It's no secret at this point. Superheroes are real, and they're everywhere. You may not have noticed, because the media does a pretty good job of keeping things quiet, but the stars of your favorite comic books aren't made up, they are all portraits, (albeit, exaggerated ones), based on real people. It's true. Real people are getting into costumes to protect this planet, ladies and gentlemen, and I'm happy to say that it's my job (for some reason) to find out their secret identities. For my methods, I've tirelessly researched the histories behind 4 popular heroes and crosschecked some facts of their secret identities with well-known facts about public figures to come up with the likely candidates. Brace yourselves, sports fans, because I'm about to blow some of the most successful cover-ups in history wide open.

4 Captain America

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The Lowdown:

Captain America is one of the most respected heroes in the Marvel Universe. The result of a military program designed to build an army of Super Soldiers, Captain America isn't so much a superhero as much as he is the strongest, fastest and most powerful human being around operating on levels just slightly higher than those of above average athletes. Fighting bravely in World War II, Steve Rogers's triumphant success against foreign oppression established him as a beloved American icon.The Real Captain America is a confident and powerful symbol of American Superiority with a remarkably strong chin:

Lance Armstrong

Named "Greatest Fucking Athlete" by every magazine that ranks athletes, Armstrong possesses both the physical strength and the ability to kick ass in foreign countries that Marvel's Captain America practically bleeds. No, Lance Armstrong isn't bitchslapping a bunch of Nazis, but he is making a whole lot of French people look stupid year after year after year, (they fucking love biking), which is just as good if not better.

A look at Armstrong's physical attributes reads like the back of a Captain America Marvel Card, (if Captain America dated Sheryl Crow once). While the average human's maximal oxygen consumption is between 40 and 50, Armstrong's is 83.8 and his heart is about 30% larger than the average heart. He also has what Dr. Wikipedia describes as an unusually low lactate level. During intense training in racers, lactic acid builds up and slows a normal human down, but Armstrong's body for some reason (magic?) doesn't produce as much lactic acid as your average human. Without getting any more sciencey on anyone's ass, Armstrong is, long story short, in better physical condition than you could ever dream of being. You might say, he's