Captain America: The Winter Soldier

[yuushi]

Having not read the comics with his origin, I'm imagining the moniker "Winter Soldier" is a play on the opening lines of Thomas Paine's The American Crisis?"These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the

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[seoidin]

It's funny you should mention the Black Widow thing. Only today as I rewatched Avengers Assemble I thought: "she MUST have some Anti ageing potion. For her to have THAT interesting a backstory, she's need to have been around at least in the 70s..."

[yuushi]

First off, good to hear from you!

I actually now recall a comic I once had which featured a flashback story of Wolverine and Captain America rescuing a very young Natasha Romanoff . . . back in the 1940s!!!

Don't quite recall if they ever explained away Black Widow's lack of aging since then. Might be something like how Winter Soldier never aged.