who indulged in paranoid persecution fantasies.
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I didn't hate the couple cap stories I read in his series. His political career is seriously disturbing though.
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What's telling is this plotline isn't a straight "Cap becomes evil" story but attempts to pull off the idea of a "good" HYDRA
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And the "real" HYDRA is better than the Nazis not bc of a strong moral stance but bc they're supposedly smarter than Hitler
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The narrative being Cap's HYDRA sponsor was against throwing in with Hitler bc he's an unstable madman (and not for actual moral reasons)
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This actually does come worryingly close to the stance of modern neo-fascist apologia
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(Who usually aren't literally pro-Hitler because, well, Hitler was a colossal failure)
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Like ppl are muddling this. The issue isn't that Captain America turns evil. It's that the story treats this as morally ambiguous
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Which is, of course, the attempted hook - if it were treated as him turning evil they wouldn't drag it out so much
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A story where your hero gets brainwashed by the bad guys and stays that way a long time might be annoying/upsetting but not to this level
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The infuriating thing is the whole "Steve is the good upstanding guy you always knew AND a secret quasi-Nazi"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
I’m seeing the defense that Cap’s innate goodness will defeat the horrible things he’s done, but I find that kind of essentialism disturbing
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I just hate the Cosmic Cube shit at this point. It's the stuff of navel-gazing fanfic
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