Originally I was going to have Fury be the one to bring Captain America onto the mission in-game, much like the movie. But since I already used that scene for the start of Cap's chapter I thought it might be redundant.
So instead, Clark and Chris were talking to each other before the game and it was decided he'd just be hanging around with Coulson after all the set-up.
The way Clark talks, I can't tell if he means the in game 90s, or if this campaign has been going on since the 90s. Which isn't hard to believe, if Clark is the same as his actor in age, he is 60 so he definitely could have been playing since then.
A Captain Marvel reference? Huh, wonder if that means Capt. Marvel was a character from an earlier campaign that ends up being brought back, or if the player just has a history of Broken characters.
At the risk of sounding like a man fishing for engagement and more page views, there's at least one prior reference to Captain Marvel the movie all the way back in the first Iron Man chapter (I guess technically two, but one's more explicitly Captain Marvel-y than the other one). I'm also game to just give it away outright since it's not a huge secret or anything.
The explicit reference was Clark wanting to inspect Stane's corpse to see what color it turned, which was meant to be a reference to his previous run-in with Skrulls.
Much less explicitly, Kevin confirming that Clark wanted to play Coulson "again" was also meant to reference the Captain Marvel campaign, since (at the risk of further enforcing that I don't have this whole thing completely planned out XD) originally I hadn't cemented the idea of the S.H.I.E.L.D. team as a pre-existing group.
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So instead, Clark and Chris were talking to each other before the game and it was decided he'd just be hanging around with Coulson after all the set-up.