9. Crossdressing With Bucky
Marvel ComicsAll's fair in love and war, as somebody once said (we're more familiar with the paraphrasing in the robot battling episode of Spaced), and never was that more true than in the case of Cap and Bucky. Memorably making his first appearance on the front cover of Captain America Comics #1 by punching Hitler in the face, Steve Rogers has the distinction of being not only one of the earliest Marvel superheroes, but one who was actually around during World War II and was frequently used as a propaganda tool, a physical embodiment of the national identity at a time when having one was absolutely vital. During his time as a super soldier for the US army, Cap and his kid sidekick Bucky had to employ some...non-traditional methods to get the job done. The pair actually had secret identities and alter egos even back then, moonlighting as superheroes who thought the Nazis and in the day time, erm, being soldiers in the army who thought Nazis. Wow, they really, really liked fighting Nazis, we guess? They're of the same demographic who keep buying the Wolfenstein games. Still. That meant that most people in their regiment didn't realise that these two dorks were in fact Captain America and Bucky, so when they had to go do their superhero thang it entailed sneaking out undetected. One time apparently the most effective way of doing that was for Steve to pretend to be an elderly woman, and Bucky his grandson, a charade that kept up all the way until they reached the target of their mission. We're not sure they had to be in disguise that whole time or if they just liked it, but regardless, it's not a conceit we've ever seen before or since.