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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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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Like it's specifically used to create an in-universe justification for "What If? Challenge!" style plots
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Like a bad Sliders episode. "What if men were women and women were men and cats were dogs"
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"How could a literal-minded genie successfully create a world where Obama was in the KKK but Obama and the KKK were still recognizable?"
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I don't care about trying to answer such a question
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