In short, forget everything you knew before, now we have a brand new Steve Rogers, updated, but a little angry.
Now it’s not at all clear what Marvel is going to do with this piano in the bushes, because it just turns everything inside out. But there will always be dissatisfied people, right?
We criticize film comics: if there is a lot of action, we complain that the characters are poorly written, if the film has a well-developed plot and characters, there is little action. But you could just make carbon copy films based on comics and collect billions ... and what couldn’t they sit?
But it is the fans who will benefit from this turn of events - you will be told even more about the past of Steve Rogers.
MANY QUESTIONS WILL APPEAR
Cap is a Hydra agent? Ok, let's say, now what? Will Marvel continue to make films with the good Captain America, but in the pages of the comics he will be evil?
Let it be so, but now what to think about the trilogy? There, the whole meaning of what is happening is lost a little, except, perhaps, strong friendship Steve Rogers with Bucky.
And what about those who wear Captain America T-shirts and who supported him in civil war superheroes? Is it all for nothing?
Even if we assume that Marvel is really going to develop two universes separately, sooner or later they will still intersect and that's when the real f...
GOOD SHAKE
If you look at it all from the other side, it was a great move by Marvel to give their universe a good shake.
Franchises must always evolve, no matter how good they are, otherwise they will simply be forgotten. Or will you now not be able to calmly watch Marvel movies, knowing that at some point Cap will go nuts?
But it didn’t hurt you to watch the new trilogy.” star wars”, knowing that Skywalker will turn out to be Vader and kill everyone a little? Or film adaptations of "Harry Potter" and "Lord of the Rings", knowing in advance how it will all end?
So it is here - it is possible that this plot twist will be very important for the future of Marvel comics and films and will open up a lot of options for the development of events.
After all, suddenly it turns out that other characters are not who they seem to be in reality.
BEST Plot Twist
In general, Marvel came up with a very interesting move, and after all, it can be applied to those franchises that, it would seem, have already told us everything.
For example, one could fantasize that, for example, Harry Potter turns out to be a villain in the future, even worse than Voldemort, and the former Dark Lord knew about this and tried to kill him all this time. How are you? Very unexpected?
So, the choice of Marvel turned out to be quite bold, maybe even innovative.
GOOD GUYS
But what if ... no, some kind of nonsense ... what if “Hydra” is good guys and the Avengers are bad? Yes, Steve Rogers, Iron Man and all the rest have done a lot of good - they are fighting villains, saving the world, and we believe in it.
But everyone can have their own concept of good or evil, and, after all, they rightly noticed in “Confrontation” - the Avengers have no control, and it happens that innocent people can suffer from their power (hello, Hulk).
Therefore, from this point of view, the triquel posed the right question with the words iron man: "If we act with impunity and do only what we want, we are no better than the people we are fighting against."
As for Cap - he did everything to stop the Hydra, but, what an irony, in the end he turned out to be one of them. Therefore, there is another theory why he was so stubbornly trying to help Bucky - it was not a friendship, but the fact that they are both agents of Hydra.
Marvel doesn't seem to like Steve Rogers, aka Captain America. Anyway, no good with him last years do not do. First they killed him and put Bucky in his place. Then they resurrected in such a way that it would be better not to resurrect. Then they got old, replaced by Sam Wilson and pushed into the background.
Finally, Rogers returned to his youth and his own line of comics Steve Rogers: Captain America, the first issue of which was released on May 25, 2016. And in the very first issue, it turns out that when the hero of all America was still a kid, Hydra recruited him and his mother. Hydra, Carl!
According to the writers of the new arc, Captain America all these years (that is, 75 years) was a secret agent of a fascist organization. Needless to say, the whole fandom instantly "bombed"! However, Marvel does not deny their intentions. “We knew it would be a slap in the face for people,” says Tom Brevoort, Managing Editor at Marvel. “His mission is to spread the goals and ideals of Hydra. If that means destroying the Marvel Universe, then so be it."
The reaction of the public on the issue turned out to be more or less unequivocal. Go to Twitter and look at the top hashtags. #SayNoToHYDRACap now in the top of Twitter, which certainly pleases the bosses of the publishing house. Here are some publications that do not go beyond censorship:
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Critics were more lenient towards the comics. Portal Screen Rant notes that Marvel does a good job of storylines in which the good guys step on a crooked path. Tony Guerrero, author of Comic Vine, is not happy to see his childhood hero as a villain, but praises the publisher for unexpected turn. In his opinion, "it's the kind of thing that makes comics fun and exciting" and no one wants to read the same stories for years.
The opposite opinion is expressed by David Pepose in a review for the site Newsarama.com. He agrees that the heroes need reinvention, but criticizes Rogers' reincarnation, saying that one could just as well say that the Punisher was an angel all this time. This twist just doesn't inspire confidence, and just because it's unexpected doesn't make it good.
