Steven Rogers (Earth-2149)

Colonel America
Name	Steven "Steve" Rogers
Current Alias	Colonel America
Affiliation and Relationships
Group Affiliation	Formerly New Wakanda, Marvel Zombies, Avengers, government of the USA
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Eyeballs: White Irises: No Visible
Hair	No Hair At All
Unusual Features	Putrefied/Decaying flesh, top of head sewed on, cybernetic left arm. Formerly top of head missing in old body.
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Cyborg Human Super-Soldier zombified Formerly powered by the Power Cosmic
Living Status	Alive; formerly deceased
Reality	Earth-2149
Place of Birth	Manhattan, New York City, New York
Cause of Death	Brain removed by Red Skull (Reanimated by Reynolds)
Personal Information
Citizenship	American, New Wakandan
Occupation	Adventurer, zombie; former President of the United States
Base of Operations	Somewhere in Earth-91126 Formerly New Wakanda; New York City, New York
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Mark Millar, Greg Land
First	Ultimate Fantastic Four #22 (August, 2005)
First	Ultimate Fantastic Four #22 (August, 2005)

Look at what the punk did to me! If we catch him -- when we catch him -- I get double rations!

—Colonel America[source]

Little is detailed about Colonel America’s life before the zombie plague arrived on Earth-2149, however it can be presumed that it followed much the same path as Captain America from Earth-616. Other than the obvious rank difference, the only other difference from Earth-616 is that Colonel America served as President of the United States of America, like his Earth-1610 counterpart, and like his Ultimate counterpart he did not serve a full term.

He was zombified and was temporarily part of the Zombi Galacti before having his brains ripped out by Red Skull, eventually being transplanted to the body of Black Panther's son, T'Channa.

History

Beginning of the Infection

Colonel America with the Avengers before being zombified.

Colonel America was at Avengers Mansion when a man tried to blast his way into the mansion. He and the other Avengers greeted the intruder and demanded he explained himself. The man ranted about an Army of the Dead and got a little hot under the collar until Scarlet Witch transported him away.

When they got report of purple lightning and Sentry attacking people downtown, the Avengers set off there in the Quinjet, and en route, they saw the madman once more panicking people. They landed and spoke to him, and when Spider-Man offered to help, Colonel America asked him to wrap up the man and take him away.

When they arrived to tackle Sentry, they were quickly overpowered, bitten, and infected with the zombie contagion. They turned their attention on the city populace and proceeded to feed on them. While they were in the middle of killing the populace, Spider-Man swept down and rescued a blonde girl but didn't get very far as Colonel America launched himself into the air and bit Spider-Man (carrying the angry Ash Williams with him) on his shoulder, causing him and Ash to fall down.

A seemingly infected Spidey then took Hawkeye hostage by threatening to eat his brains. The Avengers, however, told him not to bother as the dead taste horrible, and it seemed only total destruction of the brain can kill the zombies. After a brief stand-off, Spidey swung off with the dimension-hopping hero, Ash, still wrapped up.

Col. America and the rest of the Avengers continued their rampage until their appetite is sated, at which point their minds cleared a little, and they decided to go back to Avengers Tower to work out how to beat this thing. Unfortunately, by the time they arrived back, the hunger had taken hold once more, and they consumed Jarvis. After this snack and being joined by Giant Man, they were still hungry, and so sent out an “Avengers Assemble” message, and waited. When more Avengers arrived, the already infected Avengers either infected them or consumed them.

When Beast and Reed Richards found a sizeable stash of meat in Latveria and the surrounding area, Steve and a huge horde of zombies headed off to lay siege to Castle Doomstadt.

Unable to break through the castle's magical defenses, Col. America was presumably surrounded by the re-animated corpses of the Deadite Legion. Though apparently this is more of an inconvenience than anything else, as he is later seen in New York seemingly none the worse for wear (other than a touch of zombification, obviously).

Power Cosmic

In New York, Rogers appeared to keep his head down until Magneto destroyed the Baxter Building, at which point he arrived to confront the Master of Magnetism, along with the rest of the Marvel Zombies.

