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The scene deliberately invokes Rogers’ own sacrifices in the prime MCU, but it’s also a nod to the Hulk’s penchant for fighting monsters. Then, in the episode's climax, Carter faces off against a giant Lovecraftian creature unleashed by the Red Skull and succeeds in pushing it back into its dimensional portal. Later in the episode, as she and Steve Rogers’ Hydra Stomper take on a pack of German planes, Carter’s calibrated crashes through the Nazi fuselages further echoes the Hulk’s rampage against an attacking SHIELD jet in that film. A few seconds earlier, she stopped a convoy truck dead in its tracks in a thinly veiled visual nod to the Hulk famously stopping the Chitauri Leviathan in The Avengers. Yet, Peggy’s abilities seem to be greater, judging not only by her looming physical height but by the feats she pulls off as the episode progresses.įor example, during her debut as Captain Carter, she punches a Nazi strongman so hard it creates divots in the pavement. What If…? doesn’t openly state that, and indeed the MCU as a whole has always been a little vague about the precise limits of Steve’s powers. To subject someone like that to the same process that turned Rogers into a superhero might create an exponentially more powerful being. If the formula transformed him into the absolute peak of physical prowess, what might it do to someone already in top physical condition?Ĭarter is most assuredly in top physical condition: An adept combat veteran and intelligence agent possessing formidable marksman and athletic skills. Rogers began the experiment as a 98-pound individual beset by a host of chronic ailments and barely able to do so much as a single push-up.
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Even then, the comparative physical differences are considerable. The only other recipient to experience that change was Rogers himself. Unlike John Walker, Bucky Barnes, and other subsequent Super Soldiers in the prime MCU, Captain Carter is physically transformed by the serum, growing physically larger and gaining significant muscle mass. The pure Super Soldier Serum effects physical growth beyond enhanced strength and other abilities. RELATED: What If.?: Captain Carter Disrupted the Winter Soldier's Origin