Marvel has had no shortage of horrifying villains in its eight-plus decades. Symbiotes like Carnage and Venom have carried out gruesome actions against others. Alien menaces like Galactus and The Brood have made catastrophic threats against the world on multiple occasions. And megalomaniacs like Doctor Doom and Magneto have made ongoing threats to world stability, seeking to despotically become Earth’s iron-fisted rulers. But the most terrifying villain of all, though, is the one who had once been a hero: Captain America.
One of Marvel’s more recent despots was especially troubling because he was also its noblest and greatest crime fighter. When the fascist group Hydra took over the U.S. in Marvel’s Secret Empire event in 2017, a familiar face led the coup. Namely, that of Steve Rogers himself, Captain America. Since World War II, Cap had been nothing less than the embodiment of nobility and the American spirit. Captain America had been seen as incorruptible and was a hero looked up to by all. But Secret Empire upended and blackened Steve’s reputation, and the man long seen as America’s greatest hero had become its most feared and tyrannical villain. Events occurring simultaneously in the real world gave the story even further impact on fans.
For anyone who harbored hope that this evil Steve was somehow a decent guy deep down, he quickly proved them wrong. Under Hydra’s heel, mutants were forcibly relocated to a sequestered area of California. Inhumans with manifesting abilities were required to register with the government. Manhattan was cut off from the rest of the world, and most of the world’s heroes were trapped in space, unable to offer aid. And Cap — now known as Hydra Supreme — ordered the decimation of Las Vegas solely as a show of force.
Marvel has had no shortage of horrifying villains in its eight-plus decades. Symbiotes like Carnage and Venom have carried out gruesome actions against others. Alien menaces like Galactus and The Brood have made catastrophic threats against the world on multiple occasions. And megalomaniacs like Doctor Doom and Magneto have made ongoing threats to world stability, seeking to despotically become Earth’s iron-fisted rulers. But the most terrifying villain of all, though, is the one who had once been a hero: Captain America.
One of Marvel’s more recent despots was especially troubling because he was also its noblest and greatest crime fighter. When the fascist group Hydra took over the U.S. in Marvel’s Secret Empire event in 2017, a familiar face led the coup. Namely, that of Steve Rogers himself, Captain America. Since World War II, Cap had been nothing less than the embodiment of nobility and the American spirit. Captain America had been seen as incorruptible and was a hero looked up to by all. But Secret Empire upended and blackened Steve’s reputation, and the man long seen as America’s greatest hero had become its most feared and tyrannical villain. Events occurring simultaneously in the real world gave the story even further impact on fans.
For anyone who harbored hope that this evil Steve was somehow a decent guy deep down, he quickly proved them wrong. Under Hydra’s heel, mutants were forcibly relocated to a sequestered area of California. Inhumans with manifesting abilities were required to register with the government. Manhattan was cut off from the rest of the world, and most of the world’s heroes were trapped in space, unable to offer aid. And Cap — now known as Hydra Supreme — ordered the decimation of Las Vegas solely as a show of force.
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