Magneto stole the Colonel America's shield using his magnetic powers and threw it back at him, partially decapitating the top of Cap's head, effectively scalping. Magneto then managed to escape the zombie horde. When they found Magneto again, he was slowed by an arrow in the side, and though he talked a good fight, Magneto was quickly overpowered and consumed by the zombified heroes. Sated and reunited with his shield, Rogers and the other zombies took a well-earned rest to try and work out what was happening to them.

It is at this point that they briefly noticed Silver Surfer in the sky. While Rogers was explaining to Iron Man why Magneto's body was not shared with everyone, the Silver Surfer once again appeared in the sky above them, and Stark led the charge against him. With the Herald of Galactus down, Hulk managed, somehow, to bite his head off, and Rogers, Stark, Parker, Pym, Luke Cage, and Wolverine managed to get a piece in them at the expense of the rest of the zombies.

With none of the cosmic being left, the others began complaining that they didn't get to feed, and as the Colonel vigorously explained to the Beast how things work, a burst of the Power Cosmic shot from his hand and obliterated Beast's head. Realizing they had somehow been imbued with the Power Cosmic, the seven newly Power Cosmic Zombies fried the masses of zombies gathered around them in a (fruitless) attempt to improve their flavor, but the dead, even toasted, still tasted bad. Suddenly, looming over them appeared Galactus, who had come to devour their world. They attacked him with the Power Cosmic, but he repelled them with his much greater power. They retreated to Pym's lab and formulated a plan for bringing down the giant being.

With the last sheets of Vibranium from Wakanda, the Power Cosmic Zombies built a gun-like contraption which combined all of their individual beams of Power Cosmic into one super strong beam. While moving the weapon into position, they noticed that a group of zombified super-villains, were attacking Galactus but having little effect. The Power Cosmic Zombies took their first shot, but it took another to put him down.

At this point, the heroes and the villains faced off for who will get the remains. Rogers went up against his old adversary, Red Skull, who he seemed to have beaten with consummate ease until the Nazi plunged his hand into Colonel America's exposed cranial cavity and scoops out the remaining brains, killing Rogers.

40 Years Later

Colonel America's new body

However, Colonel's brain was "alive", thanks to the Zombie Virus; it would only die of decomposition as time passed or if it were damaged, which was not the case. It was later recovered by Forge and transplanted into the body of the Black Panther's deceased son, T'Channa. The transplant was successful, but the resulting brain damage caused by the decomposition turned Colonel America into a battle crazed zombie with memory lost, manageable but unable to focus on anything that wasn't related to war or battle.

He helped the humans fight against the zombie Galacti infected still overtaken by the hunger, along with Spider-Man, T'Challa, Hawkeye, Wasp, and Power-Man. After the zombie Galacti lost the hunger and Hulk's zombie rampage through New Wakanda was stopped by Reynolds's sacrifice, Malcolm Cortez banished all the remaining zombies to Earth-Z. Colonel America's last fate there is unrevealed.

Attributes

Powers

Former Powers

The Power Cosmic: Rogers possessed a share of the Power Cosmic which was granted to Silver Surfer by Galactus. He had the ability to absorb and tap ambient cosmic energy into their bodies at will, and expel those energies violently, or in more subtle ways. He could channel beams of energy through his hands with great destructive force. Rogers lost his powers because his brain was transferred to another body.

Weaknesses

Former Weaknesses

Hunger: The Hunger virus that infected Rogers forces him to eat fresh meat constantly turning him feral if he does not consume it even though he does not require it because he is dead. Because most of the time he was in custody (and possibly due to Reynolds' research) he gave up his meat addiction.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• Colonel America's Shield
• Colonel America's Uniform

Transportation

• Quinjet (formerly)

Trivia

• Cap is one of the two zombies that had memory loss, the other is Hawkeye.
• He was President of the United States at one point but did not serve a full term.
• Between all the remaining zombies in Earth-2149, he is the only one which fate in Earth-Z is unknown.

See Also

• 17 appearance(s) of Steven Rogers (Earth-2149)
• 6 minor appearance(s) of Steven Rogers (Earth-2149)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Steven Rogers (Earth-2149)
• 41 image(s) of Steven Rogers (Earth-2149)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Steven Rogers (Earth-2149)
• 3 victim(s) killed by Steven Rogers (Earth-2149)