Doesn’t matter who’s in the tights,
so long as they bring enough
Hostess Brand Fruit Pies to the fights.
They surely don’t have real fruit filling in every bite?
A little more info on our man Nuke…and a cite of another comic that said:
So, at least some villains have tried to recreate the “origins” of super-powered heroes.
However…it’s possible that Nuke himself wasn’t the result of the same super-soldier process used to create Cap, but merely a test subject of a different line of research under the same program.
And here’s a Marvel Super-Soldier FAQ that gives a fairly good listing of a lot of the super-soldiers (and super heroes and villains, and other related parties) who seem to have received varients (obtained through espionage, partial notes, back-engineering, etc.) of the “Rebirth” process. NOT included, however, are all the members of the pre-Steve Rogers program, which was carried out only on black soldiers—Most of whom ended up dying. (The only survivor, Isaiah Bradley—who eventually suffered brain damage, although his rate of aging seems to have been greatly slowed down, possibly even halted—even fathered a son who later manifested super-soldier abilities.)
All told, I think we have a small freakin’ platoon of super-soldiers in the Marvel universe by now. 
And don’t even think about trying to replace Ralph Dibney. Nobody but Ralph could be Elongated Man.
Hey, some of us just like butter pecan.
I believe it was John Stuart Mills who said:
“If there was no Matter-Eater Lad, it would be necessary to invent him”
or words to that effect.