, while Sharon’s romantic feelings for Cap returned.

===Reborn after the Onslaught===
When the psionic entity Onslaught threatened the world, Cap and several other heroes seemingly died defeating him. Cap was again reborn, however, as were his friends, on a new Earth in a pocket dimension subconsciously created by Franklin Richards, son of Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman. Whether via his own subconscious or not, Cap received a new life with a wife and son, only for it to be exposed as a deception born from the imaginary history Franklin created for him. Counter-Earth also presented him with a readymade nemesis, a duplicate Red Skull, whom he fought with the help of teenage Rikki Barnes, dubbed Bucky. Eventually, Cap and the other Onslaught survivors regained their true memories and returned to Earth, leaving their legend to inspire the remaining heroes on Franklin’s world, which was preserved as Counter-Earth.

===When Villains Pose as Heroes===
Earth’s reality was not restored for long as Cap led nearly the entire Avengers roster against the ancient sorceress Morgan Le Fay, who changed reality into a medieval world where the Avengers were her warriors, but Cap broke her spell and helped his teammates do the same. They were quickly controlled again by Helmut Zemo, who in Cap’s absence had reorganized the Masters of Evil into a supposed team of heroes, the Thunderbolts. Fortunately, most of the Thunderbolts rebelled against Zemo’s scheme, freeing the Avengers, and eventually finding redemption under Hawkeye’s leadership. During a battle with Hydra, Cap’s indestructible shield was lost in the Atlantic Ocean, and he initially used a duplicate of his triangular wartime shield as a replacement. After defeating the shape-changing alien Skrull called the Sensational Hydra, who had impersonated him to incite panic in the public, Cap obtained a new energy shield. Cap and Iron Man were again at odds when Iron Man used telepathic technology to remove the world’s memories of his true identity, as the Space Phantom had done for Cap years ago, which Cap considered unconscionably intrusive.

===Crisis of Kang the Conqueror===
Following yet another bout with the Red Skull and his reacquired Cosmic Cube, Cap recovered his original shield. The Avengers and all of Earth faced a series of crises when Kang the Conqueror launched a global assault unequaled by any of his earlier efforts, causing worldwide chaos made worse by competing menaces such as the master of gravity, Graviton, and the giant creature Orrgo. Millions perished, but the Avengers and their allies ultimately routed Kang’s forces, and Cap himself struck down Kang in single combat.

===The War on Terror===
While fighting terrorists in the US, Cap was again forced to take a life to save others, killing terrorist leader al-Tariq. Hoping to discourage counterattacks on the USA, Cap unmasked before the world to give an individual face to al-Tariq’s death.

When the Avengers helped contain the toxic Red Zone disaster that killed hundreds of Americans, Cap traced the Zone’s creation to US Secretary of Defense Dell Rusk, actually the disguised Red Skull, having infiltrated the government once more. Although his imposture was exposed, another of the Skull’s projects lived on in a new government-backed team of proactive Invaders, with USAgent as field leader. Disgusted by the needless violence of the group’s international activities, Cap was all the more discouraged when Namor joined USAgent’s efforts.

Drawn into more government conspiracies while helping Falcon, Cap encountered his latest Super-Soldier imitator, the Anti-Cap, whom Cap tried but failed to save from further government manipulation. He also grew alienated from Sharon Carter over her involvement with the anti-mutant Project: Contingency. When Thor’s home dimension was threatened by Ragnarok, Cap and Iron Man accompanied him to battle Asgard’s enemies, but Thor ultimately returned them to Earth rather than risk their lives, and he seemingly perished soon afterward. Back on Earth, when a supposedly reformed and no longer disfigured Zemo regained leadership of the Thunderbolts, Cap’s distrust of Zemo helped spark a brutal Avengers-Thunderbolts clash during which Zemo was hideously scarred anew while shielding Captain America.

===Disassembled===
One of the Avengers’ darkest days arose when Scarlet Witch, insane after years of struggling with her powers, undermined various teammates via her powers, even drawing Cap into an apparent romantic interlude with her, then altered reality itself to send duplicates of the Avengers’ many enemies against them, ending in the apparent deaths of Hawkeye, Vision and others.
Following a string of discouraging events for Cap, the apparent murders of both the Red Skull and Nomad were traced to the Winter Soldier, revealed as Bucky. Although Cap broke through Bucky’s brainwashing via the Cosmic Cube, his World War II partner fled. Cap felt more optimistic after he and several other super heroes helped contain a mass breakout of superhuman criminals at the Raft prison; Cap and Iron Man formalized this group as a new Avengers roster, partnering with new Avenger teammates Spider-Man and Wolverine, but the government and SHIELD (now run by the ruthless [[Hill, Maria|Maria Hill]]) distrusted their team.

===Casualty of the Civil War===
[[Image:Captshirt.jpg|left]]When the US government passed a Superhuman Registration Act (SHRA) requiring all super heroes to register for government service, Iron Man aggressively championed the new law. Cap’s requests for review of the legislation were ignored, and he went rogue rather than hunt down rebellious heroes. A “Civil War” divided the super-hero community as heroes sided either with Iron Man’s government-sanctioned forces or Cap’s underground resistance, the “Secret Avengers.” Zemo’s Thunderbolts worked for Iron Man, but Zemo secretly assisted Cap as well, finally convincing Cap that he had at least some potential to reform; Zemo even restored Cap’s personal mementos, the same ones he had destroyed long ago. During the civil war’s final battle, Cap’s forces were on the verge of victory when he noticed that ordinary emergency workers such as firefighters, paramedics and nurses were siding with Iron Man’s team. Horrified at the realization that the common people opposed his position, Cap opted to end the destructive conflict by surrendering to the authorities. Most of the anti-registration movement soon collapsed without his leadership. Following his arrest, a scheme orchestrated by the Red Skull, Arnim Zola, Dr. Faustus and others culminated with Cap’s assassination by a brainwashed Sharon Carter, who shot him at point-blank range.

===Back in Time===
While the world believed Captain America had been killed, the shot fired by Sharon actually flung him out of sync with time, causing him to relive moments from his past. While Cap was believed dead, Bucky assumed the guise of Captain America. The Red Skull finally engineered his master plan to bring Cap back to the present, but with his mind controlling Cap’s body; however, Rogers defeated the Red Skull within his mind and drove him from his body. Finding Bucky had adjusted to his new role, Rogers encouraged him to continue as Captain America, though Rogers briefly resumed his role as Cap to lead the Avengers against Norman Osborn, the insane arch-criminal given charge of his own “Avengers” and the Initiative, the USA’s superhuman task force, after playing on public perception of himself. During Osborn’s siege against the Asgardians, Cap’s forces publicly defeated him and exposed him as a dangerous madman. Rogers accepted the president’s offer to replace Osborn as the new executive in charge of America’s super-heroes.

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Talk:Captain America (Steve Rogers)

MikeFichera — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:03:39 GMT

MikeFichera: Links will be back

==== DISCUSS CAPTAIN AMERICA ON THE MARVEL BOARDS ====
Chat all you want with fellow Captain America Fans on the Marvel.com [http://www.marvel.com/boards/viewforum.php?f=40 Captain America Message Board]! Please keep the focus of this Talk Page on discussions about his Marvel Universe bio instead of the comics. --[[User:DragynWulf|DragynWulf]] 00:47, 14 April 2007 (CDT) (Moderator)

== Why is the profile locked? ==

I found a few typos and grammatical errors in the Captain America bio. Why can't I go in and fix them? --[[User:Spidey_300|Spidey_300]]

Moderators have protected some pages that are mostly done and doesn't really have anything more to add of the past happenings. They themself update those bios when they have the time. These pages include for example Wolverine, Spider-Man and Captain America. If you noticed some writing mistakes on the bio then list them here on the talk page and some admin will fix them when he has the time. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 17:20, 20 July 2007 (EDT)

I have found a grammatical issue. There is an unneeded "the" in the following sentence compied from the bio. "As the passage of the the Superhuman Registration Act drew near" Can one of the mods fix this? [[User:_Iron_man_|_Iron_man_]] 11:27, 10 August 2007 (CDT)

== Bibliography ==
Since the profile is locked can someone add this: [[OHOTMU:Bibliography-AZ Update 2#Captain America|OHOTMU Bibliography]]. It just doesnt seem right that one of the oldest characters only has one issue under significant issues. - --[[User:mickeys4life|mickeys4life]] 19:07, 27 July 2007 (CDT)
==Talk:Captain America (disambiguation)==
Appearently, the Talk:Captain America (disambiguation) is redirected here. That said, I made an edit to add Bucky as the new Captain America over a month ago. And other edits too. It is kind of a joke to have Marvel.com to be so out of date.[[User:spshu|spshu]] 12:11, 24 December 2008 (EST)

== Weight and powertgrid of Steve ==

Steve is coming back here and i have to put it in theat he is returning and he weighs 220 lbs okay from the Avengers handbook for the Powergrids they are all wrong it is on the book okay so(execpt for James ,Anti-venom,and others) they all have to have from the future handbooks [[User:Holo78]]

== Sin ==
I noticed in the ending, you did not make a link for Red Skull's daughter Sin. Was this intentional or an oversight? --[[User:Ohitsme|Ohitsme]] 20:20, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Mike didn't add any new links. He just added the text. It would still be nice if someone who has rights to edit protected pages would add the links as now the profile just seems unfinished. --[[User:Wezqu|Wezqu]] 20:29, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

The profile is unfinished, as it's going through final review right now at Marvel. Once the review is finished, all the links will be added back. --[[User:MikeFichera|MikeFichera]] 15:03, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

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MikeFichera — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:13:56 GMT

MikeFichera: Reply about Mielikki

Captain America (Steve Rogers)

MikeFichera — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:29:59 GMT

MikeFichera: cleaned up ending

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Steven "Steve" Rogers
| identity = Publicly known
| occupation = Adventurer, formerly WPA artist, soldier, police officer, teacher, freelance illustrator, special [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] operative
| place_of_birth = New York, New York
| groups = [[Secret Avengers]]; formerly the [[Avengers]], [[Invaders]], [[Captain's Unnamed Superhero Team]], [[Redeemers]]; formerly partner of [[Winter Soldier|Bucky]], [[Jones, Rick|Rick Jones]], [[Falcon (Sam Wilson)|Falcon]], [[Demolition Man]] and [[Nomad (Jack Monroe)]]
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| aliases = Nomad, The Captain, Steven Grant Rogers, Roger Stevens, Yeoman America, Cap, The Sentinel of Liberty, Star-Spangled Avenger; also has impersonated [[Crossbones]]
| relatives = Joseph and Sarah Rogers (parents, deceased), unidentified grandfather (presumed deceased), Steven Rogers (Captain America, 18th century ancestor, presumed deceased)
| education = High school graduate; one year of art school; military basic training; private tutoring in hand-to-hand combat, gymnastics, military strategy, piloting, demolition, and other disciplines
| height = 6'2"
| weight = 220 lbs
| eyes = Blue
| hair = Blond
| weapons = Captain America's only weapon was his [[Captain America's Shield|shield]], a concave disk 2.5 feet in diameter, weighing 12 pounds. It is made of a unique [[Glossary:V#Vibranium|Vibranium]]-metal alloy that has never been duplicated. The shield was cast by American metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain, who was contracted by the U.S. government to create an impenetrable substance to use for tanks during World War II. MacLain was never able to duplicate the process due to his inability to identify a still unknown factor that played a role in it. The shield was awarded to Captain America by the government several months after the beginning of his career.

The shield has great aerodynamic properties: it is able to slice through the air with minimal wind resistance and deflection of path. Its great overall resilience, combined with its natural concentric stiffness, enables it to rebound from objects with minimal loss of angular momentum. It is virtually indestructible: it is resistant to penetration, temperature extremes, and the entire electromagnetic spectrum of radiation. The only way it can be damaged in any way is by tampering with its molecular bonding.
| powers = Captain America represented the pinnacle of human physical perfection. He experienced a time when he was augmented to superhuman levels, but generally performed just below superhuman levels for most of his career. Captain America had a very high intelligence as well as agility, strength, speed, endurance, and reaction time superior to any Olympic athlete who ever competed. The Super-Soldier formula that he had metabolized had enhanced all of his bodily functions to the peak of human efficiency. Most notably, his body eliminates the excessive build-up of fatigue-producing poisons in his muscles, granting him phenomenal endurance.
| abilities = Captain America had mastered the martial arts of American-style boxing and judo, and had combined these disciplines with his own unique hand-to-hand style of combat. He had also shown skill and knowledge of a number of other martial arts. He engaged in a daily regimen of rigorous exercise (including aerobics, weight lifting, gymnastics, and simulated combat) to keep himself in peak condition. Captain America was one of the finest human combatants Earth had ever known.
| debut = Captain America Comics #1 (1941)
| origin = Captain America Comics #1 (1941)
| significant_issues = Avengers #4
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bio_text=[[image: CapsShield-mini.jpg|left|100 px]]In World War II patriotic solider '''Steve Rogers''' recipient of the '''"Super Soldier Serum"''' became the living symbol of freedom, '''Captain America.''' Left for dead while frozen in ice, the star-spangled hero with an indestructible shield awoke years later to continue his never-ending battle for liberty.
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=== Early Years and World War II ===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap am SupSoldSerum.jpg|left|thumb]]Steve Rogers was a scrawny fine arts student growing up during the Great Depression. His alcoholic father died when Steve was a child, and his mother passed away from pneumonia after he graduated high school. In early 1940, appalled at Nazi Germany’s horrific atrocities, Steve attempted to enlist in the army. Failing to pass physical requirements, he was invited to volunteer for Operation: Rebirth, a project intended to enhance US soldiers to the height of physical perfection via the inventions and discoveries of Professor Abraham Erskine. Rogers eagerly accepted and became the first test subject. After injections and ingestion of the "Super Soldier Serum," Rogers was exposed to a controlled burst of "Vita-Rays" that activated and stabilized the chemicals in his system. The process successfully altered his physiology from its frail state to the maximum of human efficiency, including greatly enhanced musculature and reflexes. Soon after, Professor Erskine was assassinated by a Nazi operative, leaving Steve the sole beneficiary of Erskine’s genius. Renamed “Project: Rebirth,” variations of the Super-Soldier serum were subsequently tested, under inhuman conditions, on African-American soldiers. The most successful of these was Isaiah Bradley, and Project: Rebirth’s resources were eventually absorbed into a multinational superhuman research project dubbed Weapon Plus.

Rogers was assigned to serve as an who served both as a counter-intelligence agent and a symbolic US hero to counter Nazi Germany's propaganda successes head by the [[Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)]]. Wearing a costume based on his own design modeled after the American flag, Steve was given a triangular bulletproof shield, a personal sidearm and the codename Captain America, the Sentinel of Liberty. He was also provided a cover identity as a clumsy infantry private at Camp Lehigh in Virginia. His first opponents included the Red Skull himself and Nazi attempts to duplicate Erskine’s serum with their own super soldiers. During a mission to the African nation of Wakanda, “Cap” befriended the nation’s ruler T’Chaka and obtained a sample of the rare metal [[Glossary:V#Vibranium|Vibranium]]. Subsequent experiments with this metal produced a uniquely indestructible Vibranium-steel alloy disc, which proved impossible to duplicate. The disc was given to Cap as his new shield.

