Captain Australia

The death of Captain America got me thinking about what you would do with a character that embodies the values and spirit of Australia. Our very own Captain Australia. The first thing to change would be his name. Steve Rogers would have to go in favour of Stevo Rogers.

Origin

He would still be a WW2 veteran. However he would be famous for his involvement in the battles between Australian and Japanese troops on the Kokoda Trail. How do we get him frozen in ice to be thawed out in the future? Naturally he would have been the key to stopping one last attempt by Japanese submarines from entering Sydney Harbour. In destroying this last submarine he would have ended up frozen in ice and sunk to the bottom of the Harbour only to be rediscovered by the Leyland Brothers in 1976.

Costume

Obviously the stars and stripes are out. I have to say I’m pretty against the Union Jack appearing anywhere on his costume. Any remnants of the 1940’s should also be done away with. So what is uniquely Australian? Should he carry an esky everywhere in which he can put his weapons? An akubra? Perhaps. The pelts of dead cane toads adorning his belt? Could be. A bandolier of James Boags? I can see it. I think he’d have to be wearing a wifebeater. His vehicle being an old Kingswood which hides the engine of a Formula 1 car. It’s very hard to think of things that are uniquely Australian in terms of clothing, so I’m open to ideas here because I’m stuck at wifebeater and King Gee overalls. Perhaps instead of a shield he would carry a cricket bat which would be infused with the dynamics of a boomerang so he could throw it at villains and have it return to him.

Mission Statement

I’d like to think he would target our own government initially for being warmongers and lapdogs, but that would be my own Captain Australia fantasy. We have to remember that this is a pulp hero for the masses. So in the modern day we’d doubtless see him belting the crap out of Muslim clerics and taking out squadrons of insurgents in Iraq. Domestically? Well, I’m pretty sure he’d take offense at Adelaide Crows supporters and people that drape themselves in Australian flags at sporting events and then start fights. Hopefully the VB factory would be on Cap’s hitlist too. The world can really do without that beer.