Captain America - My Favourite Superhero

Since I have been interested in comics and superheroes, Captain America has been my favourite. I was quite the late-comer to the world of comics, and my full on love of all things superhero started when i first played 'Marvel: Ultimate Alliance'. While playing this game, I liked the character of Captain America, a hero with really a lack of power but who was still leader. From this, I researched from Marvel and other sources who this guy was, and the more I read, the more i felt he was a true hero.

One of the first thing I liked was that he was a leader, even though other heroes could overpower him, but the way he handled situations and treated heroes made other heroes respect him. As soon as he was discovered and became part of 'The Avengers' he was and stayed for a long time leader of some of the most powerful heroes Marvel had.

My fascination had started, and soon my girlfriend bought me a book called 'Captain America: Masterworks Volume 1', which is a collection of Captain America books from his early days. From reading these, it made me love him all that more, and one particular point which is also in the film 'Captain America: The First Avenger' is his handling of attacking enemy bases. Whenever I play games such as Halo I always go out guns a-blazing, and was never good at any stealth games and figured its just best for me to go knocking on the enemies front door! This is the same approach Captain America took, and as the enemy would have such bolstered defences, would never expect to be attacked on which is why he would do exactly that! (Did help he was pretty awesome and had a vibranium shield and could beat any man in hand to hand combat!)

Captain America being my favourite has lead to me buying a few items of Captain America merchandise, and even have a go at some decoupaging! My Bobble-head was bought in Universal Studios in Orlando back in 2008 (I should point out here i absolutely love America and Disney World/ Universal Studios and cannot wait to go again!). I liked that it used the word spirited to describe Captain America, as he is spirited and certainly never gives up! It also helps that it generally looks awesome!

I also have a collection of Marvel Hats bought in America, one of which was had sprayed to my design, sadly it didn't come out as good as I hoped and as they'd promised. Luckily, my girlfriend again stepped in and bought me a Captain America hat similar to my other hats and was decorated with comics I knew! So Another awesome gift from my girlfriend and more Captain America!

My girlfriend was even nice enough to allow me to put up my framed Captain America poster from my old bedroom in my parents house into the flat we live in now! It is a poster which I love and matches my phone cover! It did help that it fit the theme of our living room so my girlfriend didn't mind and luckily she is awesome!

So theres my post about Captain America! I want to leave you with one thought as to why in his role in World War 2 he was the perfect hero, also want to point out that I read this and couldn't agree more with the statement so if you said it i'm not taking credit for it! In Nazi Germany, Hitler thought the Aryan race was superior, this being people with blonde hair and blue eyes. This is exactly what Captain America was, he was Hitlers ideal human being, but he was the guy crushing his army and essentially punching him in the face!

Do you agree with me? Is there points about Captain America I have missed out that are important to contributing who he is? Or maybe you disagree and don't think he's as good as I think? Either way I would love to know your opinions!