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Over sixty years later, racked by guilt, Yank is visited by the American Spirit, a spectral flag, apparently made of the blood of patriots, who tells Yank that the world is worse off without the heroes that the Yank had captured in the Urn and that Yank only had a short time to live. Against his Great-Grandfather's wishes, Fighting Yank decides to don his magic cloak once again and follow the America Spirit.

* [[A God Am I]]: Captain Future.

* [[Badass Bookworm]] - The Black Terror, Hugo "Doc" Strange, The Target, American Crusader and a handful of others had professional vocations with various scientific qualifications before they got their powers and decided to drop everything to fight [[Those Wacky Nazis]]. They're largely Pharmacists and Metallurgists rather than [[Half Life|Physicists]], though.

* [[I Love Nuclear Power]] - American Crusader was the first superhero who got his powers through this. Several other public domain characters eventually followed suit.

* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] - The original Blue Beetle appears as "Big Blue" to avoid trademark conflicts with DC Comics. Ditto several other characters those codenames are currently trademarked by Marvel or DC. They could have used the original names, but then, they couldn't have sold a Blue Beetle comic, Blue Beetle action figures, etc without getting sued by the current trademark holders.

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] - F-Troop ([[F Troop|not that one]]) are zombie [[Super Soldiers]]! Yank's grandfather is a racist ghost!

** [[Word of God]] says that Black Terror is "pirate Superman". Hell yes.