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Marvel’sSecret Empireis eventually over , but if reader were hoping that mean the end ofthe iniquity , Nazi - keep going Captain America , think again . For all the controversy that fall with re - imagining Steve Rogers as the mirror image of everything he trust , kill chiliad and persecute millions , it seems the publisher is n’t ready to exit the book on his role in the Marvel Universe just yet . In fact , the forces firm to Hydra may be gravid in issue than ever before … even if the change in American government means they ’re keep on their loyalty a arcanum until ' HydraCap ' can rise again .
That ’s the note on which the effect officially concludes inSecret Empire : Omega#1 , a wrap - up issue following the fall of Hydra upontherealCaptain America ’s return . That climactic struggle examine Steve Rogers rejuvenate to his former , heroical form , putting down his fascistic , evil , oppressive doppelganger witha single blast from Thor ’s hammer , Mjolnir . author Nick Spencer intentionally exit the destiny of the evil Cap in question , butOmegaexplains exactly where he now resides in Marvel ’s world .
Though he may have been get , and many readers may have found his political science offence , HydraCap ’s argument was convince enough to establish him as afuturethreat - not a vanquished one .
Evil Captain America is Behind Bars… For Now
For those who may have miss out on the finale ofSecret Empire , or but missed an significant detail , the version of Steve Rogers that led Hydra in its takeover of America and the world is NOT a doppelganger in the mother wit that he ’s a ' false ' transcript , or a written matter at all , really . He is the Steve Rogers result from the Cosmic Cube ’s distortion of Marvel ’s main ground . So as well-heeled as it would have been for this vitiated Steve to be simply written out of world and replaced with the born-again , grand Steve , that ’s not how Cosmic Cubes work . Good Steve has been made veridical from the Cosmic Cube ’s memory … but the nefarious version must be gaol in a prison house capable of holding Captain America . As is discover inOmega , that mean HydraCap is now thesoleoccupant of ' Shadow Pillar , ' a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. prison house in an obscure location .
It was inevitable that the furbish up Steve would want to speak with his replacement , but when he does , it ’s reveal that bringing HydraCap to ' Justice Department ' for his criminal offense against America and the populace is more complicated than one might expect . After all , Captain America ’s evil plan to take over S.H.I.E.L.D.was a sophisticated and clever one ( executed over an extended period of time ) . The whole point , he explains , was that care and great power misrepresent America intovolunteeringall self-assurance to Steve Rogers . He never broke a law , he simply exercise democratically assigned power befitting his personal politics .
But for all his tough talk of ' making the scoundrel pay ' now that the good guys have gotten their country back , Steve gain this genie ca n’t be so easily put back into its bottle .
Hydra Lost The War… But Not The Argument
On the surface , Steve Rogers has already realise that going back to ' the way things were before ' wo n’t ever be potential , now that civilian who once reached out to him for help will now waffle , start the war law-breaking committed by HydraCap . unfeigned to his past , though , Steve tries to whirl it into a confident : that he has now embodied his message of safeguard freedom with changeless weather eye . If evenhecan become a threat to democracy , he reasons , then perhaps theSecret Empirewas deserving it . Of course , HydraCap is all too eager to explain that if that ’s what Steve is taking out from this fight ’s stopping point … he ’s only shoot himself .
Now , HydraCap has n’t made many compelling arguments , at least in a moral sensation , in theSecret Empireso far . For every claim that leniency lead to weakness , there was a sheath of himdemanding Earth ’s nations kneel to his commands . But in this concluding interchange , the scoundrel makes a more compelling argument than ever before ( he may have recent trends and controversies inactualAmerica to thank ) . Where America and citizens around the humanity had once confide Captain America ’s view that Hydra ’s ways were an affront to human right , they have now seen the choice .
And the undeniable truth of Hydra ’s rising is that it , like unnumerable other tyrannous movements and dictators before , convinced more to link its rank and file than its enemies would have conceive . Steve may not want to believe it … but Marvel confirms Hydra is live and well in the concluding Sir Frederick Handley Page .
HydraCap Will Rise Again?
Once HydraCap ’s departure from his cell is detected , Steve Rogers makes a firm going so as not to explains why he ’s seeking expression time with his evil twin . But HydraCap ’s words echo with truth as the prison guards - those assign to the most hugger-mugger , off - the - Scripture , maximum security installing S.H.I.E.L.D. has - keep back the human whoshouldbe their most despised opposition . Which makes it all the more disgraceful when the guard duty get over HydraCap makes his firm loyalty known as only Hydra soldier can .
The"Hail Hydra"may strike those critical of the event as a scrap far - fetched , but you ca n’t deny the thematic and poetic symmetry . It was Steve Rogers’s"Hail Hydra"that began Spencer ’s unforgettable story of a traitorous Captain America , so it ’s only correct that it should terminate the same way of life . Where the first pledge of loyalty showed Hydra had take its most devoted foe , the final pledge confirms the group has survived defeat stronger than ever .
As Steve Rogers departs , he realizes fascism is an undying enemy wear down many faces . And as HydraCap smiles knowing he still has soldiers behind him , Marvel readers know thatthisface will be back . HydraCap ’s resurgence is what ’s being teased … but should Marvel ever actually follow through ?
Secret Empire : Omega#1is available now .
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