[[Image:CAP inline.jpg|left|Cap and Bucky]]Barely out of his teens himself, Rogers made friends with the army’s camp mascot, teenager [[Winter_Soldier|James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes]]. Barnes accidentally learned of Rogers' dual identity and offered to keep the secret if he could become Captain America's sidekick. Rogers agreed, and trained Barnes. Throughout 1941, Cap and Bucky shared many adventures stateside and throughout the world. When the US entered World War II, Cap and Bucky teamed with the android Human Torch, his mutant sidekick Toro, and Namor the ocean-dwelling Sub-Mariner as the Allied force the [[Invaders]].

In the closing days of World War II in early 1945, Cap broke through Nazi troops for his final wartime confrontation with the Red Skull, who was seemingly slain by bombing debris (but lived on in suspended animation). Days later, Cap and Bucky arrived in England too late to prevent brilliant Nazi scientist [[Baron Zemo (Heinrich)|Baron Zemo]] from obtaining and launching an experimental drone plane armed explosive device on it. Rogers and Barnes reached the plane, but when Bucky tried to defuse the bomb, it exploded in mid-air. Rogers was hurled into the freezing waters of the North Atlantic. The US government presumed both were dead. However, Bucky was secretly retrieved by Soviet operatives, while Cap was recovered by Nazi agent Lyle Dekker, who hoped to exchange bodies with him. Cap escaped Dekker’s base by air, but was shot down and fell back into the ocean. Due to the Super-Soldier serum Captain America survived, entering a state of suspended animation and eventually freezing in solid ice.

=== The Awesome Thaw and the Mighty Thor ===
Years later, a team of super-heroes called the Avengers discovered Rogers' frozen body in the North Atlantic, where he had been preserved since 1945. Once revived, Rogers was devastated by Bucky’s supposed death and the loss of everything once familiar to him. The Avengers were attacked by Namor’s ally, the extraterrestrial Vuk the D’bari, who transformed the heroes into stone. Cap confronted the alien, making him their ally, and helped the restored Avengers defeat Cap’s former teammate from the Invaders, Namor. After that adventure, Captain America was invited to join the Avengers as their first recruit. Cap formed close friendships with his teammates Thor, Iron Man (Tony Stark), Giant-Man (Hank Pym), the Wasp, and the Avengers’ butler Edwin Jarvis.

Cap’s revival, reported worldwide, brought the long-retired Baron Zemo out of seclusion. Enraged that his enemy still lived, Zemo organized several superhuman criminals as the Masters of Evil and set them against the Avengers, the first of many such battles with various incarnations of the Masters. Soon afterward, Cap and the Avengers repelled an invasion by the time-traveling menace Kang the Conqueror, clashed with Kang’s alternate version of himself from the future, Immortus, and encountered the heroic team of mutants, the X-Men, during an investigation of the extraterrestrial Lucifer. Zemo had his Masters launch a final assault on the Avengers. While the other Avengers defeated the Masters, Cap stormed Zemo’s South American stronghold, where Zemo accidentally killed himself by triggering an avalanche in battle with Cap.

Returning to New York, Cap learned the other Avengers were taking leaves of absence from the team and had already recruited repentant outlaws including the archer Hawkeye (Clint Barton), mutant speedster Quicksilver and his sister the probability-altering Scarlet Witch as their replacements. Unperturbed by the new trio’s earlier crimes, Cap became fulltime Avengers leader as the only remaining senior member. His leadership helped quell public skepticism about the new roster, nicknamed “Cap’s Kooky Quartet.” Cap became a mentor to the trio, assisting Quicksilver and the Witch’s assimilation in the US and bearing the brunt of Hawkeye’s youthful rebellion.

===Hearts and Skulls===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap-vs-RedSkull-Sleeper-CA148.jpg|left|thumb]]During Cap’s early solo adventures and as an Avenger, he persistently protected the world from global threats. In Germany he almost single-handedly saved the world from three monstrous Sleeper robots, created by the Red Skull. Soon afterward, he aided SHIELD agent Sharon Carter in retrieving the explosive “Inferno 42” stolen from the subversive group Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM) by Batroc the Leaper, a flamboyant mercenary who came to regard Cap as his favorite adversary. Cap’s wartime friend Nick Fury, now SHIELD Director, recruited him in further anti- AIM operations and offered him SHIELD membership, which Cap declined, preferring to remain active with the Avengers and as a solo operative. During SHIELD’s continued conflicts with AIM, Cap learned the enemy organization had discovered and revived the Red Skull, who repaid their hospitality by stealing their near-omnipotent Cosmic Cube. Battling his oldest enemy for the first time since the war, Cap manipulated the Skull’s ego to force him into physical combat, and then struggled with him for the Cube itself. Lashing out with its power, the Skull caused an earthquake and again vanished beneath rubble. Following his recovery, the Skull lured his enemy into a trap via a robot duplicate of Bucky, but failed to extort Cap into supposed treason via a threat to New York.

After several shared adventures, Cap and Sharon fell in love, but when she rejected his marriage proposal, Cap decided to give up crimefighting and revealed his true identity to the public. He soon recanted his decision to retire and returned to action. Cap again clashed with the Red Skull, who had revived the Fourth Sleeper to wreak havoc. With Sharon’s help, Cap deactivated the robot, and forced the Skull to flee.

===The Sidekick, the Secret, and the Switch===
Meanwhile Rick Jones, the young friend of the Hulk, pursued Captain America to become his partner, and Cap allowed the youth to accompany him into battle against the terrorists of Hydra, then led by Madame Hydra. When Hydra later abducted Rick, Cap rescued his new sidekick. During that mission, regretting his decision to make his identity public, Cap made himself appear to be shot down, leaving a realistic Steve Rogers mask to convince the world the Rogers identity had been false to protect his privacy. In addition, Cap and Rick ran afoul of old Avengers foe the shape-changing Space Phantom, who as part of his own plot removed the world’s knowledge of Cap’s secret identity.

The Red Skull continued to toy with Captain America’s life, using the Cosmic Cube to switch bodies with the hero. The Skull in Cap’s body alienated Rick into quitting his sidekick role, while Rogers in the Skull’s body was sent to Exile Island, where he was attacked (by those thinking he was the Skull) and befriended by adventurer [[Falcon_%28Sam_Wilson%29|Sam Wilson]]. Wilson, formerly criminal “Snap” Wilson, had undergone personality alteration by the Skull, and was planted so as to eventually become Cap’s partner, setting the stage for a potential future betrayal. As the costumed Falcon, accompanied by his trained bird Redwing, Wilson helped Cap confront the Skull, who returned his foe and himself to their rightful bodies so as to better savor a triumph. Before the Skull could destroy the pair, however, AIM avenged the Skull’s earlier betrayal by robbing the Cube of its power. The Skull escaped yet again.

===Street Fights to Space Wars===
[[Image:CAP inline 2.jpg|left]]In the adventures that followed, Cap encountered an android replica of Bucky planted by mutated AIM leader MODOK’s. The android replicated Bucky’s altruism and sacrificed itself, foiling MODOK’s schemes. In New York City, Cap and the Falcon became crimefighting partners, as the Red Skull had intended, and found a number of local villains. Beyond pedestrian-level threats, Captain America became involved with cosmic battles. With the Avengers team, and the alien Kree Captain Mar-Vell, Cap intervened in the millennia-old Kree-Skrull War after it threatened Earth.

Back home, with Earth safe from the Skrulls, Cap and the Falcon battled gangsters and the Red Skull’s Fifth Sleeper robot unleashed in Las Vegas. The surrogate Captain America and Bucky (Jack Monroe) of the 1950s were freed after being driven mad by faulty Super-Soldier treatments and placed in suspended animation for decades. Cap and Falcon defeated the madmen. The Viper (Jordan Dixon), teamed with Eel (Edward Lavell) and Cobra (Klaus Voorhees) to battle Cap and Falcon as the Serpent Squad, and variations on this serpent-themed group would plague Cap repeatedly. Baron Zemo’s son Helmut surfaced, heir to Heinrich’s barony, genius, and above all his hatred of Captain America. When Falcon intervened in a grudge match between Hemut and Cap, the younger Zemo seemingly perished in a vat of his father’s chemical “Adhesive X.”

===The Secret Empire and Time-Traveling Turmoil===
On the home front, Captain America was disheartened to discover the Secret Empire, an underground organization tied to a high-ranking US government official. Cap and other heroes protected the White House against the Empire’s assault, but Cap was left deeply shaken by the affair. Standing beside past and future versions of the Avengers, Cap battled to save humanity from the Time-Keepers, extraterrestrial beings from the “End of Time.” He returned from the battle victorious, but with no memories of his journey outside of the bounds of time. After he and the Avengers joined the powerful alien Kree soldier, Captain Mar-Vell, against the cosmic menace Thanos, Cap and Sharon accompanied the rocky hero, the Thing, to 31st century (a possible future designated Earth- 691). With the heroes known as the Guardians of the Galaxy, they helped battle against the Earth’s conquerors from the alien Badoon race.

===Nomad===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap_as_nomad.jpg|left|thumb|Nomad]]Back in the present day, Rogers felt disillusioned by the corruption of the US government by the Secret Empire, and abandoned his role as Captain America while adopting a new costumed identity as the Nomad. In his new guise, he and Namor confronted Viper, the former Madame Hydra, who had embarked on a campaign of terror as leader of the Serpent Squad. The two heroes prevented Viper and her Atlantean ally Krang from using the ancient and powerful Serpent Crown. Later, the savagery of the Red Skull prompted Steve to reclaim his Captain America identity.

===A Partner’s Past Exposed===
In a subsequent battle, the Red Skull revealed his role in Falcon’s origin, giving Cap’s partner his own identity crisis. Despite learning of his partner’s checkered past, Cap stayed by his side and accompanied Falcon to court, where his partner faced charges for the crimes of his earlier self. Though placed on parole, Falcon was able to continue fighting crime at Cap’s side.

===Global Chaos===
Captain America continued his incredible war against injustice across the globe. He partnered with Captain Britain (Brian Braddock in Great Britain against the Red Skull’s terrorism against London, prevented the Royalist Forces of America from driving the USA insane with their Madbomb, and formed an uncomfortable alliance with Doom against yet another of the Skull’s schemes; the Skull was revealed to be bankrolling worldwide chaos caused by the mutated creatures of former Nazi scientist Arnim Zola. During a period Captain America suffered from amnesia of his early memories, a new threat arose with hypnotist Dr. Faustus’ National Force, whose puppet leader, the Grand Director, was actually the 1950s Captain America Faustus had brainwashed. Sharon Carter infiltrated the Force but was seemingly brainwashed and burned to death. In fact, Sharon faked her death and went under deep cover for SHIELD.

===Personal Life===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap-Classic-red-white-blue.jpg|left|thumb]]With his memories restored, Cap has an opportunity to run for president, but ultimately declined. He grew closer to fellow senior Avengers Iron Man and Thor when he learned their secret identities while they were all briefly imprisoned by the villainous Molecule Man. Meanwhile, In his private life, after the pain of losing Sharon had finally faded, Cap established a romance with new neighbor Bernadette “Bernie” Rosenthal. Cap faced a new Baron Zemo (Helmut, now hideously scarred after his earlier defeat), whose machinations led to Bernie discovering her boyfriend’s secret identity. While failing to stop Iron Man’s descent into alcoholism, Cap had a better influence on Jack Monroe, formerly the 1950s Bucky, who found new purpose as Cap’s sidekick wearing a version of Cap’s old Nomad costume. Upon returning from a bleak dystopian future world, recruited by the cyborg soldier Deathlok, to defeat the dictator Hellinger, Cap faced a brighter tomorrow as Bernie proposed marriage to him.

===The Secret Wars===
Before Rogers could settle down with Ms. Rosenthal, Cap, multiple Avengers and many other heroes were transported to an artificial planet called Battleworld and pitted against Dr. Doom’s super-villain army by the near-omnipotent being called the Beyonder. As loyalties changed throughout the conflict, Cap battled his wartime comrade Logan, now the X-Man Wolverine. Briefly seizing the Beyonder’s power, Doom wrought havoc, even breaking Cap’s shield, but Doom was defeated and Cap used Battleworld’s unique properties to re-form his beloved weapon through sheer will. The heroes and villains were returned back to Earth.

===Death Dodged Again by the Red Skull===
Meanwhile, the Red Skull began aging rapidly as the effects of his suspended animation faded, and was determined to die in battle with his oldest enemy. Though Cap was poisoned and tricked to belive Bernie and the Falcon were killed, overwhelming grief and pending death could force Cap to kill the Skull, who thus died of old age rather than in the battle he craved. Cap was soon restored by the Avengers, but none knew Zola had cloned Cap, and transferred the consciousness of the dying Skull into the new body. The Skull allowed Cap to believe he was dead while he remained behind the scenes for months.
Later, Cap looked on with pride as his teammate Hawkeye became leader of a separate Avengers branch on the West Coast, and both teams joined Earth’s other heroes in repelling the alien Dire Wraiths’ long-planned all-out invasion. Following clashes with the teleporting criminal mercenary Sidewinder’s Serpent Society, and the radical anti-nationalist Flag-Smasher, Cap confronted the Beyonder, manifested on Earth in human form to gain an understanding of human desires. Cap was dealt a personal blow when Bernie left New York to attend law school, ending their relationship.

===The Scourge===
Cap next investigated the villain-killing vigilante, the Scourge of the Underworld. The Scourge that Cap captured was himself killed by another, for several Scourges were active in a vigilante program designed by the Angel (Thomas Halloway) but co-opted by the still supposedly dead Red Skull. Another Skull project, the extremist group ULTIMATUM, surfaced with Flag-Smasher as its apparent leader. While battling the terrorists, Cap was forced to shoot an ULTIMATUM agent in order to rescue hostages; despite his victory, he was sickened at having been forced to kill an opponent for the first time since World War II. He was also unsettled by his subsequent losing skirmish with super-strong, glory-hungry rival adventurer Super-Patriot (John Walker).

===The Captain===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap_am_captain.jpg|left|thumb|The Captain]]Following an attack on Avengers Mansion by Helmut Zemo and his new Masters of Evil, and a conflict with Florida drug-lord the Slug, Cap became an ally of wrestler-turned-adventurer Demolition-Man (or D-Man). The Commission on Superhuman Activities (CSA), manipulated by the still hidden Red Skull, unfairly demanded Cap return to active government duty. Cap, in an echo of his earlier retirement following the Secret Empire debacle, surrendered his Captain America identity and shield rather than risk compromising his integrity via potential government misdeeds. The CSA appointed John Walker as a replacement Captain America, with his sidekick Battlestar (Lemar Hoskins). Rogers formed a mobile crimefighting team with Falcon, Nomad and D-Man and assumed a new costumed identity as the Captain. He adopted a new Adamantium shield provided by Iron Man, but Iron Man’s vigilante crusade to incapacitate armor wearers using his technology set him against the government’s Mandroids and Guardsmen, soldiers defending the nation Rogers still cherished. The Captain returned the shield during an attempt to apprehend Iron Man, the first serious break in their years of friendship.

