''Super Soldiers'' was a

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published by the

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imprint of

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in 1993. Part of the shared

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setting, it centered on a team of superhuman

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soldiers, with some plot aspects drawing on the background of Marvel's successful

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character.

Publication history

The series was canceled after eight issues, after the first part of a new storyline, when Marvel UK abruptly ceased publishing new material.

Fictional team history

The Super Soldiers consisted mostly of individuals modified using biotechnology based on the American supersoldier codenamed Nuke. These characters were part of a British

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program, which had been officially disbanded due to a mission gone wrong, and years later reformed along with other characters such as the rowdy

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Guvnor, the

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warrior woman Xantia, and the revived (after hibernating since the 1970s) martial artist Dragonfly, to work alongside

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and the

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. In the eighth and final issue of the series, the unit found themselves

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and their contracts sold to the Mercy Corporation as an "autonomous superhero response unit". Team leader Joseph Hauer, appeared during a briefing alongside

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and

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on the details of the British Superhuman Registration Act by Contessa Valentina Allegro de Fontaine,

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and Commander

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as part of the superhuman

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. Years later the Super Soldiers had retired and written a book about their exploits; a (bad) movie was made of their book, with Gog, Guvnor, and Dalton playing themselves (as part of the contract and they could barely act) and Hauer as advisor. Most people considered them embarrassing relics, including Pete Wisdom who came to warn them about attacks on British superheroes but had no interest in recruiting them. When Mephisto's Psycho-Wraiths attacked the area to capture Hauer, the Super-Soldiers refused to withdraw but instead sacrificed themselves to allow civilians to escape. Hauer was freed and helped defeat Hell's invasion of Earth, gunning down a demonic

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. (The other three appear to be dead)

recruited him as their new European Division head.''Revolutionary War: Omega'' by Andy Lanning, Alan Cowsill, and Rich Elson (April 2014)

Notes

External links

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{{refend 1993 comics debuts Marvel UK teams