Captain America's Gross Secret Redefines His Origin
Nextwave’s strange and gross secret about Captain America's urine completely redefines his origin story. After being injected by Dr. Abraham Erskine’s Super Solider serum, Steve Rogers was transformed into a living superhuman. When Erskine was tragically killed by Nazi saboteurs shortly after Steve’s transformation, many scientists tried to replicate the experiment that gave the world Captain America. While those experiments typically created supervillains instead of superheroes, Steve Rogers remains an anomaly that is inimitable until Marvel’s Nextwave series.
The short-lived comic seriesNextwave by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen followed a group of unlikely and temperamental superheroes employed by the Beyond Corporation, which operates under the guise of an anti-terrorist organization called H.A.T.E. The team is tasked with protecting the world from a variety of strange and powerful threats. When the members of Nextwave realize who their employers are and their true intentions to world, they turn on them, destroying the threats Beyond established all over the planet while also dealing with their own issues and the overall dysfunctional dynamic of the team.
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In Nextwave #9, a flashback shows the aftermath of Project: Rebirth, which helped turn the scrawny Steve Rogers into Captain America but at the cost of Dr. Abraham Erskine's life. After showing off his new powers by incapacitating the murderous spy, Steve Rogers's next move is a trip to the bathroom. When he's finished, others are more distracted with him meeting the President or his costume fitting to notice another Nazi spy sneaking into the bathroom, having rigged the toilet for a
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