- Today we're gonna learn how beast Captain America is.
Puns.
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I'm Scott and today we're gonna continue our month
of Halloween themed episodes by talking a little bit
about Captain America.
How does he fit into all of this?
Well, the answer lies in last week's trivia question,
which was: What classic horror monster did Captain America
once turn into?
Many of you guys got the answer right, including
Joe Gillespie, who says Cap Wolf, exclamation mark.
It's that kind of enthusiasm that we love and if that
answer isn't clear enough, Captain America turned
into a werewolf.
So the story goes that Captain America was on the hunt
for his old pilot, John Jameson, who is Joe Jameson's
son and has had some run-ins with like anthropy in the past
as Man-Wolf.
So when Cap hears a story on the news that says a man
was murdered by a half-man, half-wolf-like creature,
he fears that John may be behind it, especially since the
moon gem that turned John Jameson into Man-Wolf is now
mysteriously missing.
Cap enlists the help of Dr. Druid as he thinks this
may be the work of Supernatural at play.
I do not watch the show, Supernatural, but if I did I'd
probably make some sort of joke here, but we move on.
Little do Cap and Druid know that Wolverine is actually
working the same case, but he was captured pretty quickly.
It's revealed that two characters, Nightshade and Dreadman,
are using a combination of a serum that turns people into
werewolves mixed with Dreadman's hypnosis that basically
allows him to control them.
They try to give the serum to Wolverine, but because
of his healing factor it just doesn't work, so they
hypnotize him since he's already feral enough for
their purposes, which honestly, I'm not entirely certain
what their purpose is.
I mean, Dreadman stole the moon gem because it possessed
this unknown arcane potential, and him being a sorcerer
type person, I guess that attracted him to it, but then
later it looks like he knows exactly how to use it just
by performing what can only be described as generic
supervillain science.
I mean, look he's even got a brain in a jar right there.
That's how we know stuffs going down.
But I'm getting ahead of myself here.
Let's go back to the story.
Cap and Druid go investigate this town full of werewolf
people when the hypnotized Wolverine attacks them.
Now Druid just kind of slips out of the picture here,
disappears, leaving Cap to deal with Wolverine all by
himself, and then we have Moonhunter, who is Dreadman's
right hand man, he just goes and incapacitates Cap.
Where you at Druid?
Why aren't you helping?
As he's out cold, Nightshade injects into Cap what I'm
going to be calling werewolf juice because I want to,
and Captain America turns into the ferocious Cap Wolf.
Meanwhile, Druid and Dreadman are literally having a
staring contest for an entire issue.
Druid is defeated and Dreadman takes him captive to,
I don't know, give him a nice haircut, it looks like.
Cap Wolf is thrown into a pit of other werewolves
where he shows his dominance by beating up the leader
of this group, this white werewolf.
That is several times referred to as Whitey.
So there's that.
Also, I should point out that at no time did they hypnotize
Captain America like they did Wolverine, so now we have
this super soldier who's awesome to begin with,
you give him werewolf juice and now he's a free-thinking,
even stronger version of Captain America.
He even surrendered himself freely to the bad guys
where they could have easily hypnotized him into being
under their control, but nope, didn't wanna do that.
And the pit of werewolves the Cap is thrown into,
they don't appear to be hypnotized or under Dreadman's
control at all because after Cap learns how to speak
in his werewolf form, which is just singing really high,
seriously, that's how werewolves talk, but anyway,
he rallies the wolf pit together, they form a cheerleading
squad, getting into the pyramid formation, Cap climbs to
the top, breaks them out because, Cap Cap he's our man,
if he can't do it, there are hundreds of other superheroes
that occupy the same area, so the odds are pretty good
that someone else will help.
This very much reminds me of Rise of the Planet of the Apes
where Captain America would be like Caesar and he's trying
to get all of the other werewolves to unite together
and break out of their cells and of course Wolverine would
be the gorilla because he's in his own separate cell
and he's always angry all the time.
But they escape and they subdue both Moonhunter and
Nightshade by maybe an unintentional joke of dog piling.
They abandoned the newly defeated foes when Cap learns
the whereabouts of Druid and how Dreadman is planning on
slitting his throat since his supervillain sign said
that spilling the blood of an enemy with magical properties
impressing into his throat will activate the moon gem's
full power, turning him into Starwolf.
