Captain America's Secret Replacement Revealed the Dark

Marvel Comics, Captain America’s super-soldier serum turned him into a hero that many aspire to be, but in the Ultimate Comics Universe, a secret replacement for Steve Rogers reveals a deadly truth about a special serum that doesn’t always work the way it’s supposed to. Revealed in 2005’s The Ultimates 2 Annual #1, by Mark Millar and Steve Dillon, this issue deals with a central idea of Captain America lore: his super-soldier serum. Following Nick Fury and a handful of costume-powered volunteers, this story also introduces a man named Lieberman that acts as a secret replacement for Cap should he ever die in battle or turn evil.

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Bringing Lieberman in front of a replica of Cap’s costume and telling him he’s next in line if need be, it’s relayed to readers that Lieberman is the “first test subject in over fifty years whose body didn’t reject the super-soldier serum” - an impressive feat on its own, to say the least. Eventually sent out into the field to save civilians from a burning building, Lieberman is able to embody Captain America in a way that no one expected while also revealing the darkest part of this new serum and an even darker secret Nick Fury has kept to himself. Rescuing over fifty people before collapsing and dying on the spot, Nick Fury is informed that Lieberman had a “complete collapse of his central nervous system” and that the super-solder serum also “put his brain into shutdown” in the process. Going on to reveal that this isn’t the first time Fury has lost a volunteer trying to replicate Steve Rogers’ success, and the unfortunate truth about this deadly serum and its constant failures is brought to light.

A concoction that many believe can only work with the perfect host, Steve Rogers somehow being able to thrive with the serum in his system is as much a conundrum to Fury’s scientists as the burning out of the promising young candidate that was Lieberman. And although Fury isn’t always the nicest guy in this Ultimate Comics Universe, the fact that he’s only slightly bothered going through secret volunteer after secret volunteer in the hopes of replicating a successful Captain America says a lot about the sacrifices needed to bring another Cap to term - the shady and secret ways Fury goes about trying to develop one notwithstanding. So while it’s clear not every person who takes Cap’s serum will be compatible with it, running through test subjects to find one who is becomes a truth that can't be readily fixed. Captain America may still be the only hero who can sustain and utilize the unique properties of his super-soldier serum, but actively killing others to have a replacement isn’t the best alternative either.

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