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00:00 [music]
00:21 [music]
00:27 Completing a lonely tour of duty at the Avengers headquarters, Captain America, lost in memories,
00:32 thoughtfully peruses snapshots in an album filled with haunting memories.
00:38 It was years ago, but what an era they carved together, Cap and Bucky,
00:43 a cyclonic team fighting against all the forces of crime and tyranny.
00:48 Would you care for your coffee now, sir?
00:51 Yes, thank you, Jarvis.
00:52 When the other members of the Avengers have the security duty, they take their coffee at this hour also.
00:58 I can't tell you how grateful all of us are for your services, Jarvis.
01:02 Oh, it is I who am grateful, sir. I consider it a rare pleasure to serve the Avengers.
01:07 It's good of you to say that, my friend.
01:09 And now I've got to make our routine security check before heading for bed.
01:13 Very good, sir.
01:15 It's probably just boredom, but I'm actually feeling tired.
01:19 I hope it isn't my age finally catching up with me.
01:22 I couldn't bear having to retire.
01:24 What's the matter with me?
01:26 I've got to snap out of it.
01:28 I'll push aside this decoy pillar and give our secret ready room a final check.
01:33 Footsteps. Someone is inside.
01:37 It can only be an enemy.
01:39 Now he's waiting.
01:41 Whoever you are, show yourself.
01:43 Or are you afraid to face Captain America?
01:46 There he is.
01:47 The evil intruder leaps from the shadows and then recognition dawns.
01:53 Agent Axis.
01:55 The scourge of World War II.
01:57 But it can't be.
01:59 You're dead. I saw you die myself.
02:02 Why don't you say something?
02:04 Speak, you murderous devil. Speak.
02:06 He's gone.
02:08 There's no one here.
02:09 How could I have fought with a man who's been dead more than 25 years?
02:14 I must have imagined the entire thing.
02:17 Or is someone nearby hypnotizing me?
02:20 The room behind me.
02:22 No, it's empty.
02:24 Just as Iron Man left it.
02:26 But what is the answer?
02:28 Am I simply losing my mind?
02:32 Cap, Cap, look out.
02:35 That voice, it's Bucky.
02:38 They're gaining on us. You've got to drive faster.
02:42 I'm in an impossible fantasy world.
02:45 It's true, I'm going mad.
02:47 We'll hit them from two directions at the same time.
02:50 Okay, lad, it's you and me again.
02:52 Bucky, Bucky, where are you?
02:59 What? Everything's gone.
03:02 I'm back at Avengers headquarters.
03:04 It never happened.
03:06 I can no longer separate truth from hallucination.
03:09 They've got to put me away.
03:11 Or with my fighting ability, I might be a menace to mankind.
03:15 Marching men, who?
03:18 Sergeant Duffy, my old squad leader.
03:21 How can he be here?
03:23 Look alive, you blasted yard birds.
03:26 Sarge, wait. What's happening?
03:29 Captain America? Quit kidding.
03:31 There's a war on, ain't there?
03:33 And if that crummy goldbrick Steve Rogers don't report to me,
03:36 I'll have him up for desertion.
03:38 It's like a dream.
03:41 Everything's spinning around, getting dizzy.
03:45 [Train Whistle Blowing]
03:49 [Train Whistle Blowing]
03:51 [Explosion]
04:01 [Explosion]
04:03 Wake up. Wake up.
04:27 Ah, you're opening your eyes.
04:30 Then it was you who caught me.
04:32 It wasn't them.
04:34 Them, sir? I haven't any idea what you...
04:38 Oh, Captain America.
04:41 He's lost consciousness.
04:44 He's in much better physical condition than I thought he was.
04:49 Another man would not have taken nearly so long to pass out.
04:54 But I was beginning to fear the hypno-sedative I slipped into his coffee
04:59 would never affect him.
05:01 Ah, I'd better check on the real Jarvis.
05:06 Ah, ha, ha, ha. Everything is fine.
05:10 He will remain unconscious for the remainder of the evening,
05:14 thus giving me all the time I need for my mission.
05:19 Now, having no further use for the identity of Jarvis,
05:23 the time has come for me to radiate my own form of sheer, undiluted energy,
05:28 thereby transforming myself into my natural state.
05:32 [Roaring]
05:35 A blank, featureless, artificial human form known as the Adaptoid.
05:46 And now it is time I completed the mission I was created for,
05:50 the total and ultimate destruction of Captain America.