With a Vibranium shield from the Black Panther, Rogers continued his adventures with his fellow travelers. Alongside the Avengers; while battling the Egyptian death god Seth’s forces, he briefly wielded Thor’s hammer, proving his worthiness among only a few privileged to lift the enchanted weapon. When the eastern Avengers roster disbanded soon afterward, Cap led a team of one-time members in halting the High Evolutionary’s worldwide experimentation, then joined D-Man and Battlestar in an assault on ULTIMATUM. D-Man seemingly perished at the organization’s Arctic base, but Cap had little time to grieve as demons overran New York during what was called the “Inferno Crisis”. Cap was allied with various heroes during the fray as a new team of Avengers, while the mutant X-Men ended the unholy invasion. After the Inferno Crisis ended, he and a maddened John Walker were manipulated into battle by the Red Skull, his survival finally revealed. With the Skull’s involvement exposed, the CSA offered Steve the return of his former identity; though Rogers initially declined. He was encouraged to accept by Walker, who subsequently wore a version of the Captain uniform as the USAgent and joined the West Coast Avengers, wielding Cap’s Vibranium shield.

===Back in Uniform===
While Cap led a reorganization of the Avengers, he became romantically involved with ex-Serpent Society member Diamondback (Rachel Leighton), although their relationship was strained by her continued loyalties to some of her former criminal cohorts.

Hostilities flared between the interstellar Kree and Shi’ar Empires, and their conflict destabilized Earth’s sun. Cap led the Avengers in protecting Earth’s interests and following a series of space adventures that set them against both the Shi’ar Imperial Guard and the Kree Starforce, the Avengers learned all parties had been manipulated by the Kree’s Supreme Intelligence in an effort to advance the Kree race’s evolution via the near-annihilation of the Kree empire. After allegedly 98% of the Kree Empire’s population were killed, Iron Man and other Avengers attempted to kill the Supreme Intelligence despite the protests of Cap, who felt the Earth team had no right to execute an extraterrestrial ruler; although the Intelligence secretly survived, Cap was disturbed by his teammates’ willingness to kill and he took another leave of absence from the team just as D-Man turned up alive.

Back on Earth, Cap’s adventures continued as he was turned into a werewolf for a time, and was attacked by an evil “doppelganger” version of himself, a harbinger of the cosmic “Infinity War” waged against Earth’s superhumans by the tyrannical Magus, an aspect of the artificially constructed man, Adam Warlock.

===A Super-Soldier Fatigued===
In the wake of his many crises, Cap received the hardest blow yet when he learned that, due to his long years of adrenaline-boosting action, his body had finally overtaxed the Super-Soldier serum’s ability to replenish his augmented physique, threatening paralysis. Knowing further exertion would worsen his condition but unwilling to retire, Cap slowed his deterioration by using various accessories in place of physical feats, eventually taking novice heroes Free Spirit and Jack Flag as apprentices. When his health finally collapsed, Cap used armor provided by Iron Man to overcome paralysis, but his condition continued to deteriorate. Cap, finally resigned to his fate, prepared to succumb to death; but he vanished, and his friends found only his armor.

Although the world believed him dead, Cap had been abducted and cured by Sharon Carter, finally learning she was still alive. She was reluctantly allied with the Red Skull, who believed Cap was the only person able to defeat their mutual enemy Hate-Monger, a Hitler clone who had assimilated the Cosmic Cube’s power and changed the world into one the Skull could never rule. Cap prevented both Hate-Monger and the Skull from using the Cube’s power, while Sharon’s romantic feelings for Cap returned.

===Reborn after the Onslaught===
When the psionic entity Onslaught threatened the world, Cap and several other heroes seemingly died defeating him. Cap was again reborn, however, as were his friends, on a new Earth in a pocket dimension subconsciously created by Franklin Richards, son of Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman. Whether via his own subconscious or not, Cap received a new life with a wife and son, only for it to be exposed as a deception born from the imaginary history Franklin created for him. Counter-Earth also presented him with a readymade nemesis, a duplicate Red Skull, whom he fought with the help of teenage Rikki Barnes, dubbed Bucky. Eventually, Cap and the other Onslaught survivors regained their true memories and returned to Earth, leaving their legend to inspire the remaining heroes on Franklin’s world, which was preserved as Counter-Earth.

===When Villains Pose as Heroes===
Earth’s reality was not restored for long as Cap led nearly the entire Avengers roster against the ancient sorceress Morgan Le Fay, who changed reality into a medieval world where the Avengers were her warriors, but Cap broke her spell and helped his teammates do the same. They were quickly controlled again by Helmut Zemo, who in Cap’s absence had reorganized the Masters of Evil into a supposed team of heroes, the Thunderbolts. Fortunately, most of the Thunderbolts rebelled against Zemo’s scheme, freeing the Avengers, and eventually finding redemption under Hawkeye’s leadership. During a battle with Hydra, Cap’s indestructible shield was lost in the Atlantic Ocean, and he initially used a duplicate of his triangular wartime shield as a replacement. After defeating the shape-changing alien Skrull called the Sensational Hydra, who had impersonated him to incite panic in the public, Cap obtained a new energy shield. Cap and Iron Man were again at odds when Iron Man used telepathic technology to remove the world’s memories of his true identity, as the Space Phantom had done for Cap years ago, which Cap considered unconscionably intrusive.

===Crisis of Kang the Conqueror===
Following yet another bout with the Red Skull and his reacquired Cosmic Cube, Cap recovered his original shield. The Avengers and all of Earth faced a series of crises when Kang the Conqueror launched a global assault unequaled by any of his earlier efforts, causing worldwide chaos made worse by competing menaces such as the master of gravity, Graviton, and the giant creature Orrgo. Millions perished, but the Avengers and their allies ultimately routed Kang’s forces, and Cap himself struck down Kang in single combat.

===The War on Terror===
While fighting terrorists in the US, Cap was again forced to take a life to save others, killing terrorist leader al-Tariq. Hoping to discourage counterattacks on the USA, Cap unmasked before the world to give an individual face to al-Tariq’s death.

When the Avengers helped contain the toxic Red Zone disaster that killed hundreds of Americans, Cap traced the Zone’s creation to US Secretary of Defense Dell Rusk, actually the disguised Red Skull, having infiltrated the government once more. Although his imposture was exposed, another of the Skull’s projects lived on in a new government-backed team of proactive Invaders, with USAgent as field leader. Disgusted by the needless violence of the group’s international activities, Cap was all the more discouraged when Namor joined USAgent’s efforts.

Drawn into more government conspiracies while helping Falcon, Cap encountered his latest Super-Soldier imitator, the Anti-Cap, whom Cap tried but failed to save from further government manipulation. He also grew alienated from Sharon Carter over her involvement with the anti-mutant Project: Contingency. When Thor’s home dimension was threatened by Ragnarok, Cap and Iron Man accompanied him to battle Asgard’s enemies, but Thor ultimately returned them to Earth rather than risk their lives, and he seemingly perished soon afterward. Back on Earth, when a supposedly reformed and no longer disfigured Zemo regained leadership of the Thunderbolts, Cap’s distrust of Zemo helped spark a brutal Avengers-Thunderbolts clash during which Zemo was hideously scarred anew while shielding Captain America.

===Disassembled===
One of the Avengers’ darkest days arose when Scarlet Witch, insane after years of struggling with her powers, undermined various teammates via her powers, even drawing Cap into an apparent romantic interlude with her, then altered reality itself to send duplicates of the Avengers’ many enemies against them, ending in the apparent deaths of Hawkeye, Vision and others.
Following a string of discouraging events for Cap, the apparent murders of both the Red Skull and Nomad were traced to the Winter Soldier, revealed as Bucky. Although Cap broke through Bucky’s brainwashing via the Cosmic Cube, his World War II partner fled. Cap felt more optimistic after he and several other super heroes helped contain a mass breakout of superhuman criminals at the Raft prison; Cap and Iron Man formalized this group as a new Avengers roster, partnering with new Avenger teammates Spider-Man and Wolverine, but the government and SHIELD (now run by the ruthless [[Hill, Maria|Maria Hill]]) distrusted their team.

===Casualty of the Civil War===
[[Image:Captshirt.jpg|left]]When the US government passed a Superhuman Registration Act (SHRA) requiring all super heroes to register for government service, Iron Man aggressively championed the new law. Cap’s requests for review of the legislation were ignored, and he went rogue rather than hunt down rebellious heroes. A “Civil War” divided the super-hero community as heroes sided either with Iron Man’s government-sanctioned forces or Cap’s underground resistance, the “Secret Avengers.” Zemo’s Thunderbolts worked for Iron Man, but Zemo secretly assisted Cap as well, finally convincing Cap that he had at least some potential to reform; Zemo even restored Cap’s personal mementos, the same ones he had destroyed long ago. During the civil war’s final battle, Cap’s forces were on the verge of victory when he noticed that ordinary emergency workers such as firefighters, paramedics and nurses were siding with Iron Man’s team. Horrified at the realization that the common people opposed his position, Cap opted to end the destructive conflict by surrendering to the authorities. Most of the anti-registration movement soon collapsed without his leadership. Following his arrest, a scheme orchestrated by the Red Skull, Arnim Zola, Dr. Faustus and others culminated with Cap’s assassination by a brainwashed Sharon Carter, who shot him at point-blank range.

===Back in Time===
While the world believed Captain America had been killed, the shot fired by Sharon actually flung him out of sync with time, causing him to relive moments from his past. While Cap was believed dead, Bucky assumed the guise of Captain America. The Red Skull finally engineered his master plan to bring Cap back to the present, but with his mind controlling Cap’s body; however, Rogers defeated the Red Skull within his mind and drove him from his body. Finding Bucky had adjusted to his new role, Rogers encouraged him to continue as Captain America, though Rogers briefly resumed his role as Cap to lead the Avengers against Norman Osborn, the insane arch-criminal given charge of his own “Avengers” and the Initiative, the USA’s superhuman task force, after playing on public perception of himself. During Osborn’s siege against the Asgardians, Cap’s forces publicly defeated him and exposed him as a dangerous madman. Rogers accepted the president’s offer to replace Osborn as the new executive in charge of America’s super-heroes.

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Captain America (James Barnes)

MikeFichera — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:42:49 GMT

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universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = James Buchanan Barnes
| aliases = Captain America; formerly Bucky, Winter Soldier
| identity = Known to top-level K.G.B. and S.H.I.E.L.D. authorities
| occupation = Adventurer; formerly [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] opertive, Soviet assassin, freelance assassin, sidekick to [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]], army mascot
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| place_of_birth = Shelbyville, Indiana
| relatives = George M. Barnes (father, deceased); Winnifred C. Barnes (mother, deceased); Ida (aunt, presumed deceased); Rebecca P. Barnes Proctor (sister); Proctor (first name unrevealed, brother-in-law); unidentified niece and nephew; Scott Proctor (grandnephew); Kimberly Proctor (grandniece)
| groups = [[Avengers]]; formerly [[Kid Commandos]], [[Liberty Legion]], [[Invaders]] (wartime), [[Young Allies]]; former partner of Captain America
| education = High school dropout
| height = 5'9"
| weight = 260 lbs.
| eyes = Brown
| hair = Brown
| powers = None
| abilities = He is an Olympic-class athlete and expectional acrobat highly skilled in both unarmed and armed hand-to-hand combat and extremely accurate marksman. he is fluent in four languages including German and Russian.
| weapons = Captain America's Shield, a modified hand-gun capable of penetrating even fabric of the thickness and composition of A.I.M. uniforms, a combat knife, and various other mission-special equipment. 'Formerly' (as the Winter Soldier) sniper rifles and various other automatic weapons, (as Bucky) various World War II era firearms
| paraphernalia = Winter Soldier possesses a bionic left arm, which grants him a degree of superhuman strenght. He wears a bulletproof uniform.
| debut = (Bucky) Captain America Comics #1 (1941); (Winter Soldier) Captain America #1 (2005); (Captain America) Captain America #34 (2008)
| origin = Captain America #11
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bio_text= As a young boy, James Buchanan Barnes lost his father (a soldier during WWII), and was adopted by Camp Lehigh as their mascot, and given the nickname "Bucky". It was here that he learned the identity of [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]]. He underwent rigorous training and was assigned to be Cap's sidekick, accompanying him on many adventures, and the two often worked with the original [[Invaders]]. However, on a final mission against [[Baron Zemo (Heinrich Zemo)|Baron Zemo]], Bucky and Cap hopped on an experimental drone plane in an attempt to disarm a bomb. The bomb detonated, dropping Cap in the North Atlantic, where he would later be found and thawed out by the Avengers. American forces never found Bucky's body, and he was presumed dead. Unbeknownst to the Americans, he was found and revived by Russian General Vasily Karpov.

When Bucky awoke, he had no memory of his identity, which gave Karpov an opportunity to reprogram Bucky as a Soviet assassin called the Winter Soldier. He was sent all across the globe, committing political assassinations with huge effects on the Cold War. However, his memory implantation caused mental instability, and he was kept in stasis between missions to prevent rebellion.

Recently, the Winter Soldier killed the Red Skull, and stole his Cosmic Cube for Karpov's successor, former General [[Lukin, Aleksander|Aleksander Lukin]]. In order to mess with Cap's mind, Lukin also commanded the Winter Soldier to kill [[Nomad (Jack Monroe)|Jack Monroe]] and launch a major terrorist attack on the city of Philadelphia, fueling the [[Cosmic Cube]]'s power in the process. However, when the Winter Soldier kidnapped S.H.I.E.L.D. agent [[Carter, Sharon|Sharon Carter]], she told Captain America upon her rescue that she believed her captor to be Bucky. Later, [[Fury, Nick|Nick Fury]] confirmed to Cap that the Winter Soldier was indeed his former partner.

When Lukin ordered the Winter Soldier to bury the Cosmic Cube in an underground bunker, Cap, with help from the [[Falcon (Sam Wilson)|Falcon]] and [[Iron Man (Anthony Stark)|Iron Man]], tracked him down and defeated him. After the battle, Cap used the Cosmic Cube to restore Bucky's memories, but he then destroyed the Cube and disappeared. All but Captain America believed him to be dead.

It was recently revealed that the Winter Soldier was involved in helping [[Wolverine (James Howlett)|Wolverine]] escape from Weapon X, and was responsible for the loss of his wife and baby.

When the [[Civil War|Superhuman Registration Act]] was passed, S.H.I.E.L.D's Nick Fury recruited Bucky for covert operations, so as to protect Captain America from government forces. In the aftermath of the seeming death of Steve Rogers, Barnes became the new Captain America. Rogers survived, but upon his return, he gave Barnes his blessings to continue as Captain America on the Avengers while he accepted a federal role as an administrator managing super-heroes.

