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** Not only that, but it's a one time pad cypher, which are uncrackable if used correctly.
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* NeckSnap: A young Dottie in the cold open, after besting a fellow student in a fight.

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* NeckSnap: A young Dottie girl in the cold open, after besting a fellow student in a fight.
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This kid has been training for, what, 5 years by then?


* NeckSnap: A young Dottie in the cold open. Though it's somewhat ludicrous that a little girl could do that. The fact that she did it to another little girl doesn't actually make it more realistic.

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* NeckSnap: A young Dottie in the cold open. Though it's somewhat ludicrous that open, after besting a little girl could do that. The fact that she did it to another little girl doesn't actually make it more realistic.fellow student in a fight.
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* NeckSnap: A young Dottie in the cold open. Though it's somewhat ludicrous that a little girl could do that. The fact that she did it to another little girl doesn't actually make it more realistic.
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* IJustWantToBeYou: After breaking into Peggy's apartment, Dottie sits at her mirror and practices saying "Hello, I'm Peggy Carter" in an English accent.
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* VodkaDrunkenski: Dugan offers Ivchenko a bottle of bourbon, to which he laments it's not vodka. After tasting it, he thinks it tastes terrible, only to ask to keep it anyway. He's last seen sleeping with it.

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* VodkaDrunkenski: Dugan offers Ivchenko a bottle of bourbon, to which he laments it's not vodka. After tasting it, he thinks it tastes terrible, only to ask to keep it anyway. He's last seen sleeping with it.it.
* YankTheDogsChain: The episode ends with Peggy gaining her male colleagues' respect and convincing her boss that Stark might not be guilty but also with Sousa confirming that Peggy was the mysterious blonde at the nightclub.
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* KickTheMoralityPet: In the opening, young Dottie shares some bread with a girl bunking next to her. In the next scene, though, they're forced to fight, and when Dottie wins she's ''ordered'' to snap the poor girl's neck.
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* VodkaDrunkenski: Dugan offers Ivchenko a bottle of bourbon, to which he laments its not vodka. After tasting it, he thinks it tastes terrible, only to ask to keep it anyway. He's last seen sleeping with it.

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* VodkaDrunkenski: Dugan offers Ivchenko a bottle of bourbon, to which he laments its it's not vodka. After tasting it, he thinks it tastes terrible, only to ask to keep it anyway. He's last seen sleeping with it.
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* TykeBomb: The Russian "Black Widow" program has been training young ChildSoldiers as enemy infiltrators since 1937, and is a precursor to the training that Natasha Romanoff underwent. Brutal, smart, equally adept with hand-to-hand, small arms, acrobatics, evasion, these gals are quite formidable at a very young age. So by Dottie's age...

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* TykeBomb: The Russian "Black Widow" program has been training young ChildSoldiers as enemy infiltrators since 1937, and is a precursor to the training that Natasha Romanoff underwent. Brutal, smart, equally adept with hand-to-hand, small arms, acrobatics, evasion, these gals are quite formidable at a very young age. So by Dottie's age...age...
* VodkaDrunkenski: Dugan offers Ivchenko a bottle of bourbon, to which he laments its not vodka. After tasting it, he thinks it tastes terrible, only to ask to keep it anyway. He's last seen sleeping with it.
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* FullyDressedNudity: Peggy and Sousa react with embarrassment at him accidentally seeing her underdressed, even though she's basically still wearing the equivalent of a black minidress. Well, different times, after all.

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* FullyDressedNudity: FullyClothedNudity: Peggy and Sousa react with embarrassment at him accidentally seeing her underdressed, even though she's basically still wearing the equivalent of a black minidress. Well, different times, after all.
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* FullyDressedNudity: Peggy and Sousa react with embarrassment at him accidentally seeing her underdressed, even though she's basically still wearing the equivalent of a black minidress. Well, different times, after all.

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** Dugan offers to nickname Peggy "Miss Union Jack". In the 616-Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Union Jack is a British costumed hero who is a counterpart to Captain America and was active during both World Wars and the modern day through {{Legacy Characters}}. The first Union Jack appeared in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' under his civilian identity James Falsworth.
** The "Black Widow" program used ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarves'' to teach its students English.

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** Dugan offers to nickname Peggy "Miss Union Jack". In the 616-Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Union Jack is a British costumed hero who is a counterpart to Captain America and was active during both World Wars and the modern day through {{Legacy Characters}}. Character}}s. The first Union Jack appeared in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' under his civilian identity James Falsworth.
** The "Black Widow" program used ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarves'' to teach its students English.
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** Dugan offers to nickname Peggy "Miss Union Jack". In the 616-Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Union Jack is a British costumed hero who is a counterpart to Captain America and was active during both World Wars and the modern day through {{Legacy Characters}}. The first Union Jack appeared in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' under his civilian identity James Falsworth.