05:55 Unconscious and helpless to defend himself,
05:58 how can the gallant red, white, and blue Avenger escape the fantastic fate that awaits him?
06:05 Now I must follow the orders created by my programmed impulses.
06:10 As a life-sized Adaptoid, I'm a thinking pantograph,
06:14 capable of making exact copies of people by literally tracing them from the original person.
06:19 Now, Captain America shall be my final transfer.
06:25 [Roaring]
06:27 Using his energy ray, it takes the Adaptoid but a matter of seconds to outline his victim.
06:33 Then, once the preliminary tracing is completed,
06:37 a final burst of highly concentrated living force assures the Adaptoid of a perfect duplication.
06:44 No longer a featureless, living non-entity,
06:47 he becomes, to all intents and purposes, none other than Captain America,
06:52 just as he had been Jarvis the Butler.
06:56 [Roaring]
06:58 And at that very moment, in the headquarters of A.I.M.,
07:08 a diabolical secret organization dedicated to the development of crime...
07:12 The Imperial Vizier will be pleased to know that our supreme criminal creation, the Adaptoid,
07:19 is following the programmed information of our master plan
07:23 for the conclusive destruction of Captain America without error.
07:29 I shall take his shield, for he will need it no longer.
07:32 Since I am a carbon copy of Captain America, I have all of his strength, his power.
07:38 I am unbeatable. Not even the other Avengers can match my speed and skill in battle.
07:45 Meanwhile, in the next room, the real Captain America's amazing stamina enables him to recover consciousness.
07:52 What can have happened to me? I'll find the answer when I find my enemy, whoever he is.
07:58 Each phase of my mission has proceeded just as planned.
08:02 Now, all that remains is the final destruction of Captain America.
08:08 What?
08:09 He's an absolute replica of me. Who are you? And what are you doing here?
08:14 The real Captain America? How?
08:17 No matter. We both have the same strength, the same power.
08:21 He's right. Physically, we are exact duplicates.
08:25 But I'm certain he couldn't adapt my mind to his sensory circuits, so I can still think faster than he does.
08:32 The only difference between us is your invincible shield. With it, I cannot fail to defeat you in battle.
08:39 I've got to keep him on the defensive. Move so fast, the shield will be of no use in his hands.
08:45 What can be wrong? I adapted everything about him.
08:51 Now I know he didn't adapt my reflexes.
08:55 I've got to finish him off quickly with his shield. Not even the real Captain America can escape its deadly effect.
09:02 Thanks. I've been kind of lost without it.
09:06 You caught it. Heads up.
09:09 I must not lose. I cannot fail in my mission.
09:14 This is your finish. I'll make it as fast as I can.
09:18 I can't have you around when the other Avengers return.
09:22 They might mistake you for me and get the impression I'm old and rusty, ready for retirement.
09:29 There's more than a case of disguise involved here. He's an absolute replica of me.
09:36 Later, a now fully revived Jarvis reappears to give Cap a hand with the unconscious Adaptoid.
09:46 Earlier, he was enough like you to fool me completely. We've got to learn how he does it.
09:52 We'll leave him here until the other Avengers return. This may concern them all.
09:57 In my Captain America identity, I have failed.
10:01 But being virtually indestructible, time has no meaning to me.
10:08 (lasers)
10:10 We got here as soon as we received your message, Cap.
10:21 Adaptoid. Even that name gives me goose pimples.
10:25 Any guy who can turn himself into anyone he wants to can be a tough cookie to deal with.
10:31 I left him trussed up in here.
10:34 He looks like a lifeless dummy now.
10:37 Didn't I just see him move?
10:40 He looks completely motionless to me, but I can't shake the feeling he's aware of us even now.
10:47 Hank, as a biochemist, what do you make of him?
10:51 Can't answer that, Steve. Not without a careful examination.
10:55 The three of us have to leave again for a few hours.
10:57 After we finish our business, I'll return immediately for a detailed study.
11:02 Good enough. I'll stay here while you're gone. Let me walk you out.
11:06 (laughs) With the others gone, Captain America is now as good as slain.
11:13 Alone once more, Cap stands deep in thought on the courtyard terrace, and then...
11:20 After all his countless battles, is the fearless Avenger destined to be doomed by a high-voltage arrow from the bow of a now super-adaptor?
11:30 (explosion)
11:32 What? A high-voltage arrow?
