Super Soldier

A **Super Soldier** a soldier or fighter enhanced, scientifically and/or magically, beyond ordinary limitations.

## Description

**Operation: Rebirth**
The first known Super-Soldier Serum was developed as part of a top secret US Government experiment called Operation: Rebirth. The creator of the Super-Soldier formula was Abraham Erskine, code-named "Professor Reinstein".
The first, and arguably the most successful, recipient of the serum was Steve Rogers. Selected by General Chester Phillips of the U.S. Army to undergo testing, Rogers was at last administered the Super-Soldier serum. Given part of the compound intravenously and another part orally, Rogers was then bombarded by "vita-rays," a special combination of exotic (in 1941) wavelengths of radiation designed to accelerate and stabilize the serum's effect on his body. Steve Rogers emerged from the Vita-Ray Chamber with a body as perfect as a body can be and still be human. A Nazi spy who observed the experiment murdered Dr. Erskine mere minutes after its conclusion. Erskine died without fully committing the Super-Soldier formula to paper, leaving Steve Rogers the sole beneficiary of his genius.

**Black Widow Program**
The Soviet Union created a program named Black Widow. Natasha Romanoff was one of the infant females that received a special treatment designed by a biochemist Dr. Lyudmila Kudrin. Kudrin made the Super Soldier treatment to grant females decelerated aging, as well as enhanced physical and mental attributes to the peak of human potential.
They heard what happened in America with Steve Rogers and wanted to create a similar serum. So their female spyies could become better and stronger.

**Winter Soldier Program**
In December of 1991, HYDRA operatives learned that Howard Stark had recreated the serum and dispatched Barnes, who had been turned into the Winter Soldier, to retrieve it. Upon the Assassination of Howard and Maria Stark, Barnes retrieved the case containing five I.V. bags of the serum, which HYDRA used to create a team of superhuman assassins. This serum caused an excruciating transformation without the need of Vita Rays, which afterward left the subject physically more superhumanly powerful than even the original Winter Soldier, as one subject was shown to overpower and send the latter flying during a sparring match. Not even with his metal arm could Barnes defeat the new Winter Soldiers. However, these soldiers were not as easily controlled at first, due to the side effect of the Super Soldier Serum, giving them an increase in aggression. Once one of the subjects succumbed to the enhanced aggression, soon all of the Winter Soldiers, aside from Bucky Barnes, where shown to suddenly turn on HYDRA Soldiers that handled them in one instance. However, they were soon brainwashed like Barnes and placed in suspended animation.

## Super Soldier Serum

Variations of the Super-Soldier Serum have been developed over the years which induced greater-mutations then Peaked human capabilities, one which even created the powerful Sentry. So far it would appear that Steve Rogers/Captain America is the "Perfect Man". The more powerful variants come with strange side-effects that may also include mental deficiencies.

Some ingredients may be:

* Stabilizer
* Prescribed steroids
* Focus enhancers
* Kree Plasma
* Wakanda-Herb
* Vita-Rays (acting as stabilizing force)

