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What the fuck is Captain America's superpower anyways?
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What the fuck is Captain America's superpower anyways?
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freedom
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Hailing Hydra
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stealing cars.
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over coming the odds
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>>84246614
GUN
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REPRESENTING THE GREATEST NATION ON THE FACE OF THE GOD DAMN EARTH, YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAWWWWWW AMERICA GOD BLESS EVERYONE!
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>>84246614
Peak human conditioning

Strength
Speed/Agility
Dexterity
Reflexes

Master tactician/critical thinking with an enhanced brain enables most of his shinangins such as shield throw and block/dodge bullets
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>>84246648
Wrong universe anon, that's Baz and Jason
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>>84246699
>Peak human conditioning

In a world of metahumans, that seems pretty useless
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>>84246745
I mean.... people lift some crazy shit man

Record for bench press is like 1,102 lbs
Now imagine that being your baseline, add further conditioning in combination with adrenaline fighting for your life and dude is pretty strong
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His pure and unending love for Bucky
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Being right.
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>>84246782
A recent study found humans could possibly clock in at 40 miles per hour, so once again imagining that as just a starting pace for a guy he can out maneuver/race many (also including the fact that Marvel U doesn't have many speedsters)
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Good taste.
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>>84246862
>Africa
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>>84246745
Punisher, Hawkeye, Rhodey, Black Widow, depowered logan, Bucky, Nick Furyand Iron Man seem to do fine without anything above peek condition
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>>84246923
Logan died anon
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>>84246745

It's not just peak human conditioning. He also seems to be nearly impossible to tire out, the guy has stamina that is well into superhuman levels.
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>>84246963
He'll be back.
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He's the world's best ultimate frisbee player
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>>84247025
It's possible, as well as fast metabolism. But people usually doesn't count that as superpowers. Even if those are neat habilities.
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>>84246745
It's more useful than NOT having it.
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>>84246614
He has the power of finding a boyfriend.
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The power to pretty much carry Marvel.
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>>84246614
The power of being a sex God
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Plot armor.
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>>84246614
America, DUH. The best and ONLY superpower the world needs.
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I always felt Cap should really get some kind of mech suit

Not exactly full iron man, but at least an exoskeleton with guns on it
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"Peak human conditioning"

Which is for all intents and purposes, superhuman abilities without explicitly stating as such, considering the bullshit he regularly pulls off, it's just for marketing purposes of showing how a "normal human" can stand with metahuman freaks.
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>>84247423
Pls, he's literally a virgin.
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>>84246862
Egyptians are white after all.
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>>84246614
gayness
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>>84247423
Where is this from? I need it for reasons.
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>>84247423
>Stucky porn that doesn't look like it was drawn by a fujo
Where did you find this and where can I get more of it
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>>84246862
At least Americans are good for something.
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Happy America Day.
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>>84247976

>Those answers

What an obnoxious fag
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>>84247639
Why?
>>84247640
To be fair it's not like he's a normal human.
I wouldn't consider our top athletes normal humans and Captain America SHOULD be leagues above them.
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>>84246699
This is all correct excluding that when you use the term "peak human" for Cap, it doesn't mean he's at the peak of what a human can attain. He's at the peak of what a human body can tolerate for stress without breaking down.

Really big difference between the two. Cap is a monster.
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>>84246648
WOAH, HE STOLE THAT DUDE'S CAR!
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>>84246745
Yeah, but see, the thing is... real-world athletes have to make tradeoffs between strength, agility, endurance, etc.

Cap doesn't have that limit.
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>>84246614
Drugs
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>>84246614
Magic steroids from the 40s
Ability to inspire blind nationalism
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>>84249128
Not to mention the fact unless they were literally decided to be an athlete while their grandmothers were pregnant with their parents, there's probably still no way to compare to a person who's literally at the peak of their ability to perform AT ALL TIMES.
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>>84250989
Yes anon, this is what a lot of casuals thought before the MCU. But they know better now.
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Captain America is literal human perfection. That's his thing. Obviously when they say 'peak human' they don't mean"think of the strongest guy in the world" because he isn't perfect. Cap is stronger and faster than any person can ever be (non superpowered) because nobody can be perfect (except cap of course)
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>>84246614
His power is to make everyone around him get dumber and weaker, and generally drag all the action down to his level.
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>>84251023
This guy gets it.
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>>84246699
>Peak human conditioning
>Strength
>Speed/Agility
>Dexterity
>Reflexes

