Hi! I asked about Hydra the other day. I totally agree with your view on Hydra in the MCU, that they distrust democracy, preferring a despotic style of government. However, I feel like they hold more of a generic totalitarian ideology than a Nazi one. We don’t see any talk of racial superiority, and Schmidt himself says he doesn’t fit the perfect Aryan ideal anymore. Do you think Marvel decided to change Hydra for the MCU? Because Hydra reaches much more of the universe than in the comics?

I think they did, but that wasn’t the reason why. I think the reason why is that they’re trying to make four-quadrant movies that people all over the world can take their kids to. (Looking at you, BvS:DoJ…)  And it’s way easier to do that if you don’t have Nazi insignia, bad guys throwing around racial epithets, etc. 

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