Dr. Abraham Erskine

I'm willing to go.

So at the world exposition of tomorrow with his best friend, Bucky Barnes, Steve persistence catches the attention of Dr. Abraham Erskine.

Erskine recruits him into the strategic scientific reserve because of his moral character rather than physical stature.

So that was always a thing.

Um, I mean, look, he definitely wanted to do it.

Like, anytime I seen it, it was just like, nah, fam.

I was never rolling with that.

So in a secret Brooklyn facility, Dr. Erskine subjects Steve to the super soldier serum and Vita rays or Vita rays with technical support from Howard Stark, successfully transforming him into a peak, a peak human specimen.

Mm-hmm

... that, and, and there, there was the conversation he had with the German guy, what's his name? The guy who, the doctor.

A- about, um, how the serum was going to only work with people that, uh, could still feel compassion.

Yes.

Uh, but Stanley Tucci also in that great monologue that I loved the night before the procedure too, he talked about how like-

Oh, that was beautiful

... how, how much the German people were actually affected too.

Mm-hmm.

Heard this entire exchange.

Dr. Abraham Erskine is the lead scientist of the Strategic Science Reserve.

It's like the SSR.

basically the allies like cutting edge of scientific research uh strategic science research whatever residing it is reserved and um he's been waiting for a guy just like steve rogers so he goes and does the enlistment interview himself and he notes he's got the all the records he's like so you've been trying to sign up under different aliases in different cities for a while oh true And Steve's

Where you from?" And he's like, "Queens." And he's like, "Brooklyn." It was like that's such a New York interaction.

But, like, it calls back to Captain America: First Avenger where he meets Dr. Erskine's character-

Mm-hmm

... played by Stanley Tucci, and it's the exact same interaction of like, "Oh, Queens, Brooklyn."

And it was during World War II.

And, um, Dr. Erskine, was he German?

There was definitely a German in there.

Yeah, Stanley Tucci's character who developed the, the serum, super soldier serum.