Origin Story : Captain America

OK, I know that a lot of people now know the story of Captain America thanks to the MCU movies starring Chris Evans, which I adore, but his birthday is coming up soon, so I felt an origin story was in order.

So Captain America was born on 4th July 1920 as Steven Grant Rogers. Steve was an ordinary kid throughout his childhood, in the Brooklyn streets he lived in with his family. The only problem for Steve is that he was seen by other kids his age as a weedy, scrawny, girly (because of his blonde hair and blue eyes) weirdo, meaning he was bullied and beaten up a lot.

When Steve had reached 20, not much had changed. Steve was still small, still scrawny, but he knew something in his mind. Steve wanted to be a soldier in the army. War had broken out across the world for a second time, and Steve wanted to help. Why? Because all his life, he had to put up with bullies, and he saw Germany as a bully and wanted to do something about it, but there was one big problem for him. In order to join the army, you had to be seen as medically and psychically strong, and Steve was neither, what with his astmha and weakness. The list was incredibly long, so Steve got turned down. So he tried again in another state - and failed again, so he tried - and failed - again. Infact, this happened several times over, and the worst part for him was that his best friend, James Buchanan Barnes, known to others as Bucky, managed to get into the army, and would normally walk around in public in uniform, whereas Steve was still nowhere near that stage.

One day, though, Steve got his big break. While out with Bucky, he saw an army recruitment tent, and so abandoned his best friend in hopes of making it into the Army.

As the medical test went on, Steve's hopes worsened, but luckily for him, a doctor from Germany by the name of Dr. Erskine was in charge of his evaluation, and saw that Rogers may be a good candidate for an experiment for the army, and so, regardless of all his problems, Steve Rogers was now a soldier.

As expected for him, the army was incredibly tough. All the recruits had to go through vigorous training that was tough even for the strongest and hardest of men, so poor Steve was truly struggling with everything, but he showed courage and determination. While out on a training run, the soldiers were told to stop at a flag pole and told the one who can reach the flag gets a ride back to camp, while the others had to run. Steve's fellow recruits either tried to jump for the flag or shimmy up the pole, but they all failed. Then Steve had a go. Instead of doing the same as the other soilders, Steve loosened the bolts of the flag pole so it fell to the ground, and then picked up the pole. Dr. Erskine heard about it, and was impressed. Steve was showing intelligence.

Back at the camp, everyone was doing routine exercises, when Erskine tried to test Steve again. He took a dummy grenade, yelled "Grenade!" And threw it in his direction. All the other soldiers around him scattered, fearing for their lives, while Steve did the opposite. He curled himself around the grenade, hoping it would stop the explosion he thought would happen. He had shown bravery. This was perfect. He had shown all traits to be Erskine's ideal candidate.

A few days later, Steve had been informed of what was to happen. A "super-soldier" serum was to be injected into him. As well as giving him the perfect physical traits, ( tall, well balanced, muscly), it would also enhance his personal traits. Anything good within in him would become better, but anything bad would become worse.

The next day, Steve was taken to an underground laboratory filled with lots of "important" people coming to witness the transformation. Steve met the man who would be helping to operate the mission, a man named Howard Stark (Who later becomes Tony Stark/Iron Man's father. Small world we live in) and soon after was strapped into a giant machine with doors so that the radioactivity wouldn't leak out. Howard Stark counted down, and the serum began flowing into Steve's body. At first, he began yelling in pain, and the procedure was just about to be stopped, but all of a sudden, a voice came from the machine saying "Don't stop, carry on. I can do it", so the advice of Steve was followed. The serum was transfused into his body, until it was complete and the machinery stopped. The door was opened, and inside sat Captain America at his beginning.

I must say, Captain America is one of my favourite heroes, even my ringtone is the 1960's Captain America cartoon theme song. Happy 95th birthday to the Cap for tomorrow!