Super-Soldier
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For the concept of enhanced warriors in general, see Supersoldier. "Super Soldiers" was also the name of an unrelated comic book series from Marvel UK.
Super-Soldier (alternatively written as SuperSoldier or Super Soldier) is a fictional character created as part of the Amalgam Comics line, a collaboration between industry giants Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Super-soldier, who debuts in Super-Soldier #1 (Apr, 1996), is a combination of Marvel's Captain America and DC's Superman.
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[edit] Character history
[edit] Origin
During World War II, government scientists were working on a "Super-Soldier formula" to transform a man into a fighting machine experiment with cellular samples from an alien corpse. They administer the formula, as well as solar radiation, to a young man named Clark Kent, a volunteer for the Super-Soldier program.
The mixture of the formula and the radiation give Kent incredible powers and abilities, including super-strength, heat vision, and flight. Reporter Jimmy Olsen, who sneaks into the Super-Soldier program laboratory, makes a deal with the government: He will not tell the world about the project if the government makes him the "official press flak" for the Super-Soldier.
Super-Soldier gains a sidekick for a short time named American Girl and becomes a member of the All-Star Winners Squadron, also known as the All-Star Winners Society. Clark Kent is romantically interested in Lois Lane and dismayed when she marries Lex Luthor, a cold-hearted billionaire. In Super-Soldier:Man of War #1, Super-Soldier, aided by Sgt. Rock and his Howling Commandos, Jimmy Olsen, and Agent Peggy, fight Major Zemo, a member of HYDRA, a Nazi organization, who was secretly working for Lex Luthor, the behind-the-scenes leader of HYDRA, and friend of Adolf Hitler himself.
In March 1942, Super-Soldier 'had the war all but won nearly single-handedly until the rise of Ultra-Metallo', in the words of Jimmy Olsen. Ultra-Metallo was a massive robot later revealed to be sent by Lex Luthor. The fight between Super-Soldier and Ultra-Metallo started in Washington, D.C. and made its way to above the northern Atlantic Ocean. Super-Soldier sacrificed himself to take down Ultra-Metallo, the two of them sinking beneath the icy waters, with Jimmy Olsen as one of the few witnesses. Instead of reporting to the world that Super-Soldier was dead, Jimmy Olsen instead reported that Super-Soldier had retired, after declaring the war won by America.
[edit] Other Super-Soldier projects
The Super-Soldier program was later attempted again by the Canadian government agency known as Weapon X. Dark Claw and the Hyena, known as Logan and Creed H. Quinn at the time, were among the test subjects recruited from the Royal Canadian Air Force, along with four others. With Logan being an ineffective weapon, and Quinn going completely insane, the Weapon X project was scrapped and most of the files were destroyed.
Another Super-Soldier project was tried out by America, via the only surviving witness of the original program, General "Thunderbolt" Ross. This project was entitled Operation: Re-Birth, and the goal was to recreate Super-Soldier. Peter Parker was a college student, and part of the team trying to recreate him. A power surge caused an explosion that killed Peter Parker, destroyed most of the Operation: Re-Birth files, and made the Super-Soldier clone awaken prematurely before its powers could fully develop. The clone was taken in by General Ross and named Spider-Boy.
[edit] Revival
Fifty years after Super-Soldier's battle against Ultra-Metallo, the JLA discovered the frozen body of Super-Soldier in JLA #4. After thawing the great hero out, he joined the team as their de facto leader, and began working at the Daily Planet as Clark Kent. He made his first returning solo appearance in Action & Suspense #59, and later received his own solo series, Super-Soldier. In his new series' first issue, Super-Soldier #1, he soon discovered that Lex Luthor was still alive and well, having injected himself with Green K, a part of the meteorite that landed next to the space rocket so many years before, to greatly lengthen his lifespan, though it turned his skin a hideous shade of green. Lex Luthor, with HYDRA at his side, first kidnapped an aging Jimmy Olsen to give Super-Soldier a message. Jimmy returned, badly beaten, informing Super-Soldier that HYDRA was in Washington, D.C. Super-Soldier headed there, where he discovered that Lex Luthor and HYDRA had revived Ultra-Metallo, who was now being powered by Green K itself, which Super-Soldier was weak to.
Super-Soldier, discovering that lead would protect him from the harmful Green K, used an enormous lead pipe to take down Ultra-Metallo before it could detonate a 'K-Bomb' at the White House. Super-Soldier finally exposed Lex Luthor for the criminal he was, and Luthor was incarcerated. After taking down Lex Luthor, he fought against the monstrous alien known as Doomnaut.
Since then, Super-Soldier has appeared in Super-Soldier: Man of War and JLX. Super-Soldier is gradually getting weaker due to the fallout of the K-Bombs that were inside Ultra-Metallo when he defeated it and Lex Luthor. Apparently, in the alternate future where Lobo the Duck exists, Super-Soldier, among many other heroes, is dead.
[edit] Rogues gallery
Super-Soldier is one of the most well-established characters in Amalgam Comics, and throughout his "long" superhero career, he has found a number of recurring enemies, including:
- Doomnaut
- Dr. Doomsday
- Green Skull, aka Lex Luthor
- HYDRA
- Major Zemo
- Ultra-Metallo
