Captain America film informatics Part 12B: Members of the Howling Commandos

DUM DUM DUGAN
Timothy Aloysius "Dum Dum" Dugan is an Allied soldier who was captured by HYDRA. When Captain America single-handedly assaulted the facility in which he was prisoner, Dum Dum along with his companions broke free and wreaked havoc on the HYDRA agents, returning to the US military base immediately after.
Dum Dum Dugan is a belligerent but witty person, a gentle giant who hates injustice and is extremely loyal to his comrades. As a member of the Howling Commandos, he's recognised as one of the most skilled soldiers in US Army. He's highly trained, and he possesses a great amount of strength. After the breaking of HYDRA facility, he took possession of some enhanced guns which he uses in battle.
After the war, Dugan became a charter member of SHIELD alongside Carter and Stark; with whom he seemed to develop a friendship, as the former visited the latter's estate.


GABE JONES
Gabriel "Gabe" Jones was born in New York City. He is an original member of the fictional, elite Howling Commandos combat squad of World War II, and the first African-American to serve in an integrated unit. After the war, Jones joined SHIELD and together with Fury and Dugan, successfully stopped a Nazi splinter group from gaining a version of the Super-Soldier formula.


JIM MORITA
Jim Morita was a Japanese-American soldier who was born in Fresno, California. Morita and his comrades were invited to join a special elite squadron led by Rogers himself. Morita accepted, despite the perspective of coming back to the front-line immediately after merely escaping with his life. Jim Morita was a silent and serious man, but a loyal soldier who believes in honor and respect.


JAMES MONTGOMERY FALSWORTH
James Montgomery Falsworth was a member of the 3rd Independent Parachute Brigade of the British army. His unit was captured by the Germans and sent to work at the top secret HYDRA weapons facility in the Austrian Alps. He was freed with the rest of the prisoners by Captain America and helped Dum Dum Dugan control a HYDRA Tank in order to cause panic in the enemy lines.
Falsworth and the rest of the freed soldiers slowly marched to the US military base in Italy. Upon arrival, he and the rest of the soldiers all cheered Captain America for saving their lives.
Later, Falsworth was handpicked to join the Howling Commandos, along with Dugan and Bucky to be Captain America's personal unit, and helped cleanse HYDRA from Germany.


JACQUES DERNIER
Jacques Dernier is a French Resistance freedom fighter during WW2. When World War II began, France was occupied by German forces, and Dernier joined the French Resistance. Eventually, Dernier was captured by the Germans and sent to work at the HYDRA weapons facility in the Austrian Alps. It was there that he met Dugan and the other Allied soldiers; due to his poor command in English, he was closest to the French-speaking Gabe Jones.
In November 1943, when Captain America single-handedly assaulted the facility in which he was prisoner, Dernier along with his companions broke free and wreaked havoc on the HYDRA agents, coming back to US militarybase in Italy immediately after.

Captain America film informatics Part 12A: The Howling Commandos

The Howling Commandos is a World War II military commando unit led by Captain America.
The men that formed the Howling Commandos were originally prisoners of war that were held captive by HYDRA. They were liberated by Captain America on his first mission and selected by him to become a task force for the Strategic Scientific Reserve; that they would be recruited into a special elite squad under his command. Together they destroyed many HYDRA bases and kidnapped HYDRA's top scientist Arnim Zola. They then participated in attacking Johann Schmidt's last HYDRA base along with other US forces. After Barnes' and Cap's disappearance, the 5 members mourned for his loss. Their fates after WW2 are currently unknown, presumed to have died or retired from military service.

Barnes, along with the rest of the Howling Commandos; were alluded to when Rogers states he knew men with none of Tony Stark's privelage that were ten times his worth. While working out in the gym in the present, Steve Rogers thinks back to his war adventures in which footage of Dugan could be seen. In a deleted scene Steve can be seen viewing files on Morita and Falsworth which both label "deceased".

Captain America film informatics Part 11B: The Winter Soldier

Steve Rogers’ best friend Bucky Barnes was thought to have died in World War II. However, he managed to survive the fall from Zola's train, though he lost his left arm. He was found by HYDRA soldiers and taken to a secret laboratory. The HYDRA scientists brainwashed him, replaced his lost arm with the robotic one, and gave him a serum similar to the Super Soldier Serum. Thanks to this serum, Bucky remained young until the 21st century, eventually becoming a brainwashed, mega-enhanced mercenary terrorist known as the Winter Soldier.

