I'm genuinely shocked by how much of a Kerfuffle there is on the internet in reaction to the recent reveal in the most recent Captain America comic book, that Cap is (and apparently always has been) a Hydra sleeper agent. I think it comes down to the fact there are a lot more people getting into comics now thanks to the MCU, and these new readers don't understand the history of storytelling in the medium, and just how weird those stories get.
They don't know how the Marvel universe is brimming with characters who can accidentally reshape reality and history because they woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Or that someone with no powers can do the same because they sneezed on the wrong magical macguffin.
But this is being treated like its permanent. I think its because people have been trained by TV shows like Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, to expect sudden unexpected turns of events, death's of, or betrayals from characters they used to love. They expect to have their emotions toyed with by the storytellers.
But People don't understand that many of these shocking twists are ALMOST NEVER PERMANENT in comis, and are a result of new writers looking to do something new with characters who are (In Cap's case) 70 + Years old!!!!
So yeah, today Cap is a Hydra sleeper agent, probably because (according to a good fan theory) someone made a wish to a sentient magic artifact and rewrote history to make that reality. Tomorrow, Cap will probably be Cap again. And yesterday? Pfft yesterday Cap was a Werewolf. No really look it up. Cap turned into a Werewolf one time. Comics....am I right?
