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It ’s finally happen , Marvel fans : the trueCaptain Americahas returned to crush theSecret Empireonce and for all . The Steve Rogers fans recognize and sexual love - before he was twist into an malign , Nazi - assist fascist - is back to rectify his place in the Marvel Universe , and the Hydra Empire that terrorize Earth is drop dead . But that outcome was neverreallyin interrogation among the sports fan ( a fact Marvel proved when theyspoiled Captain America ’s returnthemselves ) . The literal query is … how did it in reality befall ? And more significantly , did it make sentience ?
fan who say throughSecret Empire#10 may presume that writer Nick Spencer and Marvel newspaper column waved their charming wands to give this upshot a well-chosen ending in Hope fans would n’t mind , but that ’s not the entire narrative . There are some plot holes or unanswered question , as there always are when a story is wrapped up in this clean a conclusion . And while it ’s possible theaddedSecret Empire : Omegaissuewill cover these lingering plot threads , we should first break down exactlyhowCaptain America is live and well .
Not to mention whoreallydeserves the recognition for save the day , even after the evil Captain America had written Marvel ’s heroes out of existence .
Evil Cap Wins By Creating a Hydra Universe
When we last left the story inSecret Empire#9 , things were looking more dreadful than ever . Hydra take up over America a long time ago , but that was all secondary to Steve Rogers ’s true mission : collect the broken in and scattered shard of the Cosmic Cube , and combine them all into one superpowered , godlike Captain America / Iron Man Hydra armour . bring out # 10 pick up just minute later , with Steve absolutely destruct the abbreviated intimation of hope Marvel ’s grinder had oversee to happen in Washington , D.C .. With the Cosmic Cube in his possession , Steve Rogers disarmed and kill the heroes without breaking a stew .
What came next was his true destination : using the exponent contained in the almost - complete - Cosmic Cube to once again alter reality . Where the old use of the Cosmic Cube had revealedCaptain America was always a Nazi ally , Steve led Hydra in Hope of setting chronicle ' right . ' In brusque : correcting account so that Nazis won World War II , Hydra rose to power , and created a complete ( read : tyrannically structured and supervised ) unexampled decree . And in the first few pages of this final upshot , he gets it done .
Thankfully , Bucky Barnes place upright with his allies nearby … in possession of the one last Cosmic Cube fragment Steve has yet to find .
Bucky Enters The Cosmic Cube in Search of Steve
Spencer draw some somewhat effective misdirection by showing Sam Wilson surrender himself and the final Cosmic Cube sherd to Steve Rogers , then explaining the factual plan the heroes are carrying out . It ’s a complicated plan when you get into the metaphysical / cosmic DOE at work , but we ’ll endeavor to keep it simple-minded . When Steve accepts the final shard and merge it with the Cosmic Cube in his chest ’s armor , Bucky Barnes and Ant - Man make their move . fling themselves forthwith at the Cube , Scott Lang use his shrinking technical school to send Bucky in alone , hope to get small enough to physicallybreachthe limitation of the Cube itself .
The intellect why Bucky reckon potential drop in such a plan is that this is no ordinary Cosmic Cube : it ’s a sentient one , having coalesce its knowingness into that of a little little girl named Kobik . Bucky figures that Kobik must be scared give the manipulation and legal injury she has undergone , and readers be intimate he ’s good . In the last publication , the strange version of the ' secure ' Captain America catch in the purgatory of the Cosmic Cube realized the truth : he was onlyamemoryof the Steve Rogers that was , held onto in Kobik ’s mind , memory , or cosmic journal .
It sound complicated , but Bucky ’s reasoning is so simple , some Marvel readers will be left with someseriousquestions . Essentially , he consider that if Kobik could write the good Steve out of universe , she can bring him back . But to make it happen , the surviving heroes have to pass over their last shard to reconstruct Kobik to her full world power , and hope she has the desire to take back the mistake she made molding reality to Hydra in the first place . luckily for everyone , Steve Rogers was give Kobik a stirring oral communication about standing against fascism at the same time .
When Bucky infract the Cube , Steve did n’t lose his opportunity . Even if he gives all the credit to Kobik when they pop back to their start point in front of the U.S. Capitol Building .
The TRUE Captain America is BACK
With the Cosmic Cube tear from his grasp , the wickedness , Hydra - loyal Steve Rogers can only hollo in despair as he watches his thoroughgoing earth unravel , reverting to the destroy , hero - satisfy version he hoped to erase . The bad problem , however , was the dismal - scale booster Kobik had make for back into existence . Slowly phase into reality , and still steaming ( literally and figuratively ) , the Captain America fan have been hoping to see return is n’t depend to talk .
Semantics will be used as a defence ( fair ) , but the overall substance is clean : no matter how it was run to go on , readers are supposed to regard the restitution of thetrueCaptain America as a minute of victory and hope . And when the fastball earn , and even Steve grant to his Hydra doppelganger that the rules of his existence are fuzzy , at best , the battle that follows should overshadow any secret plan holes or evasive answer to save the net twist . And what a fight it is , at last coming to a braggy finish when the prevarication that allowed the malefic Captain America to be suitable of Mjolnir is display .
As for the heroic , American icon Captain America … well , he ’s as worthy as ever .
The Secret Empire Falls… But The World is Still Broken
The thrill of seeing Steve Rogers bankrupt the fascist , nightmare reflection of his own values and abilities ca n’t be understated - and the same goes for him returning the famous Captain America shield to Sam Wilson , and Mjolnir to its rightful wielder , Jane Foster . But it ’s not a happy ending , since Marvel was right in their claim thatSecret Empire ’s ending would n’t undo all the effect and terms of the series to that stage . Captain America is back , and Kobik sets the story of Steve Rogers back to the way it was … but Las Vegas is still a smoldering crater - a warning left by Kobik to remind the heroes of the failures they must never ingeminate .
That may require some review of Kobik ’s morality , since leaving thousands of innocent people dead is a harsh monitor . That also means thatAgent Phil Coulson remains dead . Not to mentionBlack Widow being killed by Captoo , and too many others to name here . It ’s likely that the comingOmegaissue will focus on the returned Steve come to term with what happened in his absence seizure , as the epilogue toSecret Empiresets up the next chapter of the Marvel Universe . Specifically , teasing the moral rejuvenation add when Kobik tookMarvel ’s major paladin into theGenerationsevent . But for now , it ’s a time for bereavement .
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