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Captain America (Steve Rogers)

MikeFichera — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:24:44 GMT

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universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Steven "Steve" Rogers
| identity = Publicly known
| occupation = Adventurer, formerly WPA artist, soldier, police officer, teacher, freelance illustrator, special [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] operative
| place_of_birth = New York, New York
| groups = [[Secret Avengers]]; formerly the [[Avengers]], [[Invaders]], [[Captain's Unnamed Superhero Team]], [[Redeemers]]; formerly partner of [[Winter Soldier|Bucky]], [[Jones, Rick|Rick Jones]], [[Falcon (Sam Wilson)|Falcon]], [[Demolition Man]] and [[Nomad (Jack Monroe)]]
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| aliases = Nomad, The Captain, Steven Grant Rogers, Roger Stevens, Yeoman America, Cap, The Sentinel of Liberty, Star-Spangled Avenger; also has impersonated [[Crossbones]]
| relatives = Joseph and Sarah Rogers (parents, deceased), unidentified grandfather (presumed deceased), Steven Rogers (Captain America, 18th century ancestor, presumed deceased)
| education = High school graduate; one year of art school; military basic training; private tutoring in hand-to-hand combat, gymnastics, military strategy, piloting, demolition, and other disciplines
| height = 6'2"
| weight = 220 lbs
| eyes = Blue
| hair = Blond
| weapons = Captain America's only weapon was his [[Captain America's Shield|shield]], a concave disk 2.5 feet in diameter, weighing 12 pounds. It is made of a unique [[Glossary:V#Vibranium|Vibranium]]-metal alloy that has never been duplicated. The shield was cast by American metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain, who was contracted by the U.S. government to create an impenetrable substance to use for tanks during World War II. MacLain was never able to duplicate the process due to his inability to identify a still unknown factor that played a role in it. The shield was awarded to Captain America by the government several months after the beginning of his career.

The shield has great aerodynamic properties: it is able to slice through the air with minimal wind resistance and deflection of path. Its great overall resilience, combined with its natural concentric stiffness, enables it to rebound from objects with minimal loss of angular momentum. It is virtually indestructible: it is resistant to penetration, temperature extremes, and the entire electromagnetic spectrum of radiation. The only way it can be damaged in any way is by tampering with its molecular bonding.
| powers = Captain America represented the pinnacle of human physical perfection. He experienced a time when he was augmented to superhuman levels, but generally performed just below superhuman levels for most of his career. Captain America had a very high intelligence as well as agility, strength, speed, endurance, and reaction time superior to any Olympic athlete who ever competed. The Super-Soldier formula that he had metabolized had enhanced all of his bodily functions to the peak of human efficiency. Most notably, his body eliminates the excessive build-up of fatigue-producing poisons in his muscles, granting him phenomenal endurance.
| abilities = Captain America had mastered the martial arts of American-style boxing and judo, and had combined these disciplines with his own unique hand-to-hand style of combat. He had also shown skill and knowledge of a number of other martial arts. He engaged in a daily regimen of rigorous exercise (including aerobics, weight lifting, gymnastics, and simulated combat) to keep himself in peak condition. Captain America was one of the finest human combatants Earth had ever known.
| debut = Captain America Comics #1 (1941)
| origin = Captain America Comics #1 (1941)
| significant_issues = Avengers #4
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bio_text=[[image: CapsShield-mini.jpg|left|100 px]]In World War II patriotic solider '''Steve Rogers''' recipient of the '''"Super Soldier Serum"''' became the living symbol of freedom, '''Captain America.''' Left for dead while frozen in ice, the star-spangled hero with an indestructible shield awoke years later to continue his never-ending battle for liberty.
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=== Early Years and World War II ===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap am SupSoldSerum.jpg|left|thumb]]Steve Rogers was a scrawny fine arts student growing up during the Great Depression. His alcoholic father died when Steve was a child, and his mother passed away from pneumonia after he graduated high school. In early 1940, appalled at Nazi Germany’s horrific atrocities, Steve attempted to enlist in the army. Failing to pass physical requirements, he was invited to volunteer for Operation: Rebirth, a project intended to enhance US soldiers to the height of physical perfection via the inventions and discoveries of Professor Abraham Erskine. Rogers eagerly accepted and became the first test subject. After injections and ingestion of the "Super Soldier Serum," Rogers was exposed to a controlled burst of "Vita-Rays" that activated and stabilized the chemicals in his system. The process successfully altered his physiology from its frail state to the maximum of human efficiency, including greatly enhanced musculature and reflexes. Soon after, Professor Erskine was assassinated by a Nazi operative, leaving Steve the sole beneficiary of Erskine’s genius. Renamed “Project: Rebirth,” variations of the Super-Soldier serum were subsequently tested, under inhuman conditions, on African-American soldiers. The most successful of these was Isaiah Bradley, and Project: Rebirth’s resources were eventually absorbed into a multinational superhuman research project dubbed Weapon Plus.

Rogers was assigned to serve as an who served both as a counter-intelligence agent and a symbolic US hero to counter Nazi Germany's propaganda successes head by the [[Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)]]. Wearing a costume based on his own design modeled after the American flag, Steve was given a triangular bulletproof shield, a personal sidearm and the codename Captain America, the Sentinel of Liberty. He was also provided a cover identity as a clumsy infantry private at Camp Lehigh in Virginia. His first opponents included the Red Skull himself and Nazi attempts to duplicate Erskine’s serum with their own super soldiers. During a mission to the African nation of Wakanda, “Cap” befriended the nation’s ruler T’Chaka and obtained a sample of the rare metal [[Glossary:V#Vibranium|Vibranium]]. Subsequent experiments with this metal produced a uniquely indestructible Vibranium-steel alloy disc, which proved impossible to duplicate. The disc was given to Cap as his new shield.

[[Image:CAP inline.jpg|left|Cap and Bucky]]Barely out of his teens himself, Rogers made friends with the army’s camp mascot, teenager [[Winter_Soldier|James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes]]. Barnes accidentally learned of Rogers' dual identity and offered to keep the secret if he could become Captain America's sidekick. Rogers agreed, and trained Barnes. Throughout 1941, Cap and Bucky shared many adventures stateside and throughout the world. When the US entered World War II, Cap and Bucky teamed with the android Human Torch, his mutant sidekick Toro, and Namor the ocean-dwelling Sub-Mariner as the Allied force the [[Invaders]].

In the closing days of World War II in early 1945, Cap broke through Nazi troops for his final wartime confrontation with the Red Skull, who was seemingly slain by bombing debris (but lived on in suspended animation). Days later, Cap and Bucky arrived in England too late to prevent brilliant Nazi scientist [[Baron Zemo (Heinrich)|Baron Zemo]] from obtaining and launching an experimental drone plane armed explosive device on it. Rogers and Barnes reached the plane, but when Bucky tried to defuse the bomb, it exploded in mid-air. Rogers was hurled into the freezing waters of the North Atlantic. The US government presumed both were dead. However, Bucky was secretly retrieved by Soviet operatives, while Cap was recovered by Nazi agent Lyle Dekker, who hoped to exchange bodies with him. Cap escaped Dekker’s base by air, but was shot down and fell back into the ocean. Due to the Super-Soldier serum Captain America survived, entering a state of suspended animation and eventually freezing in solid ice.

=== The Awesome Thaw and the Mighty Thor ===
Years later, a team of super-heroes called the Avengers discovered Rogers' frozen body in the North Atlantic, where he had been preserved since 1945. Once revived, Rogers was devastated by Bucky’s supposed death and the loss of everything once familiar to him. The Avengers were attacked by Namor’s ally, the extraterrestrial Vuk the D’bari, who transformed the heroes into stone. Cap confronted the alien, making him their ally, and helped the restored Avengers defeat Cap’s former teammate from the Invaders, Namor. After that adventure, Captain America was invited to join the Avengers as their first recruit. Cap formed close friendships with his teammates Thor, Iron Man (Tony Stark), Giant-Man (Hank Pym), the Wasp, and the Avengers’ butler Edwin Jarvis.

Cap’s revival, reported worldwide, brought the long-retired Baron Zemo out of seclusion. Enraged that his enemy still lived, Zemo organized several superhuman criminals as the Masters of Evil and set them against the Avengers, the first of many such battles with various incarnations of the Masters. Soon afterward, Cap and the Avengers repelled an invasion by the time-traveling menace Kang the Conqueror, clashed with Kang’s alternate version of himself from the future, Immortus, and encountered the heroic team of mutants, the X-Men, during an investigation of the extraterrestrial Lucifer. Zemo had his Masters launch a final assault on the Avengers. While the other Avengers defeated the Masters, Cap stormed Zemo’s South American stronghold, where Zemo accidentally killed himself by triggering an avalanche in battle with Cap.

Returning to New York, Cap learned the other Avengers were taking leaves of absence from the team and had already recruited repentant outlaws including the archer Hawkeye (Clint Barton), mutant speedster Quicksilver and his sister the probability-altering Scarlet Witch as their replacements. Unperturbed by the new trio’s earlier crimes, Cap became fulltime Avengers leader as the only remaining senior member. His leadership helped quell public skepticism about the new roster, nicknamed “Cap’s Kooky Quartet.” Cap became a mentor to the trio, assisting Quicksilver and the Witch’s assimilation in the US and bearing the brunt of Hawkeye’s youthful rebellion.

===Hearts and Skulls===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap-vs-RedSkull-Sleeper-CA148.jpg|left|thumb]]During Cap’s early solo adventures and as an Avenger, he persistently protected the world from global threats. In Germany he almost single-handedly saved the world from three monstrous Sleeper robots, created by the Red Skull. Soon afterward, he aided SHIELD agent Sharon Carter in retrieving the explosive “Inferno 42” stolen from the subversive group Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM) by Batroc the Leaper, a flamboyant mercenary who came to regard Cap as his favorite adversary. Cap’s wartime friend Nick Fury, now SHIELD Director, recruited him in further anti- AIM operations and offered him SHIELD membership, which Cap declined, preferring to remain active with the Avengers and as a solo operative. During SHIELD’s continued conflicts with AIM, Cap learned the enemy organization had discovered and revived the Red Skull, who repaid their hospitality by stealing their near-omnipotent Cosmic Cube. Battling his oldest enemy for the first time since the war, Cap manipulated the Skull’s ego to force him into physical combat, and then struggled with him for the Cube itself. Lashing out with its power, the Skull caused an earthquake and again vanished beneath rubble. Following his recovery, the Skull lured his enemy into a trap via a robot duplicate of Bucky, but failed to extort Cap into supposed treason via a threat to New York.

After several shared adventures, Cap and Sharon fell in love, but when she rejected his marriage proposal, Cap decided to give up crimefighting and revealed his true identity to the public. He soon recanted his decision to retire and returned to action. Cap again clashed with the Red Skull, who had revived the Fourth Sleeper to wreak havoc. With Sharon’s help, Cap deactivated the robot, and forced the Skull to flee.

===The Sidekick, the Secret, and the Switch===
Meanwhile Rick Jones, the young friend of the Hulk, pursued Captain America to become his partner, and Cap allowed the youth to accompany him into battle against the terrorists of Hydra, then led by Madame Hydra. When Hydra later abducted Rick, Cap rescued his new sidekick. During that mission, regretting his decision to make his identity public, Cap made himself appear to be shot down, leaving a realistic Steve Rogers mask to convince the world the Rogers identity had been false to protect his privacy. In addition, Cap and Rick ran afoul of old Avengers foe the shape-changing Space Phantom, who as part of his own plot removed the world’s knowledge of Cap’s secret identity.

The Red Skull continued to toy with Captain America’s life, using the Cosmic Cube to switch bodies with the hero. The Skull in Cap’s body alienated Rick into quitting his sidekick role, while Rogers in the Skull’s body was sent to Exile Island, where he was attacked (by those thinking he was the Skull) and befriended by adventurer [[Falcon_%28Sam_Wilson%29|Sam Wilson]]. Wilson, formerly criminal “Snap” Wilson, had undergone personality alteration by the Skull, and was planted so as to eventually become Cap’s partner, setting the stage for a potential future betrayal. As the costumed Falcon, accompanied by his trained bird Redwing, Wilson helped Cap confront the Skull, who returned his foe and himself to their rightful bodies so as to better savor a triumph. Before the Skull could destroy the pair, however, AIM avenged the Skull’s earlier betrayal by robbing the Cube of its power. The Skull escaped yet again.

===Street Fights to Space Wars===
[[Image:CAP inline 2.jpg|left]]In the adventures that followed, Cap encountered an android replica of Bucky planted by mutated AIM leader MODOK’s. The android replicated Bucky’s altruism and sacrificed itself, foiling MODOK’s schemes. In New York City, Cap and the Falcon became crimefighting partners, as the Red Skull had intended, and found a number of local villains. Beyond pedestrian-level threats, Captain America became involved with cosmic battles. With the Avengers team, and the alien Kree Captain Mar-Vell, Cap intervened in the millennia-old Kree-Skrull War after it threatened Earth.

Back home, with Earth safe from the Skrulls, Cap and the Falcon battled gangsters and the Red Skull’s Fifth Sleeper robot unleashed in Las Vegas. The surrogate Captain America and Bucky (Jack Monroe) of the 1950s were freed after being driven mad by faulty Super-Soldier treatments and placed in suspended animation for decades. Cap and Falcon defeated the madmen. The Viper (Jordan Dixon), teamed with Eel (Edward Lavell) and Cobra (Klaus Voorhees) to battle Cap and Falcon as the Serpent Squad, and variations on this serpent-themed group would plague Cap repeatedly. Baron Zemo’s son Helmut surfaced, heir to Heinrich’s barony, genius, and above all his hatred of Captain America. When Falcon intervened in a grudge match between Hemut and Cap, the younger Zemo seemingly perished in a vat of his father’s chemical “Adhesive X.”

===The Secret Empire and Time-Traveling Turmoil===
On the home front, Captain America was disheartened to discover the Secret Empire, an underground organization tied to a high-ranking US government official. Cap and other heroes protected the White House against the Empire’s assault, but Cap was left deeply shaken by the affair. Standing beside past and future versions of the Avengers, Cap battled to save humanity from the Time-Keepers, extraterrestrial beings from the “End of Time.” He returned from the battle victorious, but with no memories of his journey outside of the bounds of time. After he and the Avengers joined the powerful alien Kree soldier, Captain Mar-Vell, against the cosmic menace Thanos, Cap and Sharon accompanied the rocky hero, the Thing, to 31st century (a possible future designated Earth- 691). With the heroes known as the Guardians of the Galaxy, they helped battle against the Earth’s conquerors from the alien Badoon race.

===Nomad===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap_as_nomad.jpg|left|thumb|Nomad]]Back in the present day, Rogers felt disillusioned by the corruption of the US government by the Secret Empire, and abandoned his role as Captain America while adopting a new costumed identity as the Nomad. In his new guise, he and Namor confronted Viper, the former Madame Hydra, who had embarked on a campaign of terror as leader of the Serpent Squad. The two heroes prevented Viper and her Atlantean ally Krang from using the ancient and powerful Serpent Crown. Later, the savagery of the Red Skull prompted Steve to reclaim his Captain America identity.

