History ComicBook / TruthRedWhiteAndBlack

* NoDeadBodyPoops: DiscussedTrope. Evans justifies the soldier's unsanitary surroundings by them needing to acclimate to fowl smells in the field, including when an enemy may die.

In 2021, elements of the story were adapted in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse series ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'', with this miniseries’s protagonist, Isaiah Bradley, playing an important supporting role, as portrayed by Creator/CarlLumbly.

* AngryBlackMan: Pvt. Larsen is eager to fight Germans for the opportunity to kill white people.

* CursedWithAwesome: The survivors of the super soldier experiments are granted incredible strength, endurance, and a long life but some have to endure horrific BodyHorror transformations. What's worse, [[spoiler:Isiah, the SoleSurvivor of the program, had his mind ravaged due to a lack of treatment. As a result, while he has the body of a man a third of his age, his mind is that of a child and is incapable of communicating with others beyond simple responses.]]

* DwindlingParty: Of all of the test subjects, most of them meet horrific ends, with only six successful test subjects in the end, one of whom dies as they are being deployed to Europe. Two more meet their end during a raid on medical supplies being moved by the Germans, leaving just Isiah, Maurice and Luke. [[spoiler:Then Maurice kills Luke in a fit of rage, with Maurice being gunned down by Merritt moments after, leaving just Isiah as the only super soldier left.]]

** Isiah Bradley is introduced by spending a day at the World's Fair with his wife, Faith. Isiah is shown to be a gentle and good natured individual, showing a friendly and jovial nature. However, when he is rebuffed from a girly show by the nervous busker who claims his presence would make the women uncomfortable, Isiah is ready to take action, only to be calmed down by his wife. This shows Isiah to be someone with a decent heart, a strong sense of right and wrong, but a willingness to think of the bigger picture and not engage in violence if need be.

** Isiah Bradley is this as well.

* OutOfFocus: Out of all the three candidates, Isiah Bradley is the one who gets the least amount of development, with most of the attention going to Maurice Canfield, Luke Evans and even Larsen having more of the spotlight for most of the early issues. [[spoiler:Which makes him being the SoleSurvivor of the program more of a surprise.]]

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Isiah is this for the super soldier experiment. Notably, there were six surviving test subjects, but the rest were killed off in one way or another, leaving him the last one left.]]

[[spoiler:Evans tries to reign Canfield in after Merritt mocks him for his parents murder/suicide. This leads to Canfield cruelly crushing Evans head in with a rock.]]

* {{Retcon}}: Reinstein[[note:aka]]Abraham Erskine[[/note]]'s morality and circumstances of his death are changed. While previously a decent enough man, here he's a textbook case of MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate. And instead of being killed during or immediately after the experiment that made Steve Rogers into a super-soldier, he is killed when on stage presenting Captain America much, much later. However, "Reinstein" was later retconned to being Wilfred Nagel using the Reinstein alias, much like the original Reinstein whose real name was Abraham Erskine, thus preserving the original.

* SergeantRock: Sgt. Evans, a WWI veteran who was a Captain until he got demoted for striking a superior.

In 2021, elements of the story were adapted in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse series ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier''.

** [[spoiler:Canfield's father, but not before shooting his wife.]]

* NarratorAllAlong: The end of the fourth chapter reveals everything is being told to Steve Rogers by Faith.

* {{Retcon}}: Reinstein's morality and circumstances of his death are changed. While previously a decent enough man, here he's a textbook case of MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate. And instead of being killed during or immediately after the experiment that made Steve Rogers into a super-soldier, he is killed when on stage presenting Captain America much, much later. However, "Reinstein" was later retconned to being Wilfred Nagel using the Reinstein alias, much like the original Reinstein whose real name was Abraham Erskine, thus preserving the original.

In 2021, elements of the story were adapted in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse miniseries ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier''.

In 2021, elements of the story were adapted in ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier''.

!!Truth provides examples of the following tropes

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In 2021, Elements of the story were adapted in ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier''.

!!!Truth provides examples of the following tropes

* BodyHorror: The soldier who survive the super-soldier serum gain exaggerated, grotesque musculature, with Larsen having a large head.
* TheCameo: In the final chapter, Steve views a wall covered with pictures of Bradley with various public figures, mostly black, including UsefulNotes/MalcolmX, UsefulNotes/NelsonMandela, UsefulNotes/AngelaDavis, UsefulNotes/ColinPowell, UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli, Richard Pryor, Music/JohnLennon and Music/YokoOno, [[Music/{{U2}} Bono]], Creator/DenzelWashington and Creator/SpikeLee...
** CreatorCameo: ... As well as Kyle Baker and Stan Lee.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The FBI agent incharge of Merritt's case just happens to be the grandson of a German resistance member who has relevant information.

* CommonKnowledge: Bradley being the first ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, or preceding Steve Rogers as a super-soldier. Bradley in-story reads a year-old copy of the first Captain America comic book only a few months after he himself becomes a super-soldier. Though, the confusion regarding Dr. Reinstein contributes to the misconception.

* TheCameo: In the final chapter, Steve views a wall covered with pictures of Bradley with various public figures, mostly black, including UsefulNotes/MalcolmX, UsefulNotes/NelsonMandela, UsefulNotes/AngelaDavis, UsefulNotes/ColinPowell, UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli, Richard Pryor, Music/JohnLennon and Music/YokoOno, [[Music/U2 Bono]], Creator/DenzelWAshington and Creator/SpikeLee...

* {{Retcon}}: Reinstein's morality and circumstances of his death are greatly altered. While usually a fairly moral man, he's a lot less so here. Instead of shot during or right after the experiment, he is shot on stage when present Captain America, and his assassin is arrested by Steve rather than electrocuted when he's thrown into some machinery. However, this Reinstein was later further retconned to be a scientist with the real name Wilfred Nagel, preserving the character of the original Reinstein, who himself is actually named Abraham Erskine.

* InteruptedSuicide: Evans is right about to shoot himself when he hears news of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExagerated: [[spoiler:Isaiah]].

* WhoNamesTheirSonDude: Faith's grandson ''Litigious''. "Don't ask" she preemptively tells Steve.

* AliveAllAlong: [[spoiler:Isaiah]].

* SociopathicSoldier: Larsen claims to have killed before, including children, and is eager to kill some white people.

* DisproportionateRetribution: