LeBron James Is Captain America

I want you to imagine superheroes exist. Put an image in your head. What they would look like, what they would wear, what their powers would be. Are you there? Did you envision Superman flying, maybe Cyclops’ lasers? Did you…

I want you to imagine superheroes exist. Put an image in your head. What they would look like, what they would wear, what their powers would be. Are you there? Did you envision Superman flying, maybe Cyclops’ lasers? Did you imagine Flash’s speed or Oracle’s intelligence? I can’t blame you if you did, because that’s where we go when we envision the “super” in super-powered. But for those that went a little simpler in their criteria, they might’ve imagined a skilled tactician whose powers are superior strength, speed, intelligence, and healing compared to that of the average human, whose government-sanctioned enhancements came from a secret program decades in the past. Not 1940, but 1984… because LeBron James is Captain America. According to some with a strange new theory, at least. For most intents and purposes, LeBron James’ abilities are the real-life equivalent to the effects of the Super Soldier serum injected in Steve Rogers during World War II; and if you ask certain people on Reddit, they’d unhook their lapel mic after filming season 3 of Ancient Aliens and go a step further, because they believe certain feats are only explained through superhuman intervention. LeBron James is believed to be one of those feats.[quote_right]If Marvel’s standards of Captain America are how we define superhuman, would you say LeBron James is not?[/quote_right]The theory is this: LeBron James was created by the government, or maybe the Dyad Institute from Orphan Black, in a series of genet…

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