Cap seemed pretty impressive to me, especially in Avengers.
In particular that scene where he's giving orders to public servants and suddenly takes out four to a half dozen aliens, shearing off one of their arms, has me convinced he'd take Kurt..
I don't know, I think Nightcrawler may take it. If Cap hasn't ever been in a fight with him before he's not ganna see nightcrawler just take him in the air and drop him.
I say cap. The dude's reaction speed is ridiculous and his agility would be on par with NC. The time when he was jumping over stuff dodgeing laser gun and hoping around exploding vehicles was nuts.
Cap would get hurt or break his legs probably and/or die.
In that scenario cap is still falling and his legs and body would have to suffer the impact of the sudden stop
If something were dropped on cap from a mile up and cap braced for it with the shield above him, he would like barely feel it.
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I think if he rode the shield down he'd be fine. If he could take that bomb and Thor's hammer strike with no problems, it shows the shield is similar enough to it's comic/cartoon counterpart that it'll absorb most if not all the kinetic energy buildup from the fall/sudden stop.