Captain America’s ‘Clone’ Is Back as His Mutant Opposite
Spoilers for FCBD: Avengers/X-Men and Uncanny Avengers #1As Captain America and his new Avengers Unity Squad maintain to combat in opposition to the evil Orchis in Uncanny Avengers, the identification of the murderous Captain Krakoa stays a risky mystery. Hints scattered at some stage in FCBD: Avengers/X-Men and Uncanny Avengers #1 factor in the direction of numerous capacity villains under the costume, however the maximum explosive alternative might without a doubt be Steve Rogers’ arguable evil twin, the Hydra Supreme Commander from Secret Empire. Uncanny Avengers 1 – written through Gerry Duggan, with artwork through Javier Garron and Morry Hollowell – opens with Doctor Stasis and MODOK, the top scientists at Orchis, bringing a completely risky guy out of stasis, probably whoever is working as Captain Krakoa. Clues of their talk appear like main readers to suspect that this new threat may want to most effective be one none different than “Hydra Cap”, an evil model of Steve Rogers that took Captain America’s region all through the occasions main to the arguable Secret Empire event.
Doctor Stasis and MODOK Could Have Brought Back Hydra Cap
Secret Empire was one of the most controversial and shocking Marvel crossover events of the 2010s, with Captain America revealing he had always been an undercover, fascist Hydra agent, subsequently taking over all of America for his own dark purposes. Of course, it was revealed through a complicated series of events, involving a sentient Cosmic Cube, that the Supreme Commander was not the real Steve Rogers, who eventually came back and defeated his evil twin, after which Selene seemingly killed the monster. In fact, Uncanny Avengers #1 hints that the person being brought out of stasis has been dead for some time. In Uncanny Avengers 1, MODOK capitalizes on the mysterious character’s American nationalist sensibilities to convince them to help Orchis in creating a “new world order,” something Hydra Cap has already done in Secret Empire. It was first revealed that a mutant-hating militant member Orchis stole Forge’s Captain Krakoa suit, previously used by Cyclops, in the FCBD: Avengers/X-Men 2023 issue, with the mysteriously powerful human easily defeating Cyclops and brutally injuring him. Scott Summers seemed to not recognize the man who stole the suit – but readers should note that Cyclops was actually dead during Secret Empire.
Only A Hydra Leader Could Be Attracted To A Monster Like Andrea Strucker
There is also a chance that the Supreme Commander could look incredibly disfigured, or aged, if he was brought back to life by MODOK and Dr. Stasis. The fight between Steve and Captain Krakoa, where the villain was easily able to break Captain America’s arm, provides additional clues to the identity of the Captain Krakoa pretender. Not only did Krakoa recognize Steve’s fighting style, calling it predictable, but he had the strength and combat ability of a super soldier on par with Captain America, very rare to find in Marvel Comics. Perhaps the best argument for Hydra Cap, though, is one moment of fascinating intimacy in Uncanny Avengers #1, when Captain Krakoa rescues the Nazi mutants Andrea and Andreas Strucker, the Fenris Twins, from Krakoa’s Pit, and the villain instantly embraces Andrea. The mystery of Captain Krakoa’s true identity is a central plot of Uncanny Avengers and the Fall of X, and while the new villain could be any number of Marvel monsters, the clues so far have pointed toward the return of the evil Hydra Captain America, returning from the dead at the worst possible time for mutantkind and the Marvel Universe.