And in fact: the hero, who at his first appearance hit Hitler in the face, all this time worked for a pro-fascist terrorist organization? the main problem this turn is that there were no prerequisites for it. Captain America has always been the epitome of a hero in the Marvel Universe, and it doesn't make much sense to cover up so deeply on the side of good. And what happened so exceptional that it's time to rip off the veils?
Some bind new role Cap with the Civil War II global event... and you can play with that. It is clear that all this nonsense was started only for the sake of sacrifice to the god of sales. But Captain America is on Hydra's side in the Civil War - it really could work. And how much do we know about Hydra? What does it mean to be recruited by her? The organization has gone through several reincarnations, so it's hard to tell what ideals Rogers is fighting for. An interesting commentary on this subject is given by the same Brevoort:
Everything may not be so simple. He [Steve] didn't wear a black hat instead of a white one - he wore a green hat.
The whole world turned its attention to the mess that the authors of the new adventures of Steve Rogers brewed. Now, under the heavy gaze of the fandom, they will have to disentangle it. Who knows, maybe it will work. In the meantime, the editors are stocking up on popcorn.
In the world of superhero comics, everything is real. That is, everything. Anything, any way, anywhere, when and with anyone - there are no limits. But even in this universe of superpowers and outrageous twists, situations can arise that cause fans to chill their limbs and drop their jaws to the floor.
Accurately now we are witnessing one such turning point who turns everything upside down and shakes the foundations of the painted universes. On May 25, the first issue of the Captain America: Steve Rogers comic book was released, the screenwriter of which spat - according to the pandemonium that has risen on the Web - in the face of civilization. Namely, Nick Spencer made Steve Rogers, better known as Captain America, secret agent"Hydra", an unscrupulous Nazi organization seeking total domination. Moreover, according to Spencer's version, the cap was a double-dealer for all 75 years of his existence. Ever since Joe Simon and Jack Kirby launched Captain America Comics #1 in March 1941.
And if you can't appreciate the scale of the tragedy, just imagine, for example, Yulian Semyonov's secret letter, just released, admitting that Stirlitz was a double agent. In a word, one should not be surprised that the world's leading media have already devoted materials to the sensational comic - from Forbes to The Independent, and bacchanalia and evil frenzy reign on the Internet for the sixth day.
Captain America was purposefully created as a deeply, exemplarily patriotic character (see Feature Film Joe Johnston 2011 "The First Avenger" - and the next). And he even looks like a walking star-striped bogey, victoriously giving the mandibles to the fascist reptiles. While "Hydra" is one of the most dangerous and anti-human organizations in Marvel's opuses, in battles with which the cap of his vibranium shield did not spare ...
It's time to quote the floor polisher-Basov from "I'm walking around Moscow": "Oh! The plot! Huh? The plot, right?". Captain America: Steve Rogers entered the stores, and it turned out that one of the lines of the comic book - to the horror of readers - tells how in 1929 the mother of the future Captain is recruiting an agent for the Hydra, which had just begun to spread its tentacles ... And here we are we already see how in our time Rogers with a stone face says "Hail Hydra".
Shock. Trembling. Hysteria. Curses. Dozens of photoshops. Threats to stop buying "Marvel" comics as a species. Serious accusations of anti-Semitism. “The fact that Captain America was made a Nazi hurts me as a Jew. The Jews created this character to fight Nazism,” reads one of many such tweets.
James Gunn, the director of Guardians of the Galaxy, who dared to express the opinion that one should not take the plot twist of the comic book to heart, was immediately branded from all sides as an anti-Semite, a latent Nazi, the perpetrator of the Johnny Depp divorce scandal (sic!) and wished him a painful death cat.
"Sometimes the pop culture characters we love don't do things the way we want them to. Sometimes it's because of a poorly written story, sometimes it's just because the creators have different ideas than we do. We can complain about that." but to exaggerate the significance of such things is unhealthy, as well as to attack other people because of them.If you do this, then, apparently, there are much more in your life serious problems, which should be paid attention to," Gann advises his readers. However, it is unlikely that the fans filled with righteous anger are able to heed him. And it is possible that somewhere in the bowels of the Network the plan is already ripening to drop a sand-lime brick on Spencer's head.
Although you can't refuse one thing with Marvel - they celebrated the 75th anniversary of one of the most recognizable and "grossing" superheroes enchantingly. So, it gurgled and sparkled even among those who have nothing to do with this segment of entertainment at all, and apart from strips about the cat Garfield, I never read anything.
We all love plot twists, turns and intricacies that turn the whole premise of a film or its characters upside down. And sometimes it turns out that the villain is actually the hero, and the hero is the villain. The recent news that Steve Rogers is an undercover agent of Hydra rocked the internet and I just couldn't get past it.
So… (heil hydra) Let's go!
Created in 1941 by writer Joe Simon and artist Jack Kirby, the character immediately became a symbol of honor, a face of pop culture, and an American hero.
A simple guy from Brooklyn - Steve Rogers! Over the character's 75-year journey, fans have been able to follow many story arcs. In them, the Captain kicked Hitler's ass, traveled through space and managed to die, be reborn and grow old, but one thing remains unchanged: loyalty to the motherland.
