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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 3389744" data-attributes="member: 4090">For a short period of time in the 70s, the Super-Soldier Serum did grant Cap superhuman strength, but it wore off. He's just "peak human" now, although what precisely that means has gone through some different interpretations over the years. Currently, writer Ed Brubaker (the current Cap scribe) has him doing some near superhuman feats in his own title, based around the premise that if Cap is "peak human" than he should be able to easily do more than athletes currently are capable of (and, as we all know, athletes are constantly surpassing one another's efforts as time goes by- although how much of that is natural and how much due to other reasons is anyone's guess. Then again, the Super Soldier Serum isn't exactly natural itself, so...)In any event, as time goes by and humans prove capable of even greater feats of strength and endurance (even extreme cases), Cap's feats seem to grow as a result. (Of course, Cap doesn't focus all his efforts in one area, like, say a bodybuilder would, so should he just naturally be better at it than someone who specializes? I don't know.)</blockquote>