What If Captain America is Hydra in Doomsday
Avengers: Doomsday finally showed us Steve Rogers again: bearded, older, alive, walking back into frame with a smile. This is why that exact smile, in the comics, is the single scariest thing Captain America can do.
What this issue actually reads
To be clear: the movie hasn't confirmed anything, and this is a theory about one shot. But the story it points to is real. Marvel genuinely took the most trusted man in comics and revealed he'd been Hydra all along, rewrote his entire life with the Cosmic Cube, and let him take over the world without throwing a single punch. Once you've read it, you can't unsee it in that trailer.
Reacts to one shot in the Avengers: Doomsday trailer.
The theory is the channel's, and every comic beat is on the page: no leaks, no fan-canon. This is fan analysis, not a statement about the plot of any unreleased film.
- Captain America
- Avengers: Doomsday
- Secret Empire
- Hydra
The comics this issue reads
- 01Captain America: Steve Rogers2016 · Nick Spencer & Jesús Saiz
- 02Secret Empire2017 · Nick Spencer & Marvel
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