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* In their origins, steroids were looked as if they were this: some magic serum that gave new soldiers muscles with no training whatsoever.
* During the [[War of the Pacific]] Chilean soldiers developed a toxic drink nicknamed "La Chupilca del Diablo" (The Devil's Booze), which consisted of a mix of strong Aguardiente and ''black gunpowder''. According to that era's records, the unholy mixture caused the Chilean soldiers to go absolutely ''berserker'' and able to ignore pain or fatigue, but because of the toxic nature of the drink, this Super Serum was only used on extreme situations. For the record, that war had Peru and Bolivia teaming up against Chile, and Chile ''won that war.''
* Scientists have actually developed a reliable supersoldier serum. However, it [https://web.archive.org/web/20120430082909/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45890174/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/scientists-make-supersoldier-ants
* The [[Nazis With Gnarly Weapons|German military]] from 1938 throughout [[World War Two]] used liberally a compound of the dreaded methamphetamine (then known as [http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,354606,00.html Pervitin]), under the hope it would give the soldiers and most importantly airmen superhuman performance. While the effects of meth as an insanely strong stimulant are known, the mild concentration used back then led the troopers to stay awake for weeks, raise themselves from total exhaustion, [[Deconstructed Trope|but it did not grant]] ''super''human powers.
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