# Captain America - Steroid User **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 8, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-steroid-user/584772 "2011-06-08T20:07:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-steroid-user/584772/1 "2011-06-08T20:07:32Z")
:smack: ☹ I was watching the trailer for Captain America and I had this epiphany. If you’ve already had it, SHUT UP 😛 It never occurred to me this icon of America could be, viewed from a certain POV, as advocating steroid use. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-steroid-user/584772/2 "2011-06-08T20:10:53Z")
Dude. The _comic’s_ writers had that epiphany _years ago_. Steve Rogers even got himself de-Supersoldier formula’d to show that Drugs Are Bad. The epiphany I got from watching the trailer is that they CGI’d Chris Evans into a living bobblehead for his pre-steroid scenes. Icky. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-steroid-user/584772/3 "2011-06-08T20:15:37Z")
HEY!!! I’ve been reading X-Men for the past forty years. In my defense, I never liked the Captain America comics so I didn’t really have much thought about it. I KNEW his origin but never THOUGHT about it. The visuals just made it click. Plus I’m not very observant ☹ ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-steroid-user/584772/4 "2011-06-08T20:28:20Z")
[http://www.dorkly.com/video/16944/dorkly-bits-captain-america-uses-drugs](http://www.dorkly.com/video/16944/dorkly-bits-captain-america-uses-drugs) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-steroid-user/584772/5 "2011-06-08T20:48:55Z")
It goes deeper than we ever thought! “The secret compartment of my ring, I fill / with an Underdog super-energy pill!” ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-steroid-user/584772/6 "2011-06-08T21:03:48Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > It goes deeper than we ever thought! > > “The secret compartment of my ring, I fill / with an Underdog super-energy pill!” Ha! I took Underdog chewable vitamins for years! The never gave me an extra special boost though. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-steroid-user/584772/7 "2011-06-09T11:41:35Z")
… and Popeye has been taking his drugs and beating people up for decades now. ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-steroid-user/584772/8 "2011-06-09T12:03:19Z")
Hourman’s Miraclo. Miracle-Gro. The two are _not_ the same, and superpowers, even for a moment, are _not_ what result from ingesting the second substance. Uh, my friend told me when I, \*we \*were kids. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-steroid-user/584772/9 "2011-06-09T12:27:49Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > … and Popeye has been taking his drugs and beating people up for decades now. You may be closer to the truth than you suspect. Back in the Twenties, spinach was also slang for marijuana. As there were already weird stories about what people could do under the influence of marijuana (become berserk, show madman levels of force…), Popeye’s super strength may have nothing to do with the iron supposedly contained in spinach (btw, did Popeye coined that or was it around long before?). ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-steroid-user/584772/10 "2011-06-09T12:30:36Z")
So when are we going to get a crack/meth/smack-themed super? And what would his powers be? ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-steroid-user/584772/11 "2011-06-09T12:36:54Z")
_cough, cough_ > **[Bluntman and Chronic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluntman_and_Chronic)** > > Bluntman and Chronic are characters appearing in a fictional eponymous comic book series seen in the movies Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. Actual Bluntman and Chronic comic books based on the fictional movie comic book series were published after the release of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Both the movies and the comic books were created by writer and actor Kevin Smith. Comics creator Mike Allred designed the costumes for the characters. > In the fi... And [Madman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman) had some pretty psychedelic experiences with drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-steroid-user/584772/12 "2011-06-09T12:49:04Z")
Not quite what I had in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-steroid-user/584772/13 "2011-06-09T13:47:41Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > It goes deeper than we ever thought! > > “The secret compartment of my ring, I fill / with an Underdog super-energy pill!” If you remember in the 60s the tested it and found out it was a sugar pill. Nothing more than a placebo. Effective but harmless