The Holocaust shaped the lives of real, living people, and Hydra’s fictional backstory is inextricably linked with those events. This is canonically accurate, but it doesn’t hold water as a political argument. You can’t frame “Hydra aren’t Nazis” as a detached philosophical concept, especially in the context of a WWII-era Captain America story. Spencer says that while Hydra are evil, they’re not racist and they don’t have an ideological agenda. On Wednesday he posted a string of tweets arguing that Hydra are evil but apolitical, and people should stop calling Captain America a Nazi. Spencer has spent months grappling with this distinction.
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They have a similar arc in the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier. They’re an ancient cult who temporarily worked with the Nazis, branching off into various terrorist groups and corporate secret societies. There’s even a scene in issue #12 where a Hydra villain pops up like a Twitter egg to explain that “Actually, Hydra isn’t racist.” Captain America: Steve Rogers #12Ĭanonically, Hydra existed long before WWII. Many fans believe it mishandles a sensitive topic, and were doubly annoyed when Marvel hinted that Magneto, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, is a member of Hydra as well. In response, the comic’s supporters argue that Hydra aren’t technically Nazis.
Steve Rogers began as an anti-fascist hero, so this storyline is pretty controversial. The comic takes place over two time periods: flashbacks to Steve Rogers as a young Hydra recruit in the 1930s and ’40s, and a present-day storyline where he’s still Captain America, but was secretly a Hydra agent all along.
Separate Hydra from their Nazi backstory, portraying them as an evil but apolitical organization.Reboot Steve Rogers as a secret agent of Hydra, the Nazi-affiliated villains he fought during WWII.In the comic Captain America: Steve Rogers, writer Nick Spencer aims to achieve two seemingly incompatible goals:
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