===A Partner’s Past Exposed===
In a subsequent battle, the Red Skull revealed his role in Falcon’s origin, giving Cap’s partner his own identity crisis. Despite learning of his partner’s checkered past, Cap stayed by his side and accompanied Falcon to court, where his partner faced charges for the crimes of his earlier self. Though placed on parole, Falcon was able to continue fighting crime at Cap’s side.

===Global Chaos===
Captain America continued his incredible war against injustice across the globe. He partnered with Captain Britain (Brian Braddock in Great Britain against the Red Skull’s terrorism against London, prevented the Royalist Forces of America from driving the USA insane with their Madbomb, and formed an uncomfortable alliance with Doom against yet another of the Skull’s schemes; the Skull was revealed to be bankrolling worldwide chaos caused by the mutated creatures of former Nazi scientist Arnim Zola. During a period Captain America suffered from amnesia of his early memories, a new threat arose with hypnotist Dr. Faustus’ National Force, whose puppet leader, the Grand Director, was actually the 1950s Captain America Faustus had brainwashed. Sharon Carter infiltrated the Force but was seemingly brainwashed and burned to death. In fact, Sharon faked her death and went under deep cover for SHIELD.

===Personal Life===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap-Classic-red-white-blue.jpg|left|thumb]]With his memories restored, Cap has an opportunity to run for president, but ultimately declined. He grew closer to fellow senior Avengers Iron Man and Thor when he learned their secret identities while they were all briefly imprisoned by the villainous Molecule Man. Meanwhile, In his private life, after the pain of losing Sharon had finally faded, Cap established a romance with new neighbor Bernadette “Bernie” Rosenthal. Cap faced a new Baron Zemo (Helmut, now hideously scarred after his earlier defeat), whose machinations led to Bernie discovering her boyfriend’s secret identity. While failing to stop Iron Man’s descent into alcoholism, Cap had a better influence on Jack Monroe, formerly the 1950s Bucky, who found new purpose as Cap’s sidekick wearing a version of Cap’s old Nomad costume. Upon returning from a bleak dystopian future world, recruited by the cyborg soldier Deathlok, to defeat the dictator Hellinger, Cap faced a brighter tomorrow as Bernie proposed marriage to him.

===The Secret Wars===
Before Rogers could settle down with Ms. Rosenthal, Cap, multiple Avengers and many other heroes were transported to an artificial planet called Battleworld and pitted against Dr. Doom’s super-villain army by the near-omnipotent being called the Beyonder. As loyalties changed throughout the conflict, Cap battled his wartime comrade Logan, now the X-Man Wolverine. Briefly seizing the Beyonder’s power, Doom wrought havoc, even breaking Cap’s shield, but Doom was defeated and Cap used Battleworld’s unique properties to re-form his beloved weapon through sheer will. The heroes and villains were returned back to Earth.

===Death Dodged Again by the Red Skull===
Meanwhile, the Red Skull began aging rapidly as the effects of his suspended animation faded, and was determined to die in battle with his oldest enemy. Though Cap was poisoned and tricked to belive Bernie and the Falcon were killed, overwhelming grief and pending death could force Cap to kill the Skull, who thus died of old age rather than in the battle he craved. Cap was soon restored by the Avengers, but none knew Zola had cloned Cap, and transferred the consciousness of the dying Skull into the new body. The Skull allowed Cap to believe he was dead while he remained behind the scenes for months.
Later, Cap looked on with pride as his teammate Hawkeye became leader of a separate Avengers branch on the West Coast, and both teams joined Earth’s other heroes in repelling the alien Dire Wraiths’ long-planned all-out invasion. Following clashes with the teleporting criminal mercenary Sidewinder’s Serpent Society, and the radical anti-nationalist Flag-Smasher, Cap confronted the Beyonder, manifested on Earth in human form to gain an understanding of human desires. Cap was dealt a personal blow when Bernie left New York to attend law school, ending their relationship.

===The Scourge===
Cap next investigated the villain-killing vigilante, the Scourge of the Underworld. The Scourge that Cap captured was himself killed by another, for several Scourges were active in a vigilante program designed by the Angel (Thomas Halloway) but co-opted by the still supposedly dead Red Skull. Another Skull project, the extremist group ULTIMATUM, surfaced with Flag-Smasher as its apparent leader. While battling the terrorists, Cap was forced to shoot an ULTIMATUM agent in order to rescue hostages; despite his victory, he was sickened at having been forced to kill an opponent for the first time since World War II. He was also unsettled by his subsequent losing skirmish with super-strong, glory-hungry rival adventurer Super-Patriot (John Walker).

===The Captain===
[[Image:MikeFichera--Cap_am_captain.jpg|left|thumb|The Captain]]Following an attack on Avengers Mansion by Helmut Zemo and his new Masters of Evil, and a conflict with Florida drug-lord the Slug, Cap became an ally of wrestler-turned-adventurer Demolition-Man (or D-Man). The Commission on Superhuman Activities (CSA), manipulated by the still hidden Red Skull, unfairly demanded Cap return to active government duty. Cap, in an echo of his earlier retirement following the Secret Empire debacle, surrendered his Captain America identity and shield rather than risk compromising his integrity via potential government misdeeds. The CSA appointed John Walker as a replacement Captain America, with his sidekick Battlestar (Lemar Hoskins). Rogers formed a mobile crimefighting team with Falcon, Nomad and D-Man and assumed a new costumed identity as the Captain. He adopted a new Adamantium shield provided by Iron Man, but Iron Man’s vigilante crusade to incapacitate armor wearers using his technology set him against the government’s Mandroids and Guardsmen, soldiers defending the nation Rogers still cherished. The Captain returned the shield during an attempt to apprehend Iron Man, the first serious break in their years of friendship.

With a Vibranium shield from the Black Panther, Rogers continued his adventures with his fellow travelers. Alongside the Avengers; while battling the Egyptian death god Seth’s forces, he briefly wielded Thor’s hammer, proving his worthiness among only a few privileged to lift the enchanted weapon. When the eastern Avengers roster disbanded soon afterward, Cap led a team of one-time members in halting the High Evolutionary’s worldwide experimentation, then joined D-Man and Battlestar in an assault on ULTIMATUM. D-Man seemingly perished at the organization’s Arctic base, but Cap had little time to grieve as demons overran New York during what was called the “Inferno Crisis”. Cap was allied with various heroes during the fray as a new team of Avengers, while the mutant X-Men ended the unholy invasion. After the Inferno Crisis ended, he and a maddened John Walker were manipulated into battle by the Red Skull, his survival finally revealed. With the Skull’s involvement exposed, the CSA offered Steve the return of his former identity; though Rogers initially declined. He was encouraged to accept by Walker, who subsequently wore a version of the Captain uniform as the USAgent and joined the West Coast Avengers, wielding Cap’s Vibranium shield.

===Back in Uniform===
While Cap led a reorganization of the Avengers, he became romantically involved with ex-Serpent Society member Diamondback (Rachel Leighton), although their relationship was strained by her continued loyalties to some of her former criminal cohorts.

Hostilities flared between the interstellar Kree and Shi’ar Empires, and their conflict destabilized Earth’s sun. Cap led the Avengers in protecting Earth’s interests and following a series of space adventures that set them against both the Shi’ar Imperial Guard and the Kree Starforce, the Avengers learned all parties had been manipulated by the Kree’s Supreme Intelligence in an effort to advance the Kree race’s evolution via the near-annihilation of the Kree empire. After allegedly 98% of the Kree Empire’s population were killed, Iron Man and other Avengers attempted to kill the Supreme Intelligence despite the protests of Cap, who felt the Earth team had no right to execute an extraterrestrial ruler; although the Intelligence secretly survived, Cap was disturbed by his teammates’ willingness to kill and he took another leave of absence from the team just as D-Man turned up alive.

Back on Earth, Cap’s adventures continued as he was turned into a werewolf for a time, and was attacked by an evil “doppelganger” version of himself, a harbinger of the cosmic “Infinity War” waged against Earth’s superhumans by the tyrannical Magus, an aspect of the artificially constructed man, Adam Warlock.

===A Super-Soldier Fatigued===
In the wake of his many crises, Cap received the hardest blow yet when he learned that, due to his long years of adrenaline-boosting action, his body had finally overtaxed the Super-Soldier serum’s ability to replenish his augmented physique, threatening paralysis. Knowing further exertion would worsen his condition but unwilling to retire, Cap slowed his deterioration by using various accessories in place of physical feats, eventually taking novice heroes Free Spirit and Jack Flag as apprentices. When his health finally collapsed, Cap used armor provided by Iron Man to overcome paralysis, but his condition continued to deteriorate. Cap, finally resigned to his fate, prepared to succumb to death; but he vanished, and his friends found only his armor.

Although the world believed him dead, Cap had been abducted and cured by Sharon Carter, finally learning she was still alive. She was reluctantly allied with the Red Skull, who believed Cap was the only person able to defeat their mutual enemy Hate-Monger, a Hitler clone who had assimilated the Cosmic Cube’s power and changed the world into one the Skull could never rule. Cap prevented both Hate-Monger and the Skull from using the Cube’s power, while Sharon’s romantic feelings for Cap returned.

===Reborn after the Onslaught===
When the psionic entity Onslaught threatened the world, Cap and several other heroes seemingly died defeating him. Cap was again reborn, however, as were his friends, on a new Earth in a pocket dimension subconsciously created by Franklin Richards, son of Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman. Whether via his own subconscious or not, Cap received a new life with a wife and son, only for it to be exposed as a deception born from the imaginary history Franklin created for him. Counter-Earth also presented him with a readymade nemesis, a duplicate Red Skull, whom he fought with the help of teenage Rikki Barnes, dubbed Bucky. Eventually, Cap and the other Onslaught survivors regained their true memories and returned to Earth, leaving their legend to inspire the remaining heroes on Franklin’s world, which was preserved as Counter-Earth.

===When Villains Pose as Heroes===
Earth’s reality was not restored for long as Cap led nearly the entire Avengers roster against the ancient sorceress Morgan Le Fay, who changed reality into a medieval world where the Avengers were her warriors, but Cap broke her spell and helped his teammates do the same. They were quickly controlled again by Helmut Zemo, who in Cap’s absence had reorganized the Masters of Evil into a supposed team of heroes, the Thunderbolts. Fortunately, most of the Thunderbolts rebelled against Zemo’s scheme, freeing the Avengers, and eventually finding redemption under Hawkeye’s leadership. During a battle with Hydra, Cap’s indestructible shield was lost in the Atlantic Ocean, and he initially used a duplicate of his triangular wartime shield as a replacement. After defeating the shape-changing alien Skrull called the Sensational Hydra, who had impersonated him to incite panic in the public, Cap obtained a new energy shield. Cap and Iron Man were again at odds when Iron Man used telepathic technology to remove the world’s memories of his true identity, as the Space Phantom had done for Cap years ago, which Cap considered unconscionably intrusive.

===Crisis of Kang the Conqueror===
Following yet another bout with the Red Skull and his reacquired Cosmic Cube, Cap recovered his original shield. The Avengers and all of Earth faced a series of crises when Kang the Conqueror launched a global assault unequaled by any of his earlier efforts, causing worldwide chaos made worse by competing menaces such as the master of gravity, Graviton, and the giant creature Orrgo. Millions perished, but the Avengers and their allies ultimately routed Kang’s forces, and Cap himself struck down Kang in single combat.

===The War on Terror===
While fighting terrorists in the US, Cap was again forced to take a life to save others, killing terrorist leader al-Tariq. Hoping to discourage counterattacks on the USA, Cap unmasked before the world to give an individual face to al-Tariq’s death.

When the Avengers helped contain the toxic Red Zone disaster that killed hundreds of Americans, Cap traced the Zone’s creation to US Secretary of Defense Dell Rusk, actually the disguised Red Skull, having infiltrated the government once more. Although his imposture was exposed, another of the Skull’s projects lived on in a new government-backed team of proactive Invaders, with USAgent as field leader. Disgusted by the needless violence of the group’s international activities, Cap was all the more discouraged when Namor joined USAgent’s efforts.

Drawn into more government conspiracies while helping Falcon, Cap encountered his latest Super-Soldier imitator, the Anti-Cap, whom Cap tried but failed to save from further government manipulation. He also grew alienated from Sharon Carter over her involvement with the anti-mutant Project: Contingency. When Thor’s home dimension was threatened by Ragnarok, Cap and Iron Man accompanied him to battle Asgard’s enemies, but Thor ultimately returned them to Earth rather than risk their lives, and he seemingly perished soon afterward. Back on Earth, when a supposedly reformed and no longer disfigured Zemo regained leadership of the Thunderbolts, Cap’s distrust of Zemo helped spark a brutal Avengers-Thunderbolts clash during which Zemo was hideously scarred anew while shielding Captain America.

===Disassembled===
One of the Avengers’ darkest days arose when Scarlet Witch, insane after years of struggling with her powers, undermined various teammates via her powers, even drawing Cap into an apparent romantic interlude with her, then altered reality itself to send duplicates of the Avengers’ many enemies against them, ending in the apparent deaths of Hawkeye, Vision and others.
Following a string of discouraging events for Cap, the apparent murders of both the Red Skull and Nomad were traced to the Winter Soldier, revealed as Bucky. Although Cap broke through Bucky’s brainwashing via the Cosmic Cube, his World War II partner fled. Cap felt more optimistic after he and several other super heroes helped contain a mass breakout of superhuman criminals at the Raft prison; Cap and Iron Man formalized this group as a new Avengers roster, partnering with new Avenger teammates Spider-Man and Wolverine, but the government and SHIELD (now run by the ruthless [[Hill, Maria|Maria Hill]]) distrusted their team.

===Casualty of the Civil War===
[[Image:Captshirt.jpg|left]]When the US government passed a Superhuman Registration Act (SHRA) requiring all super heroes to register for government service, Iron Man aggressively championed the new law. Cap’s requests for review of the legislation were ignored, and he went rogue rather than hunt down rebellious heroes. A “Civil War” divided the super-hero community as heroes sided either with Iron Man’s government-sanctioned forces or Cap’s underground resistance, the “Secret Avengers.” Zemo’s Thunderbolts worked for Iron Man, but Zemo secretly assisted Cap as well, finally convincing Cap that he had at least some potential to reform; Zemo even restored Cap’s personal mementos, the same ones he had destroyed long ago. During the civil war’s final battle, Cap’s forces were on the verge of victory when he noticed that ordinary emergency workers such as firefighters, paramedics and nurses were siding with Iron Man’s team. Horrified at the realization that the common people opposed his position, Cap opted to end the destructive conflict by surrendering to the authorities. Most of the anti-registration movement soon collapsed without his leadership. Following his arrest, a scheme orchestrated by the Red Skull, Arnim Zola, Dr. Faustus and others culminated with Cap’s assassination by a brainwashed Sharon Carter, who shot him at point-blank range.

