Despite people saying these movie are just braindead action flicks for Marvel casuals, it looks interesting, and if it’s trailer is anything to go by, it will be entertaining as hell. I look forward to it.
Yeah, Captain America doesn’t have superpowers. I’m sure that generic statement noted in a Marvel encyclopedia thing for kids you read that from should clearly contradict actual stuff in the comic books.
I’m sure you’re right, and this argument about semantics is a productive use of everyone’s time.
Totally unrelated…here is a picture where he is doing a regular exercise by benching hundreds of pounds over the regular human world record for bench press.
And then immediately jumping through some wacky gymnastics stuff and starting to curl 500 pounds as another regular exercise, which is also way above the regular human world record for two arm curls.
Also in those panels he literally says, as he’s lifting these weights, that because he has now lost his SUPER-STRENGTH, he no longer has SUPERPOWERS like the rest of the Avengers. Anymore.
Also just for fun, a picture of another dude that is specifically always noted to be “peak” human and never “super” human.
The entire comic this comes from revolves around how Batman starts thinking about doing drugs because he can’t lift a rock that weighs 630 pounds.
Just for contrast.
So yeah, if Captain America regularly lifts weights for fun that exceed by hundreds of pounds what any normal human being is currently capable of, that is in no way accurately defined as “superhuman strength.”
Also a guy like the High Evolutionary is also just a highly evolved homo sapien - representing the peak of what humanity can potentially become, because that’s his entire thing - so being able to go toe to toe with Galactus for a bit should also be considered “peak human” as well I guess.
Well Ant-Man was a hero that seemed to be Government approved as he was working back in the 80s so that would be an interesting look. As for Scott himself, he was recruited by Falcon.
I read a rumour that Ant-Man is going to fight Spider-Man in Civil War.
Black Panther belongs to a fictional highly advanced scientific African country in the comics, I don’t think it has to do with real world black people problems.
Luke Cage, David Zavimbe and John Stewart are more representative of that, in my opinion.
High Evolutionary is hyper-evolved, beyond human potential. He cannot be compared to Cap, who is at humanity’s natural evolutionary ceiling.
Yes, it’s semantics, but 616 Cap just doesn’t fit in the 616 spectrum of superhuman. He can’t be quote “superhuman”, because by his nature he defines the term itself.
IIRC there’s a character called MVP in Avengers The Initiative that reached Cap’s physical level without the serum but with a sort of super regime of diet and exercise.