It is highly likely that while Bucky was captured, Arnim Zola was experimenting with an alternative to the Super Soldier Serum (which explains his delirious state in Zola's lab when Steve Rogers found him), thus granting Bucky the ability to survive his fall from the train in 1944. The hardened Winter Soldier has no memories of his former identity and that suits him just fine — he is simply a killing machine.


Powers and abilities
After Bucky fell into a trench in an ice mountain, he was saved and given a metal arm, along with some other enhanced abilities.

Abilities
Enhanced Strength: The Winter Soldier has strength that is even superior to Captain America. Much of his strength is due to his cybernetic left arm.
Enhanced Speed: The Winter Soldier's speed is also comparable to Captain America's, who had difficulty catching up to him.Winter Soldier's left arm is a cybernetic prosthetic with superhuman strength and enhanced reaction time.
Cybernetic arm: Winter Soldier's left arm is a cybernetic prosthetic with superhuman strength and enhanced reaction time. The arm can function when not in contact with Barnes and can discharge bolts of electrical energy from its palm. The arm can discharge an EMP causing electronics to either shutdown or become useless.

Skills
Master Combatant: The Winter Soldier is a highly trained martial artist and excels at improvisation and weapons handling. His time as the Winter Soldier helped to further hone his skills, making him the equal to his predecessor in combat skills and an expert assassin and spy.
Expert Marksman: Bucky was a remarkably precise shot, even prior to being turned into the Winter Soldier.

Captain America film informatics Part 11A: Bucky Barnes

James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes is the protégé and childhood friend of Captain America, and a member of an elite special unit of Allied soldiers formed in World War II known as the Howling Commandos. He was assumed dead after falling off of Zola's Train but somehow survived to return as The Winter Soldier.

Bucky was orphaned at an early age and had been living in an orphanage ever since. During a regular day, he noticed a skimpy, weak kid getting beaten up by some bullies. He stepped in and saved the kid, who introduced himself as Steve Rogers. Years later, during an art class Bucky and Steve found out that America has joined the Second World War. Over the next two weeks he trained Steve at Goldie's Boxing Gym. They visited US Recruiting and Induction Center in New York City where Steve was classified as 4F and rejected from service. But Bucky was later enlisted in the Army and assumed the title of Sgt. Barnes.
The day before his shipment out to England, Bucky saved his friend Steve from being beated up by a bully. Bucky and Steve then went to the Stark Expo on a double date, though Bucky was having fun, Steve was more interested in enlisting for the fifth time. Despite Bucky's protests Steve went through with it but said goodbye to Bucky before doing so. Bucky and his unit the 107th then shipped to England the next day.


A year later, Bucky and his unit consisting of 200 men went up against a Nazi sup group named HYDRA lead by Johann Schmidt at the orders of the SSR but 150 of the men were either killed or captured while 50 barley escaped. Bucky and the Howling Commandos were among the captured. Bucky was taken to a prison where he was forced to work to design rockets called Valkyries, but it eventually became too much and he was taken to an isolation clinic for interrogation. But a few days later Steve (who had become Captain America) infiltrated the base, freed the prisoners and eventually Bucky too. During the escape Bucky and Steve encountered Schmidt and Zola but were able to escape them and the facility before it blew and walked all the way back to base, 30 miles out.


In the winter of 1944, Bucky and Captain America boarded a HYDRA train carrying Arnim Zola. Bucky takes Captain America's shield and blocks him while he's down, but clearly not having the upper body strength to hold on to it when getting hit it shoots him out the side of the train. He was hanging on to a rail on the outside of the train, but it broke before Cap was able to save him, which resulted in Bucky falling into an icy river below.

More than seventy years after the end of World War II, Steve Rogers, having been awakened in the 21st century, studied S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files about the Commandos. In Bucky's file, he was reported as "Missing in action", implying that he may be still alive in the modern age.

Captain America film informatics Part 10: Abraham Erskine

Dr. Abraham Erskine was the elderly German scientist who created the Super Soldier Serum and subsequently turned Steve Rogers into Captain America.

Dr. Erskine was Bavarian scientist during the rise of Nazi Germany. Nazi officer and head of HYDRA, Johann Schmidt, forced Erskine to give him his prototype of the Super Soldier Serum. Unfortunately Erskine's formula transformed Schmidt into a madman and gave rise to his nickname, the Red Skull. After that Erskine fled to America eventually settling in Queens, New York.


