Who Is Major America? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Major America is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Unrevealed, with over 36 comic issue appearances. Major America, or the "Anti-Cap", was a Navy cadet who participated in an experiment to boost his human abilities in an attempt to create an active Super Soldier for the Navy. He proved incredibly efficient but also an expendable liability to the government.

Who is Major America?

Origin Project AVX is assumed a failure. Anti-Cap was a pretty normal teenager living in Sayreville, Oklahoma . He had a girlfriend who he loved and was pretty content with his life. That was until his girlfriend died in the Oklahoma City Bombings. This event triggered a deep hatred within him against all terrorists and he soon tried to enlist in the Army but was rejected on the grounds that he wasn't fit enough. After failing to pass tests to fight against terrorists, the kid was approached by the Government who wanted him to take part in a Naval Intelligence project to recreate the Super Soldier Serum . Having being unable to recreate the drug successfully in the past, this time a new method was used in which the patient would receive regular doses of a drug called Acetovaxidol (AVX) which promised to enhance his strength and pain threshold to Super Soldier levels. Regular ingesting of the drug was provided by a chip implanted on Anti-Cap's spine.

Key facts

Major America is of human origin and first appeared in "Two Americas (Part 1)". The character is published by Marvel. With 36 recorded issue appearances, Major America ranks among the most featured characters in comics.