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- With Steve never being picked, poor Dr. Erskine is harangued into picking Gilmore Hodge to undergo Project Rebirth. Hodge still becomes a super soldier, though not quite as amazing as Steve would have been.
- Erskine survives the day of Hodge’s transformation because he was up in the gallery when Hydra attacked instead of down in the lab. He continues his work well past WWII and contributes many amazing innovations in the field of genetics to the scientific community.
- They only execute Project Rebirth a handful of times before Erskine intentionally corrupts the serum, rendering it useless. He’s unwilling to see what horrors the world could face with a full army of super soldiers. The four men who went through the procedure after Hodge are used on the front lines, helping to turn the tide of the war, despite it never being revealed that they are enhanced.
- Hodge as Captain America never gets past the “dancing monkey” routine and spends all of WWII selling bonds and filming ads. He hates every minute of it and after the war he works for the government in a quieter, more secretive capacity along with the one other enhanced individual who survives the war.
- When Hydra finally rears its ugly head during the war, the US is ready with the four super soldiers already over in Europe. It doesn’t take long until Hyrda is retreating to lick its wounds in the shadows.
- With no winter soldier to help with it’s resurgence, Hydra flounders to make a comeback. They have no one to train their recruits to their full potential and no perfect assassin to carry out their missions. They’re reduced to a joke, a group of crazies who thought they were tougher than they actually were. After a brief attempt in the 60s, Hydra goes permanently extinct. The Red Room is never founded and in 1989 Natalia Alianovna Romanoff is recruited by the foremost dance academy in Russia. She never steps foot in a Red Room and goes on to live a fulfilling life as a world renowned prima ballerina.
- Peggy Carter still goes on to found SHIELD after WWII. With Hydra eliminated, they never infiltrate Peggy’s organization and SHIELD goes on to do amazing things for the US and the world.
- When the attack on New York happens, SHIELD helps stop Loki along with help from Tony Stark, Thor, Bruce Banner, and Clint Barton who later team up under the moniker The Avengers.
- Later on when Thanos comes for the infinity stones, SHIELD and the Avengers take on Thanos and his Chitauri army. It’s not an easy battle, but in the end they eliminate the mad titan and the universe is at peace once again.