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* BlessedWithSuck: Captured scientist Nikolai is claimed to be able to "see" in extra dimensions, but it puts such a strain on his mind to comprehend what he's seeing that he needs regular therapy to help remain sane.



* CursedWithAwesome: Captured scientist Nikolai is claimed to be able to "see" in extra dimensions, but it puts such a strain on his mind to comprehend what he's seeing that he needs regular therapy to help remain sane.

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* DarkSecret: In World War II on the Pacific Front, Thompson was awarded a medal for bravery after he singlehandedly rescued his sleeping camp from a Japanese sneak attack. Or so the story goes. In reality the Japanese had come to surrender, and Thompson was wracked by guilt when he discovered that but too afraid to reveal it to anybody. Eventually, though, he reveals it to Peggy.

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In World War II on the Pacific Front, Thompson was awarded a medal for bravery after he singlehandedly rescued his sleeping camp from a Japanese sneak attack. Or so the story goes. In reality the Japanese had come to surrender, and Thompson was wracked by guilt when he discovered that but too afraid to reveal it to anybody. Eventually, though, he reveals it to Peggy.Peggy.
** By the end of the episode Sousa has figured out that Peggy is a double agent, but has yet to reveal that to anybody.



* HyperCompetentSidekick: Invoked by Peggy to get to go on the mission. She demonstrates her near-immediate skills in codebreaking, translation, gun fights, parachuting, and military connections, all to get to come along... officially, as just a codebreaker.

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* HyperCompetentSidekick: HypercompetentSidekick: Invoked by Peggy to get to go on the mission. She demonstrates her near-immediate skills in codebreaking, translation, gun fights, parachuting, and military connections, all to get to come along... officially, as just a codebreaker.
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* CursedWithAwesome: Captured scientist Nikolai is claimed to be able to "see" in extra dimensions, but it puts such a strain on his mind to comprehend what he's seeing that he needs regular therapy to help remain sane.


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* ReluctantMadScientist: Ivchenko and Nikolai, two Russian professionals being held hostage by Leviathan. They're both being used to assemble the stolen plans of Howard Stark's experimental engine, Nikolai to build it, Ivchenko as his therapist. Nikolai is called a "mad scientist" by Thompson, but Ivchenko objects to that, saying that Nikolai's mind just needs helping staying stable from all the abstract thinking his mind has to to do.
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* HyperCompetentSidekick: Invoked by Peggy to get to go on the mission. She demonstrates her near-immediate skills in codebreaking, translation, gun fights, parachuting, and military connections, all to get to come along... officially, as just a codebreaker.


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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Dottie fakes a moment of clumsiness to knock over Peggy's bag, giving her an excuse to rummage through it and steal Peg's room keys while pretending to put everything back inside.
* OneOfTheBoys:
** Peggy is close buds with the Howling Commandos, frequently exchanging teases and stories. They even offer to let her join their team, but she turns them down due to still having this case to solve.
** By the end of the episode, Thompson has warmed up enough to Peggy that he even invites her drinks after work with the rest of the guys.
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* DistantPrologue: The episode's introductory sequence takes place in Russia during 1937.


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* LittleMissBadass: All the nine-year-olds at the Russian school are trained in combat. Deconstructed in that they have been brainwashed and mistreated in order to become ChildSoldiers and the only one we see as an adult is still suffering the effects of it all.
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* ContinuityNod: When Jarvis is talking to Dooley, he stops himself from rubbing his ear, which Peggy told him that he does when he's lying.
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* BrickJoke:
-->'''Peggy:''' Does anyone else feel a chill going up their knickers?
-->'''Juniper:''' I would if I wore knickers.
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-->'''Juniper:''' Really regretting the lack of knickers right now.
* BringMyBrownPants: Also doubles as a BrickJoke:
-->'''Juniper:''' Really regretting the lack of knickers right now.
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* AccidentalPervert: While entering the men's locker room to deliver a message, Sousa accidentally sees Peggy in her underclothes (she was changing their because she refused to use the lady's restroom.) It's not played for fanservice, though, and tips off Sousa to something important: he sees the bullet scars on the back of her shoulder that match those of the mysterious woman who was at ''La Martinique''.

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* AccidentalPervert: While entering the men's locker room to deliver a message, Sousa accidentally sees Peggy in her underclothes (she was changing their there because she refused to use the lady's restroom.) It's not played for fanservice, though, and tips off Sousa to something important: he sees the bullet scars on the back of her shoulder that match those of the mysterious woman who was at ''La Martinique''.
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* FakeUltimateHero: Thompson got the Navy Cross for what was in truth an accidental war crime.
* HollywoodEncryption: Peggy is able to crack a message that a professional codebreaker tried and failed to decrypt for hours in a matter of minutes - in her head.


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** The "Black Widow" program used ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarves'' to teach its students English.

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* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Averted. Junior Juniper is the first teammate to die, while token black teammate Happy gets nothing worse than a leg wound.

