Captain America Destroyed a Marvel Hero Over Their R-Rated Codename
While Marvel's Captain America might be level-headed, even he has his limits. In the cult series Nextwave, fans were introduced to «the Captain», a perpetually drunk superhero who has struggled to find a name among the crowd of similarly named heroes. He reveals that he used to go by «Captain ****», with the asterisks covering some foul word, but when he introduced himself to Captain America, Steve Rogers' reaction was as old school as could be expected.
Created by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen, Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. is a wild ride through the tropes of superhero stories. The authors picked up characters that no other writer was interested in: Monica Rambeau (formerly known as Captain Marvel, then Photon, now Spectrum), Elsa Bloodstone, Machine Man (Aaron Stack), Tabitha Smith (aka Boom-Boom), and also created a brand new character called simply «the Captain». His origins are a satire on the idea of the good, benevolent aliens gifting powers to a «chosen» human. One night, two aliens came across a drunk man on the streets of Brooklyn. They granted him the "Messianic Sidda-Complex", a powerful artifact called the "Heartstar of the space between galaxies" (which recently reappeared in the hands of the Beyond Corporation). The man was tasked with using his newfound powers to "make this nightmarish land of 'Brooklyn' a better place", but he immediately proceeded to beat the aliens because, in his drunken state, he thought that "when you hit leprechauns on the head they turned into gold coins." This would set the tone for much of the Captain's career and exploits.
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