General Phillips

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Real Name

Chester Richard Phillips^[1]

Current Alias

General Phillips

Affiliation

Operation: Rebirth, United States Army

Status

Alignment

Good

Identity

Public Identity

Citizenship

American

Occupation

General

Education

Military

Characteristics^[2]

Gender

Male

Height

5' 11"

Weight

175 lbs (80 kg)

Eyes

Brown

Hair

Grey, (formerly brown)

Origin

Universe

Earth-616

Created by

Jack Kirby, Stan Lee

First appearance

Appearance of Death

Tales of Suspense #63
(March, 1965)

Captain America Vol 4 #14
(August, 2003)

HistoryEdit

General Chester Phillips was the Army liason to scientific projects seeking to create superhuman operative at World War II's onset, most notable Operation Rebirth. General Phillips hand picked 4-F army reject Steve Rogers to become a part of the 1940 Operation Reborn experiment. In particular, he admired Rogers patriotic spirit. Later, Phillips was a part of picking Rogers as the eventual Super-Soldier Captain America. Phillips also oversaw Rogers initial training as well as some of his early missions.

After the fact, Phillips was aware that an unauthorized military group gave the Super Soldier Serum to Protocide, prior to Steve Rogers. As he displayed no life functions, Phillips believed Protocide to be deceased and the General dealt severely with the perpetrators through military channels. During the war, Phillips acted as Cap's commanding officer, on one occasion borrowing a naval desteoyer to serch for Cap when he had gone missing. Phillips was a hard nosed commander who did not toerate errors from his charges. He retired sometime after the war.

In recent years, after Phillips' death, he was impersonataed by an agent of the Interrogator. This agent posed as Phillips in a rest home. While appearing to battle his assailants, this agent's throat was fatally slit.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

Normal

NotesEdit

• Despite Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #2 giving the General's first name as Chester, Captain America Annual 2000 later states his first name as "Richard". Offical Marvel indexes, as well as the later motion picture, confirm the General's name as "Chester".
• Tommy Lee Jones portrayed Col. Chester Phillips in the 2011 movie Captain America: The First Avenger

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