10 Insane Alternate Versions Of Captain America You Won't Believe Exist

"Good morning, President Rogers."

by Ewan Paterson
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Marvel Comics

There's nothing that DC and Marvel love more than a good alternate universe. DC have fifty-two of them, while Marvel have an endless amount, with alternate timelines, realities and dimensions having dominated some of the publisher's most famous stories over the years - a standout, of course, being the Age of Apocalypse.

And with these rather weird and wonderful realities have come equally colourful versions of the House of Ideas' characters. Heroes, villains and various supporting figures have all been given the alternate-Earth treatment, and though Spider-Man and the X-Men are perhaps the most famous, everyone's favourite star-spangled man with a plan, Captain America, has been the subject of many of these tales.

Some, obviously, have painted the character in better lights than others, but half the fun in these depictions is seeing the character taken to new - and often times bizarre - places. These Caps may not be the one we're familiar with after all, but if they were just the same version of the character in different settings - well, that wouldn't be very interesting, would it?

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.