So basically the main villain is SHIELD because at some point after its founding some Hydra dudes got the idea to infiltrate. (And that would be the spoiler likely working in Agents.) The whole thing gets set up as a kind of allegory for Patriot Act/NSA spying where SHIELD basically collects all this data on people and feeds it into an algorithm that would be able to detect who would be a problem for Hydra's total control program.. and then there's this "pre-emptive strike force" set of Helicarriers that would go around killing the people marked by the program. Not just obvious dudes like the Marvel supers, either, but anybody who could potentially rise up based on this algorithm. (They were tossing around the number twenty million.)
Steve naturally is all like WE MUST STOP IT but he takes it a bit further and he flat out tells Fury that no, they have to burn SHIELD to the ground because the whole damn thing is corrupt and Fury's delusional if he thinks he can salvage it... thus extending the allegory to the whole Homeland Security/NSA thing further as SHIELD dissolves, the supers go on to be independent agents, and the agents who weren't Hydra fold into the places that would have taken them if SHIELD didn't exist.. and very visibly absent was anyone working a DHS-type job.
It was actually pretty uplifting and affirming and I'm kinda surprised a corporate entity that large actually greenlighted all that given the way media companies in the US like to hold hands and sing about how awesome the police state over here is. (It's not really all that subversive for Cap, but it is for Disney/Marvel if that makes sense.)
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Date: 2014-04-07 11:57 pm (UTC)Steve naturally is all like WE MUST STOP IT but he takes it a bit further and he flat out tells Fury that no, they have to burn SHIELD to the ground because the whole damn thing is corrupt and Fury's delusional if he thinks he can salvage it... thus extending the allegory to the whole Homeland Security/NSA thing further as SHIELD dissolves, the supers go on to be independent agents, and the agents who weren't Hydra fold into the places that would have taken them if SHIELD didn't exist.. and very visibly absent was anyone working a DHS-type job.
It was actually pretty uplifting and affirming and I'm kinda surprised a corporate entity that large actually greenlighted all that given the way media companies in the US like to hold hands and sing about how awesome the police state over here is. (It's not really all that subversive for Cap, but it is for Disney/Marvel if that makes sense.)