Marvel is looking to capitalize on the popularity of it's Captain America: Steve Rogers #1 by bringing back one of his most exciting arch enemies...The Red Skull. It's making me wonder, though, with the reveal of Captain America being a Hydra agent, were they ever truly enemies?
A lot of questions have been raised since we found out Cap's part of Hydra, primarily how long has he been a Hydra agent? It's being hinted that he's been a part of the organization since he was a young boy. When we get a look at Red Skull in a preview of Captain America: Steve Rogers #2, it looks to be in the form of a flash back, but I won't be surprised if we see him having a greater impact on the story in the present.
We haven't seen much of Red Skull since his Secret Wars miniseries. Before everything that took place in that storyline, we saw his clone dig up Charles Xavier's corpse, remove his brain, and use it's remaining powers to "cull the mutant population." After Magneto kills him, Xavier's brain unleashes Onslaught, who had been sitting dormant in his mind. It then combined with Red Skull to create Red Onslaught, which was then defeated by the X-Men and the Avengers. However, thanks to AXIS, it turned into White Onslaught, who fights Magneto again, and, like the first time, Magneto puts him down. Since then, Red Skull has only popped up once or twice.
How Red Skull is going to fit into the current captain America storyline is anyone's guess, but considering that this seems to be an Earth-shattering event, don't be surprised if he has a pretty big role in what's to come. Can you imagine seeing Captain America and Red Skull fighting along side one another? That's just all sorts of wrong.
Let me know your thoughts on this new storyline and where you think it's heading in the comments section down below.
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