Even Marvel Admits The 'Nazi Captain America' Was A Horrible Idea
Warning: contains spoilers for Captain America/Iron Man #3!
Marvel's Secret Empire event of 2017, in which Captain America revealed himself as a secret Hydra spy, received one of the worst fan receptions for a story arc in recent memory. Attacked from all sides, the story was hardly referenced in Marvel continuity, despite the world-changing events of the comic. Now in Captain America/Iron Man #3, Marvel all but admits the story was a colossal failure from the start.
In Secret Empire, Captain America reveals himself as a sleeper Hydra agent, and perhaps most shockingly, he's always been one from the start. Hydra begins to take over the world with Captain America as the face of the movement. In the end, the entire affair is revealed to be the result of the Cosmic Cube altering reality, and the real Captain America emerges to battle the Hydra-aligned Steve Rogers. The latter is soundly beaten, and Marvel did its best to put the entire event firmly in the rearview mirror and put the fascist-punching, self-sacrificing Captain America front and center once again.
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But such a monumental turn of events isn't easily thrown under the bus, and in Captain America/Iron Man #2, Steve Rogers faces off against the Hydra Captain America once more — in his yellow and green Hydra armor (drastic color changes is an excellent method to signal to one's audience that a character has turned evil). In the aftermath of the fight, Iron Man senses that Rogers is troubled, and realizes that he wanted the Hydra Captain America to resist his programming. «Even though reality had been altered, you'd have expected any version of Steve Rogers to fight against fascism, wouldn't you?
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