===Back in Time===
While the world believed Captain America had been killed, the shot fired by Sharon actually flung him out of sync with time, causing him to relive moments from his past. While Cap was believed dead, Bucky assumed the guise of Captain America. The Red Skull finally engineered his master plan to bring Cap back to the present, but with his mind controlling Cap’s body; however, Rogers defeated the Red Skull within his mind and drove him from his body. Finding Bucky had adjusted to his new role, Rogers encouraged him to continue as Captain America, though Rogers briefly resumed his role as Cap to lead the Avengers against [[Osborn, Norman|Norman Osborn]], the insane arch-criminal in charge of the [[Initiative]], the USA’s superhuman task force. With Osborn’s public defeat and exposure as dangerous madmad, Rogers accepted the President’s offer to replace Osborn as the new executive in charge of America’s super heroes.

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Captain America (Steve Rogers)

MikeFichera — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:04:05 GMT

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universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb = Too frail to join the military, patriotic '''Steve Rogers''' agreed to become the recipient of the Super-Soldier Serum. With his body and abilities pushed to peak human levels, Rogers became Captain America, the living symbol of freedom.
| real_name = Steven "Steve" Rogers
| identity = Publicly known
| occupation = Adventurer, formerly WPA artist, soldier, police officer, teacher, freelance illustrator, special [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] operative
| place_of_birth = New York, New York
| groups = [[Secret Avengers]]; formerly the [[Avengers]], [[Invaders]], [[Captain's Unnamed Superhero Team]], [[Redeemers]]; formerly partner of [[Winter Soldier|Bucky]], [[Jones, Rick|Rick Jones]], [[Falcon (Sam Wilson)|Falcon]], [[Demolition Man]] and [[Nomad (Jack Monroe)]]
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| aliases = Nomad, The Captain, Steven Grant Rogers, Roger Stevens, Yeoman America, Cap, The Sentinel of Liberty, Star-Spangled Avenger; also has impersonated [[Crossbones]]
| relatives = Joseph and Sarah Rogers (parents, deceased), unidentified grandfather (presumed deceased), Steven Rogers (ancestor, deceased)
| education = High school graduate; one year of art school; military basic training; private tutoring in hand-to-hand combat, gymnastics, military strategy, piloting, demolition, and other disciplines
| height = 6'2"
| weight = 220 lbs
| eyes = Blue
| hair = Blond
| weapons = Captain America's only weapon was his [[Captain America's Shield|shield]], a concave disk 2.5 feet in diameter, weighing 12 pounds. It is made of a unique [[Glossary:V#Vibranium|Vibranium]]-metal alloy that has never been duplicated. The shield was cast by American metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain, who was contracted by the U.S. government to create an impenetrable substance to use for tanks during World War II. MacLain was never able to duplicate the process due to his inability to identify a still unknown factor that played a role in it. The shield was awarded to Captain America by the government several months after the beginning of his career.

The shield has great aerodynamic properties: it is able to slice through the air with minimal wind resistance and deflection of path. Its great overall resilience, combined with its natural concentric stiffness, enables it to rebound from objects with minimal loss of angular momentum. It is virtually indestructible: it is resistant to penetration, temperature extremes, and the entire electromagnetic spectrum of radiation. The only way it can be damaged in any way is by tampering with its molecular bonding.
| powers = Captain America represented the pinnacle of human physical perfection. He experienced a time when he was augmented to superhuman levels, but generally performed just below superhuman levels for most of his career. Captain America had a very high intelligence as well as agility, strength, speed, endurance, and reaction time superior to any Olympic athlete who ever competed. The Super-Soldier formula that he had metabolized had enhanced all of his bodily functions to the peak of human efficiency. Most notably, his body eliminates the excessive build-up of fatigue-producing poisons in his muscles, granting him phenomenal endurance.
| abilities = Captain America had mastered the martial arts of American-style boxing and judo, and had combined these disciplines with his own unique hand-to-hand style of combat. He had also shown skill and knowledge of a number of other martial arts. He engaged in a daily regimen of rigorous exercise (including aerobics, weight lifting, gymnastics, and simulated combat) to keep himself in peak condition. Captain America was one of the finest human combatants Earth had ever known.
| debut = Captain America Comics #1 (1941)
| origin = Captain America Comics #1 (1941)
| significant_issues = Avengers #4
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main_image= DragynWulf--CaptainAmerica(Rogers).jpg‎
}}{{bio|
bio_text=[[image: CapsShield-mini.jpg|left|100 px]]

=== Early Years and World War II ===
Steve Rogers was a scrawny fine arts student growing up during the Great Depression. His alcoholic father died when Steve was a child, and his mother passed away from pneumonia after he graduated high school. In early 1940, appalled at Nazi Germany’s horrific atrocities, Steve attempted to enlist in the army. Failing to pass physical requirements, he was invited to volunteer for Operation: Rebirth, a project intended to enhance US soldiers to the height of physical perfection via the inventions and discoveries of Professor Abraham Erskine. Rogers eagerly accepted and became the first test subject. After injections and ingestion of the "Super Soldier Serum," Rogers was exposed to a controlled burst of "Vita-Rays" that activated and stabilized the chemicals in his system. The process successfully altered his physiology from its frail state to the maximum of human efficiency, including greatly enhanced musculature and reflexes. Soon after, Professor Erskine was assassinated by a Nazi operative, leaving Steve the sole beneficiary of Erskine’s genius. Renamed “Project: Rebirth,” variations of the Super-Soldier serum were subsequently tested, under inhuman conditions, on African-American soldiers. The most successful of these was Isaiah Bradley, and Project: Rebirth’s resources were eventually absorbed into a multinational superhuman research project dubbed Weapon Plus.

[[Image:CAP inline.jpg|left]]Roger was assigned to serve as an who served both as a counter-intelligence agent and a symbolic US hero to counter Nazi Germany's propaganda successes head by the [[Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)]]. Wearing a costume based on his own design modeled after the American flag, Steve was given a triangular bulletproof shield, a personal sidearm and the codename Captain America, the Sentinel of Liberty. He was also provided a cover identity as a clumsy infantry private at Camp Lehigh in Virginia. His first opponents included the Red Skull himself and Nazi attempts to duplicate Erskine’s serum with their own super soldiers. During a mission to the African nation of Wakanda, “Cap” befriended the nation’s ruler T’Chaka and obtained a sample of the rare metal [[Glossary:V#Vibranium|Vibranium]]. Subsequent experiments with this metal produced a uniquely indestructible Vibranium-steel alloy disc, which proved impossible to duplicate. The disc was given to Cap as his new shield.

Barely out of his teens himself, Rogers made friends with the army’s camp mascot, teenager [[Winter_Soldier|James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes]]. Barnes accidentally learned of Rogers' dual identity and offered to keep the secret if he could become Captain America's sidekick. Rogers agreed, and trained Barnes. Throughout 1941, Cap and Bucky shared many adventures stateside and throughout the world. When the US entered World War II, Cap and Bucky teamed with the android Human Torch, his mutant sidekick Toro, and Namor the ocean-dwelling Sub-Mariner as the Allied force the [[Invaders]].

In the closing days of World War II in early 1945, Cap broke through Nazi troops for his final wartime confrontation with the Red Skull, who was seemingly slain by bombing debris (but lived on in suspended animation). Days later, Cap and Bucky arrived in England too late to prevent brilliant Nazi scientist [[Baron Zemo (Heinrich)|Baron Zemo]] from obtaining and launching an experimental drone plane armed explosive device on it. Rogers and Barnes reached the plane, but when Bucky tried to defuse the bomb, it exploded in mid-air. Rogers was hurled into the freezing waters of the North Atlantic. The US government presumed both were dead. However, Bucky was secretly retrieved by Soviet operatives, while Cap was recovered by Nazi agent Lyle Dekker, who hoped to exchange bodies with him. Cap escaped Dekker’s base by air, but was shot down and fell back into the ocean. Due to the Super-Soldier serum Captain America survived, entering a state of suspended animation and eventually freezing in solid ice.

=== Discovery and the Avengers ===
[[Image:CAP inline 2.jpg|left]]The [[Avengers]] discovered Rogers' body in the North Atlantic, his costume under his soldier's uniform and still carrying his shield. Rogers had been preserved in a block of ice since 1945, which melted after the block was thrown back into the ocean by an enraged [[Sub-Mariner]]. When Rogers revived, he related his last, failed mission in the closing days of the war. Rogers accepted membership in the Avengers, and although he soon adjusted to modern times well enough to eventually assume leadership of the team, he was plagued by guilt for not being able to prevent Bucky's death. He also undertook missions for the national security agency [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]], which was commanded by his old war comrade [[Fury, Nick|Nick Fury]]. Rogers established a residence in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York and has discovered that Bucky had been held in suspended animation throughout the Cold War performing assassinations as the [[Winter Soldier]].

=== Civil War ===
Recent events have been tumultuous for Captain America. As the passage of the the Superhuman Registration Act drew near, [[Hill, Maria|Maria Hill]] (the leader of S.H.I.E.L.D.) propositioned Rogers and the Avengers to join S.H.I.E.L.D. in enforcing the act. When he refused, Hill had her trained "Superhuman Response Unit" attack him. During the scuffle Rogers avoided being tranquilized and managed to escape by lodging his shield in an aircraft and forcing the pilot to fly him to safety. Soon after, at the [[Baxter Building]] the [[Uatu The Watcher|Watcher]] told the heroes who had gathered there about the Captain's escape. Captain America soon became the de facto leader of the [[Secret Avengers]], heroes fighting against the registration act, much to the consternation of his erstwhile friend Iron Man. While the two made sporadic attempts to reconcile during the Civil War, the clashes between their respective teams became more and more heated, ultimately leading to a pitched battle in the middle of New York City. At the end of the battle, as Cap was about to deliver a finishing blow to Iron Man, he was tackled by several emergency workers. Realizing the damage the war was doing to the city and its civilian population, Captain America unmasked and surrendered as Steve Rogers.

=== The Death of Captain America ===
[[Image:Captshirt.jpg|left]]On his way to an arraignment at the Federal Courthouse in New York City, Captain America was shot in the right shoulder by a sniper's bullet. Several subsequent shots were fired point blank at Rogers by Sharon Carter, brainwashed by Dr. Faustus who was allied with the Red Skull. Sharon, unaware of her actions and concealed by the crowd during the shooting, escorted Rogers to the hospital while the [[Falcon_%28Sam_Wilson%29|Falcon]] and the Winter Soldier subdued the sniper, [[Crossbones]] (Brock Rumlow). Captain America was pronounced dead on arrival at Mercy Hospital. Sharon's memory was restored by a keyword spoken by the Red Skull's daughter, Sin (Sinthia Shmidt).
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Captain America (Steve Rogers)

MikeFichera — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:02:44 GMT

MikeFichera: revamp - pt1

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| blurb = Too frail to join the military, patriotic '''Steve Rogers''' agreed to become the recipient of the Super-Soldier Serum. With his body and abilities pushed to peak human levels, Rogers became Captain America, the living symbol of freedom.
| real_name = Steven "Steve" Rogers
| identity = Publicly known
| occupation = Adventurer, formerly WPA artist, soldier, police officer, teacher, freelance illustrator, special [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] operative
| place_of_birth = New York, New York
| groups = [[Secret Avengers]]; formerly the [[Avengers]], [[Invaders]], [[Captain's Unnamed Superhero Team]], [[Redeemers]]; formerly partner of [[Winter Soldier|Bucky]], [[Jones, Rick|Rick Jones]], [[Falcon (Sam Wilson)|Falcon]], [[Demolition Man]] and [[Nomad (Jack Monroe)]]
| citizenship = U.S.A.
| aliases = Nomad, The Captain, Steven Grant Rogers, Roger Stevens, Yeoman America, Cap, The Sentinel of Liberty, Star-Spangled Avenger; also has impersonated [[Crossbones]]
| relatives = Joseph and Sarah Rogers (parents, deceased), unidentified grandfather (presumed deceased), Steven Rogers (ancestor, deceased)
| education = High school graduate; one year of art school; military basic training; private tutoring in hand-to-hand combat, gymnastics, military strategy, piloting, demolition, and other disciplines
| height = 6'2"
| weight = 220 lbs
| eyes = Blue
| hair = Blond
| weapons = Captain America's only weapon was his [[Captain America's Shield|shield]], a concave disk 2.5 feet in diameter, weighing 12 pounds. It is made of a unique [[Glossary:V#Vibranium|Vibranium]]-metal alloy that has never been duplicated. The shield was cast by American metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain, who was contracted by the U.S. government to create an impenetrable substance to use for tanks during World War II. MacLain was never able to duplicate the process due to his inability to identify a still unknown factor that played a role in it. The shield was awarded to Captain America by the government several months after the beginning of his career.

The shield has great aerodynamic properties: it is able to slice through the air with minimal wind resistance and deflection of path. Its great overall resilience, combined with its natural concentric stiffness, enables it to rebound from objects with minimal loss of angular momentum. It is virtually indestructible: it is resistant to penetration, temperature extremes, and the entire electromagnetic spectrum of radiation. The only way it can be damaged in any way is by tampering with its molecular bonding.
| powers = Captain America represented the pinnacle of human physical perfection. He experienced a time when he was augmented to superhuman levels, but generally performed just below superhuman levels for most of his career. Captain America had a very high intelligence as well as agility, strength, speed, endurance, and reaction time superior to any Olympic athlete who ever competed. The Super-Soldier formula that he had metabolized had enhanced all of his bodily functions to the peak of human efficiency. Most notably, his body eliminates the excessive build-up of fatigue-producing poisons in his muscles, granting him phenomenal endurance.
| abilities = Captain America had mastered the martial arts of American-style boxing and judo, and had combined these disciplines with his own unique hand-to-hand style of combat. He had also shown skill and knowledge of a number of other martial arts. He engaged in a daily regimen of rigorous exercise (including aerobics, weight lifting, gymnastics, and simulated combat) to keep himself in peak condition. Captain America was one of the finest human combatants Earth had ever known.
| debut = Captain America Comics #1 (1941)
| origin = Captain America Comics #1 (1941)
| significant_issues = Avengers #4
}}{{Headshot|
main_image= DragynWulf--CaptainAmerica(Rogers).jpg‎
}}{{bio|
bio_text=[[image: CapsShield-mini.jpg|left|100 px]]

=== Early Years and World War II ===
Steve Rogers was a scrawny fine arts student growing up during the Great Depression. His alcoholic father died when Steve was a child, and his mother passed away from pneumonia after he graduated high school. In early 1940, appalled at Nazi Germany’s horrific atrocities, Steve attempted to enlist in the army. Failing to pass physical requirements, he was invited to volunteer for Operation: Rebirth, a project intended to enhance US soldiers to the height of physical perfection via the inventions and discoveries of Professor Abraham Erskine. Rogers eagerly accepted and became the first test subject. After injections and ingestion of the "Super Soldier Serum," Rogers was exposed to a controlled burst of "Vita-Rays" that activated and stabilized the chemicals in his system. The process successfully altered his physiology from its frail state to the maximum of human efficiency, including greatly enhanced musculature and reflexes. Soon after, Professor Erskine was assassinated by a Nazi operative, leaving Steve the sole beneficiary of Erskine’s genius. Renamed “Project: Rebirth,” variations of the Super-Soldier serum were subsequently tested, under inhuman conditions, on African-American soldiers. The most successful of these was Isaiah Bradley, and Project: Rebirth’s resources were eventually absorbed into a multinational superhuman research project dubbed Weapon Plus.

