Editing Captain America (section)

===Fictional character biography===
{{see also|List of Captain America titles}}

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{{As of|2015}}, Captain America has appeared in more than ten thousand stories in more than five thousand media formats, including comic books, books, and trade publications.{{Sfn|Stevens|2015|p=2}} The character's [[origin story]] has been retold and revised multiple times throughout his editorial history, though its broad details have remained generally consistent.{{sfn|Weiner|2013|p=101}} Steven "Steve" Rogers was born in the 1920s to an impoverished family on the [[Lower East Side]] of [[New York City]]. The frail and infirm Rogers attempts to join the [[U.S. Army]] in order to fight in the [[Second World War]], but is rejected after being deemed unfit for military service.{{sfn|Hack|2009|p=80}} His resolve is nevertheless noticed by the military, and he is recruited as the first test subject for "Project Rebirth", a secret government program that seeks to create [[super soldiers]] through the development of the "Super-Soldier Serum". Though the serum successfully enhances Rogers to the peak to human physical perfection, a Nazi spy posing as a military observer destroys the remaining supply of the serum and assassinates [[Abraham Erskine|its inventor]], foiling plans to produce additional super soldiers. Rogers is given a patriotic uniform and [[Captain America's shield|shield]] by the American government and becomes the costumed superhero Captain America. He goes on to fight the villainous [[Red Skull]] and other members of the [[Axis powers]] both domestically and abroad, alongside his sidekick [[Bucky Barnes]] and as a member of the [[Invaders (comics)|Invaders]]. In the final days of the war, Rogers and Barnes seemingly perish after falling from an experimental [[unmanned aerial vehicle|drone plane]] into the northern [[Atlantic Ocean]].<ref name="FredEntertainment"/>

Rogers is found decades later by the superhero team the [[Avengers (comics)|Avengers]], the Super-Soldier Serum having allowed him to survive frozen in a block of ice in a state of [[suspended animation]].<ref name="FredEntertainment"/> Reawakened in modern times, Rogers resumes activities as a costumed hero, joining and later becoming leader of the Avengers.{{sfn|Weiner|2013|p=104}} Many of his exploits involve missions undertaken for the Avengers or for [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]], an espionage and international law enforcement agency operated by his former war comrade [[Nick Fury]]. Through Fury, Rogers befriends [[Sharon Carter]], a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent with whom he eventually begins a partnership and an on-again off-again romance. He meets and trains [[Falcon (comics)|Sam Wilson]], who becomes the superhero Falcon, and they establish an enduring friendship and partnership.{{sfn|Weiner|2013|p=105}} After [[Secret Empire (1974 comic)|a conspiracy]] hatched by the [[Secret Empire (organization)|Secret Empire]] to discredit Rogers is revealed to have been personally orchestrated by the President of the United States, a disillusioned Rogers abandons the mantle of Captain America and assumes the title of "[[Nomad (Marvel Comics)|Nomad]]", the "man without a country".{{sfn|Weiner|2013|p=106}} He eventually re-assumes the title, and later declines an offer from the "New Populist Party" to run for president himself.{{sfn|Weiner|2013|p=106}} He again abandons the mantle of Captain America to briefly assume the alias of "[[Captain America: The Captain|The Captain]]" when a [[Commission on Superhuman Activities|government commission]] orders him to work directly for the U.S. government.{{sfn|Rizzo|Licari|2021|p=106}}

In the aftermath of the [[September 11 attacks]], Rogers reveals his secret identity to the world.{{sfn|Weiner|2013|p=106}} Following the [[Avengers Disassembled|disbandment of the Avengers]], he discovers that [[The Winter Soldier (story arc)|Bucky is still alive]], having been brainwashed by the Soviets to become the Winter Soldier.{{sfn|Dowsett|2008|p=325}} Later, in reaction to [[Civil War (comics)|government efforts to regulate superheroes]], Rogers becomes the leader of an underground anti-registration movement that clashes with a pro-registration faction led by fellow Avengers member [[Iron Man]].{{sfn|Dowsett|2008|p=332}} After significant rancor, he voluntarily surrenders and submits to arrest. At his trial, he is [[The Death of Captain America|shot and killed]] by Sharon Carter, whose actions are manipulated by the villainous [[Doctor Faustus (comics)|Dr. Faustus]]; in his absence, a recovered Bucky assumes the title of Captain America.{{sfn|Rizzo|Licari|2021|p=152}} It is eventually revealed that [[Captain America: Reborn|Rogers did not die]], but became displaced in space and time; he is ultimately able to return to the present.{{sfn|Rizzo|Licari|2021|pp=166–167}} He resumes his exploits as a superhero, though his public identity is briefly [[Secret Empire (organization)|supplanted by a sleeper agent]] from the terrorist organization [[Hydra (comics)|Hydra]].{{sfn|Rizzo|Licari|2021|p=190}}