Controversial makeover of superhero as an agent of a fascist organisation secures approval of Spider-Man creator
Amid petitions and death threats and cries of #sayitaintso, Marvel has found at least one supporter for the decision to turn Captain America into a double agent for fascist organisation Hydra: comics legend Stan Lee.
The plot twist that the all-American superhero has been a sleeper agent for the sinister group was revealed in the latest Captain America comic last week. “This is not a clone, not an impostor, not mind control, not someone else acting through Steve. This really is Steve Rogers, Captain America himself,” Marvel writer Nick Spencer told Entertainment Weekly. Spencer later faced death threats on social media – “I can’t respond to 9,000 tweets per second, but if I could, I would say I admire your passion,” he wrote on Twitter – while a petition, now signed by almost 10,000 people, was launched to “get Marvel to stop Hydra Captain America”.
Related: Captain America has gone from punching Hitler to fascist sympathies – is it time to panic?
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