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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18. Maybe I betray my bias and training as a historian, but this glib move from history to myth is troubling.
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19. As I said, in terms of first movie, Nazis aren't ultimate evil but just pawns of the true bad guys, HYDRA.
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