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What if Steve Rogers WAS accepted into the Military?


Would someone else get the Super Soldier treatment and therefore, become the first superhero in the MCU?

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Rogers would have been made a supply officer, helping make sure the US troops were well equipped and well fed.

And Hodge would have become Captain America, and because he was a bully he would have kicked Nazi butt for a few years, then gone rogue and turned into a villain whom SHIELD would have had to try to stop.

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That would be an interesting MEU/alternate history film.

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Somebody else probably would have received the treatment, but likely not become a true superhero. The point of the film is that Steve Rogers was always a hero and that it isn't about muscles, it's about principles and the courage to stand for them.

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No, he is a superhero because of the serum injected inside him. Lots of people have principles and courage but they are not superheros

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I know what you mean, but the distinction I'm drawing is that he's "super" because of the serum, but Steve is a *hero* because of his character qualities. Lots of people have power without being heroes.

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Got ya. Sort of like my college professor

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You mean your professor has power but is not a hero, or your professor has heroic character qualities?

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Oh he has heroic character qualities as well as being very intelligent

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That's probably good for your class, then.

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In The Avengers, Iron Man tells Cap that everything special about him "came out of a bottle". People who watched this movie know that was almost entirely untrue.

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You just proved my point that Caps abilities are all from the serum injected inside him

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Whoosh.

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Iron Man is the leader of the Avengers. If he says that everything special about Cap came out of a bottle, then it must be accepted as fact

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100%. Excellent use of irony there.

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This film is a work of fiction so this topic never came up before anywhere

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