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Ep. 239. Who is the Night Nurse in Marvel Comics?! · Vigilante Vibes Podcast

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  Hi Marvel fans, comic geeks and all the nerds in between.
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  My name is Megan with vigilante vibes and today I'm here with
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  another character breakdown, which is not a surprise.
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  And today I want to talk about Night Nurse.
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  So I've been wanting to make this episode for a while now.
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  So I've kind of just had it in my back pocket.
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  But with Matt Murdock in Daredevil Born Again Season 2
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  Episode 5 dropping that I know a nurse line, I felt this would be
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  the perfect time to do this. So we're going to talk about
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  Night Nurse. So Night Nurse actually appeared
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  in Lynda Carter Student Nurse Number One in June of 1961 and
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  was created by Stan Lee and Al Hartley.
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  So Night Nurse's actual name is Linda Jane Carter and she grew
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  up in Allentown, NY and the she was the daughter of a small town
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  doctor and she followed that same path right into medicine.
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  After finishing medical school and becoming a registered nurse,
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  she moved to New York City and started at Metro General
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  Hospital alongside Christine Palmer in Georgia Jenkins.
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  So sometimes you'll hear in Marvel Comics that there's three
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  night nurses. There's only one, the night
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  nurse, but she also has two other nurses that work alongside
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  her, which is Christine and Georgia.
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  Christine Palmer will sound familiar because if you've seen
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  any of the MCU, you'll know that she's a really big deal to
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  Doctor Strange. Somewhere along the way, she got
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  engaged to a rich businessman, Marshall Michaels.
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  But when he gave her the choice between marrying him and
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  quitting nursing or staying at the hospital completely, she did
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  not hesitate. She chose her career and let him
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  go, which is we love a strong queen.
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  And while she was at Metro General, she proved she wasn't
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  just skilled with patients, she had a sharp investigative mind
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  too. At one point, her life took a
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  turn when she was saved by a masked vigilante.
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  That moment stuck with her and she decided to give back in her
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  own way. She created a secret identity,
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  night nurse, and opened a hidden clinic in Manhattan's Chinatown,
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  where she quietly treated injured superheroes.
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  She became the go to doctor for the superhero community,
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  especially for people like Daredevil, Captain America, and
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  Doctor Strange. She helped Daredevil recover
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  after a brutal fight with the Yakuza and later treated him
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  again after he was shot, though that situation spiraled fast
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  when Black Widow, the Hand, and the FBI all showed up at once,
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  ending in a full blown fight and his arrest.
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  She also patched up a lecturer after months of torture at the
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  hands of the Scrolls. Something to note about the
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  Night Nurse is that she never accepts payment from the heroes
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  she helps patch up. She sees it as performing a
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  public service and keeping heroes healthy and safe.
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  During the civil war between the superheroes, Linda sided with
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  Captain America's anti registration side, the Secret
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  Avengers, helping the faction from a SHIELD safe house and
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  even attending Caps wake when it was thought he was dead.
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  After that, Linda saved Doctor Steven Strange's life after he
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  had been shot by Hitler's handgun.
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  The two of them learned of an elixir that could cure any
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  illness known to man, including cancer, and went on a quest to
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  retrieve it to save the life of Strange's best friend and
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  partner, Wong. We all know Wong.
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  We all love Wong. Linda and Steven then began a
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  short lived partnership and romantic relationship, but they
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  broke it off soon after. I liked them together
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  personally. Through it all she kept doing
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  what she does best, helping anyone that came through her
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  door. She treated Luke Cage after a
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  near fatal injury like we did see in the show when he was when
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  he shot. No, it was Jessica Jones that
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  shot him in the face with a shotgun, not him.
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  But he did tell her to anyways. She stitched up spider man.
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  She helped Iron Fist recover, aided Ariana and Black
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  Tarantula, brought Nomad back from the brink, and even helped
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  Firestar through chemotherapy. No matter who they were, if they
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  needed help, she was there. Her personal life wasn't much
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  easier, though. She dated Hawkeye for a time,
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  but his obsession with taking down the Hood's gang kept
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  getting in the way. Things finally fell apart when
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  one of his allies died despite her efforts to save him.
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  But after that, she couldn't stand by and watch him keep
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  going down the path, so she walked away.
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  I swear, man, every time I turn around Hawkeyes with someone
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  else, dude gets around. Then came one of her toughest
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  cases, Spider Woman. When Jessica Drew came to her
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  feeling sick, Carter discovered her powers were actually killing
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  her not long after during a symbiote invasion.
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  Carter's clinic was intact by a symbiote dragon, which is wild.
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  A symbiote dragon she called in every ally she could.
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  Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Spider Woman, Captain Marvel, even her
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  ex Hawkeye, which has to be weird.
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  Spider Woman managed to destroy the creature using a serum, but
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  it messed with her head and turned her against her own
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  friends. Carter had to lock her in a Hulk
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  tank until she could stabilize until someone broke her out.
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  Eventually, things settled. Spider Woman recovered, made
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  things right, and Carter even stepped in to babysit her son.
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  Jerry or Gary, I don't know. I've never heard someone say it
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  out loud. It's Gerry.
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  I'm going to say Jerry. But even that didn't stay simple
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  for long. When a suspicious version of
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  Spider Woman showed up acting very off, Carter clocked it
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  immediately. Something was not right, and she
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  knew it. And she was right, it wasn't
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  Jessica. The real Spider Woman arrived
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  just in time, took down the imposter and rushed off to save
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  her son. Who is Jerry or Gary?
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  Through everything, the chaos, the fights, the losses,
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  impossible situations, Lynda Carter AKA Night Nurse never
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  backed down. She didn't need powers, a
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  costume, or recognition. When heroes fall, she's the one
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  that puts them back together. And in a world full of gods and
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  monsters and Wizards, that might make her one of the strongest
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  people out there. So that is Marvel Comics Night
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  Nurse. You can see that Lynda Carter is
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  pretty different from Claire Temple, but at the same time,
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  are they? Both of them do whatever they
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  can for whoever needs their help, even if they don't like
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  them. Claire, I don't think she likes
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  any of these characters and she goes out of her way to help them
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  all. Just so some people know, Claire
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  Temple being Night Nurse, that's actually a combination of two
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  different characters, Night Nurse and Claire Temple.
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  Claire is her own character in the comics.
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  Personally, I love that they put them together.
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  I think it worked out beautifully.
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  I think Rosario Dawson does an incredible job and she has to
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  come back, right? Like she was the one that tied
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  all the shows together. It wasn't the hand, it wasn't
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  the heroes, It was the one consistent thing.
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  It was her. She's the one that met all of
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  them. She's the one that patches them
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  up. She's the one that talks about
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  the other heroes and the other shows while she's in their
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  shows. She is the one thing that keeps
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  it all together, and it would be insane if they didn't bring her
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  back. Also, like, girl, Rosario
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  Dawson, you know, you're filming Ahsoka right now.
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  You're on the same lot. You're right next door.
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  Quit playing with us. You could just pop next door and
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  be clear for a little bit, please, because that would be
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  cool. So yeah, that is all I have to
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  say about Nightmare. I hope you enjoyed it.
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  I hope you learned something, and I hope you will like and
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  subscribe. With that being said, have a
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  marvelous night.