dea-goes-a-tumbln | janeturenne:
My first reaction was ‘Nice thought but there’s no way, Coulson is much younger than…’ and then I stopped mid-thought.
Because you know what.
You know what.
After Steve, the US government had to keep trying to recreate the Super-Soldier Serum.
And who
and who
would be the FIRST DAMN PERSON IN LINE to volunteer?
They told us it never worked again. And that was kind of true. They never again recreated the super-strength or the gleaming pecs. But other things, they got right. They got the vastly delayed aging. And the kind of reflexes that make a man able to take out two armed thugs with a bag of flour. And the talent for leading through example. And they got the most important part, Erskine’s favorite part: the magnification of moral fiber, taking the loyalty and selflessness of a loyal and selfless man and making him into something spectacular.
Coulson didn’t buy those vintage cards on Ebay.
He’s had them since he was a little boy.
That little boy right there.
Interestingly enough, this is Nick Fury’s actual canon backstory.
He was a soldier in World War II. Served with Cap, in fact, as leader of the Howling Commandos. And he was given something called the Infinity Formula, which more or less stopped his aging. I can’t remember now whether it was supposed to be a derivative or attempt at the Super-Soldier Serum, or if it was its own thing.
(Also, before they had to adjust the timelines due to, you know, years passing, Tony Stark was actually the guy who got Nick Fury appointed as head of SHIELD. I miss that bit of the old Marvel canon.)