ORLANDO, Fla., June 1 (UPI) — Legendary Marvel comics creator and personality Stan Lee has weighed on the recent Captain America Hydra twist, proclaiming, “It’s a hell of a clever idea.”
“I don’t know that I would ever have thought of it for him to be a double agent, but it’s going to make you curious, it’s going to make you want to read the books, they’ll probably do a movie based on it,” Lee said Sunday during a panel at MegaCon, a comic book convention set in Orlando, Fla.
“So I can’t fault it. It’s a good idea. I think it’s crazy, but it’s a good idea,” he said.
Lee’s comments come after the controversial twist in Issue No. 1 of Marvel’s “Captain America: Steve Rogers,” in which the iconic hero is revealed to be a secret agent of Hydra, an evil organization the super-soldier has spent his life fighting.
The big surprise comes on the last page of the comic when Steve Rogers utters Hydra’s signature salute, “Hail Hydra” as he tosses a fellow hero out a plane to his death. The change is a dramatic departure from how the character has been portrayed throughout the years and recently in the Marvel cinematic universe.
The reveal has been met with a mostly negative response from fans, with writer Nick Spencer receiving death threats on Twitter, “I can’t respond to 9,000 tweets per second, but if I could, I would say I admire your passion,” Spencer wrote in response to all the feedback he has received.