11:36 My gloves are insulated so I can pluck it from my shield. But from where did it come?
11:41 (laughs) Cannot you guess, Captain America?
11:45 You! You've become a super-adaptoid. But how?
11:49 By using the photographic ability built into my eyes.
11:53 I was not unconscious when your partners observed me.
11:56 I studied each of you and adapted the sum total of all your powers.
12:01 And now, I am a virtually unconquerable one-man team of Avengers.
12:08 How do I battle someone who has all of my skill, plus the strength and abilities of Giant Man, Hawkeye, and the Wasp?
12:15 You are doomed.
12:17 (gunshot)
12:18 (explosion)
12:19 I've got to keep him on the defensive.
12:22 (explosion)
12:23 (explosion)
12:24 But I, too, have a shield and your ability to use it.
12:30 He's right. I'm actually battling a bigger, stronger version of myself.
12:35 (explosion)
12:36 See how easily I can fling you aside with one sweep of my giant shield.
12:42 He knocked the wind out of me. Must trick him into wasting time.
12:47 It's a pity your power does not equal your courage.
12:51 You couldn't have adapted all of our powers. You're too big to really be able to fly.
12:56 Ha ha ha ha, fool. I'll prove how wrong you are.
13:00 (music)
13:06 It worked. I gained the time I needed. But now what?
13:11 Now that I have proved my power of flight, all that remains is allowing you to drop to your doom.
13:20 I've got to force him back to Earth somehow.
13:23 So you continue to struggle till the very end.
13:28 If I can just reach his wings... I did it.
13:32 Now to pull back all the way so he can no longer use them. He's got to plummet back to Earth with me.
13:38 My wings! Release my wings! There's water below! I must not fall into it!
13:44 So that's his vulnerable spot. I'll wait till the last second before letting go.
13:50 Ha ha ha ha, that's what you think.
13:55 Now, now to grab that bridge tower. Ha! I saved myself.
14:00 But my wings are damaged. I cannot fly.
14:03 But you, Captain America, shall still not escape.
14:08 It's now or never.
14:10 Surely you don't think you can escape a super-adaptoid?
14:14 I'm sure going to try.
14:17 Okay, if you want to fight it out here, let's go.
14:21 I'll shake you from your handhold like a dog would shake a flea.
14:26 Can't let him do it. We're still too high. Oh, he's starting to take the girders.
14:31 Now I know why I was programmed to destroy you. You are the greatest fighting machine of all.
14:37 Surrender and I shall fight you no more.
14:40 Surrender? What happens if I do surrender?
14:43 If you are willing, I have the means of making an adaptoid out of you.
14:47 And then, once we have destroyed the other Avengers, we can turn all mankind into adaptoids.
14:53 And we shall be their leaders.
14:56 So the lust for power isn't merely a human trait.
14:59 You asked for my answer. There it is.
15:03 Surrender. So you had your chance.
15:07 Now, now I will shake the girders until you fall to your death.
15:13 And Captain America is thrown off balance.
15:16 But the gallant Avenger manages to catch his foot in the girders.
15:21 If I can pull myself up and grab his ankles.
15:25 I'm bound to fall, but you'll fall with me to the water below.
15:29 No, let go. Water is the one thing that will destroy me.
15:34 Then let's go for a swim.
15:36 No, no, let me go.
15:39 I will at the right moment, which is now.
15:42 And as the adaptoid meets his doom.
15:53 Slowly, a gloved hand rises from the murky waters, desperately struggling, clutching.
15:59 And then, the head of Captain America appears, gasping for life-giving air.
16:05 He is gone, disintegrated into nothingness.
16:19 Meanwhile, back at headquarters, the Avengers await the return of Captain America.
16:25 Where do you suppose Cap could be?
16:28 I can't understand. He's long overdue.
16:31 Here comes Winghead now. He looks okay, but kind of damp.
16:37 Well, whatever happened to you and the adaptoid?
16:41 He's gone forever. Even with our combined powers, he couldn't destroy us.
16:47 What do you know? It took a Captain America to defeat a Captain America.
16:55 When Captain America throws his mighty shield.
17:00 All those who chose to oppose his shield must yield.
17:04 Then he's left to a fight, and a duel is due.
17:07 Then the red and the white and the blue will come through.
17:09 When Captain America throws his mighty shield.
17:14 [SILENCE]
17:18 [BLANK_AUDIO]