"Hitler's not still alive or anything," Tony assured him, "the Invaders took care of that." How exactly Steve survived since then, looking so factory fresh, was still something of a medical mystery, so it was harder to explain. "Everyone thought Cap had died back then, too, during the war. My old man was obsessed with recovering the body, spent my whole childhood at the ends of the Earth looking for it, but never even found the plane he went down in. When Cap was still just this old World War II hero, just a guy in newsreels and posters, he was already this ideal for me, this...So, the day we found him, he had been frozen the whole time, suspended animation, and he just sprung up like no time at all had passed, and there he was, looking me in the eye. Best day of my life."