10 Things Marvel Wants You To Forget About Captain America

2. Once He Was A Werewolf

Marvel ComicsMarvel ComicsWe're gonna just let you chew over that one for a little while, because it is quite the sentence. One time Steve Rogers was transformed from a skinny little runt into a super soldier, and then again he got injected with a werewolf mutagenic cocktail that turned him into a lycanthrope. It did gives us the classic CAPWOLF cover image, which we would like to have blown up and framed and covering every wall in our house, and also involved hoverbikes and Wolverine, but otherwise this was exactly as stupid and terrible as it sounds. Nightshade is another one of those forgotten Captain America villains that have stayed forgotten for a reason, since her whole thing was just turning people into werewolves because she was Team Jacob, we guess? Teaming up with Dredmund the Druid, another rightfully unremembered bad guy, Nightshade doses Steve Rogers so that he turns from Captain America into Captain America except he is hairy and has pointier teeth. It doesn't actually turn him evil, which we assume was her plan, as he carries on being a superhero. He just gets fur everywhere and is susceptible to throwing sticks in his vicinity. Over the course of the six issue Man And Wolf story - which is technically an Infinity War tie-in - he manages to team up with a bunch of other werewolf types despite not being able to talk any more (instead communicating through growls and stilted internal monologues) to take down the Druid and his cadre of evil super magicians.
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