10 Comics Superheroes With The Best Motivations

1. Captain America

Steve Rogers might be synonymous with the good ol' US of A, but he's a hero to all as much as he is to Americans.

A scrawny artist from Brooklyn desperate to fight the tyrannical advances of Nazi Germany, Rogers is given an opportunity to serve with the advent of the super soldier serum. He becomes one of a kind, channeling his desire to do right into a body that has the potential to affect change on a major scale.

Rogers is the model superhero, but he can't be put into a box. He isn't overly moralistic, but he is beholden to the values of true justice. He opposes tyranny no matter its origin, and that's often put him at odds with the country he chose to serve back during the Second World War. That makes him a patriot in the truest sense, with various writers and artists having taken Rogers' New Dealer attitudes and applied them to a contemporary political zeitgeist, whether that be the Watergate era of the Nixon presidency in the original Secret Empire, or even the post-9/11 politics of the Bush administration in 2006's Civil War.

He's prone to the occasional mistake, but one thing that cannot be in doubt is that Steve Rogers is determined to do right. Easily misappropriated, but every bit as progressive and brave as his creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, Captain America never gives up. He's too good not to.