I genuinely thought they were gonna reveal they'd already given him a proto-version of the serum and the flagsmashers were a group they'd been experimenting on like Isaiah Bradley who'd escaped and gone rebel
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @arthur_affect and
I thought Walker had already taken the serum and that he had taken a second dosage of the serum during the flagsmasher assault scene
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Replying to @ComicsExalted @saintwalker98 and
Nah lol the Army doesn't have the serum If nothing else this show is really owning the Pentagon, portraying them as a bunch of thumb-up-their-ass losers who haven't actually invented anything in generations and are just cannibalizing their old greatest hits
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ComicsExalted and
They were sitting on the idea of bringing back Captain America because they had literally no gimmick for the "new Cap" to roll out with other than a stupid patriotic costume Until Sam gave them Steve's shield back and they were like "THERE we go"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ComicsExalted and
you'd think they could at least have some Extremis lying around
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @ComicsExalted and
Yeah and apparently Agents of SHIELD used up all that Centipede stuff
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
The funny thing is a huge B-plot of Jessica Jones -- the Nuke and Hellcat arc -- revolves around the idea that there was a fairly well-known super-soldier project in the Army for decades starting with the War on Terror But you know how these subplots go
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
The character Will Simpson on Jessica Jones was based on, Nuke, was even clearly a knockoff of Super-Patriot/US Agent when he first appeared in the comics Like they already did this whole thing with the toxic masculinity roid rage stuff on another show
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
the "super soldier serum" has this whole legendary aura about it precisely because it produced captain america, but actually 80% of the reason cap was a legend was steve himself now all these idiots are chasing after "the serum!" because they want another legend
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
there are so many other more practical alternatives but none of them have that particular steve-rogers glow to them
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You get the feeling Nick Fury is so pissed off at Tony because he just cheated and used regular technology to make himself into a superhero without improving himself on any biological or spiritual level at all
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