When World War II started, Erskine joined the U.S. government's Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) under Colonel Chester Phillips. Erskine was at the Modern Marvels of Tomorrow Exhibition when Steve Rogers was enlisting for the fifth time. Dr. Erskine later asked Rogers if he wanted to kill Nazis. When Rogers said that he didn't want to kill anyone but simply didn't like bullies, his answer satisfied Erskine enough to approve Rogers' draft card as 1-A. At Camp Lehigh, although Rogers struggled through basic training due to his small size and poor health, his perseverance and ingenuity impressed Erskine, who regarded Rogers as the clear choice. Erskine resisted Chester Phillips' efforts to persuade him to select Gilmore Hodge, who was physically superior, but whom Erskine regarded as a bully. Erskine's confidence in Rogers was cemented when he witnessed Rogers throw himself on what he thought was a live grenade in order to protect his fellow soldiers.


After Rogers was selected, Erskine came to the private quarters to offer him a drink from Ausburg, but didn't give it to him because the experiment was tomorrow so Steve couldn't have any liquids. Erskine told Rogers of his early experiments, Schmidt, and his reason why he chose Steve for the experiment. Erskine told him about Schmidt and explained while someone like Schmidt, who has known power all his life might lose respect for that power, a weak man like Rogers would know the value of strength. Erskine urged Rogers not to forget who he was, not a perfect soldier, but a good man.


When Rogers arrived at the secret lab in Brooklyn, Erskine with help from fellow scientist Howard Stark injected him with penicillin and then with the Super Soldier Serum, lastly bombarding him with Vita-Rays. Erskine nearly stopped the procedure when it appeared Rogers was having difficulty enduring the procedure, but Rogers urged him to continue. Moments later, Rogers emerged from the chamber significantly taller and noticeably more muscular.. Erskine's experiment was successful, but then one of the member of the State Department revealed himself to be HYDRA assassin Heinz Kruger, who set off a bomb to destroy the machinery and then fatally shot Erskine. Erskine's last actions before dying was to point at Rogers' heart, to stay who he is on the inside.

Captain America film informatics Part 09: Colonel Chester Phillips

Colonel Chester Phillips was the officer in command of the secret project in the Strategic Scientific Reserve aimed to create a series of super soldiers for the US Army. He was the chief of the training camp in which the candidates were trained. The scientist in charge of the project, Abraham Erskine, presented him with a potential candidate, Steve Rogers, but Rogers' frail physique and numerous health problems lead Phillips to believe that Rogers was unsuitable, at one point suggesting Gilmore Hodge, a physically superior soldier but also a disagreeable showboat. To prove his own theory correct, Phillips threw a fake grenade at the soldiers, but Rogers was the one who attempted to shield the blast with his own body while the other soldiers, including Hodge, take cover. Phillips reluctantly gave in, though he still felt that Rogers is too skinny.


Later on, after Rogers was transformed successfully by Erskine's serum, the doctor was killed by an HYDRA agent named Heinz Kruger, and Phillips decided to leave the untrained Rogers behind and to continue the war the old fashion way. When a huge platoon of 400 men goes missing, among them Rogers' best friend James "Bucky" Barnes, Phillips, though regretful for his soldiers' fate, refused to allow Rogers to attempt a rescue mission, planning to bomb the facility instead, although Rogers defied Phillips' order. When Rogers was successful in rescuing the men alone, however, Phillips allowed him to work in the field, and entrusts him with a special elite commando force, rather than punishing him as Rogers had believed.


After Arnim Zola was captured, Phillips successfully interrogated him and located Johann Schmidt's last secret HYDRA base. While Rogers distracted the enemy, Phillips himself led the assault on the base, defeating a large number of HYDRA agents. Eventually, he helped Rogers in reaching the Red Skull's experimental plane riding Schmidt's special car, ending on the edge of a ravine and seeing the plane flying away with Rogers and the Skull aboard. His last words to Rogers are "I'm not kissing you!" after Rogers kissed Peggy Carter goodbye.

