American comic book: Absolute Spider-Man

Chapter 112 Trial

Walter's story begins with a Nazi scientist named Frederick Walter.

During World War II, he was personally appointed by Shampoo as the chief physician of the Dachau concentration camp and was ordered to build a super soldier corps for the Third Reich.

His subjects were prisoners in concentration camps.

He was testing an early version of a blue serum, known as the original Type 5, on these innocent people.

It can stimulate latent genes in the human body and randomly grant superpowers. What abilities each person will awaken is completely unpredictable.

However, since Compound V was invented at the end of World War II, the shampoo did not produce its super soldier.

In 1944, with the Nazi defeat inevitable, Dr. Wörther made the same decision as many Nazi scientists: to betray his former master and defect to the United States.

The U.S. government at the time pardoned him for all his war crimes and helped him establish "Water America," which later became Water International.

Does this script look familiar?

In Peter's original universe, Hydra used this method to break up into smaller units after the fall of the Third Reich and parasitize the Strategic Scientific Corps, the predecessor of S.H.I.E.L.D.

According to this setting, Dr. Vought will continue his mission of creating a superior race using Compound V, just like Zora in Marvel.

But something funny happened: old Peter died way too young.

His wife, Clara, was injected with Stormgirl, the original fifth-generation heroine, whose mortality rate was 99.9%, but she had faith but no ability to manage things.

The company they founded was thus seized by the board of directors.

Those board members, whose minds were only on money, did not use the improved second-generation Type 5 with its extremely low mortality rate to create a super soldier army, nor did they ever think about ruling the world.

The successors at Vought International discovered that packaging superheroes as idols was more profitable than training them as soldiers.

Movies, GG (Goblin), merchandise, theme parks, reality shows—these things are far more profitable than directly selling superpowered individuals as weapons to the US government.

How much does a super soldier cost?

For one-off defense contracts, the unit price ceiling is the Pentagon's budget approval, which caps at several billion dollars.

There's only one customer, and negotiating with them depends on Congress's attitude.

How much can an idolized superhero sell for?

His movies can have a first, second, and third season, and if the audience gets tired of them, they can even make a reboot series.

A single endorsement deal for a famous superhero with soda, sneakers, or diapers can be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The most popular superhero IPs, such as Homelander and Soldier Boy, each generate hundreds of billions of dollars in profits for the company.

Both products are made from compound V, but if they are sold to the military, they can only be sold to governments; but if they are sold to the entertainment industry, they can be sold to everyone in the world, and everyone will be willing to pay for them.

Thus, a company with hundreds or even thousands of superpowered individuals possessed the power to flatten all military systems worldwide within days.

However, due to the greed and short-sightedness of its management, its positioning can only be similar to that of South Korea's SM Entertainment.

It wasn't until Stan Edgar came to power and discovered that Vought had a huge cash flow and media capital, but lacked sufficient political influence, that Vought attempted to venture into the military and pharmaceutical industries.

However, this transformation was not entirely successful.

The Department of Defense has never approved Compound V for inclusion in the military's formal establishment, and the Super Soldier program has been repeatedly rejected at hearings.

Then Homelander, who was under Vought's mind control, lost control and seized power in Vought International with the most powerful superpowers on Earth. Only then did Vought completely break free from the framework of entertainment and military industry.

He installed puppet presidents, established concentration camps, and turned companies into tools of his personal dictatorship.

This company, which originated from Nazi concentration camps, has circled around for eighty years and finally returned to its original direction:

To place one person above all others.

After defeating Homelander, Peter will have everything in the world at his disposal.

Therefore, Peter plans to have Parker Industries directly take over and replace Vought as the giant corporation in the Black Robe world.

Parker Industries' branch in the Black Robe world will, like the headquarters of the Marvel Universe, gradually develop into a giant spanning multiple fields such as medicine, military industry, materials, internet, entertainment, and aerospace.

At that time, Parker Industries in the Black Robe Universe will become a narrative anchor, working alongside other superhuman groups in this world that are similar to, yet not identical to, Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero teams, to make the compatibility between the two worlds close enough.

Peter sat in Homelander's high-backed leather chair, his fingers interlaced on the table.

Homelander lay on that huge conference table, the rise and fall of his chest indicating that he was still alive.

Peter withdrew most of the solar dust, leaving only some to sever his nerve signals, temporarily turning him into a vegetable.

On Friday, the same text message was sent to all communication terminals inside the building: "All non-superhumans, in order of employee number..."

First, line up outside the top-floor conference room. Anyone attempting to escape will be killed on sight.

Peter will be put on trial here.

The first person to walk in was a legal advisor.

When she saw Homelander lying on the conference table, her heart skipped a beat.

"You drafted confidentiality agreements for Vought and handled public relations for the atrocities committed by Vought's superhumans. After the victims' families signed those agreements, did you regret what you did?" Peter asked the legal counsel.

The legal advisor remained silent.

Her lips were pressed into a thin line, and her hands were folded on her knees.

Peter's eyes caught the trembling of her fingertips, the kind of trembling that occurs when capillaries spasm due to excessive tension as muscles struggle to remain still.

Her index fingernail was digging into the web between the thumb and forefinger of her other hand, the force so great that it had left a deep red, arc-shaped indentation on the skin.

She probably didn't notice it herself, and Peter didn't remind her either.

His ears caught every compensatory acceleration of her heartbeat; her heart rate rose silently, each rise corresponding to a memory in her mind that constantly tormented her conscience.

The victim's family member grabbed her sleeve while she was signing; she hung up on a call for help late at night and didn't answer it; or she secretly picked up a copy of the contract from the shredder after get off work and pieced it back together.

These fragments bombarded her brain in turn, and Peter could hear the echoes of their explosions.

Peter possesses top-notch micro-expression and body language reading skills, which allows him to see through most lies in the world, even though he is just a mortal.

Not to mention, he can use his super senses to hear other people's heartbeats and smell the hormones and pheromones emitted by human skin.

Homelander can use this method to determine whether someone around him is lying to him, and so can Peter.

The legal counsel finally managed to gather her thoughts amidst her complex emotions, but just as she was about to speak, Peter interrupted her.

"No need to say anything, go stand over there." Peter waved his hand. "Next."

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