![]() ![]() In 2017, buildup to the Secret Empire event shocked the comic book world when Captain America was revealed to be a Hydra sleeper agent. Indeed, the Red Skull in the film outright attacks Nazi officers, justifying his actions by saying "Hydra could no longer grow in Hitler's shadow." This was taken to a logical extreme in the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger, in which Captain America seemingly doesn't fight a single Nazi soldier. ![]() It wasn't long before Marvel retconned Captain America's pre-revival history again - but this time, Hydra existed as a branch within Nazi Germany. Led by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, and later the Red Skull, Hydra's origins predate Nazism - the cult is thousands of years old and founded by aliens - but quickly supplanted Nazis as a quasi-Fascist organization for Captain America to fight. ![]() Lee got around the lack of Nazis by creating Hydra, a paramilitary organization with aspirations to take over the world. Now owned by Marvel Comics, writer Stan Lee rewrote Captain America's history: in-universe, the character disappeared in 1944, frozen in suspended animation (the so-called "Commie Smasher" wasn't Captain America at all). ![]()
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