12 Captain America Moments That Shocked The World
7. He Quit Being Captain America
Steve Roger's main love interest is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent called Sharon Carter. Rogers was so smitten when he met Carter that he proposed to her on their first date. When she turned him down, Rogers was so disheartened, he quit as Captain America! Many fans hated this story as it made Cap come across as a sulky creep.
Although this was the first time Rogers quit being Cap, it was not the last.
When the Watergate scandal broke, Marvel wrote a story where Cap felt like he couldn’t represent his country anymore and decided to become The Man Without A Country.
Because that name is a bit of a mouthful, he decided to go by a simpler moniker. Before settling on his name, Rogers was considering calling himself Gypsy, Vagrant, Migrant, Hobo and Bum. (I'll say that again. Captain America was nearly called Bum.) In the end, Rogers settled on the name, Nomad.
When he quit, John Walker replaced him and became a more brutal version of Captain America.
When Marvel realised that Captain America comics weren't selling, Rogers returned as Cap and John Walker turned into the hero, USAgent.