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* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, it's Peggy Carter who became the super-soldier during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, while Steve became a proto-[[Characters/MCUIronMan Iron Man]] known as the HYDRA Stomper, and [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] was never lost in the Arctic. The episode is essentially "Captain Carter: The First Avenger".

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* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, it's Peggy Carter who became the super-soldier during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, while Steve became a proto-[[Characters/MCUIronMan Iron Man]] known as the HYDRA Stomper, and [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] was never lost in turned into the Arctic.Winter Soldier. The episode is essentially "Captain Carter: The First Avenger".
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** When Peggy is brought into the present via the Tesseract, she appears the exact spot Loki did in the opening of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.
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* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, it's Peggy Carter who became the super-soldier during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, while Steve became a proto-[[Characters/MCUIronMan Iron Man]] known as the HYDRA Stomper, and [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] was never lost in the Arctic. The episode is essentially "Captain Carter: [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger]]".

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* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, it's Peggy Carter who became the super-soldier during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, while Steve became a proto-[[Characters/MCUIronMan Iron Man]] known as the HYDRA Stomper, and [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] was never lost in the Arctic. The episode is essentially "Captain Carter: [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger]]".The First Avenger".
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* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, it's Peggy Carter who became the super-soldier during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, while Steve became a proto-[[Characters/MCUIronMan Iron Man]] known as the HYDRA Stomper, and [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] was never lost in the Arctic. The episode is essentially "Captain Carter: The First Avenger".

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* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, it's Peggy Carter who became the super-soldier during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, while Steve became a proto-[[Characters/MCUIronMan Iron Man]] known as the HYDRA Stomper, and [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] was never lost in the Arctic. The episode is essentially "Captain Carter: The First Avenger".[[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger]]".
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* DeathByAdaptation: The Red Skull in the main universe didn't die, merely banished to Vormir to serve as the Soul Stone's guardian for all eternity. Here, in this universe, the Red Skull ends up being crushed and presumably eaten by the monster he tried to summon. He didn't even get to fight Captain Carter.

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* DeathByAdaptation: In this case, death by alternate timeline. The Red Skull in the main universe didn't die, merely banished to Vormir to serve as the Soul Stone's guardian for all eternity. Here, in this universe, the Red Skull ends up being crushed and presumably eaten by the monster he tried to summon. He didn't even get to fight Captain Carter.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: As Howard has trouble operating the control panel to close the portal, Peggy quips about the trouble he's having.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: As Howard has trouble operating struggles to operate the control panel to close the portal, Peggy quips about the trouble he's having.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Howard Stark attempts help Captain Carter stop the [[EldritchAbomination Kraken]] by [[ReverseThePolarity Reversing The Polarity]] to send the Kraken back into the portal but he has trouble due the words of controls [[LanguageBarrier being in end German]].
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* AlmostKiss: Peggy and Steve are about to kiss when Howard suddenly appears in front of the window they're sitting at and interrupts them.
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* BilingualBonus: The book about the Tesseract is written in Italian, and while most of it is just filler, it says among others "Don't let the angry purple boy touch this."

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* BilingualBonus: The book about the Tesseract is written in Italian, and while most of it is just filler, it says among others "[[BlatantLies Totally ordinary cube]]" and "Don't let the angry purple boy touch this."
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* HeroesPreferSwords: In the final battle, Captain Carter grabs a broadsword from the castle wall to fight the Kraken. When she resurfaces in the present in place of Loki, Nick Fury demands her to "put down the sword", before Hawkeye informs him that he is talking to Captain Carter, hero of WW2.

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* HeroesPreferSwords: In the final battle, Captain Carter grabs a broadsword from the castle wall to fight the Kraken. When she resurfaces in the present in place of Loki, Nick Fury demands her to "put down the sword", before Hawkeye informs him that he is talking to Captain Carter, hero of WW2.[=WW2=].

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* BilingualBonus: The book about the Tesseract is written in Italian, and while most of it is just filler, it says among others "Don't let the angry purple boy touch this."



--> '''"General" / "Captain Carter":''' ''You're lucky to be in the room.''

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--> '''"General" -->'''"General" / "Captain Carter":''' ''You're lucky to be in the room.''


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* MatchCut: The drawing of the Tesseract in the book fades into one of the ice cubes in Peggy's drink.
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* MightyGlacier: The HYDRA Stomper (which Rogers is piloting) is powerful enough to stop trains, destroy tanks, and turn the tide of battles when it's summoned, but it's large composition makes it glacial when not using its boosters.

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* MightyGlacier: The HYDRA Stomper (which Rogers is piloting) is powerful enough to stop trains, destroy tanks, tanks and turn the tide of battles when it's summoned, but it's its large composition makes it glacial when not using its boosters.



* WhatIf: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. "What If... Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?" The result of an attempt to steal the super serum in this timeline.

