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Originally Posted by Startaiger

I understand turning Cap into the antithesis of what he stands for could be shocking, but that's an intersting story plot IMO, & seeing how he will overcome it (cause we all know he will, Marvel will never let Cap remains a facist) will reinforce the character stature as America's (& humanity at large) sentinel of liberty.

Again, the problem is less "Cap is now Hydra", it's more that, for Cap's big 75th anniversary comeback, what was supposed to celebrate his legacy, it was revealed he was Hydra, and that (as Marvel and Nick Spencer were saying at the time) it was a legitimate retcon (despite that not ACTUALLY being the truth), that he'd always been Hydra. Now, I don't doubt that interesting stories can come out of it, but they didn't have to do it in a way as to spit on the legacy of Cap and on the graves of his creators. They should have framed the reveal in such a way as to hint that something was wrong, not just that this is different from how we know Cap, but that something was off, like a subtle hint that, in-universe, something was wrong with reality, instead of "hey, you know this character created by two Jewish men to be the anti-Nazi? well turns out he was a Nazi all along, his entire 75 years of fighting Nazis he secretly was one LOL". Like, I can not understate how much they tried to tell us that it was a straight-up legitimate, possibly permanent change.