Peggy Carter

Peggy Carter is a WWII era Marvel character known as an ally/love-interest of Captain America, and the founder of S.H.I.E.L.D..

History[]

Background[]

Peggy Carter was an English woman and military officer during the 1930s-1940s and sister to soldier Michael Carter. Peggy joined the Strategic Scientific Reserve in the USA where she worked alongside Howard Stark and Abraham Erskine to create the super-soldier serum.

This resulted in the transformation of Steve Rogers into Captain America before Erskine was assassinated by the nazi group HYDRA, taking his secrets with him. Peggy worked alongside Steve whom she had a romance with until Steve sacrificed himself to crash a HYDRA plane headed for New York City into the Arctic Ocean.

Post-War[]

After Steve's death, Peggy continued work for the SSR and would investigate a quarantined series of anomalous, Vishanti ruins at a complex run by Howard Stark. Peggy would work at this complex alongside Stark and Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis. Also in the 1950s, Howard create a complex in Paris, France which had a secret base for the SSR located within one of his factories where Peggy would have an office. From this office, Peggy seemingly used the alias of, "Monsieur J. R. Aubac", having the name on her stamp.^[1]

Peggy's office in Paris was used to investigate Steve Rogers' disappearance, attempting to find his body as well as the lost Tesseract. Peggy was accompanied by her best-friend Angie Martinelli, who worked as a waitress for a nearby American diner. Around this time, Peggy was affiliated with a Russian spy known undercover as, "Dottie Underwood" and Peggy would keep a photo of Dottie to remember their relationship. Eventually, Dottie would go on to be a founding member and leader of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division AKA, "SHIELD".