[[Image:CAP inline.jpg|left]]Roger was assigned to serve as an who served both as a counter-intelligence agent and a symbolic US hero to counter Nazi Germany's propaganda successes head by the [[Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)]]. Wearing a costume based on his own design modeled after the American flag, Steve was given a triangular bulletproof shield, a personal sidearm and the codename Captain America, the Sentinel of Liberty. He was also provided a cover identity as a clumsy infantry private at Camp Lehigh in Virginia. His first opponents included the Red Skull himself and Nazi attempts to duplicate Erskine’s serum with their own super soldiers. During a mission to the African nation of Wakanda, “Cap” befriended the nation’s ruler T’Chaka and obtained a sample of the rare metal [[Glossary:V#Vibranium|Vibranium]]. Subsequent experiments with this metal produced a uniquely indestructible Vibranium-steel alloy disc, which proved impossible to duplicate. The disc was given to Cap as his new shield.

Barely out of his teens himself, Rogers made friends with the army’s camp mascot, teenager [[Winter_Soldier|James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes]]. Barnes accidentally learned of Rogers' dual identity and offered to keep the secret if he could become Captain America's sidekick. Rogers agreed, and trained Barnes. Throughout 1941, Cap and Bucky shared many adventures stateside and throughout the world. When the US entered World War II, Cap and Bucky teamed with the android Human Torch, his mutant sidekick Toro, and Namor the ocean-dwelling Sub-Mariner as the Allied force the [[Invaders]].

In the closing days of World War II in early 1945, Cap broke through Nazi troops for his final wartime confrontation with the Red Skull, who was seemingly slain by bombing debris (but lived on in suspended animation). Days later, Cap and Bucky arrived in England too late to prevent brilliant Nazi scientist [[Baron Zemo (Heinrich)|Baron Zemo]] from obtaining and launching an experimental drone plane armed explosive device on it. Rogers and Barnes reached the plane, but when Bucky tried to defuse the bomb, it exploded in mid-air. The young man was believed killed, and Rogers was hurled into the freezing waters of either the North Atlantic. The US government presumed both were dead. However, Bucky was secretly retrieved by Soviet operatives, while Cap was recovered by Nazi agent Lyle Dekker, who hoped to exchange bodies with him. Cap escaped Dekker’s base by air, but was shot down and fell back into the ocean. Due to the Super-Soldier serum Captain America survived, entering a state of suspended animation and eventually freezing in solid ice. Captain America too was presumed deceased.

=== Discovery and the Avengers ===
[[Image:CAP inline 2.jpg|left]]The [[Avengers]] discovered Rogers' body in the North Atlantic, his costume under his soldier's uniform and still carrying his shield. Rogers had been preserved in a block of ice since 1945, which melted after the block was thrown back into the ocean by an enraged [[Sub-Mariner]]. When Rogers revived, he related his last, failed mission in the closing days of the war. Rogers accepted membership in the Avengers, and although he soon adjusted to modern times well enough to eventually assume leadership of the team, he was plagued by guilt for not being able to prevent Bucky's death. He also undertook missions for the national security agency [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]], which was commanded by his old war comrade [[Fury, Nick|Nick Fury]]. Rogers established a residence in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York and has discovered that Bucky had been held in suspended animation throughout the Cold War performing assassinations as the [[Winter Soldier]].

=== Civil War ===
Recent events have been tumultuous for Captain America. As the passage of the the Superhuman Registration Act drew near, [[Hill, Maria|Maria Hill]] (the leader of S.H.I.E.L.D.) propositioned Rogers and the Avengers to join S.H.I.E.L.D. in enforcing the act. When he refused, Hill had her trained "Superhuman Response Unit" attack him. During the scuffle Rogers avoided being tranquilized and managed to escape by lodging his shield in an aircraft and forcing the pilot to fly him to safety. Soon after, at the [[Baxter Building]] the [[Uatu The Watcher|Watcher]] told the heroes who had gathered there about the Captain's escape. Captain America soon became the de facto leader of the [[Secret Avengers]], heroes fighting against the registration act, much to the consternation of his erstwhile friend Iron Man. While the two made sporadic attempts to reconcile during the Civil War, the clashes between their respective teams became more and more heated, ultimately leading to a pitched battle in the middle of New York City. At the end of the battle, as Cap was about to deliver a finishing blow to Iron Man, he was tackled by several emergency workers. Realizing the damage the war was doing to the city and its civilian population, Captain America unmasked and surrendered as Steve Rogers.

=== The Death of Captain America ===
[[Image:Captshirt.jpg|left]]On his way to an arraignment at the Federal Courthouse in New York City, Captain America was shot in the right shoulder by a sniper's bullet. Several subsequent shots were fired point blank at Rogers by Sharon Carter, brainwashed by Dr. Faustus who was allied with the Red Skull. Sharon, unaware of her actions and concealed by the crowd during the shooting, escorted Rogers to the hospital while the [[Falcon_%28Sam_Wilson%29|Falcon]] and the Winter Soldier subdued the sniper, [[Crossbones]] (Brock Rumlow). Captain America was pronounced dead on arrival at Mercy Hospital. Sharon's memory was restored by a keyword spoken by the Red Skull's daughter, Sin (Sinthia Shmidt).
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[[category:Heroes]]
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Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)

MikeFichera — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:00:34 GMT

MikeFichera: recent updates

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Johann Shmidt
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Former beggar, thief, menial laborer, bellboy, terrorist leader for the Third Reich, would-be world conqueror
| place_of_birth = An unidentified village in Germany
| groups = Special operative in the government of Germany's [[Nazi Party|Third Reich]], former leader of most currently active [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] subversives throughout the world, former ally of [[THEM]] and [[A.I.M.]], former leader of the Nevada-based fragment of [[Hydra]], leader of the [[People's Militia]], former partner of [[Hate-Monger (Adolf Hitler)|Hate-Monger]], creator of [[Scourge of the Underworld]]
| citizenship = Citizen of Germany sought by authorities throughout the world for war crimes and major offenses
| education = unknown
| aliases = Dell Rusk, Bettman P. Lyles, the Agent of a Thousand Faces, The Man, Cyrus Fenton, Teacher, Tod March, John Smith, Aleksander Lukin.
| relatives = Hermann Shmidt (father, deceased), Martha Shmidt (mother, deceased), [[Sin (Sinthea Shmidt)|Sinthea]] (Mother Superior/Sin, daughter)
| height = (original body) 6'1"; (cloned body) 6'2"
| weight = (original body) 195 lbs; (cloned body) 240 lbs
| eyes = (both bodies) Blue
| hair = (original body) Reddish blond, later none; (cloned body) blond, later none
| powers = None
| abilities = The Red Skull is a fine unarmed combatant, marksman and master of disguise. He possesses a keen mind at military, political, corporate and subversive strategies.

| weapons = The Red Skull's most infamous weapon was his so-called "dust of death." The chemical composition of this powder is unknown, but it kills a victim within seconds of making contact with the victim's skin, causing the skin on the victim's head to tighten, shrivel, and take on a red discoloration, while causing all the hair on the victim's head to fall out. As a result, the victim's corpse appears to have a "red skull" for a head. While committing murders with this weapon, the Skull often hummed, whistled, or played a tape recording of Chopin's funeral march, which was also the Skull's trademark music when he committed murders in the early 1940's. The Skull could fire his "dust of death" from a special handgun. The Red Skull usually conceals this weapon within his cigarette holder or a specially modified handgun. He has wielded sophisticated side arms, including laser beam weapons.

| paraphernalia = The Red Skull has often used special equipment such as the robotic Sleepers and the Cosmic Cubes., and exotic technology such as his hypno-ray or teleportation devices. He often wears protective armor.
| debut = Captain America Comics #1 (1941), (modern) Tales of Suspense #66 (1965)
| origin = Tales of Suspense #66 (1965), Captain America #298 (1984)
| significant_issues = Captain America Comics #1
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bio_text= Johann Shmidt was born the son of an abusive, drunken German villager named Hermann Shmidt and his saintly, long suffering wife Martha, who for years endured abuse and beatings from her husband. Martha died giving birth to Johann, their only child. Driven to madness by the death of the woman he both loved and hated, Hermann Shmidt tried to drown the newborn infant, accusing him of murdering Martha. The doctor who had just delivered the baby saved Johann from his father, and the next morning Hermann Shmidt committed suicide. The doctor took Johann to an orphanage, where the child led a lonely existence. Johann ran away from the orphanage when he was seven years old and lived in the streets as a beggar and a thief. As he grew older he worked at various menial jobs but spent most of his time in prison for crimes ranging from vagrancy to theft.

In his late teens during the rise of the Third Reich, Shmidt got his most prosperous job, a bellhop in a major hotel. There he served the rooms of Adolf Hitler himself. By chance, he was present when Hitler was furiously berating an officer and swore he could train Johann himself, a simple bellhop, to be a better National Socialist. Looking closely at him and sensing his dark inner nature, Hitler decided to take up the challenge and recruited Shmidt.

Dissatisfied with the standard drill instruction his subordinates used to train Shmidt, Hitler took over personally. Upon completion, Hitler gave Shmidt a unique uniform with a grotesque red skull mask, and he emerged as the Red Skull. His role was the embodiment of Nazi intimidation, while Hitler could remain the popular leader of Germany. The Red Skull was appointed head of Nazi terrorist activities with an additional large role in external espionage and sabotage. He was spectacularly successful, wreaking havoc throughout Europe in the early stages of World War II. The propaganda effect was so great that the United States government decided to counter it by creating their own equivalent using the recipient of the lost Operation Rebirth, Steve Rogers, [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]].

The two counterparts soon clashed in what would be a series of engagements throughout the war, ending with a final battle that left the Skull buried under the rubble of a bombed building. Because he was immediately exposed to an experimental gas there, he remained in suspended animation for decades.

Johann was eventually rescued in modern times by the terrorist organization, HYDRA. The Skull quickly subverted a HYDRA cell to his own ambitions of world conquest and the death of Captain America.

[[image:MikeFichera--RedSkull-CosmicCube.jpg|thumb|left|The Cosmic Cube]]The Skull and Captain America resumed their personal war against each other. The Skull was consistently frustrated by failure; not even when the Skull possessed the reality-altering Cosmic Cube could he claim victory. At one point, the Skull's health failing, he had Nazi geneticist Arnim Zola make him into an imitation of the Captain's civilian identity, Steve Rogers, using cloned tissue from Captain America's body.
Under the alias of Mr. Smith, the Red Skull had Douglas Rockwell, the head of the U.S. president's [[Commission on Superhuman Activities]], make unreasonable demands upon Captain America, while arranging for the [[Taskmaster]] to train a replacement for Captain America, appointed the violent and mentally unstable [[USAgent|John Walker]]. When the CSA’s requests forced Rogers to relinquish the Captain America identity, the CSA assigned John Walker to fill the role. As the new Captain America, Walker was manipulated by the Skull to act in a manner which publicly disgraced the image of the hero. The Skull then tried unsuccessfully to use Walker to kill Rogers (now “the Captain.”) When Rogers defeated Walker, the Skull tried to blow the Dust of Death on Rogers. Walker hit the Skull him from behind with his shield, exposing Shmidt to the dust. He suffered the signature facial disfigurement attributed to the Dust, yet survived due to years of exposure to low doses. Rogers later reclaimed the Captain America title.

[[image:redskull02.jpg|thumb|left|240px]]After this, the Skull was attacked by the mutant terrorist Magneto, a Jewish Holocaust survivor who wanted to punish him for his involvement in Hitler's regime. [[Magneto (Magnus)|Magneto]] buried him alive with enough water for a few months. The Skull remained there until he was rescued by his henchman [[Crossbones]].

Red Skull had control over multiple criminal organizations, including the [[Watchdogs]], a group of right-wing militiamen, and the [[Scourge of the Underworld]], an organization devoted to murdering super villains. He proposed an alliance with the [[Kingpin|Kingpin of Crime (Wilson Fisk)]], one of New York City's top organized crime bosses, to bring a new designer drug to New York but the Kingpin refused to form an alliance with a Nazi. Fisk defeated the Skull in hand to hand combat, sparing his life on the condition he never come near the Kingpin's territory again. However fellow Nazi [[Baron Strucker|Baron Wolfgang von Strucker]], leader of the terrorist organization [[Hydra]], gratefully allowed the Skull the use of HYDRA's resources after the Skull's agents brought Strucker back from the dead.

Recently, Red Skull manipulated his way into the position of Secretary of State, under the alias of Dell Rusk. Rusk developed a biological weapon he tested at Mount Rushmore, releasing a deadly spreading contagion “red zone" but was bested by Captain America and the Avengers. Desiring the Skull's Cosmic Cube for himself, former Soviet general [[Lukin, Aleksander|Aleksander Lukin]]hired Rogers' former WWII sidekick, Bucky (now known as the [[Winter Soldier]]) to assassinate the Skull. When the Skull was shot, he attempted to use the Cube to switch bodies with Lukin to survive, but the cube was weak. The transfer was only partially successful as the Skull only managed to transfer his mind into Lukin's body; now the minds of the two enemies were trapped together in the same body. The Skull/Lukin formed numerous alliances with other villains, including Dr.
Faustus, Dr. Doom, Arnim Zola and the Serpent Squad. The Skull used hypnotist Dr. Faustus to help arrange Captain America’s assassination. Under Faustus’ influence, former SHIELD agent and Cap's occasional girlfriend Sharon Carter was brainwashed into killing Captain America herself. Freed from his ever-present nemesis, the Red Skull/ Lukin raised a private army while attempting to arrange for Senator Gordon Wright to become president of the USA. The Winter Soldier became the new Captain America and overcame their plans. Arnim Zola transferred the Red Skull's mind out of Lukin's body and into one of his own spare android forms as a temporary measure. Shortly afterward, Lukin was killed by Sharon Carter and Zola was seemingly destroyed. The Red Skull remains trapped in Zola's spare body.

