It feel like it ’s been yr since we first saw Steve Rogers shove Jack Flagg out of a jet before utter “ hail Hydra ” and announce to the earth that he was , essentially , a fresh - minted supervillain . Today , ahead of Secret Empire ’s ratiocination on Wednesday , Marvel kinda spoiled how the event ’s gon na cease .
As Secret Empire has played out over the preceding few months , there have been a number of questions about the story that have matter heavily on readers ’ mind . How did Steve Rogers , now the sovereign loss leader of Hydra , manage to lift Thor ’s malleus ? If Secret Empire is n’t meant to be a figure of comment on the current state of American politics , then what exactly is its distributor point ?
As questions like these have frustrated those who feel as if Secret Empire was irresponsibly get light of the newly - embolden , real fascists taking to the street , defenders of the event have urged everyone to sit tight and wait to see just how everything ’s going to wrap up . Today , Marvel made the unexpected determination to portion out a couple of interior pages from Secret Empire # 10 withThe New York Times , more or less giving away the ending while also lead a few questions unanswered .
If you ’ve kept up with Secret Empire until this degree , then you experience that in last week ’s payoff , we determine that while all of the event ’s main plot has been going on in the foreground , there ’s been another level happening elsewhere imply Kobik and past versions of Steve Rogers .
It turns out that Kobik has been manifest parts of the old Steve in something like a pocket property of her own conception , while hide out from the mess that Hydra made her cause by alter Steve ’s past . While Secret Empire # 9 made it seem as if the cosmically - gift being could n’t stand to look the Modern reality she ’d made , the varlet Marvel free today suggest that this “ Good Steve ” is going to get a chance to kick the bum of “ Bad Steve , ” and he ’s move to use Mjolnir to do it .
Bad Steve , seen here get into Hydra ’s signature yellow and green , most recently come into possession of another fragment of the cosmic cube , which he planned on using to power his case to lend an end to the on-going conflicts between Hydra and the resistance . This new image definitely evokes all of the classic instance of Captain America fighting Nazis , and suggests that Secret Empire will end with the unfeigned hero sandwich endure . But in term of what kind of message the art ’s attempt to convey , your guess is as adept as mine .
Speaking to the Times , Marvel editor - in - gaffer Axel Alonso insisted ( yet again ) that Secret Empire is n’t meant to be scan as political comment despite the current “ heated debate ” regarding fascism in the US . Instead , Alonso doubled down on the idea that the cay to understanding Secret Empire was wait for it to be over .
sound out Alonso :
“ We understood the narration would take exception proofreader , but we also bed how it terminate . We also thought the story had something of import to say about democracy , exemption and the core American values that Captain America embodies . ”
So we know that Captain America ’s move to send some time beating himself up for becoming a aggregative murderer and advocating for the extermination of a oppress minority . That ’s … a first , I suppose . But if Secret Empire finally ends up being a chronicle about how Nazi are defective — something that every reasonable person already knew — then it ’s difficult to see the event as having really been much more than distraught torture porn .
We ’ll see this Wednesday .
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