‘Stark, you can’t make a girl a super-soldier!’

Cee R.
1 min readSep 3, 2021

A totally accurate* summary of Marvel’s What If…? episode 1 — ‘What if… Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?’ *Accuracy may vary and/or be non-existant

BEWARE: SPOILERS!!!

Peggy Carter wearing a Union Flag uniform and holding a shield showing the Union Flag from Marvel’s What If…?
Via Giphy

I.

Army guy: Rogers get in there!

Peggy: Dude, he’s bleeding out, chill

Army guy: OK! Howard Stark, you’re up!

Howard: Aw hell no! Risking other people’s lives? Fine. Risking my life? Ain’t gonna happen.

Army guy: Get in there you b***h!

Howard: Yeah, not gonna happen

Peggy: For God’s sake, I’ll do it myself!

Howard: Hell yeah!

Army guy: But… but you’re a girl! Stark, you can’t make a girl a super-soldier!

Howard: Uh-huh, yeah. But I can, tho.

II.

(aka how the episode would have gone if Marvel weren’t cowards)

Steve: Uh, Peggy can you can rescue my… uh… friend?

Peggy: Friend, yeah, sure Steve. Friend. I’ll go get your man candy, no problem.

You can check out all my Marvel’s What If…? posts here

Originally published as part of a Comics Wrap-Up post on my blog, Dora Reads

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Cee R.

Writer, reader, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr