Steve Rogers (Captain America) – America’s iconic superhero, always appears with a star-shaped shield made from Adamantium. Starting as a soldier, Steve Rogers always tries to fulfill the role of one of the strongest heroes on earth, defeating any villains who are trying to destroy his beloved planet.
But after many years of appearing on the big screen, have you ever wondered how strong Captain America is? If you want to know more about the power of this famous superhero, scroll down and discuss with me.
How strong is Captain America in The First Avenger and Avengers
Joining the allied front, Captain America participated in many battles taking place throughout Europe. Once, he learned that his best friend – Bucky was captured by the Axis powers. Captain America has strength, the ability to use guns skillfully and is more intelligent than others. Later, he successfully rescued Bucky and his teammates.
Initially, Captain America was an extremely weak and small guy. But after being injected with super soldier serum, he gained many times the strength of a normal person. During his imprisonment, Bucky was also injected with super-soldier serum by the Axis faction and was nearly brainwashed before being rescued.
Later during a fight, he fell from the ship into the icy mountain waters and disappeared. When his best friend passed away, Captain America was encouraged by many people and continued to fight as a super soldier. Later, Captain America fought Red Skull – the first person to be injected with super soldier serum.
Because at that time, the serum was still unstable, so Johann Shmidt encountered extremely serious consequences. However, he was still given strength equal to Captain America’s. With the help of a shield made from Adamantium, he defeated the Red Skull and crashed the plane into the freezing water to stop his plans.
After saying goodbye to his teammates, Captain America disappeared for more than 70 years. The collision also proves that the American captain has incredible resilience because he survived the incident without any serious damage to his body. Knowing that the world was at peace, Captain America accepted Nick Fury’s offer and became part of the Avengers – a team consisting of extremely powerful members. This group was created with the purpose of protecting the world from dangerous threats, from terrorism, cybercrime to aliens. Their ultimate mission is to fight Loki’s plot to take over Earth.
The Chitauri invasion of Earth showed how well the Avengers work as a team. With existing knowledge of war, Captain America assigns each member tasks appropriate to each individual’s abilities. This shows that he has great leadership abilities, typically when he shows the police which streets in New York need to be protected and which defense lines should be held.
As a warrior, Captain America has experience in hand-to-hand combat with SHIELD and uses Vibranium shields, helping him easily destroy groups of aliens with his group and sometimes alone. Along with his superior strength, he can lift a car to help trapped people escape. He is also a compassionate person, willing to sacrifice his life in war to protect civilians. His weapon only includes a shield made from Vibranium – a fairly strong metal that can deflect bullets. When fighting, in addition to punching and kicking, he also throws his shield to take down enemies.
Captain America’s powers in The Winter Soldier and Age Of Ultron
In Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier , Steve works at SHIELD alongside Black Widow. At this time, Nick Fury – the head of SHIELD was targeted by HYDRA and, as expected, he was “defeated” by Winter Soldier. Then Captain America realized this was his best friend – Bucky Barnes.
After falling off a train during World War II, he was captured by HYDRA and brainwashed to carry out assassinations. Together with Black Widow, Captain America tries to expose the HYDRA organization and rescue Bucky – who is being brainwashed. In this movie, when working with SHIELD, he always tried his best to practice and his strength was much superior to that of Captain America in the first part.
During the war with HYDRA, he planned with Nat and Sam to destroy the HYDRA agents hiding in SHIELD. His fight with the Winter Soldier shows that in addition to his strength and endurance, he also has a kind heart, only hoping that his best friend will awaken.
With threats emerging around the globe, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner decided to create Ultron for the purpose of keeping peace. When he began to gain sentience, this robot considered all of humanity a threat and planned to wipe out humanity with the Iron Legion. Knowing that it was the group that created Ultron, The Avengers decided to fight this robot and stop his destructive plans.
There is no denying that Captain America gave his all in this movie and tried to take down Ultron’s army. Knowing that the enemy is a machine, he is determined to use his shield to decapitate and destroy the machines. Since his only weapon is his shield, he mainly focuses on taking down enemies on the ground and letting Hawkeye and Iron Man take out those up high.
Captain America in Civil War, Infinity War and Endgame
During the Avengers’ mission to destroy HYDRA, Crossphones, not wanting to be under house arrest, tried to commit suicide and take down Captain America. Because of her hasty decision, Wanda used her powers and pushed him into a building. The bomb he held blew up a building housing 26 people.
After this incident, the government proposed the Sokovia Accords, requiring heroes to accept punishment from the government if they did something wrong. If Iron Man easily agrees to this agreement, Captain America considers this an invasion of privacy and believes that this means they will be forced to do the government’s “dirty work” as well as army.
In the end, the Avengers split into two. Civil War has a lot of fight scenes and focuses mainly on Captain America. Nothing has changed, he still fights for justice, helps Bucky and prevents Tony Stark from becoming a murderer. The film shows that he is willing to fight brutally when his friends are in danger.
After the events of Civil War , most of those who resisted signing the treaty were imprisoned in The Raft. Captain America’s teammates who weren’t captured are in hiding, but they still promise Tony Stark that they will return if the world needs them. At this time, Thanos appeared on Earth with the goal of collecting all 6 Infinity Stones to destroy half of the world’s population.
The Avengers decide to work together once again to protect the stones before Thanos can achieve his ultimate goal. In both Endgame and Infinity War , Steve used a weapon given to him by the Wakanda government and he still used the same fighting method, mainly using fists, kicks, and throwing shields.
It can be said that throughout his journey with the MCU, one thing that stands out most about Captain America is his heart. He never gives up no matter how desperate he is and this is his most precious “strength”. Do you agree with my opinion? Please share with me.