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* WhatIf: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. "What If... Captain Carter Were The the First Avenger?" The result of an attempt to steal the super serum in this timeline.
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* CompositeCharacter: Peggy obviously has the personality of her MCU self and her appearance debuted in ''VideoGame/MarvelPuzzleQuest'', but her history also has much in common with that of [[Characters/SpiderGwen Samantha Wilson]], Captain America of [[ComicBook/SpiderGwen Spider-Gwen's reality]]. Like Samantha, Peggy was forced to take the serum after Steve was wounded[[note]]For Steve of Peggy from ''ComicBook/{{Exiles|2018}}'', that would proved fatal[[/note]], sacrificed herself to stop Hydra from summoning an interdimensional threat at the end of World War II and emerged in the present day having not aged.

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* CompositeCharacter: Peggy obviously has the personality of her MCU self and her appearance debuted in ''VideoGame/MarvelPuzzleQuest'', but her history also has much in common with that of [[Characters/SpiderGwen Samantha Wilson]], Captain America of [[ComicBook/SpiderGwen Spider-Gwen's reality]]. Like Samantha, Peggy was forced to take the serum after Steve was wounded[[note]]For Steve of Peggy from ''ComicBook/{{Exiles|2018}}'', that would proved prove fatal[[/note]], sacrificed herself to stop Hydra from summoning an interdimensional threat at the end of World War II and emerged in the present day having not aged.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: As Howard has trouble operating the control panel to close the portal, Peggy quips about the trouble he's having.
-->'''Peggy:''' Don't tell me the American playboy needs help pushing buttons.

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* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, it's Peggy Carter who became the super-soldier during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, while Steve became a proto-[[Characters/MCUIronMan Iron Man]] known as the HYDRA Stomper, and [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] was never lost in the Arctic.

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* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, it's Peggy Carter who became the super-soldier during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, while Steve became a proto-[[Characters/MCUIronMan Iron Man]] known as the HYDRA Stomper, and [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] was never lost in the Arctic. The episode is essentially "Captain Carter: The First Avenger".



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%%*ContinuityNod:*ContinuityNod: Fan theory is that the Arc Reactor is reverse engineered Tesseract technology, hence why Howard and Tony use it as clean energy. In this timeline, Howard uses the Tesseract as a power source for the HYDRA Stomper armor, and when deprived of it, the armor quickly runs out of power.
** Just like Tony's scrap Arc Reactor not being able to fully power the Mk 3 Armor back in Iron Man 1, the power surge the Commandos give the HYDRA Stomper in the final battle can only power the suit for a limited time, with the lightning blasts draining the capacitors by a good portion. Furthermore, while powered by the Tesseract, the lightning is blue, while in the final battle it is yellow.



* ForWantOfANail: The new timeline arises from Peggy choosing to stay in the main theater rather than watch from the observation room.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: As Howard has trouble operating the control panel to close the portal, Peggy quips about the trouble he's having.
-->'''Peggy:''' Don't tell me the American playboy needs help pushing buttons.
* HeroicSacrifice: Peggy shoves the EldritchAbomination back into the collapsing portal when it manages to wedge the portal open by force even after Howard reverses the polarity.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Red Skull's hideout is known as ''Castle de krake''. Krake as in ''kraken''...
* ForWantOfANail: The new timeline arises from Peggy choosing to stay in the main theater rather than watch from the observation room.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: As Howard has trouble operating
room, coupled with the control panel HYDRA agent attempting to close blow up the portal, Peggy quips about complex before the trouble he's having.
-->'''Peggy:''' Don't tell me
transfusion can even begin, even attempting to assassinate Steve.
* HeroesPreferSwords: In
the American playboy needs help pushing buttons.
final battle, Captain Carter grabs a broadsword from the castle wall to fight the Kraken. When she resurfaces in the present in place of Loki, Nick Fury demands her to "put down the sword", before Hawkeye informs him that he is talking to Captain Carter, hero of WW2.
* HeroicSacrifice: Peggy shoves the EldritchAbomination [[EldritchAbomination Kraken]] back into the collapsing portal when it manages to wedge the portal open by force even after Howard reverses the polarity.



* IronicEcho: Early on, the General dismisses everything Carter says out of sheer sexism, including calling the project a failure and how Peggy can't be a soldier because of her gender. After she proves herself on multiple missions and he becomes a professional ass-kisser taking credit for the various exploits, she sternly tells him the same comment about his usefulness as she explains their mission to avenge Steve's supposed death on the attack on the HYDRA Castle.
--> '''"General" / "Captain Carter":''' ''You're lucky to be in the room.''
* KnightlySwordAndShield: Fitting the aesthetic of an old fashioned British superhero, Captain Carter employs incredible close quarters combat skills, which are augmented by her vibranium shield and later a broadsword.



