As an elderly Steve Rogers is guest of honor at a testimonial dinner, he looks back on his earlier career as the hero Captain America. He recalls that day at then end of the War when he and his partner Bucky leapt aboard Baron Zemo’s drone plane as it took off from the Nazi villain’s island base. They were able to disarm the booby trap and send the craft back at Zemo, leaping to safety in the English Channel as the bomb destroyed the villain and his castle. Cap then led the Invaders to Berlin, where they defeated the Nazi menace and captured Hitler. After the War, Steve married his sweetheart Peggy Carter, while remaining on call for the government in view of a growing concern over mutants. Some time later, Captain America was summoned before Senator McCarthy’s committee and questioned about his friendships with known mutants such as Namor and Toro. Refusing to inform on his friends he resigns from his position. Steve became an astronaut and as the first man on the moon, paid tribute to both humans and mutants. This caused a rift with Peggy, now a SHIELD agent, who disapproved of her husband’s mutant sympathies. Meeting with Bucky, also a member of SHIELD, Steve learned that the issue was not black and white: the mutants were seen as a threat not merely out of prejudice but because their powers make them dangerous in ways that human criminals are not. Over the following decades, the mutants gained in power and influence and Steve continued to campaign for equal rights for mutants. But as Magneto rose to prominence, Steve also warned of the possibility he would become a dictator; as a result Steve was forced into retirement. After this he became more irrelevant, courted by antimutant groups, but he would have nothing to do with them….
Now after the dinner, as Steve goes home he is pushed aside by a gang of mutants and muses that this world where Magneto is in control and humans are second-class citizens is not the world he fought for….