1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
THE DESIGN SCHOOL
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
NAME: KELVIN FONG JIA ZHENG
STUDENT ID NO: 0317166
FILMS SELECTED: CAPTAIN AMERICA & WOLVERINE
WORD COUNT: 970
ENGLISH 2 (ENGL 0205)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY
LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA
SUBMISSION DATE: 18th
APRIL 2014

2. Prewriting
Captain America Wolverine
Plot -secret project rebirth experiment
-become propaganda tool
-sacrifice to get members back
-weapon-x experiment
-lives as lumberjack
-revenge for his lover
Ability -pinnacle of human perfection
-x4 metabolism
-Vibranium indestructible shield
-hand-to-hand combatant
-superhuman reflexes and senses
-regenerative healing
-Adamantium bone claw
-excellent war fighter
Moral Value -proud American patriot
-protect defenseless people
-naturally strong sense of humanity
-loyalty to deem friends
Relationship Steve Roger & James Barnes
-best buddy during childhood
-turn to enemy at the end
-call “Winter Soldier”
Steve Roger & Red Skull
-both have same ability
Logan & Victor
-half-brother of Logan
-kill Logan’s wife and revenge
-call “Sabretooth”
Logan & Deadpool
-copy the ability of Logan

3. Compare Essay
There seems to be a lot of superheroes in movie history. There are various type of
superpower and abilities which they possessed. We envy and look up to them because they
are the type of ideal human being. Captain America and Wolverine are one of the main
figure of superheroes in Marvel comic. They both are originally ordinary man which
mutated to superhero and fought for their closest people. The plot, ability, moral value, and
relationship are the point of view for me to determine which one of them is the real
superhero in my heart.
From the film of Captain America, the plot setting in 1942, Steve Rogers was
rejected yet again for military service. Erskine, a scientist found him for an experiment
called Secret Project Rebirth by injecting the Super Soldier Serum. After that, Roger had
become a propaganda tool, called ‘Captain America’ until he found that Barnes is captured.
He crossed enemy lines to get him back. Barnes fell from the mountain top during a train
battle but in fact is he is still alive. The Red Skull was defeated and Captain America crash
plane into the Arctic and declared missing. However, his body was kept alive for decades
until he was found in the modern day. (Steve Rogers, 2014). The Wolverine plot setting
took place in 1832, James Howlett, called Logan is sentenced to death but did not die when
he was shot. This incident brought them Maj.William Styker’s attention, who asked them
to join a special team of mutants that he was assembling. 6 years later, He was living as a
lumberjack with his girlfriend named Kayla. Kayla is murdered by Logan’s brother. Styker
offered Logan an experiment called Weapon-X, by injecting Adamantium to encase body
skeleton. Logan found the location of the mutant experimentation center. He discovered
that Kayla is alive and defeated Victor. He freed a number of imprisoned mutant and

4. defeated Deadpool, Logan was shot in his head by an Adamantium bullet. When he
recovered, he recalled nothing about his past. (James Howlett, 2014)
Steve Roger’s body has been mutated to the pinnacle of human perfection. He
possesses superhuman strength, agility, endurance, speed, and reflexes superior to any
Olympic-level athlete, and his bodily functions have been enhanced to the peak of human
efficiency. His metabolism is four times faster than normal human. His personal weapon
is a virtually indestructible shield which was forged from unique Vibranium-steel alloy.
The shield can rebound off all solid object with the minimal loss of angular motion. The
only way it can be damaged is by the direct breakdown of its molecular bonding. (Captain
America (Steve Rogers), 2014). His is an expert of hand-to-hand combatant and he is a
skilled martial artist. On the same hand, James Howlett had a mutation and discovered that
he has a pair bone claws. However, his skeletal system has been injected by Adamantium.
The Adamantium enhanced his ability of superhuman reflexes and senses, his smell senses
allowed him to track and detect anomalies in the air, and hearing. His regenerative healing
factor that is immune to all disease, major poison and is able to regrow limbs. He mutated
into an indestructible body and his weapon, bone claw had evolved into a pair of
Adamantium retractable claws. Wolverine is also an excellent fighter with experience in
fighting against various cage-fighter.
Steve Roger has always had a noble and honest spirit, intolerance towards injustice
and abuse of power. Since he was formerly weak and small, he has learned on his own
what the true strength is, and vowed to protect defenseless. He is a proud American patriot,
always wearing his American flag theme military uniform to show loyalty to his country.
He remained his original spirit and character even in his new body shape. James Howlett

5. is a superhero with sympathy, a major strength of his strength of his character is that he is
constantly being ripped away from everything that makes him human, he still retain it. He
always stop his brother from crime and control his temper to be kind. This implies that he
has a naturally strong sense of humanity, something that is often innate and prompted by
those with high self-awareness. He also showed strong loyalty to his deemed friends. (Bio-
Wolverine, 2014)
In Captain America, Barnes is the only buddy of Steve during his childhood. Barnes
always helped Steve from being beaten up by a bullies because he was weak. After missing
for many years, Steve found Barnes but he became one of the biggest enemy of him, The
Winter Soldier. In Wolverine, Victor is the half-brother of Logan and they stuck together
and supported each other in the world war. But after few years, Victor killed Logan’s
girlfriend and became enemy, Sabretooth. Logan swore to take revenge towards him.
Besides, Red Skull is the original enemy of Steve Rogers. The both of them are from the
same experimental product that were injected by super soldier serum, but Red skull had
betrayed the professor and ran away. The reason why they couldn’t defeat each other was
because both of them possesses the same abilities. Deadpool, which is also the main enemy
of Logan. Deadpool had undergo transformation process and had received various types of
mutant’s abilities as well as Logan’s ability. Logan was unable defeat him but Victor
helped Logan to defeat Deadpool at the end.
Based on two films, Captain America and Wolverine. I would more prefer Captain
America over Wolverine, because he is a patriotic man that love to his country. He
volunteer to sacrifice his body for the government to undergo experiment that could cost

6. one’s life. He was formerly weak and always been bullied, so he has learned on what the
true strength is. Hence, this is the reason why I prefer Captain America.

7. References
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