Peggy Carter : The Power Broker

 

Being sick at home 🤧 and watching movie marathons does have one good thing about it, you come up with some really great, if not slightly crazy, ideas for those characters and film franchises. 😵‍💫

Since Steve Rogers went back in time, to return the stones in Endgame, he decided to live out his life with the love of his life, but what else happened?  What if this part of life is what would create the opportunity for Peggy Carter’s niece to become, The Power Broker, in the MCU we know?

After a bit of a “honeymoon period” Steve and Peggy decide to get back to fighting the evil in the world and, in secret form, The Invaders, with Namor, the original Human Torch (no sidekick), the Whizzer, Union Jack and even having Peggy occasionally suit up as a female, Union Jack.

Doing all this completely under the radar would expand Carters connections and end up giving those connections to her niece, who uses it a bit different than her aunt.  

This makes the younger Carter being “The Power Broker” a lot more believable than just another agent who just happens to gain all this… 

This kind of project is what could fulfill the rumors and lure Chris Evans back to his star spangled role, more adventures as a younger Cap in WWII, which would be awesome.  This would allow seeds to be planted for things that are or will pop up in the current MCU.

After Marvel gets things worked out over Fox and the X-Men we could see Captain America’s adventure in Madripoor with Wolverine from back in the day.

Not having The Invaders and officially having, The Howling Commando’s in the MCU was a big mistake and could make for some great movies and build the Captain America legacy that it deserves.

The Doolittle Raid : Throwback Thursday

 Throwback Thursday

The Doolittle Raid

This is one of the turning points in the Pacific theater during World War II.  It turned the morale around here in the states completely.

If you've ever seen the classic Charlton Heston film, Midway, then you've seen some footage of the planes heading off to the raid, in the opening credits of the movie.  They made brief mention of the raid in the first conversation between the Heston character and the Hal Holbrook character.

The raid was one of the biggest risks taken in the entire conflict, it was an all volunteer mission, the volunteers were trained without knowing what their mission was at all and it was considered a one way trip by some.

The planes left off the USS Hornet and flew in very low, tree top level and didn't find a lot of

airborne resistance as Japan thought that their homeland was safe from such an attack, with Admiral Yamamoto being one of the few voices to warn of the possible attack.

This is one of the parts of the war that has been brought to film but really needs to be done justice, it's a truly amazing story.  Of all the planes used, only ONE made a safe and secure landing as planned, just a little more north than intended, it landed in Russia, with most of the survivors going down in or near China, the intended landing area.

What some of them went through in China is just as monumental as the raid itself and it can be experienced in the book by Captain Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, which I couldn't recommend more highly.  This memoir of the events that Lawson himself experienced as one of the pilots, as his crew endured incredible hardships and obstacles to make their way back home.

It's a story that you'll be challenged to put down.