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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · 2d

Other than that Secret Empire II is an event that tries to be like Johnathan Hickman's Secret Wars, but commits the cardinal sin of breaking a character's history that you need to seemingly replace him, hence this is easily on my top 5 list of worst Marvel events.

Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · 2d

Now the only things, I enjoyed was this page from issue #7 which has Carol Danvers reflecting on being played by Hydra Cap play her like a chump, and Captain America: Steve Rogers (2016) #17 which includes Sally Floyd getting a taste of karma.

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · 2d

Which at the end you could have Kobik (A) fuse the two back and have Scrawny Steve be the dominant persona, or (B) put Scrawny Steve mind in the body of Hydra Cap and put the mind of Hydra Cap in the body of Scrawny Steve.

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · 2d

Desperate Hydra Cap tries to grab Mjölnir but can’t lift it, not because of it being rigid when he first lifts it in issue 1, but because the thing that made him worthy is no longer apart of him anymore, and so Scrawny Steve lifts Mjölnir and knocks Hydra Cap out cold.

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · 2d

Then you have the two tussle and just as Hydra Cap is about to decapitate Scrawny Steve, turns out Steve does have the Super solider serum but he just doesn’t have the muscle mass (because comic cube shenanigans), so he grabs Hydra Cap’s Shield and gets the upper hand.

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · 2d

The ending would have been a lot more profound had it taken notes from Superman III, in which you see Kobik (instead creating a new Steve out from the cosmic cube) separates the real Steve from Hydra Cap, who appears as he was before taking the Super Solider Serum.

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile the real Steve took refuge in Kobik’s mind who would resurface in the final core issue, but its not conveyed well at all and we never see Kobik (prior to being shattered) display any traits of Steve, alluding to the fact that his persona had become apart of her.😵‍💫

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently, Marvel retconned this, but the explanation they gave is pretty dumb and confusing as hell, since apparently Steve’s history was never change, but instead he was swap with an evil version of himself from a parallel universe that Kobik created.😕

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · 2d

What piss me off about this is that the foundation of this story was built upon a lie that Hydra crafted which is Steve being a sleeper agent of Hydra, and instead of fixing it, you created a lie of Steve who seemingly never existed.

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · 2d

But the biggest problem I had with this event is its ending in which the day is saved by Hydra Cap being defeated by a Captain America conjured from the memory of how Kobik remembers Steve, meaning (in the context of this event) the guy who defeated Hydra Cap ISN’T REAL! 😡

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · 2d

Another is of course out of character moments like Magneto MAKING DEALS WITH NAZIS!

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · 2d

For starters, the political satire, now in a one-off story or a story arc (like the original Secret Empire in Captain America and the Falcon series), that is ok, but to have it be this sprawling event, the commentary becomes very preachy, and not very subtle.

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · 2d

Recently read Secret Empire II Aka Secret Empire 2017 (tie-ins and all) and yeah, this event was pretty bad, and there are many aspects about it that were just frustrating.

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · Aug 31

[And of course Imperial March]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7HF...

John Williams - The Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back (Audio)

YouTube video by JohnWilliamsVEVO

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · Aug 31

[Cue Gustav Holst - The Planets - Mars, the Bringer of War]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bc...

Gustav Holst - The Planets - Mars, the Bringer of War

YouTube video by Nick

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · Aug 31

Next Marvel event I'm reading...oh boy!😐

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · Aug 23

In summation they both suck but here’s the song that fits well with both of them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqwx...

Powerman 5000 - Heroes and Villains

YouTube video by Soulstefan1

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · Aug 23

Civil War II is an event that could have been easily avoid and because some characters were already ruin in the beginning of this event (Captain Marvel, Captain America, Spiderman, etc.), you’re desensitized by it the second time around, yet it pisses you off more.

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · Aug 23

Now in regards to weather this is worse than the original Civil War, its complicated, because all of Marvel’s problems stem from Civil War I, however it was an event that was an inevitably, as its premise had been briefly discuss in early Marvel comics.

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · Aug 23

Also having the hubris of making Carol Danvers so unlikeable won’t affect how she’ll be inevitably written in her own movie (as it stands her movie was the only blemish in the MCU’s Infinity Saga).

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · Aug 23

Overall Civil War II is an event that is made for all the wrong reasons. It was made to coincided with “Captain America: Civil War” aka movie synergy. It was made to make the Inhumans more relevant so they can take the place of the X-Men.

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · Aug 23

4. Fewer out-of-character moments than the first one.

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · Aug 23

3. Maddy highlighting all the problems I have with Amadeus Cho, even before he became the Hulk.

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · Aug 23

2. The pages Mockingbird (2016) #7 and majority of The Fallen (aka the Funeral and Will of Bruce Banner), showcases for everyone who hated the Hulk, there were those who was loved and admired him, not just by his family or peers.

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Elisha S. Clarke IV @elishathe4th.bsky.social · Aug 23

1. Instead of everyone being proactive assholes in the original Civil War II, in which they are at each other’s’ throats only to have civilians get caught in the crossfire, there being passive assholes, in which they don’t want to have it come down to a brawl of Heroes vs Heroes.

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