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marvel cinematic universe - Is the Super-Soldier serum in Incredible Hulk the same as the one in Captain America: The First Avenger?


In Captain America: The First Avenger, Dr. Erskine creates the formula and uses it successfully on two people. In The Incredible Hulk, General Ross dusts off the old Super Soldier serum, except the tank it's stored in says it's developed by Dr. Reinstein with a Stark Industries logo on the label. When I first saw Hulk, I thought this was a callback to Captain America's serum, as it's referred to as a Super Soldier serum earlier in dialogue, and the label has the term 'Vita-Ray' which is a crucial component to Captain America's creation. Is the serum in Hulk a different serum than Captain America's?


Something to note is that in the original Captain America #1 comic book, the scientist who injects Steve Rogers with the serum to turn him in to Captain America is named Professor Reinstein. I only know this as that comic is one of the extras on the Iron Man 2 blu-ray. My incredibly limited knowledge of the Captain America lore told me that Erskine was the inventor of the formula.



Answer




If you are referring to the serum which was given to Tim Roth's character (Emil Blonsky) I do not believe it was the same serum that was created by Dr. Erskine.


In Captain America: The First Avenger all of Dr. Erskine's serum is destroyed almost immediately after Steve Rogers is imbued with it.


In The Avengers movie Steve Rogers is speaking with Agent Coulson about Dr. Banner. I don't have the exact transcript but it went something like this:



Rogers: So Dr. Banner was trying to reproduce the same serum used on me?
Coulson: A lot of people were.



The serum used on Col. Blonsky was one of those attempts to reproduce Dr. Erskine's formula. When General Ross has the serum administered to Blonsky he says they are going to start with small dose and at the first sign of side-effects they were going to stop treatment. Since there was no reason to suspect Dr. Erskine's formula to be flawed (given the success of Rogers) this must be an attempt to reproduce the original work.


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