Comic Fans Are Freaking Out Over The First Issue Of ‘Captain America: Steve Rogers’

The first issue of Captain America: Steve Rogers kicked off the series with a teeny, tiny almost insignificant twist to the canon. And you know how fans are. Do something as minor as rewriting the very core of a 75-year-old character and they just flip out. Comic book fans took to Twitter to express their outrage over the American ideal being a secret Nazi with the hashtag #SayNoToHYDRACap. A few fans felt the need to point out Cap’s Earth-1218 origins made making him a HYDRA spy an especially crass decision.

https://twitter.com/WlNTERASSASSIN/status/735504483841658881

When nerds and outrage collide, you can only guarantee one thing: a locked Wikipedia page.

Of course, users were ready with endless appropriate reactions from the Marvel Universe and its real-world actors.

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And did anyone stop to think about poor Bucky in all this?

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More than a few fans were calling for the editorial team to step away from their beloved superhero.

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Even former Captain America writers were dragged into this mess:

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The Nazi controversy quickly brought to mind the #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend push and how Marvel opted not to make Steve Rogers bisexual.

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The anger was so strong that at least one reader opted to bring their outrage out into meatspace.

https://twitter.com/castiel_levi/status/735524293749133313

A few Cap stans even went so far as to say the dreaded DC-word.

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Of course, all this huffing is likely to be for naught. As our own Dan Seitz pointed out in his review of the first issue, it seems like Cap is being manipulated by forces outside his control. Given the way that story arcs work (and the ever-present reset button in comics), it’s unlikely that Cap will be sporting Hugo Boss for long.