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Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Drayco90 wrote: Red Skull has control of Hydra now. Red Skull has Xavier's brain and mental powers. Red Skull is obsessed with controlling Steve Rogers. Red Skull is working on reobtaining the Cosmic Cube. The event where Steve got his young body back had Red Skull get close enough to him to directly effect him. The Hydra recruiter from the flashback is named SINclair (Y'know, like the Red Skull's daughter?) He even directly mentions that something feels off about himself since he was made young again, and he feels like a stranger in his own body.

It seems pretty clear what they're doing to me, and it's being framed like this to get headlines and draw attention away from DC Rebirth. This seems like the most obvious outcome to me. I can't see them going any other way. It's because of it that I think it's not it. Because it's too obvious. And it was already said in an interview by Nick Spencer himself that this is not mind control.

The Red Skull wants to destroy everything Rogers holds dear, he wants him to see it, he wants him to suffer. Controlling him doesn't seem a good way to do that. Plus, the Red Skull isn't using his powers to recruit Hydra agents, it's up to them if they will join or not. Why? Because he knows it'll affect Cap, he knows that it'll hurt him, make him suffer. Because it's his people loosing faith, becoming pawns in a game to destroy the country Cap represents, their country. He's trying to destroy USA's soul for that is to truly destroy it. That's the Red Skull's goal, his ultimate revenge against Cap for all these years he was defeated by him.

That's why I don't believe it's the Red Skull.