Captain America's Humiliating New Weakness Could Destroy Him as an Icon
Warning: contains spoilers X-Cellent #3
There are few villains that can defeat Captain America in battle, not because he is an all-powerful entity, but because of his drive and belief system that more often than not carries him to victory. However, Captain America’s humiliating new weakness could shake that rock-solid foundation and destroy him as an icon forever.
Steve Rogers became Captain America after he was injected with a super-soldier serum during World War II, gaining the powers of superhuman strength, speed, brain function and an elongated lifespan. While his powers aren’t the most impressive compared to other Marvel superheroes, his resolve is what separates him as a leader among heroes and an indomitable force for justice. As Captain America, Steve Rogers became more than just a hero, but a symbol that represents all that is good in the world. With his intelligence, powers, and the drive to uphold himself as a symbol for justice, Captain America is able to defeat nearly every villain he encounters without compromising his morals even for a second.
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In X-Cellent #3 by Peter Milligan and Michael “Doc” Allred, the morally gray team of mutants known as the X-Cellent decide that they’re going to break into Doctor Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum and photograph pages from the Book of Vishanti to have access to some of Strange’s most powerful spells. To do that, the leader of the group, Deadpool 2 and X-Statix villain Zeitgeist, decides the team needs some new members, including one newly introduced mutant named Stripe who, as Zeitgeist describes it, “has power over all things stripy”.
While Stripe’s powers seem almost laughable, she would
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