10 Insane Alternate Versions Of Captain America You Won't Believe Exist
10. Age Of X
Marvel Comics
The Steve Rogers of Age of X is terrible, and that's because he's a horrid, anti-mutant bigot who works for the government as its mutant-finder general.
In this reality, the Avengers are actually a group of heroes assembled to hunt down mutants. Their sole purpose is pretty grim, and though Rogers ends up changing his views on the group midway through the story, having stumbled upon a nursery of mutants after hunting them mercilessly all those years before, there's no getting away from the fact this version of the character is genuinely quite nasty.
Ultimately, Rogers' redemption is completed when he chooses to sacrifice himself in order to stop this version of the Hulk from laying waste to a mutant base.
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.