* MightyGlacier: The HYDRA Stomper (which Rogers is piloting) is powerful enough to stop trains, destroy tanks, and turn the tide of battles when it's summoned, but it's large composition makes it glacial.

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* MightyGlacier: The HYDRA Stomper (which Rogers is piloting) is powerful enough to stop trains, destroy tanks, and turn the tide of battles when it's summoned, but it's large composition makes it glacial.glacial when not using its boosters.
* NonActionGuy: Howard Stark, in a departure from the original plot, ends up not only building the HYDRA Stomper for Steve, but also ends up in the field with Captain Carter in the attack on the Castle, and becomes instrumental in defeating the Kraken.


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* SummonBiggerFish: Upon recovering the Tesseract, Red Skull opens a portal to call forth his champion, a [[EldritchAbomination Kraken]] that is many times larger than the castle, and that is just its tentacles.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: As Howard has trouble operating the control panel to close the portal, Peggy quips about the trouble he's having.
-->'''Peggy:''' Don't tell me the American playboy needs help pushing buttons.
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* DeathByAdaptation: The Red Skull in the main universe didn't die, merely banished to another planet as the Soul Stone's guardian for all eternity. Here, in this universe, the Red Skull ends up being crushed and presumably eaten by the monster he tried to summon. He didn't even get to fight Captain Carter.

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* DeathByAdaptation: The Red Skull in the main universe didn't die, merely banished to another planet Vormir to serve as the Soul Stone's guardian for all eternity. Here, in this universe, the Red Skull ends up being crushed and presumably eaten by the monster he tried to summon. He didn't even get to fight Captain Carter.
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* DeathByAdaptation: See the below example.

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* DeathByAdaptation: See The Red Skull in the below example.main universe didn't die, merely banished to another planet as the Soul Stone's guardian for all eternity. Here, in this universe, the Red Skull ends up being crushed and presumably eaten by the monster he tried to summon. He didn't even get to fight Captain Carter.
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* CompositeCharacter: Peggy obviously has the personality of her MCU self and her appearance debuted in ''VideoGame/MarvelPuzzleQuest'', but her history also has much in common with that of [[Characters/SpiderGwen Samantha Wilson]], Captain America of [[ComicBook/SpiderGwen Spider-Gwen's reality]]. Like Samantha, Peggy was forced to take the serum after Steve was wounded[[note]]For Steve of Peggy from ''ComicBook/{{Exiles|2018}}'', that would proved fatal[[/note]], sacrificed herself to stop Hydra from summoning an interdimensional threat at the end of World War II and emerged in the present day having not aged.
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* LightningBruiser: Captain Carter is incredibly agile and powerful, taking out {{Mooks}} as quickly as they come.


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* MightyGlacier: The HYDRA Stomper (which Rogers is piloting) is powerful enough to stop trains, destroy tanks, and turn the tide of battles when it's summoned, but it's large composition makes it glacial.


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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Peggy loves Steve because he's supportive, kind, and good to her, and doesn't care if he's short, sickly, and asthmatic.
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*DeathByAdaptation: See the below example.
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* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, it's Peggy Carter who became the super-soldier during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, while Steve became HYDRA Stomper, a proto-[[Characters/MCUIronMan Iron Man]] and [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] was never lost in the Arctic.

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* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, it's Peggy Carter who became the super-soldier during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, while Steve became HYDRA Stomper, a proto-[[Characters/MCUIronMan Iron Man]] known as the HYDRA Stomper, and [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] was never lost in the Arctic.

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* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, it's Peggy Carter who became the super-soldier during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, while Steve became a proto-[[Characters/MCUIronMan Iron Man]] and [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] was never lost in the Arctic.

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* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, it's Peggy Carter who became the super-soldier during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, while Steve became HYDRA Stomper, a proto-[[Characters/MCUIronMan Iron Man]] and [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] was never lost in the Arctic.


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* HerociSacrifice: Peggy shoves the EldritchAbomination back into the collapsing portal when it manages to wedge the portal open by force even after Howard reverses the polarity.

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* HerociSacrifice: HeroicSacrifice: Peggy shoves the EldritchAbomination back into the collapsing portal when it manages to wedge the portal open by force even after Howard reverses the polarity.
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* EldritchAbomination: Red Skull gets the idea to summon one as HYDRA's champion. It crushes him almost immediately after coming through the portal.


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* HerociSacrifice: Peggy shoves the EldritchAbomination back into the collapsing portal when it manages to wedge the portal open by force even after Howard reverses the polarity.


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* IrisOut: This happens on Peggy and Steve when Howard and Bucky interrupt their date.
* LuredIntoATrap: The train is a trap set by the Red Skull to capture the HYDRA Stomper so they can use the Tesseract to summon HYDRA's champion.
* ReverseThePolarity: Howard does this to the portal so it will suck the EldritchAbomination back in. A HeroicSacrifice from Peggy is required because the monster is strong enough to hold itself on this side of the portal, preventing it from closing until Peggy shoves the whole thing through.


