Captain America's Satanic Redesign Created His Most Twisted Shield Ever

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In perhaps one of the strangest Captain America stories to date, Steve Rogers is powered by a Satanic formula and wields a shield with a pentagram and mysterious symbols in lieu of the stars and stripes of the United States — and that's the most normal element of the plot. All jobs have their share of inside jokes and idiosyncrasies that are only known to employees, and Marvel Comics is no different. 2010's Captain America: Who Won't Wield The Shield? is almost entirely an in-joke book — but it still contains the only example of a Satanic Captain America in modern comics.

Captain America was memorably assassinated in 2007's The Death of Captain America, in the immediate aftermath of Marvel's Civil War event. In Steve Rogers' absence, Bucky Barnes became the newest character to attain the Captain America title — but Rogers would eventually make a full recovery from death (as is the case with countless other comic heroes). When Marvel revealed that Rogers healed, who'd take the field and wield the shield? The question is most assuredly not answered in Captain America: Who Won't Wield The Shield?; instead, the company presents multiple narratives using the framing device of a mysterious figure with a bucket over his head pointing a gun at multiple Marvel writers in a comic book store.

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Kidnapped by the government (here the «Undergovernment»), Stephen Rogers smoked the «Super Satan Serum» and became Doctor America, the Occult Operative of Liberty. Clad in a rather disturbing Captain America outfit with devil horns on Rogers' cowl and a flaming upside-down «A», Doctor America holds a Satanic shield with a pentagram at the center; the outer rings are dotted