Later on, when Rogers relayed the news to Peggy over the radio from Schmidt's plane that he was going to sacrifice himself to destroy Schmidt's weapons of mass destruction by crashing the plane into the arctic, Phillips listened in on Rogers' final conversation. When the radio went blank, Phillips, visibly saddened at his friend and comrade's apparent demise, walked away, and later handed Rogers' file to Peggy.


Colonel Phillips' current fate was unknown, though it is most probable that he died of old age in the seventy years before Cap's awakening.

Captain America film informatics Part 08: Howard Stark

Howard Stark was a brilliant inventor and businessman and the father of Tony Stark/Iron Man. He founded Stark Industries. During WWII he worked on various government projects, including the Manhattan Project and "Project: Rebirth". Howard also helped the Strategic Scientific Reserve fight against HYDRA.

World War II
Howard Stark was an eccentric industrial genius, inventor, and businessman. He founded Stark Industries, was the top engineer for the the Strategic Scientific Reserve. Stark proudly showed off multiple world-changing inventions at his World Exposition of Tomorrow in 1942, including a flying car and a prototype android. Secretly, however, Stark was working with the allies in order to help in World War II, performing multiple experiments for them and working as their weapons specialist.


During the second World War, Howard was instrumental for "Project Rebirth", the project of the SSR that Steve Rogers underwent in order to become U.S. Army's first Super Soldier. Howard built a machine that used up half of the power in Brooklyn to dowse Rogers with vita-rays after receiving the super-soldier serum developed by Dr. Abraham Erskine. The process successfully transformed weak and scrawny Steve Rogers into the muscular Captain America, though Dr Erskine was soon assassinated by a HYDRA agent. 


When Cap was going on a solo mission to save his friend Bucky and the POWs that were captured at a HYDRA base, Stark personally flew him where he needed to go, and afterwards constructed his shield from pure vibranium and also made for Steve an upgraded military uniform to use as Captain America. When Captain America crashed in the ocean with the Red Skull and the Cosmic Cube, Howard refused to abandon his friend, and charted multiple expeditions out the ocean to search the sea for him. Though they failed in their search, they did discover the Cosmic Cube, laying on floor of the ocean after falling out of the Red Skull's craft during the crash. He attempted to figure out how the Cosmic Cube worked, but had less than helpful results.

Post War
After WWII, he shared Stark Industries with close friend Obadiah Stane, and together they were responsible for the development of many weapons for the U.S. military. Along with government associates, Howard has become a founding member of S.H.I.E.L.D. In 1954, Howard created the Stark Expo, a world wide technology fair where the world's new technology would be presented to show a bright future for mankind. He also co-developed the arc reactor with defected Soviet scientist Anton Vanko. Though the power of the arc reactor was immense, Howard saw it as the stepping stone to create a new, stable element that would render nuclear power obsolete. However, Anton saw the arc reactor as a way to get rich and when Howard found out, he had Anton deported back to Siberia. 
At that time, he met a woman called Maria with whom they had a son, Tony. Howard never showed his son any love, which Tony despised him for. However, deep down, he cared about his son, and had high hopes that Tony would someday change the world. Howard was limited by the technology of his time and could not finish the new element, so he embedded the atomic structure of the new element in the 1974 Stark Expo model, and a message to Tony in one of his old home movies, stating that he had high hopes that Tony could figure it out with the current technology and change the world. Before the film ends, Howard said that Tony was and always would be his greatest creation.

Death and Legacy
Howard and Maria were killed in a car accident on Long Island in December 1991, and their son inherited Stark Industries, becoming the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company, at age 21. After watching the 1974 message video and examining the Expo model, Tony discovered the new element, noting that his father was still teaching him even after being dead for over two decades. The new element was the key to a safer and more powerful arc reactor, which Tony needed to power the electromagnet protecting his heart without poisoning his blood, like what the palladium had been doing to him. Creating a miniature accelerator in his basement lab, Tony was able to synthesize the new element, upgrade the design of the arc reactor to clean his blood, and create the powerful new Mark VI armor.

The Avengers
Howard Stark's file is among the ones Rogers studies after his awakening in the present days, and he's obviously reported as "Deceased". Howard's past association with Captain America is referenced when Tony notes that his father talked about Cap a great deal, although Tony initially expresses doubt towards Rogers' abilities until he sees the super soldier in action.