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* YearInsideHourOutside: Peggy spends 70 years inside the portal yet her reaction indicates she experienced almost no passage of time from her perspective.
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When [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] is unable to take the super-serum as a result of an attempted sabotage, [[Characters/MCUPeggyCarter Peggy Carter]] volunteers herself for the procedure, becoming the war hero known as Captain Carter.

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When [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] is unable to take the super-serum as a result of an attempted sabotage, super-serum, [[Characters/MCUPeggyCarter Peggy Carter]] volunteers herself for the procedure, becoming the war hero known as Captain Carter.



* WhatIf: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. "What If... Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?"

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* WhatIf: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. "What If... Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?"Avenger?" The result of an attempt to steal the super serum in this timeline.
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When [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] is unable to take the super-serum, [[Characters/MCUPeggyCarter Peggy Carter]] volunteers herself for the procedure, becoming the war hero known as Captain Carter.

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When [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] is unable to take the super-serum, super-serum as a result of an attempted sabotage, [[Characters/MCUPeggyCarter Peggy Carter]] volunteers herself for the procedure, becoming the war hero known as Captain Carter.

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Peggy returns from time and space decades after the war is won, but Steve's whereabouts are not made known to the audience, with the implication that he passed away while she was gone]].

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Peggy Peggy returns from time and space decades after the war is won, but Steve's whereabouts are not made known to the audience, with the implication that he passed away while she was gone]].gone.



* CaptainPatriotic / PrimaryColorChampion: Peggy wears the Union Jack on her uniform, rather than the stars and stripes of the American flag like Steve, but ultimately retains the same color scheme.
* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler:Despite the changes to the timeline in this reality, [[Characters/MCUSHIELDLeadership Nick Fury]] and [[Characters/MCUHawkeye Hawkeye]] are still recruiting the Avengers Initiative for [[Characters/{{MCUSHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D.]] in the present day]].
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Peggy meets Nick Fury in the present day, presumably joining this timeline's version of the Avengers Initiative]].

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* CaptainPatriotic / PrimaryColorChampion: CaptainPatriotic: Peggy wears the Union Jack on her uniform, rather than the stars and stripes of the American flag like Steve, but ultimately retains the same color scheme.
* ForWantOfANail: The new timeline arises from Peggy choosing to stay in the main theater rather than watch from the observation room.
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InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler:Despite Despite the changes to the timeline in this reality, [[Characters/MCUSHIELDLeadership Nick Fury]] and [[Characters/MCUHawkeye Hawkeye]] are still recruiting the Avengers Initiative for [[Characters/{{MCUSHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D.]] in the present day]].
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Peggy Peggy meets Nick Fury in the present day, presumably joining this timeline's version of the Avengers Initiative]].Initiative.
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When [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] is unable to take the super-serum, [[Characters/MCUPeggyCarter Peggy Carter]] volunteers herself for the procedure, becoming the war hero known as Captain Carter,

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When [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] is unable to take the super-serum, [[Characters/MCUPeggyCarter Peggy Carter]] volunteers herself for the procedure, becoming the war hero known as Captain Carter,
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!!! '''Alternate take on:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''

When [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] is unable to take the super-serum, [[Characters/MCUPeggyCarter Peggy Carter]] volunteers herself for the procedure, becoming the war hero known as Captain Carter,

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!! "What If... Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?" contains examples of:
* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, it's Peggy Carter who became the super-soldier during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, while Steve became a proto-[[Characters/MCUIronMan Iron Man]] and [[Characters/MCUBuckyBarnes Bucky Barnes]] was never lost in the Arctic.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Peggy returns from time and space decades after the war is won, but Steve's whereabouts are not made known to the audience, with the implication that he passed away while she was gone]].
* CanonImmigrant: Captain Carter debuted as a playable character created for ''VideoGame/MarvelPuzzleQuest'', who was then brought into the comics through ''ComicBook/{{Exiles|2018}}'', and now she exists within the MCU multiverse.
* CaptainPatriotic / PrimaryColorChampion: Peggy wears the Union Jack on her uniform, rather than the stars and stripes of the American flag like Steve, but ultimately retains the same color scheme.
* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler:Despite the changes to the timeline in this reality, [[Characters/MCUSHIELDLeadership Nick Fury]] and [[Characters/MCUHawkeye Hawkeye]] are still recruiting the Avengers Initiative for [[Characters/{{MCUSHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D.]] in the present day]].
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Peggy meets Nick Fury in the present day, presumably joining this timeline's version of the Avengers Initiative]].
* WhatIf: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. "What If... Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?"
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