Steve Rogers has been have a underworld of a time lately . Hiscomeback hitch of America in the Wake Island of Secret Empirehas been on hold recently due to an inauspicious case of being frozen by veracious - wing terrorists and re - awakened in a hair-raising future — a future tense in which Steve has had to make some very tragical decisions .
This week ’s Captain America # 700 , by Mark Waid , Chris Samnee , Matt Wilson , and Joe Caramagna , find the undecomposed Captain in a state of uncertainty . Having vote out Rampart and its leader , Babbington , in the mutant wasteland of the alternate 2025 he ’s find himself in , Steve is suddenly throw into a position he never really wanted : trying to lead the rebuilding of a state of war - torn America from the frontlines . The pressure put upon him is immense — not just from trying to be both a warrior and a governor , but because Steve Rogers is Steve Rogers and the intellection of letting people down who need him the most is inconceivable to him . As rival commonwealth leap to capitalize on America ’s upheaval and food stores dwindle , Steve oppose engagement after battle , never stopping , because if he does everything he ’s fought for in this futurity will crumble .
Which is why , when this next timeline ’s Bruce Banner offers him a way to go back in time and debar being frozen by Rampart in the first home , Steve vehemently resist . Even if it meant a chance at deflect the repugnance he ’s faced in the revelatory 2025 in the first place , it would be tantamount to giving up on masses who need him to hold out .
And so Steve stays , struggling , pushing himself more and more until a nuclear strike by one of America ’s rivals charge New York , make him actualise that no matter how many battles he wins as Captain America , one supersoldier can not win this warfare . So before he baffle himself killed fight a hopeless conflict , or before thing can get even tough , he takes up Banner ’s offer and observe himself back in the present — watching himself be freeze again by Rampart .
It ’s all very timey - wimey , but the Future Steve manages to interrupt Rampart ’s plans , finding the hope he could n’t in 2025 : sacrifice himself to blow up the nukes Rampart was going to use to launch America into a new morose age , dying so that the present ( and now unfrozen ) Steve could live .
Although the Clarence Day is saved , it ’s undercut with a stratum of tragedy — after all , technically , Captain America dies in this issue . He may have had some sentence - travel shenanigan , but the Steve that perishes in Captain America # 700 is in some strain the one we ’ve been read about all these year , not an alt - realism organ transplant , not a doppelganger . It ’s the Steve Rogers we know and have it away , one that had been through hell and back .
The one we have left thanks to his sacrifice is still mostly the same military personnel — but the disaster is still there for him , in that this Steve is completely unaware of his future self ’s forfeiture . All those experience he went through in what is now an alternate future , the people he met , the mass he fell in love with , never happened to him .
Sure , he now catch to continue his journey of self - reflection across the US , and vex to keep on fighting the good fight , as Captain America has for 700 issues so far ( give or take a few reboots ) . But he ’ll never bed how much was give for him — how much was sacrifice by him — to do so .
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