Captain America film informatics Part 07: Peggy Carter

Margaret "Peggy" Carter was a British officer with the Strategic Scientific Reserve and Steve Rogers's World War II girlfriend.
In November 1940, she infiltrated Castle Kaufmann, the headquarters of the SS general Johann Schmidt, leader of HYDRA, Adolf Hitler's top secret science division. Disguised as a maid Eva, she freed the captured scientist Abraham Erskine and was brought into the Strategic Scientific Reserve.

While training several candidates for Project Rebirth, she came across a frail-bodied young man named Steve Rogers, who Dr. Erskine was intent on becoming the project’s first human test subject, due to his goodhearted nature and great will to serve his country. Although initially skeptical of him because of his appearance and weak health, Peggy eventually saw that Rogers was smarter and more practical than the rest of the potentials, and was often amused to see the smaller man outwit the burly recruits. She was impressed and developed respect for him when, during a test, Rogers chose to muffle a grenade with his body, not knowing it was a fake. It was this choice that inevitably led the SSR to approve Erskine’s choice to make Rogers Project Rebirth’s first test subject, and Peggy was tasked to escort Rogers to the laboratory when that time came.

After Project Rebirth proved to be a success, Peggy developed a crush on the physically-enhanced Steve Rogers, though she referred to it as "having faith in him." However, following Dr. Erskine’s murder and the loss of the last copy of the serum, Peggy went on with the S.S.R. and was separated from Rogers, who was sent to tour America and became a famous icon amongst the masses as Captain America.

Peggy was reunited with Rogers when he flew to Italy to advertise war bonds and attempt to boost morale. She was unofficially on-site at the time and soon discovered that Rogers was feeling stifled once more, wanting to use the gifts Dr. Erskine had given him to serve his country as a soldier. Their conversation was interrupted when an ambulance arrived and Peggy let slip that the injured soldiers were from the 107th, at which Rogers instantly rushed to see Colonel Chester Phillips and demand the status of his friend, Sgt. James "Bucky" Barnes. Phillips confirmed that Barnes was missing, and when Rogers learned that no rescue mission was being planned, Peggy realized he was about to do it himself. Wanting to give him a fighting chance, she helped him enter enemy territory by cajoling Howard Stark into flying them there.

Later, she entered Phillips’s tent in time to hear him declare Rogers dead, after which Philips reprimanded her for her part in Rogers’s scheme. Before he could finish, a commotion drew them both out of the tent, where they found Rogers leading the formerly HYDRA-captured troops back to base.

After his incredibly successful rescue, Rogers was drafted into the S.S.R. and began to serve in a more active capacity, putting him in close contact to Peggy, who tried to remain professional around him. Her attempt largely failed when she caught him and a female lieutenant kissing, leading her to shoot him while he was trying out a new shield. She was, however, quite pleased when a film of Rogers' efforts in the field revealed that he kept a picture of her in his compass.

Following the apparent death of his friend Bucky, Peggy found Rogers attempting to get drunk in a bar she had once found him and Barnes in. She informed him that Dr. Erskine had presumed his body processed the alcohol too fast, preventing him from his goal, then told him to respect Barnes’s choice of following him until his death.

When the S.S.R. planned for a full-frontal attack on HYDRA, Peggy went along, saving Rogers from a soldier wielding flame-throwers before reminding him to go after the Red Skull. She and Colonel Philips later appeared in Schmidt's car to help Rogers get to Schmidt's plane, The Valkyrie, which was already leaving the hangar. Before Rogers headed into the plane, Peggy gave him a kiss.

Following their defeat of the remaining HYDRA soldiers, Rogers called in, reporting that Red Skull was dead but that the plane was heading for New York with no way of stopping it. Rogers decided to put the large plane in the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. Peggy, believing that this would result in his death, doesn't give up hope and insists on the matter, implying that there would be time for them to sort the situation out. Rogers claims that there isn't enough time and proceeds with the landing, and Peggy attempted to distract him from his impending death by setting a date with him, promising to teach him how to dance.

Peggy was recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D. by Howard Stark a few months after WW2 came to an end. She retired a few years before the events of The Avengers, and resides in London. Her niece Sharon Carter works as an agent for S.H.I.E.L.D.

Captain America film informatics Part 06: Strategic Scientific Reserve

Strategic Scientific Reserve is a top secret government agency that was founded by Howard Stark.

Howard Stark is known to have worked for the American government during World War II as part as the Manhattan Project as well as creating Captain America’s uniform and S.H.I.E.L.D. The Howling Commandos are said to have been under Captain America’s command, while Colonel Chester Phillips recruited and mentored Steve Rogers and was possibly his direct commanding officer.