## Magical Characteristics

* Powers
* Abilities

* **Enhanced Condition:** to possess physical/mental abilities enhanced beyond that of a normal member of the user's species.
	+ **Enhanced Agility:** to go from one motion to another effortlessly, effectively dodge attacks, swing from things easily, sprint, do back-flips and numerous other gymnastic, athletic and martial implements with little effort.
	+ **Enhanced Athleticism:** to perform acrobatic and gymnastic feats beyond training.
	+ **Enhanced Combat:** to possess enhanced levels of hand-to-hand fighting skills and excel in various forms of combat.
	+ **Enhanced Dexterity:** to control limbs, muscles, and body extremely well.
	+ **Enhanced Durability:** to sustain numerous blows of internal or external assaults.
	+ **Enhanced Endurance:** to survive without supplies, resources, energy, or other items for an extended amount of time.
	+ **Enhanced Flexibility:** to effortlessly bend and twist body past normal limits.
	+ **Enhanced Health:** to possess health beyond that of a normal member of the user's species. They have every part in and of their body, external and internal, at first-rate health, and are devoid of any disorders, diseases, disabilities, etc.
		- **Accelerated Healing:** to heal rapidly from any physical injury.
	+ **Enhanced Leap:** to jump longer and higher distances than normal humans.
	+ **Enhanced Memory:** to remember and recall experiences and events inhumanly well.
		- **Optimal Finesse:** to employ any/all acquired skills at their most efficient form and utilize them in ways that are effective enough to realize your objectives.
		- **Photographic Deduction:** to figure out connections in whatever the user is investigating and process them extraordinarily fast.
	+ **Enhanced Reflexes:** to have drastically enhanced reaction speed.
	+ **Enhanced Senses:** to have extremely accurate senses, allowing them to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel better than an average human.
		- **Accelerated Perception:** there mind and senses process information at such speeds that time appears to have slowed down, allowing them to perceive what would normally be moving too fast to see and respond accordingly.
		- **Enhanced Awareness:** to have an increased sense of awareness.
		- **Enhanced Balance:** the positioning of limbs and the center of balance as well as the physical condition to use these facts.
		- **Enhanced Hearing:** Ears enhanced to hear with amazing clarity, distance, and even frequencies outside normal range.
		- **Enhanced Vision:** to see with amazing clarity/detail, distance, or color, perhaps even in a different spectrum of light or into another dimension.
	+ **Enhanced Speed:** to move at extraordinary physical speed.
		- **Aim Dodging:** to avoid linear attacks with incredible ease.
	+ **Enhanced Stamina:** to function for long periods of time without tiring or straining oneself.
	+ **Enhanced Strength:** to possess strength beyond that of a normal member of the user's species.
		- **Crushing:** to crush or deform people or objects no matter their constitution.
		- **Enhanced Throwing:** to throwing any sort of objects, from weapons to improvised objects, at above normal level force and speed.
		- **Power Fists:** to possess great physical strength and speed or a unique power or form in one's arms and upper body.
		- **Power Legs:** to possess great physical strength and speed or a unique power or form in one's legs and lower body.
	+ **Enhanced Structure:** to possess an enhanced bodily structure. There body is composed of elements, properties or materials that are stronger, better, harder and more effective than what usually makes up the body.
* **Killing Intuition:** to have intuitive knowledge of how to kill any living being.

* **Stealth Tactics:** to possesses incredibly extensive knowledge and skill in many types and ways of stealth tactics, enabling them to easily slip in and out of areas undetected.
* **Training Regimen:** to develop incredible abilities through extensive training.
* **Weapon Proficiency:** to understand and use any and all weapons with the proficiency of a master.

## Known Super Soldiers

* **Johann Schmidt/Red Skull** - took the prototype serum, an as a result, affected Schmidt's physical appearance to that of a red, skull like face. Schmidt had desired to become the superior man, something only the serum could offer, but was denied the right to do so by Erskine. This is what brought him in personal conflict with Rogers, as Rogers is the superior man while Schmidt is not. It is believed that his personality affected his appearance, acting on his wish of being more than ordinary but also reflecting his inner evil. He took the serum in 1930.
* **Steve Rogers/Captain America** - was the only successful attempt. Erskine needed to find a morally and ethically good man to be the perfect subject in order to prevent them from becoming mentally unstable and corrupted. He found Steve Rogers was a man with unquestionable moral value, someone who could not only handle the responsibility of being the world's first super soldier, but someone who could become the soldier the world desperately needed. He took the serum in 1941.
* **Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow** - The first and only member of the Black widow program to be experimented on. It was successful but destroyed by one of the other members of the Black widow program who disapproved of the experiment. Natasha soon fled Russia soon after in taking the serum in 1942.
* **James Buchanan Barnes/Winter Soldier** - was a second successful attempt at a super soldier, injected with serum similar to Rogers' while he was a prisoner of HYDRA in 1943. The serum enabled him to survive the fall from the HYDRA train in 1945 and the loss of his left arm. Afterward, due to further HYDRA experimentation, he developed abilities which rivaled Captain America's. However, due to being infused with a different serum than Erskine's original formula, he did not develop any changes to his mind or personality other than the brainwashing performed on him by HYDRA, which made him slightly unstable and placed his ability to remember his past and identity in a state of constant fluctuation due to him being repeatedly wiped of his memory.
	+ **Five other Winter Soldiers** - were converted into super soldiers using a serum developed by Howard Stark. Despite being created to share the role and title of the Winter Soldier and being shown to be strong enough to relatively quickly overpower the original, despite his metal arm, they were not as versatile or useful as James Barnes, who was the first and true Winter Soldier. This was due to this variant of the Super Soldier Serum's side effect of increased aggression. In one instance, they even attacked HYDRA soldiers that handled them. Because of this, HYDRA continued to use only Barnes as their assassin while cryogenically freezing the rest until they were needed.

## Notes

* Process may cause various mental or physical problems.
* Stark Industries created the injection tube that administered the super soldier serum into Steve Rogers.