While Captain America is known as Marvel Comics’ most morally steadfast superhero, his original training proves he was a fool.
Whereas Captain America is known to be a hero who represents all that is good and just in the world by way of his incorruptible moral compass, his quirky training regimen shows that he was actually a pretty big jerk.
Steve Rogers became Captain America after enlisting in the military during World War II, despite not being able to meet the physical demands needed to be an effective soldier. However, he more than made up for his physical shortcomings with his indomitable spirit and unwavering will to do what is right in any given situation. Steve’s inherently heroic nature made him the perfect candidate for the Super Soldier program, and he was injected with a serum that gave him increased strength, speed, and brain function, turning him into the perfect soldier in matching his body to his mind. From the start, Captain America’s good nature was his defining quality, though his unwitting early Avengers training partners would probably argue otherwise.
In avengers #7 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, fans get a look at how the Avengers train for battle, including Captain America’s morally gray process for staying fit. In the issue, Captain America pays a group of professional wrestlers to attack him all at once, with their manager warning him that any normal man would be crushed by their combined strength and telling him that fighting all of these men at once is not not a good idea. Captain America vaguely assures them that he will be fine and jumps straight into the sparring session. As anyone who knows what Captain America is capable of might rightly assume, these fighters were no match for Captain America and he easily defeated them. When Cap says he hopes for a better fight next time, one of the wrestlers replies, “Are you kidding??? If we want more action, we’ll get him in the ring, where he’s safe!”
The wrestlers’ reaction to being brutally beaten by Captain America implies they didn’t know he had enhanced abilities, so Captain America gave them the beatings of a lifetime without first warning them what they were getting into. . Captain America put these fighters in danger by asking to train with them under false pretenses, which is actually uncharacteristically mean for Captain America. This form of training was adopted by villains in future Marvel Comics storylines, with the Kingpin being a great example of fighting multiple people at once and mindlessly hurting them just to stay in shape or give themselves away. an ego boost by proving he can take on a number of fighters simultaneously even though he’s obviously out of their league.
Captain America’s training, as this issue shows, is inherently wicked as it plays on the now nasty trope of “beating up a bunch of guys practicing every day” and putting them at very real risk of injury. as opposed to a normal training regimen or training with other super-powered people – proving that Captain AmericaThe original training regimen of him made him a huge jerk.
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