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A scrawny young man in braces, bloodied but standing, raises a dented bin lid like a shield in a wet Brooklyn alley as a bully sprawls in the foreground.

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Steve Rogers

I can do this all day.

— Captain America: The First Avenger ‧ 2011

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The line sums Steve up before the serum ever touches him: his courage was never about strength, only about refusing to stay down. Marvel then kept handing it back to him, as defiance against the Red Skull, a taunt in a fight with Tony Stark and a joke against his own past self. Fans use it for any stubborn stand against bigger odds.

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In Captain America: The First Avenger (2011, directed by Joe Johnston), Steve Rogers is a scrawny Brooklyn kid, rejected for Army service again and sulking in a cinema during a wartime reel. When a loud man heckles the screen, Steve is the only one to tell him to shut up. The man drags him into the alley outside and starts hitting him. Steve keeps getting back up, fending off blows with a bin lid, and keeps saying he can do this all day, until he is finally knocked down. His friend Bucky Barnes, in uniform and shipping out the next day, arrives and chases the bully off. The line comes back when Steve fights the Red Skull, Tony Stark in Captain America: Civil War, and his younger self in Avengers: Endgame.

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