A different Starwolf, this Starwolf, one that kind
of looks like Alien X from Ben 10, if he was injected
with werewolf juice.
So Druid had his throat cut, Cap and his wolf pack
are fighting Starwolf and his wolf pack in yet
another dog pile.
Moonhunter climbs out of a pit that I guess Cap left
him in and he lets out Wolverine as he's still under
Dreadman's control.
Whitey brings Druids body back to the lab and injects
Nightshade with her own werewolf juice to motivate
her to create a cure.
Then Cable shows up to deliver the best line in
the entire arc.
That's a lot of crazy stuff that's happening, but it
doesn't slow down much.
Druid snaps back to life and cures Wolverine out of
the mind control and it turns out that Moonhunter was
also being controlled as he aids in defeating Starwolf.
Captain America rips the moon gem out of Starwolf's throat.
Cable crushes it under his heel like that scene from
Passion of the Christ.
And both Cable and Wolverine just go away, the end.
But we're still stuck with a super soldier suffering from
selenophobia, say that five times fast, luckily Nightshade
finds a cure to the werewolf juice.
She uses that cure on good old Whitey who turns out
to be John Jameson, remember him?
The reason this whole arc took place?
We also find out that Druid survived getting his throat
cut by sealing the wound with sheer force of will.
Sure thing, buddy.
Suddenly a Captain America doppelganger pops out of
nowhere to kill Captain America for no real reason.
They fight, Cap kills him, the whole thing lasts
maybe two pages, but I guess they just needed something
to fill that two pages.
During the fight, Captain America gets injected with
the anecdote of the werewolf juice, turning him back
into regular Captain America.
Then my favorite part.
Nightshade is arrested.
Why is that interesting to me?
Well, let's break it down here.
So we have Moonhunter, the right-hand man to Dreadman,
who claimed that he was being hypnotized to do his
dirty work and we really don't have any proof of that
other than just his word, so all of the things that he's
done, which are arguably much worse than the things
that Nightshade has done, he's just gonna get away with
because, you know, we're just gonna believe him.
Meanwhile Nightshade says the same thing, that she was
just under the control of Dreadman, but Cap's not having
any of that, so she's gonna go get arrested and answer
for her crimes in court.
So she goes to jail while Moonhunter literally rides
off into the sunset with Captain America.
What?
Amazing.
And that's the story of how Captain America turned
into a werewolf.
Yet another example of an enjoyable story that doesn't
necessarily make a whole lot of sense.
What do you guys think?
If you could infuse a superhero and a mythical beast
to create the coolest combination, what would it be?
Let me know in the comments.
Now it's time for me to shove more words in your face
in the form of the weekly trivia challenge.
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So next week is our 15th episode of Comic Misconceptions,
and I wanna change things up a little bit, so starting
from next week onward, every fifth episode will be
a top five episode, starting with my top five
scariest comic book characters.
Why are we doing this?
Well, way back in the day before Comic Misconceptions had
its first episode, I was compiling a list of things I wanted
to do videos about, and that list, I still have it
and I still pull from episodes, but I do notice that I
have lists within that list.
A lot of them are collections of characters and stories
that fit around a central theme like, corporate superheroes,
or celebrity team-ups.
So I thought about combining all of these into a top five
list that we can do from time to time.
So what does this mean for the trivia challenge?
I don't really know.
We're gonna experiment a little bit, so I don't really
have a lot of trivia that's going into the next week's
episode, it's just a personal list of who I think
are the scariest characters in comic books.
So here's just a little bit of trivia about my number
five pick.
So this week's trivia challenge is: What creepy character's
name roughly translates to "crown" in German?
If you know the answer or wanna leave your best educated
guess, you can do so in the comments below.
If you are right, you could be featured on the show
next week.
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Gotta adjust my tie, gotta look good.
That's why I'm covering my face.
He rallies the wolf pit together la, la, la, la.
So Cap could get, le-le, get it, get at the top of
that pyramid.
Turn people into wolver-ines, nope.
That's not right.
♫ I'm a wolverine
♫ My hatred keeps me warm ♫