Which back in the 1840's when he was created was an awesome superpower, as was not dying of polio.
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>>84246745
Most characters with powers are fast, OR strong, or some other specialty. Cap is hitting with peak human strength at peak human speed, imagine someone who can compete in every Olympic events at once, and do better than anyone ever has or ever could.Then teach him every martial art in the world, and give him decades of combat experience. That's Captain America.
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>>84251361
Just replace it with not being Obese and he's still outclassing most of America and all of Mexico which will soon be most of America.
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>>84248382
Sounds like we got a commie in our midst.
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>>84246614
Week I know every 4th of July he turns into pic related and destroys Japan
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>>84247976

Thumbnail makes it look like he's sucking some weird golden cock. Or blowing a giant whistle
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>>84250989
There is nothing blind about caps patriotism, he sees America's strengths and flaws but he still has faith in the dream and in the ability of the people to make it real.
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>>84246745
Doesn't stop Batman from doing physical shit, even thoug he isn't even physical peak.
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>>84246862
>Kim Jong-Un is an ass man
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>>84246745
>>Peak human conditioning

>In a world of metahumans, that seems pretty useless

Most metahumans have that accent point on human. While quicksilver might be able to hit trans sonic speed while running, he's not able to lift and carry like Cap. While Doc Samson might be strong enough to trade blows with the hulk, he's not as fleet of foot as Cap. Taskmaster can immediately copy the skills and abilities of anyone he sees: but all around he's not as physically capable as Captain America despite how hard he tries.

Captain America is an all-rounder in a field of extreme specialists. That's how he fits in.
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Ignoring Wolverines healing factor, who is stronger and the better fighter?
Wolverine or Caps?
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>>84251638
Cap is stronger but if Logan ever remembers his training wolverine is the better fighter
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>>84248383

True, his achievements are all beyond any human limits to begin with, he's not a normal human by any means which is exactly why trying to slap a "peak human" label on him is nonsense.

I dunno why Marvel is averse to just say that the guy is super, even if just a weaker one.
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>>84252907
Honestly I think it's more interesting to say he's peak human even if for all intents and purposes it's super human especially since peak human IS super human when you get down to it.
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>>84246923
>Punisher
Frank.
>Hawkeye
Yeah, I give you that one.
>Rhodey
Suit
>BW
Same as hawkeye
>Depowered logan
claws still?
>Bucky
Metal arm and super soldier.
>Nick Fury
Doesn't he also have some lesser version of the Super Soldier serum?
>Iron Man
Suit.
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>>84251638
Wolverine has had a shit ton of training, issue is he tends to disregard it half the time and just dives into a berserker rage where he just jumps and claws at his opponent.
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>>84253013
>Black Widow

She's enhanced, just not overtly so.

>Bucky

He's not enhanced, just extremely well-trained and experienced with fighting/assassination/spying and in exceptionally good shape, the arm is the only thing super about him.

>Nick Fury

He just ages slower, that's about it.
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>>84253059
Berserker Barrage > everything else
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>>84246669

I'm not sure Cap has used a gun since the '40s
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>>84253013
>>84253106
I think that Fury did had some serum thing, just the same as Mockingbird? If I recall correctly.

Which gives us that Hawkeye and Bucky are kind of impressive for normal guys, being able to go hand to hand with such wonders. Iirc, Clint is just slightly less strong than Steve.
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He is basically what amounts to a perfect human, or what some scifis show as the next step in evolution in humans.

>>84246745
He's just like Batman in being that mostly normal guy that always punches above his weight class and succeeds thing. Somehow he can pull off taking on top level strength guys or energy manipulators and not being splattered.

>>84247025
This too, he cannot really get tired or poisoned. His brains functions almost perfectly so when he throws his shield and it always bounces right back to him that's because he perfectly calculated everything in his head in a second and threw it with the 100% perfect accuracy to pull the trick off.
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>>84255208
is there a reason you made this shitpost
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Isn't he basically like a Kryptonian when standing on krypton?

A genetically created being with perfect physical and mental capabilities?
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>>84248906
>He's at the peak of what a human body can tolerate for stress without breaking down.
That makes a lot more sense.
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>>84253013
Bucky is not a super soldier, you super movie casual
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>>84246898
Most of their women are topless, so tits lose their charm a bit.
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>>84255176
Fury's got the Infinity Serum. It basically means that, as long as it's in you (and it runs out, unless you take it for decades like he does, in which case your body starts producing it) you age super slowly. Like, you age 20 years in 80.

Cap's got the Super Soldier Serum, which means he's Stronger and Faster than the greatest Olympic in their fields, all at once, despite the fact that in real life no one person can be both.

What Mockingbird got was a cocktail of the two mixed in one, which makes her recent series mentioning how she had to earn everything she has seem like total horseshit.
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>>84248997
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>>84255734
She only just got the serum a few years ago. She was running around with no powers as a C lister for decades before
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