Didn’t get to see the Captain America movie yet but I’m aware that most of it took place around WWII? So how does the age of Captain America fit in with him becoming a member of the Avengers almost a half century later?
Couldn’t find much googling except mention that one version of the comics had him frozen in ice for a few decades. Someone else mentioned since he was genetically manipulated he didn’t age.
So what version will the Avengers movie be going with?
In the movie, he gets frozen in the ice upon crashing an experimental German plane loaded with city-obliterating weaponry into the ocean before it can reach the US.
Option A: Frozen in ice for half a century, with his superior physical abilities allowing him to survive the ordeal unscathed.
ETA. **Waldo **beat me by a hair, dammit.
I am unaware of any version of Captain America that doesn’t age because he was genetically manipulated. His contemporary, Nick Fury, has had treatments that make him unaging, however.
Both the main continuity and Ultimate Captain America were in stasis (frozen in ice in 616, I’m pretty sure the same for Ultimate, but it’s been a long while since I read Ultimates) for decades before being found and revived.
Most other universes where we’ve seen him either do the same, don’t mention his origin, or have him age normally.
I haven’t seen the movie, but I assume they’re doing the same.
The movie starts in the modern day, with people discovering Cap frozen in ice in the Arctic. The film then flashes back to WWII, to show how he became Captain America, and how he ended up in the Arctic. It ends with him unfrozen and revived in 2011 New York.
Yes, the Ultimate Captain America was also frozen during WWII and revived in the modern day.
Keep in mind however that the mainstream Captain America was found and revived in 1964. So the fact that he’s still in his prime in 2011 must also include the mystery of comic book aging.
Hasn’t he spent a lot of years dead, and been resurrected recently? I presume he didn’t age while dead.
How long was he dead for?
He wasn’t actually dead. He was unstuck in time.
God knows what that does to your aging process.
In comic book time, he was “dead” a little over a year.
And in comic book time he was only unthawed roughly a decade ago.
Comics pretty much have to work on a compressed timeline. It’s an accepted conceit.
Really? Wasn’t it only two, in real world time? They packed a whole in-universe year into that? Must have been the Marvel Universe’s least eventful year ever…
Since a post snuck in in between, this is, of course, referring to his ‘death’.
But the comic book that brought Captain America back to life opened with people attending a memorial on the first anniversary of his death. So it was one year within the chronology of the story.
You two seem to be talking about 2 different things at this point…
They wouldn’t be having a 1 year memorial for him when he was unfrozen, since, even in 1964, that put him on ice for 19 years. (Closer to 60, now.)
They wouldn’t be thawing him after he stopped his time trip, since he wasn’t frozen.
Like most comic book characters, Captain America’s been dead a time or two.
He died at the end of World War II. This was when he fell into the ocean and ended up getting frozen. Then in 1964, his frozen body was found and revived.
Then he was apparently shot and killed in 2007. This was the death that was actually him being “unstuck in time” and which was reversed a year later (although in real world time it actually happened in 2009).
There has actually been a recent 616 comic that DOES say that Steve has some sort of immortality thanks to the Super Soldier serum, and that the serum was connected with what Hydra has been attempting to do for supposedly thousands of years: achieve immortality.
Forever won’t be long enough to live down that dopey mid-seventies Nomad costume.
Heh, comic book aging. Franklin Richards is still a kid, despite being born in the 60’s (unless he had a major growth spurt in the 3 years since I last read FF). Granted, for a few years he was a teenager, but that’s only because his time travelling grandfather abducted him and replaced him with an older version of himself, not because he actually aged.