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* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Averted. Junior Juniper is the first teammate to die, while token black teammate Happy gets nothing worse than a leg wound.



** Averted with the Howling Commandos. Ramirez excitedly calls them that, though Sawyer hates the name, despite fellow teammate Pinky thinking it up. Each member of the Commandos has their own codename, including "Dum Dum", "Happy", "Pinky", and "Junior". Dugan even offers to give Peggy her own codename, "Ms. Union Jack".

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** Averted with the Howling Commandos. Ramirez excitedly calls them that, though Sawyer hates the name, despite fellow teammate Pinky thinking it up. Each member of the Commandos has their own codename, including "Dum Dum", "Happy", "Pinky", and "Junior". Dugan even offers to give Peggy her own codename, "Ms. "Miss Union Jack".


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* {{Expy}}: Happy, the token black teammate and Pinky, the very British teammate, appear to be counterparts of ''First Avengers'''s Commandos Gabe Jones and James Falsworth, respectively. In Pinky's case it's circular, though, as the MCU Falsworth had most of his characterization based on Pinkerton, combined with a few nods to his 616-"Union Jack" identity.
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* MythologyGag:
** "Happy" Sam Sawyer takes his name from the company commander of ''ComicBook/NickFury and his ComicBook/HowlingCommandos''.
** Junior Juniper is the first teammate to die in the episode. Juniper in the comics was the first Howling Commando to die and the first Marvel hero to be KilledOffForReal.
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* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Averted. Junior Juniper is the first teammate to die, while token black teammate Happy gets nothing worse than a leg wound.
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* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Dooley says as much when explaining his reluctance on sending Peggy on a live-fire mission. If she gets killed, he gets blamed for letting a woman die. But if a guy gets killed, it's treated as a sacrifice he made.

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* {{Brainwashed}}: It's not detailed exactly to what degree, but the little Russian girls are at least given subliminal messages with their language training, and possibly malnourished along with being chained to their beds (a conditioning that is drilled into them for so long, it continues into adulthood).

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* AccidentalPervert: While entering the men's locker room to deliver a message, Sousa accidentally sees Peggy in her underclothes (she was changing their because she refused to use the lady's restroom.) It's not played for fanservice, though, and tips off Sousa to something important: he sees the bullet scars on the back of her shoulder that match those of the mysterious woman who was at ''La Martinique''.
* {{Brainwashed}}: It's not detailed exactly to what degree, but the The little Russian girls trained to be Black Widows are at least given fed subliminal messages with their language training, and possibly malnourished along with being chained to their beds (a conditioning that is drilled into them for so long, it continues into adulthood).


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* DarkSecret: In World War II on the Pacific Front, Thompson was awarded a medal for bravery after he singlehandedly rescued his sleeping camp from a Japanese sneak attack. Or so the story goes. In reality the Japanese had come to surrender, and Thompson was wracked by guilt when he discovered that but too afraid to reveal it to anybody. Eventually, though, he reveals it to Peggy.

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* TykeBomb: The Russians seem to have been developing young ChildSoldiers as enemy infiltrators since 1937, possibly a precursor to the program that Black Widow underwent. Brutal, smart, equally adept with hand-to-hand, small arms, acrobatics, evasion, these gals are quite formidable at a very young age. So by Dottie's age...

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* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodeNames:
** Although the advertising for the episode called the Russian ChildSoldier group "the Black Widow program", it is never referred to as such in the episode itself.
** Averted with the Howling Commandos. Ramirez excitedly calls them that, though Sawyer hates the name, despite fellow teammate Pinky thinking it up. Each member of the Commandos has their own codename, including "Dum Dum", "Happy", "Pinky", and "Junior". Dugan even offers to give Peggy her own codename, "Ms. Union Jack".
* TykeBomb: The Russians seem to have Russian "Black Widow" program has been developing training young ChildSoldiers as enemy infiltrators since 1937, possibly and is a precursor to the program training that Black Widow Natasha Romanoff underwent. Brutal, smart, equally adept with hand-to-hand, small arms, acrobatics, evasion, these gals are quite formidable at a very young age. So by Dottie's age...
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Agents Carter and Thompson head to Russian-held territory, along with the old allies the Howling Commandos, to intercept Leviathan and a possible sale of Howard Stark's weapons. Meanwhile, trouble brews at home with Dottie and Sousa both running their own investigations against Peggy.

* {{Brainwashed}}: It's not detailed exactly to what degree, but the little Russian girls are at least given subliminal messages with their language training, and possibly malnourished along with being chained to their beds (a conditioning that is drilled into them for so long, it continues into adulthood).
*TykeBomb: The Russians seem to have been developing young ChildSoldiers as enemy infiltrators since 1937, possibly a precursor to the program that Black Widow underwent. Brutal, smart, equally adept with hand-to-hand, small arms, acrobatics, evasion, these gals are quite formidable at a very young age. So by Dottie's age...

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