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* Captain America has a cameo in 2000's ''[[Spider-Man (2000 video game)|Spider-Man]]'' game.
* Captain America has a cameo in 2000's ''[[Spider-Man (2000 video game)|Spider-Man]]'' game.
* Captain America has a cameo in ''[[The Amazing Spider-Man 2]]'' for [[Game Boy]]
* Captain America has a cameo in ''[[The Amazing Spider-Man 2]]'' for [[Game Boy]]
* Captain America has a cameo in the home-console versions of [[Electronic Arts]]' ''[[Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects]]'', in which he is defeated by an [[Imperfects|Imperfect]]; he appears a playable character only in the [[PlayStation Portable|PSP]] version of this game.
* Captain America has a cameo in the home-console versions of [[Electronic Arts]]' ''[[Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects]]'', in which he is defeated by an [[Imperfects|Imperfect]]; he appears as a playable character only in the [[PlayStation Portable|PSP]] version of this game.


* He is confirmed to appear as a playable character in ''[[Marvel Nemesis 2|Marvel Nemesis 2: Fall of the Imperfects]]''
* He is confirmed to appear as a playable character in ''[[Marvel Nemesis 2|Marvel Nemesis 2: Fall of the Imperfects]]''

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Since the 1940's, Captain America has been presented in a variety of other media, including serial films, feature films, animations, video games, and even as a stage play.

Animation

Captain America has appeared in the following animated TV series:

  • The Marvel Superheroes (1966): Captain America was one of the five featured superheroes, starring one "Captain America" segment a week.
  • Spider-Man (1981): Guest-starred in one episode, "The Capture of Captain America". He was voiced by George DiCenzo.
  • Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981): He appeared in the following Spider-Man series in two episodes, "7 Little Superheroes" and "Pawns of the Kingpin", where he was again voiced was by DiCenzo.
  • X-Men (1992): Captain America appears in one episode, "Old Soldiers". He is an American agent, sent along with Canadian Wolverine, to rescue a scientist kidnapped by the Red Skull and the Nazis. He is present in the episode only in flashbacks of Wolverine's. Captain America is voiced by Lawrence Bayne who probably sounded familiar because he also provided voices for Cable and Erik the Red in the same series. The Red Skull was voiced by Cedric Smith who also voiced Professor X throughout the series.[1]
  • Spider-Man (1994): Cap made a few appearances, where he was voiced by David Hayter:
    • He first appears in "The Cat" (Season #4 Ep 43) with a mere cameo when Peter Parker is narrating a flashback scene with Captain America.
    • He appears in the last three episodes of the "Six Forgotten Warriors" saga. The third provides a flashback scene explaining Cap's disappearance after World War II: he and the Red Skull were trapped in a dimensional machine for the last 50 years. In the last two episodes Cap is released from the machine (with the Red Skull), and in the final installment he and the Red Skull fight and are, in the end, trapped in the machine once again.
    • In the "Secret Wars" three-parter, Captain America was one of the heroes Spider-Man selected to lead against the villains, choosing him due to his past experience with the Red Skull. At the end of the arc, the Beyonder sent back every hero (except for Spider-Man) back to Earth, and Captain America became trapped with the Red Skull again.
  • The Avengers: United They Stand (1999): Cap appears in one episode, "Command Decision". The story involves the Masters of Evil and a flashback to Captain America defeating Baron Zemo. He was voiced by Dan Chameroy.
  • X-Men: Evolution (2000): Captain America (along with Nick Fury) appears one episode, "Operation Rebirth" . Here Rogers gets his abilities from a machine as part of "Project: Rebirth". During World War II, he participates in a joint operation with Canadian soldier Logan to liberate a concentration camp, where one prisoner is a boy named Erik Lehnsherr, the future Magneto. After the attack, Rogers learns the "Rebirth" process is killing him, so he and Logan destroy the machine, and Rogers is cryogenically frozen until a cure can be found. During the episode, Magneto uses a variation of "Rebirth" to save his life, despite the intervention of Wolverine, Rogue and Nightcrawler, but lets them go in memory of the time Wolverine saved his life at the camp. At the conclusion of the episode, Wolverine visits the still-frozen Captain America, and reminisces about how they made a great team at the time.

