Captain America was a Hydra agent. The entire time. The entire length of Earth-616 (the main Marvel continuity), good ol' Cap was working for Hydra.

Can I say that this is the worst thing to happen in Marvel comics ever?

And this is why I didn't do Earth-616. Seriously, Marvel, sersiously?

Edited May 28, 20169 yr by VisitJoan

 

I saw this on Facebook and it perfectly sums up how I feel about Hydra Cap 

I've held off on writing this for two reasons. The first is that I was so angry at first that I could only articulate it with the word f--- in creative manners and pictures of middle fingers. The second is that I kept telling myself that I shouldn't be upset because it's just a comic book character. Except... F--- THAT, and you can change the word that to you if you're going to give me s--t for being upset. It may not be important to you but it is to me and if you feel the need to belittle me for that? Yeah, f--- you.

There's this cute saying in fashion about color trends, I always go back to Josie and the Pussycats (the movie) _______ is the new black. Well right now nerd is the new black. It's hip to be square folks. Nerd is chic. That means that we don't have to hide our comic book love cause it's sexy now. Nerd is the new black so these once hidden icons belong to the world. This point will come into play again later.

I don't care if you don't like Captain America. I don't care if you're Team Stark. I don't care if you think Cap's boring. Everyone loves a bad boy in their fantasy. But see, my issues here only partly stem from fantasy. Let's start at the beginning, yeah? Captain America, the man who punched Hitler, was created by two Jewish men at a time when America WOULD NOT act in WWII. This was the dream of two men who were watching their world go down the tubes, a man who would fly in the face of government and law to do the right thing. But Hail Hydra, right? It's insulting. It's offensive. Frankly, it's god damn heartbreaking.

I almost didn't wear my jacket today, you know the red, white, and blue baseball jacket with the Cap shield prominently on the front? I almost switched out my Industrial barbell, you know the bright blue one with Cap's shield prominently in my ear? And then I had a Nick Fury moment.

Cap is important to me personally and, I think, to America in general. Because I live in a time where it's hard to be a Patriot. I live in a world where sports icons get paid to cheat and our government harms it's people. I am living in a time where one presidential candidate is actively spewing hate for a single religious group and rocketing up fear. The other candidate, if she pulls the nomination, isn't awesome either. I live in a time of dissent and I don't want it to become a time of descent. I live in a time where my government actively harms it's people and doesn't care. It is god damn hard to be patriotic. How do you keep faith in your country when the people who run it broke faith with you? How do you keep hope when you're faced with an ocean of bulls--t? I can't always... But there's this man... He'll punch Hitler in the face when the government won't move. He'll give wise speeches about immigrants. He speaks out against hate. He tells you to plant your feet. NO. YOU MOVE. And sure, this man is fiction.

This man is an icon. He is a rallying point. He is a thing that we can stand behind. He is a symbol of what America can be, and sometimes just reading those comics is enough to refresh the willpower stores so I can pick myself back up and go back to fighting for my country. No, I'm not a soldier, at least I'm not military. My battleground is politics. I sweat for what I believe and sometimes that's hard. Sometimes I just want to curl up and ignore the s---ty things people say. I want to forget that people die in this fight, that I've been physically harmed, that I have to worry about that. Sometimes I want to quit and let someone else take over. And then I read a couple comics and I take a deep breath and I get back out there. Because it's right.

Captain America wasn't about Law and Order. Captain America was about Right and Wrong. Captain America was Just and Justice.

But Hail Hydra, right?

At a time when our country is fracturing into wildly disparate polar opposites, when nerd is the new black, Marvel took our last great Hope and destroyed him. For money. And isn't that the most heartbreaking thing ever?

But Hail f---ing Hydra anyway.

 

Everything I'm feeling right now.