The Soldier Supreme is one of the newest characters in the Marvel Universe, but he’s oh so familiar;
a cross between Captain America and Doctor Strange, he’s one of the many amalgamations
to appear in the publisher’s Infinity Wars storyline.
Created by Gerry Duggan and Humberto Ramos, the character made his debut at the end of
this year, and with him comes one piece of a grander story about how our favourite heroes
and villains have all been fused together.
So today, we’re shinning more light on his story with our list of the top 10 Soldier
Supreme Facts!
Also be sure to stick around till the end of the video, we’ll be reading off some
comments from one of our other lists!
Now let’s get to it!
10 Infinity Warps Soldier Supreme is the product of 2018’s
Infinity Wars story arc, in which Gamora, after getting the Infinity Stones in her possession,
seals the people of earth inside Soulworld and halves the world’s population in half,
which fuses everyone together.
All of the fusions at first are completely unaware that they are, in fact, fusions.
In this Warp World, Steve rogers and Stephen Strange are reborn as Stephen Rogers, the
Solider Supreme.
His first appearance is in Infinity Wars issue 3, and he goes on to have his own solo two
issue series.
9 Amalgamation Fusing characters together is not something
new over at Marvel.
Back in 1996, there was a publishing imprint created between Marvel and DC that was called
Amalgam Comics; it featured characters from both publishers, but merged together.
For example, Wolverine was combined with Batman to create a character named Dark Claw.
Captain America and Superman were fused together, created Super-Soldier.
These characters live on Earth 9602 in the Marvel universe, and even fused story events
together, like Secret Crisis of the Infinity Hour, which combined Secret Wars, Infinity
Gauntlet, and DC’s Zero Hour and Crisis on Infinite Earths.
The Infinity Warps characters are the natural progression to this, considering they’re
fused together with other Marvel properties, yet still have the same appeal as the Amalgam
series had; readers want to know what these variants are like, and what parts of each
character’s history, personality and powers have been adapted in the fusion.
8 Halloween Freak Show That’s the name that was first given to
Rogers when he came to be; his origin is similar to that of Earth 616’s Steve Rogers, but
contains hints of the mystical, helping bring Strange’s background into the mix.
So during World War 2, the US became desperate, and started working with experimental options
in order to get an upper hand on Axis forces.
Private Stephen Rogers, who had been classified as 4-F by the military, was one of their guinea
pigs.
The Super Soldier Serum was used on him in order to increase his strength and physicality,
but little did he know that the serum was actually a cover for mystical rituals, which
ended up giving him arcane powers.
The military, disappointed in this creation, called Rogers a Halloween Freak Show, but
eventually let him train and use his powers for the good of the country.
7 His Shield As shown in issue 1 of Soldier Supreme, Rogers’
shield can withstand not only bullets, but missiles, and even the blasts of a tank.
His shield looks just like his Captain America vibranium one, except it’s a mystical shield,
similar to the ones that Doctor Strange conjures, and in the beginning of the issue, Rogers
becomes increasingly adept in making them, and making them durable.
6 The Howling Commandos Similar to Cap’s story, Rogers joins up
with the Howling Commandos after President Roosevelt declares him to be Soldier Supreme.
But this ain’t the same Howling Commandos.
Instead, the group, consist of Dum Dum Fury and Bucky Wong, a friend of his from home,
and they call themselves the Howling Commandos of Hogoth, which Rogers states is a name he
got from a nightmare.
This is a subtle reference to Hogoth, an ancient and powerful entity, the mystic patron of
order, who often appears with tiger-like features.
One of the spells that invoke Hogoth is the Mist of Hogoth, which acts as a traveler’s
guide in Nightmare’s realm.
5 Bucky’s Death Rogers witnesses Bucky’s death in perhaps
a more gruelling way than he does in the 616 continuity.
While out on a mission in the dead of winter, the Howling Commandos are bombed, and Bucky
is seemingly blown to smithereens, covering the snow in blood.
Rogers survives because of his physiology, and sees that Bucky is gone.
So in his immediate grief, he begins to cast a spell to resurrect Bucky, who ends up making
one hell of a come back in a not so corporal form, but more on that later.
4 His Healing Abilities Resurrection spells of sorts isn’t the only
thing Rogers can do.
In that same issue, we see Fury mention to Rogers that he needs to inspire the men they’re
working with, not just win against impossible odds or patch them up when they get wounded.
He then reveals that he has a bullet hole through his head, and thanks Rogers for the
new eye.
3 Dormammu Red After the death of Hitler, Rogers and his
team decide to go after Dormammu Red, the facist’s evil priest of hell, who is a combination
of Dormammu and Red Skull.
During their battle together, Red tells Rogers that after he claims Europe, he’ll head
over to the US and march Rogers’ skinless undead corpse across the land.
As he’s going off, beating up Rogers, Bucky appears, now as a ghost, stabbing red through
the chest.
Red says “I thought the Winter Soldier was just a ghost story, to which Bucky responds,
oh, it is.
2 The Dark Dimension At the end of issue 1, Rogers and Bucky don’t
manage to kill Dormammu Red after all.
The villain sends them to the Dark Dimension.
Standing in the consuming blackness, Rogers tells his friend that its good to see him
again, just before he fades away, leaving him entirely alone.
Rogers proceeded to be stuck there for years, where for the most part, he trained and trained,
stating that he got “pretty good at the whole magic warrior thing.”
Finally, one day, he sees a light in the darkness, and must race against all of the demons and
beasts in the dark dimension to get to it, even jumping on the back on a centaur to do
so.
Once he gets out, he realizes that the portal to the dark dimension was opened by a group
of people trying to summon satan.
1 His Discovery Upon returning to Earth, Soldier Supreme comes
into contact with MORDOC, and he uses his Astral Projection technique to attack the
amalgamation of MODOC and Baron Mordo.
This is when he discovers that the villain is made up of two souls.
MORDOC tells Rogers that the world they are in is an artificial construct, and gives him
the Eye of Agamodin, encouraging Rogers to seek the truth.
Back in Brooklyn, Rogers takes a closer look at the eye, and discovers that MORDOC’s
words are true; he sees the two souls who make him up.
That’s when he gets a telepathic call from Emma Frost, rallying him to fight against
the threat that combined everyone’s souls together.
Alright there we have it friends!
Have you read the Soldier Supreme comics?
And have you been following along with what happened in Infinity Wars?
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