Do we like Captain America (Steve Rogers)?
A character from Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Our score: 9 out of 10. Yes, easily. He's decent, brave and stubborn about doing the right thing, even when it costs him. His one flaw is that his loyalty can make him dig in his heels.
Steve Rogers is a skinny, asthmatic young man in 1940s Brooklyn. The army keeps rejecting him, but he keeps trying to enlist because he can't stand to watch others fight while he sits it out. A scientist sees something in his character, not his muscles, and picks him for an experimental super-soldier program. That makes him Captain America, a symbol with a shield, and the film follows him as he goes from propaganda poster boy to real frontline hero.
His appeal is that the serum changes his body and leaves his heart alone. He is still the kid who won't back down from a bully, and he is humble, kind, and uncomfortable with fame. He treats his friends as family and will go after them against orders. He is also dry and funny, though he's a little stiff about it.
He loses points for a stubborn streak. Once he decides he's right, he can be very hard to talk out of it, and he sometimes puts his own judgement above the people he works with. But his judgement is nearly always sound, and the sacrifices he makes are real. Across the wider Marvel story he becomes a founding Avenger and the team's leader. He later finds himself in a modern world that he has to learn to trust, and he still holds to his principles when institutions don't.