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It may be surprising , butCaptain America ’s costume is more than just patriotic , it also was designed to protect him as it did from becoming a monstrous Marvel baddie . When a small physical structure tally piles up in England , the suspicious nature of these deaths has Steve Rogers locomote overseas where he learns that his old wartime enemy , the demise of the vampire Baron Blood may not have stupefy . ThoughBaron Blood would eventually infect Falcon ’s Redwing , it ’s Steve reader should really worry about . When they cross paths once again , Baron manages to hypnotize Rogers and moves to bite him . While his costume ’s armor help economise him that clock time , the Exiles later chitchat a man where that was n’t the casing and Baron ’s bite would not only turn Captain America evil but make him the next Vampire King !
InCaptain America # 253(1981 ) by Roger Stern and John Byrne , a series of slasher victims have English authorities suspect a more supernatural explanation , leading them to reach out to Captain America . Having traveled to reunify with Lady Crichton and her Father of the Church Lord Falsworth , former wartime heroes Spitfire and WWI Union Jack , they believe it could be the return of the undead Baron Blood . After Cap confirm the Baron ’s remains in the Tower of London are fake , Baron attempts to get the drop on his old foe , their fight prematurely ends with Steve paralyzed through hypnosis as Baron Blood moves to turn him into a vampire . InCaptain America # 254 , Baron Blood does bite him but his fang are unable to puncture due to the level of chain post coating the out stratum of Steve ’s costume . Despite rake being among Marvel ’s most powerful vampire , he ca n’t get past Cap ’s costume . With Baron ’s failure distracting him , Steve is capable to break out of his hypnotic state while him and his protagonist keep the villain occupied until dawn and his aversion to sunlight make him to fly the scene .
InExiles # 31by author Judd Winick and creative person Jim Calafiore , the realism - hop Exilescontinue their mission of traveling to parallel world with missions to help fix their timeline or guide them away from unimaginable end . Being from parallel dimensions themselves , the Exiles arrive on an ground where the Avengers are now Earth ’s Mightiest Vampires and this get with Baron Blood ’s conflict with Captain America . While Cap ’s armour had protected him before , battle terms had left Rogers ' neck give away and allowed Baron to turn him into a vampire as he had originally intended .
Having already been enhanced by thesuper soldier serum ( or Triple - S as Deadpool calls it ) , the add-on of vampirism poisoned Captain America ’s mind and turned him malign . By the time the Exiles had arrived , he had killed Baron Blood , disfigured and storm Baron ’s erstwhile curse Union Jack into retreat , and turn his fellow Avengers into hirudinean just like him . The Exiles were tasked with stopping his former plan to employ a magic totem stolen from SHIELD that he could use to enslave an entire city . While the other Avengers were susceptible to stake and other vampire weaknesses ' , Vampire America proved to be a completely dissimilar trouble . His status as a debased super soldier and the current lamia King meant traditional weakness like beheadings did not apply and later enchantments initialed by magical ritual made him nigh - invulnerable .
While Exiles with help from Union Jack were able-bodied to figure out a way to end Captain America and the undead Avengers ' architectural plan , it ’s awing to consider the grandness of small details . While Captain America ’s costume is debate classical wartime propaganda finding relevancy in modern - Clarence Shepard Day Jr. club , it was still made to protect Steve Rogers in battle . Although Steve find out himself fighting more supervillains instead of foeman soldiers in his later years , it ’s astonishing to consider that the only thing preventingCaptain Americafrom becoming the next Dracula was a thin layer of chainmail in a strategic place .
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