Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-4651179-20170830172042/@comment-25571912-20170831122717

ADour wrote: While the Steve that returned originally described himself as a "memory of himself," the fact that he's the Cap we have now indicates he is meant to be the real one and not just some duplicate created from Kobik's memories. Just because he's the Cap we have now doesn't have to mean he's the real one. In a year or so another Kobik and another Cap could emerge and the current Cap could turn out to be the fake one. We need more solid proofs. That's why I said we should wait until the Omega issue so we could know the whole story.

ADour wrote: It's necessary to take author's intent into consideration for this kind of thing.

Of course. No one disagrees with that.

ADour wrote: For exaple, if we don't apply author's intent, an argument can be made that the Spider-Man currently running around isn't the real one, or even that while he is, rather than Otto Octavius having been the Superior Spider-Man, it was only Peter Parker brainwashed into believing himself to be Octavius. I'm not sure that example could apply here. If I remember correctly, it was clearly shown that Octavius' consciousness was in control of Parker's body, and that consciousness committed a suicide by erasing itself to allow Parker's consciousness to take back control of the body and defeat Norman Osborn.

Anyway, I think we can all agree on which questions need to be answered as soon as possible.


 * 1) Is the evil Steve the real Captain America with messed up memories (because that's what we all thought him to be before the good one appeared at the end of SE#2) or not?
 * 2) If the evil Steve is the real Captain America does that mean the good Steve is just a duplicate made by Kobik?
 * 3) If the evil Steve is not the real Captain America where did he come from? Was he just made out of thin air by Kobik and filled with memories of a world that never really existed or did she pull him (and Elisa Sinclair) from some other reality?
 * 4) If Kobik did pull the evil Steve and Elisa Sinclair from some other reality (we can call it Earth-Hydra for the time being), was that reality made by Kobik when the Red Skull told her to turn Steve into a HYDRA agent or did that reality exist even before?
 * 5) If Earth-Hydra was real, is Earth-616 just an alternate version of it created by the Allies in 1945 with the power of the Cosmic Cube? Was Earth-Hydra the original one?
 * 6) Earth-Hydra was seemingly temporarily restored by the evil Steve in SE#10 and then erased by Kobik one minute later. Was Earth-Hydra permanently deleted or does it still exist somewhere if the Marvel Multiverse?