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Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)

MikeFichera — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:40:36 GMT

MikeFichera: more cleanup

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Johann Shmidt
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Former beggar, thief, menial laborer, bellboy, terrorist leader for the Third Reich, would-be world conqueror
| place_of_birth = An unidentified village in Germany
| groups = Special operative in the government of Germany's [[Nazi Party|Third Reich]], former leader of most currently active [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] subversives throughout the world, former ally of [[THEM]] and [[A.I.M.]], former leader of the Nevada-based fragment of [[Hydra]], leader of the [[People's Militia]], former partner of [[Hate-Monger (Adolf Hitler)|Hate-Monger]], creator of [[Scourge of the Underworld]]
| citizenship = Citizen of Germany sought by authorities throughout the world for war crimes and major offenses
| education = unknown
| aliases = Dell Rusk, Bettman P. Lyles, the Agent of a Thousand Faces, The Man, Cyrus Fenton, Teacher, Tod March, John Smith, Aleksander Lukin.
| relatives = Hermann Shmidt (father, deceased), Martha Shmidt (mother, deceased), [[Sin (Sinthea Shmidt)|Sinthea]] (Mother Superior/Sin, daughter)
| height = (original body) 6'1"; (cloned body) 6'2"
| weight = (original body) 195 lbs; (cloned body) 240 lbs
| eyes = (both bodies) Blue
| hair = (original body) Reddish blond, later none; (cloned body) blond, later none
| powers = None
| abilities = The Red Skull is a fine unarmed combatant, marksman and master of disguise. He possesses a keen mind at military, political, corporate and subversive strategies.

| weapons = The Red Skull's most infamous weapon was his so-called "dust of death." The chemical composition of this powder is unknown, but it kills a victim within seconds of making contact with the victim's skin, causing the skin on the victim's head to tighten, shrivel, and take on a red discoloration, while causing all the hair on the victim's head to fall out. As a result, the victim's corpse appears to have a "red skull" for a head. While committing murders with this weapon, the Skull often hummed, whistled, or played a tape recording of Chopin's funeral march, which was also the Skull's trademark music when he committed murders in the early 1940's. The Skull could fire his "dust of death" from a special handgun. The Red Skull usually conceals this weapon within his cigarette holder or a specially modified handgun. He has wielded sophisticated side arms, including laser beam weapons.

| paraphernalia = The Red Skull has often used special equipment such as the robotic Sleepers and the Cosmic Cubes., and exotic technology such as his hypno-ray or teleportation devices. He often wears protective armor.
| debut = Captain America Comics #1 (1941), (modern) Tales of Suspense #66 (1965)
| origin = Tales of Suspense #66 (1965), Captain America #298 (1984)
| significant_issues = Captain America Comics #1
}}{{Headshot|
main_image=Red skull 01.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text= Johann Shmidt was born the son of an abusive, drunken German villager named Hermann Shmidt and his saintly, long suffering wife Martha, who for years endured abuse and beatings from her husband. Martha died giving birth to Johann, their only child. Driven to madness by the death of the woman he both loved and hated, Hermann Shmidt tried to drown the newborn infant, accusing him of murdering Martha. The doctor who had just delivered the baby saved Johann from his father, and the next morning Hermann Shmidt committed suicide. The doctor took Johann to an orphanage, where the child led a lonely existence. Johann ran away from the orphanage when he was seven years old and lived in the streets as a beggar and a thief. As he grew older he worked at various menial jobs but spent most of his time in prison for crimes ranging from vagrancy to theft.

In his late teens during the rise of the Third Reich, Shmidt got his most prosperous job, a bellhop in a major hotel. There he served the rooms of Adolf Hitler himself. By chance, he was present when Hitler was furiously berating an officer and swore he could train Johann himself, a simple bellhop, to be a better National Socialist. Looking closely at him and sensing his dark inner nature, Hitler decided to take up the challenge and recruited Shmidt.

Dissatisfied with the standard drill instruction his subordinates used to train Shmidt, Hitler took over personally. Upon completion, Hitler gave Shmidt a unique uniform with a grotesque red skull mask, and he emerged as the Red Skull. His role was the embodiment of Nazi intimidation, while Hitler could remain the popular leader of Germany. The Red Skull was appointed head of Nazi terrorist activities with an additional large role in external espionage and sabotage. He was spectacularly successful, wreaking havoc throughout Europe in the early stages of World War II. The propaganda effect was so great that the United States government decided to counter it by creating their own equivalent using the recipient of the lost Operation Rebirth, Steve Rogers, [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]].

The two counterparts soon clashed in what would be a series of engagements throughout the war, ending with a final battle that left the Skull buried under the rubble of a bombed building. Because he was immediately exposed to an experimental gas there, he remained in suspended animation for decades.

Johann was eventually rescued in modern times by the terrorist organization, HYDRA. The Skull quickly subverted a HYDRA cell to his own ambitions of world conquest and the death of Captain America.

[[image:MikeFichera--RedSkull-CosmicCube.jpg|thumb|left|The Cosmic Cube]]The Skull and Captain America resumed their personal war against each other. The Skull was consistently frustrated by failure; not even when the Skull possessed the reality-altering Cosmic Cube could he claim victory. At one point, the Skull's health failing, he had Nazi geneticist Arnim Zola make him into an imitation of the Captain's civilian identity, Steve Rogers, using cloned tissue from Captain America's body.
Under the alias of Mr. Smith, the Red Skull had Douglas Rockwell, the head of the U.S. president's [[Commission on Superhuman Activities]], make unreasonable demands upon Captain America, while arranging for the [[Taskmaster]] to train a replacement for Captain America, appointed the violent and mentally unstable [[USAgent|John Walker]]. When the CSA’s requests forced Rogers to relinquish the Captain America identity, the CSA assigned John Walker to fill the role. As the new Captain America, Walker was manipulated by the Skull to act in a manner which publicly disgraced the image of the hero. The Skull then tried unsuccessfully to use Walker to kill Rogers (now “the Captain.”) When Rogers defeated Walker, the Skull tried to blow the Dust of Death on Rogers. Walker hit the Skull him from behind with his shield, exposing Shmidt to the dust. He suffered the signature facial disfigurement attributed to the Dust, yet survived due to years of exposure to low doses.

[[image:redskull02.jpg|thumb|left|240px]]After this, the Skull was attacked by the mutant terrorist Magneto, a Jewish Holocaust survivor who wanted to punish him for his involvement in Hitler's regime. [[Magneto (Magnus)|Magneto]] buried him alive with enough water for a few months. The Skull remained there until he was rescued by his henchman [[Crossbones]].

Red Skull had control over multiple criminal organizations, including the [[Watchdogs]], a group of right-wing militiamen, and the [[Scourge of the Underworld]], an organization devoted to murdering super villains. He proposed an alliance with the [[Kingpin|Kingpin of Crime (Wilson Fisk)]], one of New York City's top organized crime bosses, to bring a new designer drug to New York but the Kingpin refused to form an alliance with a Nazi. Fisk defeated the Skull in hand to hand combat, sparing his life on the condition he never come near the Kingpin's territory again. However fellow Nazi [[Baron Strucker|Baron Wolfgang von Strucker]], leader of the terrorist organization [[Hydra]], gratefully allowed the Skull the use of HYDRA's resources after the Skull's agents brought Strucker back from the dead.

Recently, Red Skull manipulated his way into the position of Secretary of State, under the alias of Dell Rusk. Rusk developed a biological weapon he tested at Mount Rushmore, but was assassinated by Rogers' former WWII sidekick, Bucky (now known as the [[Winter Soldier]]), under orders from the former Soviet general [[Lukin, Aleksander|Aleksander Lukin]], who wanted to possess the Skull's Cosmic Cube. When the Skull was shot, he was on the phone with Lukin and was holding the Cosmic Cube. He attempted to use the Cube to switch bodies with Lukin to survive, but the cube was weak. The transfer was only partially successful as the Skull only managed to transfer his mind into Lukin's body; now the minds of the two enemies are trapped together in the same body.

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[[category:Avengers]]
[[category:International]]
[[category:Golden Age]]

Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)

MikeFichera — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:59:05 GMT

MikeFichera: profile cleanup

{{Powerbox|
universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| real_name = Johann Shmidt
| identity = Secret
| occupation = Former beggar, thief, menial laborer, bellboy, terrorist leader for the Third Reich, would-be world conqueror
| place_of_birth = An unidentified village in Germany
| groups = Special operative in the government of Germany's [[Nazi Party|Third Reich]], former leader of most currently active [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] subversives throughout the world, former ally of [[THEM]] and [[A.I.M.]], former leader of the Nevada-based fragment of [[Hydra]], leader of the [[People's Militia]], former partner of [[Hate-Monger (Adolf Hitler)|Hate-Monger]], creator of [[Scourge of the Underworld]]
| citizenship = Citizen of Germany sought by authorities throughout the world for war crimes and major offenses
| education = unknown
| aliases = Dell Rusk, Bettman P. Lyles, the Agent of a Thousand Faces, The Man, Cyrus Fenton, Teacher, Tod March, John Smith, Aleksander Lukin.
| relatives = Hermann Shmidt (father, deceased), Martha Shmidt (mother, deceased), [[Sin (Sinthea Shmidt)|Sinthea]] (Mother Superior/Sin, daughter)
| height = (original body) 6'1"; (cloned body) 6'2"
| weight = (original body) 195 lbs; (cloned body) 240 lbs
| eyes = (both bodies) Blue
| hair = (original body) Reddish blond, later none; (cloned body) blond, later none
| powers = None
| abilities = The Red Skull is a fine unarmed combatant, marksman and master of disguise. He possesses a keen mind at military, political, corporate and subversive strategies.

| weapons = The Red Skull's most infamous weapon was his so-called "dust of death." The chemical composition of this powder is unknown, but it kills a victim within seconds of making contact with the victim's skin, causing the skin on the victim's head to tighten, shrivel, and take on a red discoloration, while causing all the hair on the victim's head to fall out. As a result, the victim's corpse appears to have a "red skull" for a head. While committing murders with this weapon, the Skull often hummed, whistled, or played a tape recording of Chopin's funeral march, which was also the Skull's trademark music when he committed murders in the early 1940's. The Skull could fire his "dust of death" from a special handgun. The Red Skull usually conceals this weapon within his cigarette holder or a specially modified handgun. He has wielded sophisticated side arms, including laser beam weapons.

| paraphernalia = The Red Skull has often used special equipment such as the robotic Sleepers and the Cosmic Cubes., and exotic technology such as his hypno-ray or teleportation devices. He often wears protective armor.
| debut = Captain America Comics #1 (1941), (modern) Tales of Suspense #66 (1965)
| origin = Tales of Suspense #66 (1965), Captain America #298 (1984)
| significant_issues = Captain America Comics #1
}}{{Headshot|
main_image=Red skull 01.jpg
}}{{bio|
bio_text= Johann Shmidt was born the son of an abusive, drunken German villager named Hermann Shmidt and his saintly, long suffering wife Martha, who for years endured abuse and beatings from her husband. Martha died giving birth to Johann, their only child. Driven to madness by the death of the woman he both loved and hated, Hermann Shmidt tried to drown the newborn infant, accusing him of murdering Martha. The doctor who had just delivered the baby saved Johann from his father, and the next morning Hermann Shmidt committed suicide. The doctor took Johann to an orphanage, where the child led a lonely existence. Johann ran away from the orphanage when he was seven years old and lived in the streets as a beggar and a thief. As he grew older he worked at various menial jobs but spent most of his time in prison for crimes ranging from vagrancy to theft.

In his late teens during the rise of the Third Reich, Shmidt got his most prosperous job, a bellhop in a major hotel. There he served the rooms of Adolf Hitler himself. By chance, he was present when Hitler was furiously berating an officer and swore he could train Johann himself, a simple bellhop, to be a better National Socialist. Looking closely at him and sensing his dark inner nature, Hitler decided to take up the challenge and recruited Shmidt.

Dissatisfied with the standard drill instruction his subordinates used to train Shmidt, Hitler took over personally. Upon completion, Hitler gave Shmidt a unique uniform with a grotesque red skull mask, and he emerged as the Red Skull. His role was the embodiment of Nazi intimidation, while Hitler could remain the popular leader of Germany. The Red Skull was appointed head of Nazi terrorist activities with an additional large role in external espionage and sabotage. He was spectacularly successful, wreaking havoc throughout Europe in the early stages of World War II. The propaganda effect was so great that the United States government decided to counter it by creating their own equivalent using the recipient of the lost Operation Rebirth, Steve Rogers, [[Captain America (Steve Rogers)|Captain America]].

The two counterparts soon clashed in what would be a series of engagements throughout the war, ending with a final battle that left the Skull buried under the rubble of a bombed building. Because he was immediately exposed to an experimental gas there, he remained in suspended animation for decades.

Johann was eventually rescued in modern times by the terrorist organization, HYDRA. The Skull quickly subverted a HYDRA cell to his own ambitions of world conquest and the death of Captain America.

[[image:MikeFichera--RedSkull-CosmicCube.jpg|thumb|left|The Cosmic Cube]]The Skull and Captain America resumed their personal war against each other. The Skull was consistently frustrated by failure; not even when the Skull possessed the reality-altering Cosmic Cube could he claim victory. At one point, the Skull's health failing, he had Nazi geneticist Arnim Zola make him into an imitation of the Captain's civilian identity, Steve Rogers, using cloned tissue from Captain America's body.
Under the alias of Mr. Smith, the Red Skull had Douglas Rockwell, the head of the U.S. president's [[Commission on Superhuman Activities]], make unreasonable demands upon Captain America, while arranging for the [[Taskmaster]] to train a replacement for Captain America, appointed the violent and mentally unstable [[USAgent|John Walker]]. When the CSA’s requests forced Rogers to relinquish the Captain America identity, the CSA assigned John Walker to fill the role. As the new Captain America, Walker was manipulated by the Skull to act in a manner which publicly disgraced the image of the hero. The Skull then tried unsuccessfully to use Walker to kill Rogers (now “the Captain.”) When Rogers defeated Walker, the Skull tried to blow the Dust of Death on Rogers. Walker hit the Skull him from behind with his shield, exposing Shmidt to the dust. He suffered the signature facial disfigurement attributed to the Dust, yet survived due to years of exposure to low doses.

[[image:redskull02.jpg|thumb|left|240px]]After this, the Skull was attacked by the mutant terrorist Magneto, a Jewish Holocaust survivor who wanted to punish him for his involvement in Hitler's regime. [[Magneto (Magnus)|Magneto]] buried him alive with enough water for a few months. The Skull remained there until he was rescued by his henchman [[Crossbones]].

Red Skull had control over multiple criminal organizations, including the [[Watchdogs]], a group of right-wing militiamen, and [[Scourge of the Underworld]], an organization devoted to murdering super villains. The Skull is usually ignored by other villains because of his Nazi background, proposed an alliance with the [[Kingpin]] to bring a new designer drug to New York but the Kingpin refused to form an alliance with a Nazi. He then defeated the Skull in hand to hand combat, sparing his life on the condition he never come near the Kingpin's territory again. Fellow Nazi [[Baron Strucker|Baron Wolfgang von Strucker]], leader of the terrorist organization, [[Hydra]], after the Skull's agents allow Strucker to be reborn, gratefully allowed the Skull the use of HYDRA's resources.

Recently, Red Skull manipulated his way into the position of Secretary of State as Dell Rusk to develop a biological weapon he tested at Mount Rushmore, only to be assassinated by the [[Winter Soldier]], under orders from the former Soviet general [[Lukin, Aleksander|Aleksander Lukin]], who wanted to possess the Cosmic Cube. When the Skull was shot, he was on the phone with Lukin and was holding the Cosmic Cube. He attempted to switch bodies with Lukin to survive, but with the cube being weak and him dying, it didn't completely work. Instead the Skull only managed to transfer his mind into Lukin's body; now the two enemies are trapped together.

}}
{{person}}
[[category:Villains]]
[[category:Avengers]]
[[category:International]]
[[category:Golden Age]]