Captain America's Super-Soldier Serum Has A New Official Name
Warning: contains spoilers for Captain America: Symbol of Truth #2!
Marvel's Captain America is famous for his strength, determination, and the super-soldier serum that corses through his veins — but up until very recently, it held no name aside from a simple descriptive term. That has changed with the release of Captain America: Symbol of Truth #2, in which Sam Wilson as Captain America tracks down what he initially believes is a supply of the serum. The serum gets an updated name at last — and Deadpool, of all people, gives it an actually fitting name.
In previous comic continuity, Steve Rogers lost his powers and aged rapidly thanks to the super-soldier serum wearing down. Thus, Sam Wilson took over the mantle of Captain America in 2014. When Steve Rogers returned to full strength, both characters operated as Captain America — and in Captain America #0, they agreed there would be no asterisk next to either of their names as they decided to equally share the name. Rogers became the Sentinel of Liberty and Wilson became the Symbol of Truth — but for all intents and purposes, both are Captain America and are referred to as such.
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In Captain America: Symbol of Truth #2, written by Tochi Onyebuchi with art by R.B. Silva, Sam Wilson pursues a cargo purportedly containing a key component for the super-soldier serum (but he was mistaken, and the cargo was actual people). Deadpool, teaming up with Captain America, muses that the name is overly-convoluted.«There's gotta be a faster way of saying that,» he says. «Like, I dunno, Triple-S or something.» Sam agrees and refers to the serum as Triple-S.
It is admittedly odd that the super-solder serum
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