5. The tentacles of HYDRA are every where, from Nazi Germany to Soviet Russia to the ultra-powerful spy agency SHIELD.
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6. That's something I actually didn't like about 1st Captain America movie, idea HYDRA was "rogue Nazi group": as if Nazis not evil enough
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7. I think way to make sense of this is to see HYRDA as a necessary device in serialized fiction to create retrospective continuity.
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8. Captain America created a very specific historical juncture: 1941, as Popular Front superhero showing isolationist USA can fight Nazis
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9. After fading in 1940s, Cap. America briefly revived in 1953 (as Cold War "Commie Smasher") and more lastingly in 1963.
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10. HYDRA created in 1965 at post-Cuban Missile Crisis part of Cold War when there was increasing reluctance to have Soviet villains.
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11. Like SPECTRE in James Bond books, HYDRA had advantage of being amorphous global terrorist group, a site of free-floating anxiety
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12. Another advantage of HYDRA is that helps engineer ret-com narratives to unify Capt. America's checkered career.
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13. With HYDRA older Capt. America stories can be recast to show he's always been fighting the same enemy.
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14. Interesting thing with Winter Solider is the eternal enemy HYDRA encompasses not just Nazis & USSR but also military industrial complex.
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15. Winter Solider specifically mentions real-life "Paperclip" program whereby CIA recruited Nazi scientists. That's how HYDRA survived.
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16. The ultimate effect of HYDRA is to more Captain America from history and push narrative into Gnostic mythology.
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17. In universe of Capt. America, there's eternal war between the hidden forces of darkness and the (often equally hidden) children of light
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