It would be more accurate to say that it remained unchanged, because just a week ago - on May 25, the first issue was released "Captain America: Steve Rogers", and the plot twist that occurred in the comic shocked not only fans, but also people who know the hero only superficially.
At the end of the episode, we see Cap throwing his teammate, Jack Flag, out of the plane, after which he stands by the tied pilot and says: "Heil Hydra".
This meant that the Captain was actually a Hydra double agent. For 75 years main symbol America was...a Nazi??? Here even Doctor Manhattan, who created the DC Universe, choked.
Fans were very outraged by this news and blew up screenwriter Nick Spencer's Twitter with respectful requests to kill himself. Social media filled with memes and even Chris Evans reacted negatively by posting a tweet:
Hydra? #tell_me_that_this_is_not true.
However, the author of the comic answered the flurry of indignation with a joke, calling himself the most hated person in America. Nick also noted that it was Steve Rogers: not Steve from a parallel universe, not a robot, not a clone. And what does he intend to continue this story. Even wikipedia confirmed this by stating "Position is evil" in the character line. Should we believe this news or be skeptical? Let's take everything in order.
In previous issues, Steve has the Super Soldier Serum drained out of him. He takes on the body of a 90-year-old (we will return to this, by the way) old man and transfers the title of Captain America to Falcon. But we all know the first rule of comics: nothing goes away forever. And before the new arc of comics, Rogers is irradiated by the rays of the cosmic cube, as a result, gaining all his powers back. He gets in line and goes on a familiar mission - to defuse a bomb and kill a couple of dozen Hydra soldiers along the way. Later, he fights with Baron Zemo, and then on to the same plane where Cap laid out all the HailHydras on the table.
Along the way, they show us another storyline, which takes place in 1926 at night New York. The times in those years were not easy, just three years later the Great Depression began and, logically, many remained unemployed. Among them is Steve's father, who, on the basis of everything that happens, falls into a rage and intends to beat his mother in front of Steve. But he is stopped by a mysterious woman named Eliza Sinclair. She calms down Sarah and Steve, after which they spend time walking around the city. She walks them home, and Steve's mother asks how she can thank the stranger. To which she replies that she is in a completely innocent, recently created organization and recruits the Rogers.
No matter how punning this plot twist may seem, it can be fixed and justified. We can certainly say that it is not made on hastily screenwriter. Since this idea was poured into our heads gradually and in moderate doses.
Remember how I talked about the recent comic book series where Steve Rogers got old and Sam Wilson is Captain America. So here's the cover. latest release this series with all its appearance hints to us about the upcoming.
If you compare it with the cover of the very first Captain America comic - Captain America Comics #1, you can see how they repeat each other: the ricochet of a bullet from a shield, the location of people, their movements and facial expressions.
You might think that in this way the creators simply gave honor to the first issue, because this issue was anniversary (75 years old), but you can notice the symbolism, because in the place of Captain America is the Falcon, who at that time was the Captain, then who symbolizes Hitler? That's right - Steve Rogers.
But what about the MCU, will it be affected by this greatest twist on its scale? There is a possibility, because whatever one may say, the canon sets the rules of the game.
Comic author Nick Spencer plans to continue this line and promises to reveal many secrets. For now, that's all we have. However, this plot twist is hard to believe, because it causes many paradoxes. Why did he neutralize so many Hydra soldiers if they were all in one? Was it worth it for Steve to save the world so many times while working for an organization that seeks to destroy it? Or how was he able to lift Thor's hammer? Being a traitor, he would not be worthy.
They claim that it is Steve and that we will have to come to terms with the reality that Steve is a Hydra agent. And the catch here, according to one of Cap's fans named Brett White, is precisely in the word "reality".
After all, Cap gained power back thanks to the cosmic cube, which is able to change reality. And let's dwell on this in more detail.
What is this cosmic cube? This is a little girl named Kobik. Not a cube, which seems quite logical. When SHIELD experimented with fragments of the Cosmic Cube in order to learn how to change reality if necessary - the fragments merged into a single entity. She was endowed with a damaged and fragile consciousness, which was in a cube. Realizing itself, this entity decided to become something that it resembles most of all - a little girl.
Well, then you need to tighten up a bit - in theory, Kobik is not a villain, after all, she returned Cap to his strength and youth, after Erskine's super-soldiers' serum was pumped out of him. But why did she then change reality, turning him into a real evil? The only possible answer to this is HYDRA. Probably HYDRA was somehow able to influence her.
Kobik even appeared in one of the flashbacks in the new issue. So, most likely, it is the Cosmic Cube that is the only hope for Steve Rogers to become back what he should be, what we know and love him.
In any case, the fans are powerless here, we can only guess and hope, and the future of the hero depends on the fiction of the writers. Do you think CEP will return to the side of good or remain a supervillain forever?
Well, that's all. Hope you enjoyed!
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