#Captain America's Creators Tried To Make Super-Vampires, Too -BB
Warning: SPOILERS for Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula #1
Captain America’s creators actually tried to make super-vampires too. In Marvel Comics, the Second World War was marked by a secret „arms race“ between the Axis and the Allies. Both sides sought to create super-soldiers who could operate on the front lines, champions who would lead the charge against their enemies – even if that meant getting creative.
In Germany, Project: Nietzsche experimented with a super-soldier serum. The Americans‘ Weapon Plus Project was originally somewhat behind until high-profile German scientist Dr. Abraham Erskine joined, bringing his research notes with him. Weapon Plus set up a sub-project, Rebirth, that successfully created Captain America. But their other activities during the Second World War have remained a closely guarded secret – right up until this week’s Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula #1.
Set in 1945, Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula #1 reveals that the Weapon Plus Project set up a major facility in the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane. There, they worked with a prominent defector from Germany – Count Dracula himself. Dracula offered to use his sway in Transylvania to have them enter the war on the side of the Allies; in return, he asked the Weapon Plus Project to find a way to cure vampires of all their weaknesses. Essentially, the Weapon Plus Project was attempting to create super-vampires. Fortunately, their experiments were unsuccessful, and they were brought to an end by the intervention of Captain America himself. Steve Rogers never realized the connection between the super-soldier serum that coursed through his veins and the horrendous experiments he uncovered at Ravencroft.
A throwaway line of dialogue suggests that the man running the Ravencroft project, Professor Andre Thorton, had also been Abraham Erskine’s superior in Project Rebirth. If that is indeed the case, then a clear narrative throughline has just been created between all of Marvel’s various super-soldier projects; because Thorton remained involved in the Weapon Plus Project for decades, ultimately pioneering an Adamantium infusion process that created Wolverine.
It will be interesting to see if this helps with introducing the X-Men to the MCU. According to The Incredible Hulk, the US Government conducted similar super-soldier experiments in the MCU, determined to recreate their success with Captain America. These don’t generally seem to have been successful; the novelization includes dialogue that was cut from the final film, suggesting they generally ended in disaster. „Are you telling me another one of your Super Soldier experiments went haywire,“ General Greller complained to Thunderbolt Ross. Just as in the comics, perhaps Professor Thorton could be a narrative throughline between the various super-soldier projects – perhaps even Weapon X itself.
Ruins of Ravencroft #1 is on sale now from Marvel Comics.
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