Television

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Reb Brown as Captain America (1979, TV).
  • Captain America appears in two 1970s live-action television movies: Captain America and Captain America II: Death Too Soon, starring Reb Brown. The character differs significantly from the comics, in both his origin and his operations. For instance, Rogers is a character in contemporary times whose father was a 1940s government agent whose very patriotic attitude earned him the nickname Captain America. Rogers, an artist, was inspired by this story to sketch a superhero. After an accident he received an experimental chemical called the FLAG (Full Latent Ability Gain) formula (at one point referred to as a "super-steroid") which enhances his body with heightened strength and reflexes, and a costume based on his drawing. He also makes significant use of a specialized van, and of a modified motorcycle. The bike has a detachable round windshield with the concentric circles, with the white sections being transparent, and star which he uses as his shield when he goes on foot. At the end of the first movie, Rogers briefly appears in a redesigned costume that bears a stronger resemblance to the one seen in the comics, which he wears in the sequel.
  • Captain America also appeared in a 1985 PSA on energy conservation, in which he battled the Thermal Thief, the Wattage Waster and the Cold Air Crook.
  • Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report has in his studio one of the two metal Captain America shields commissioned by Marvel as tribute after the death of Captain America during the Civil War.

Films

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Matt Salinger playing Captain America in the 1991 movie.

Captain America was the first Marvel Comics character adapted into another medium with the release of the 1944 movie serial Captain America.[2] The serial portrays the hero as a district attorney named Grant Gardner and removes many important elements of the character, such as his shield and his sidekick Bucky.

3 Dev Adam (translated as Three Mighty Men but also known as Captain America and Santo vs. Spider-Man) is a 1973 Turkish film featuring the characters of Captain America (sans shield) and Mexican wrestling superhero and serial star Santo (persona only) as heroes from the Americas called to Turkey to take on a bushy eyebrowed green serial killing Spider-Man as the villain.

The 1990 direct-to-video film Captain America, starring Matt Salinger, co-produced with Yugoslavia. It depicts the hero's battle against the Red Skull, who in the film is an Italian fascist rather than a German Nazi.

Captain America appears in the animated films Ultimate Avengers and Ultimate Avengers 2, both released direct to video in 2006 and featuring an Ultimate Marvel version of Captain America. He was voiced by Justin Gross.

Announced future film

The film was first announced after the outstanding success of various Marvel Films. Both Marvel Enterprises and Paramount Pictures will finance with Paramount distributing the film. The story will center on unassuming Army officer Steve Rogers volunteering for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending America's ideals.[3]

Jon Favreau was interested in directing the film as a comedy, but eventually settled on Iron Man.[4] Avi Arad says that the film would take place in both World War II and modern day. Arad has a director and leading actor in mind for Captain America, but has declined to say whom. [3] David Self was eventually hired to write the script.[5]

Nick Cassavetes, who was set to direct Iron Man before Jon Favreau took over, is reported to be in talks to direct.[6]

Video games

Captain America appears in several video games:

Captain America has a cameo in some games:

Novels

Cap was the subject of Marvel's second foray into prose book licensing: The Great Gold Steal by Ted White in 1968, following an Avengers novel in 1967. This novel presented a different version of Captain America tooled to resemble book series characters such as Remo Williams (which it actually predates). The novel adds a further element to the Super-Soldier process wherein Rogers' bones are plated with stainless steel. Captain America also appears in several later novels, including 1998s Captain America: Liberty's Torch by Tony Isabella and Bob Ingersoll, in which the hero is put on trial for the imagined crimes of America by a hostile militia group.

Music

The singer Jimmy Buffet published a song titled Captain America, it was indeed about Captain America. In 1985, a musical about Captain America was announced for Broadway. The piece, written by Mel Mandel and Norman Sachs, never actually premiered, although recordings of the score have surfaced.[7]

A song by the classic rock band The Kinks, "Catch Me Now I'm Falling," uses Captain America in the song as the embodiment of the band's views on the government and the economic hardships in the 1970's.

During the song Paradise City by Guns N' Roses, Captain America is mentioned a line.

In 2007, independent artist Will Kouf released a story-based album or rock opera, based around the origin of Captain America. [8]

References

  1. ^ "tv.com - Old Soldiers X-Men: TAS Season 5".
  2. ^ Daniels, p. 53
  3. ^ a b Derrik J. Lang (2006-12-13). "Looking For Captain America". Associated Press. Retrieved 2007-09-14. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ Edward Douglas (2006-07-26). "Exclusive: Jon Favreau on Iron Man". SuperHeroHype. Retrieved 2007-09-14. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ Bob Gough (2006-02-22). "Captain America Film Gets a Writer". IGN. Retrieved 2007-09-14. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ Devin Faraci (2007-10-22). "Captain Cassavetes". CHUD.com. Retrieved 2007-10-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ "The New York Times (April 5, 1985): "Broadway" (column) by Enid Nemy. Article requires payment or registration".
  8. ^ "Will Kouf Music (October 23, 2007)".
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