Captain America Shocking Twist Revealed

Earlier this week a new Steve Rogers: Captain America #1 comic book was released and featured a surprising twist that has taken the Internet by storm as Captain America reveals he has been a secret member of Hydra.

In the comic book, with Steve Rogers once again becoming super powered following the recent Avengers Standoff storyline, is shown to throw his teammate, Jack Flag, out of the plane and saying the words “Hail Hydra”.    With flashbacks, readers get to see Steve with his mother, when a mysterious woman approaches them and offers financial support and suggests they attend a meeting, which features a pamphlet with the Hydra logo on it.

Recently Time spoke with Marvel executive editor Tom Brevoort and explained how this twist came about.

TIME: How did Marvel decide to make Steve Rogers a secret Hydra operative?

Tom Brevoort: Nick Spencer, who is the writer of the series, pitched us the story as part and parcel of restoring Steve to his youth and vigor. In the comics, he’s been old for awhile. The super soldier serum that was keeping him young had been broken down, so for the 75th anniversary, Nick had this notion that we were going to restore him. But then we went into this other story about Hydra, and this is only the tip of the iceberg.

If readers go back and look at older comics, will this hold up?

It will. Issue 2 kind of winds the clock back a little bit and lays out exactly how and why things are the way they are. And it lays out a roadmap for where things are headed in the future. At this point, I don’t want to say too much definitively because I want people to read the comic books. But people will be able to connect the dots and follow the trail of breadcrumbs.

How long has this been in the works?

Almost since the beginning of when Nick started writing the Captain America titles, which would have been the end of 2014. So right around there the conversations first started about this. It’s been in the works for more than a year.

So is this twist just a short term gimmick to sell comic books?  Is Captain America a double agent?  or is Captain America truly a member of Hydra all along?

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