First Avenger Captain America: the last living member of the greatest generation?

[Timstuff]

Something truly profound about Captain America as a character, which I hope Marvel does not neglect, is that there will be a point in time within his world where he is the only person alive who lived through World War 2-- in fact, it won't be long before all of our veterans from World War 2 have passed away in real life, and I hope that the weight of Cap having to outlive all the men and women whom bravely fought for America along side him is something that I hope Marvel doesn't allow to be lost during the glitz of the action set pieces and special effects. Not only does he carry the weight of being a symbol of America, but also the last living representative of what we call the greatest generation.

 

[roach]

well there is Nick Fury, Dum Dum Dugan, Logan, Namor, Bucky

 

[Jdeadevil]

I wonder what Nick Fury did during the war....

 

[C. Lee]

I wonder what Nick Fury did during the war....

Read the comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Fury_and_his_Howling_Commandos it ran from 1963 to 1981.

 

[Jdeadevil]

Will do.

 

[C. Lee]

Issue #13 of Sgt. Fury....where he teams with Cap

 

[Squidboy]

I think Nick Fury and Dugan had been retconned as serving with Cap in Vietnam (only because it poses a problem to have them both being nearly 100 years old with that logic), but for true continuity freaks, I think it should be remembered that they did fight then as well

 

[Shawkur]

I think Nick Fury and Dugan had been retconned as serving with Cap in Vietnam (only because it poses a problem to have them both being nearly 100 years old with that logic), but for true continuity freaks, I think it should be remembered that they did fight then as well

No such retcon has happened or is necessary do to the Infinity Formula. Steve Rogers was also never in Vietnam, and before long Vietnam vets will be elderly too so you will just end up needing to retcon that too.

Also there are still a few WWI vets alive and other people still survive from that era so its probably going to be a few decades yet before Cap would be the last of his generation.

 

[WildcatNC]

I do hope they play up him being a human symbol and the weight of that on Rogers, both the negative and positive aspects. He would at times feel overwhelmed and yet feel great pride in it.

He becomes more than a man or a hero, hes a living symbol of american pride and heroism.

 

[kedrell]

Just a week or two ago(in the real world) the last American WW1 vet died. So 93 years after the conclusion of the war. You have to figure that WWII vets probably average a slightly longer lifespan due to more modern medical tech and stuff being available to them at a younger age than it was for WW1 vets. So Figure maybe another 5-10 years on to that 93 year span. Start it from the end of WWII and the last American WWII vet should expire around 2043-2048 approximately. In other words, there's still quite a long time left till they're all extinct.