To combat the new HYDRA, Howard Stark, Nick Fury, and perhaps Chester Philips and others as well reform their old department under the new name of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, better known as S.H.I.E.L.D.

Now in real life, the Office of Strategic Services was set up during World War II to coordinate and conduct espionage operations behind enemy lines. Disbanded after the war, it was later reformed into the Central Intelligence Agency.

Captain America film informatics Part 05: Super Soldier Serum

The Super Soldier Serum was developed by Weapons Plus, led by Josef Reinstein (real name Abraham Erskine) during World War II. The serum provided the subject with increased stamina, speed and strength, however the serum was only successfully used by the program once before the program was "put on ice" by the United States government, with the test subject Steve Rogers.

The serum's effect on the body is to increase the molecular density of cellular fibers (skin and muscle) through synthetic proteins, as well as a healing factor. However, the serum not only enhances the the body and mind, but also brings out and enhances what the person is. These personality traits are brought to the surface and manifest physically on the subject.


Steve Rogers. Erskine's insistence to find a "good man" is an understatement, in Steve Rogers he found someone with unquestionable moral value who only wanted to be the best he could be, and his physical transformation is a reflection of that. The originally frail and sickly Rogers was given micro-injections of the serum and then doused with "vita-rays" via a chamber constructed by Howard Stark. The serum metabolized and enhanced Rogers' strength, speed, agility, durability, reflexes and mentality. The cold tempartures of the Arctic combined with the effects of the serum on Steve's body is what kept him alive but in hibernation for decades, until he was found by S.H.I.E.L.D. in the modern era and defrosted. It is theorized that the serum dramatically slowed Rogers' aging due to extensively healthy cells, enabling him to retain his youthful appearance.


Johann Schmidt. This power-hungry Navi officer took the prototype serum, and his external transformation is that of a living Red Skull. Schmidt has always wanted to be seen as removed from the mere ordinary men around him, his appearance is a reflection of that. As a result of the formula developed by Abraham Erskine, he obtained incredible attributes, such as enhanced strength, speed, stamina and reflexes, and even got his intelligence increased, becoming a war mastermind. But the serum was still incomplete and imperfect when Schmidt hastily used it on himself. According to Erskine, because the serum wasn't ready, "good becomes great, bad becomes worse". As a result, his entire head became horribly disfigured, resembling a red skull, and his insanity and megalomania became magnified. Schmidt considered his grotesquely inhuman face as proof that he has left humanity behind and has truly 'become a god'.


In the 2000s, General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross of the US Army revived the Bio Force Enhancement Project, a secret project set-up after the relative failure of Project Rebirth. A failed attempt to reproduce the serum with added bouts of Gamma Radiation led to the accident that turned Bruce Banner into the Hulk. Five years later, Emil Blonsky, a captain in the British Royal Marines, was given low dosages of the serum. Blonsky's extra physical manifestations (protruding skeletal structure) takes a while to materialize. Blonsky underwent the first of two treatments, consisting of deep muscle and painful bone marrow shots. In his second encounter with the Hulk at Culver University, Blonsky diplayed increased speed, endurance, and agility. However as the fight went on, he became more agressive and rashly stood before the Hulk challenging him. The Hulk kicked Blonsky into a tree, shattering almost every bone in his body.


It appeared that Blonsky was near death, however he underwent a miraculous full recovery less than 24 hours later. Not only was he healed, but his muscle mass had increased, and his overall body fat decreased. His encounter with the Hulk has made him power hungry, obsessed, and desperate to obtain the Hulk's "god-like" power. After helping General Ross capture Banner, Blonsky later forced Dr.Samuel Sterns to transform him into something similar to the Hulk; Dr. Sterns reluctantly agreed to administer the gamma charge, though he warned Blonsky that the resulting mixture could lead to an abomination.
  

Due to the replacement of the vita-rays with the gamma radiation in the Hulk's blood, the serum kicked into overdrive, transforming Blonsky into The Abomination, a giant sized version of himself with a green tinge, with the external bone structure being a reflection of the tough monstrous fighter that he shows himself to be. Consequently, his strength does not increase with his anger, his healing factor works at a slower rate than the Hulk's, and he is unable to revert back to his human form.