Dear Writers at Marvel Comics,

Like many fans of Marvel I have also heard of your decision to make Captain America a Hydra agent the whole time. I will not beat around the bush. I will go out and say perfectly clearly that this choice of yours is absolutely absurd for a variety of reasons. I cannot get into too many of them but I would at least like to share why the decision to make Steve Rogers a Nazi is incredibly harmful.

I will begin with a brief history lesson because as far as I can tell, it seems necessary. Captain America was created by Jewish comic book writers Joe Kirby and Joe Simon in 1941. The year the United States got involved in the Second World War. One of the first and most iconic images of Captain America published at the time was the image of him punching Adolf Hitler in the face.

The terrorists known as Hydra were the fictious science branch of the Nazi regime.

A superhero going face to face against Nazis and punching Hitler in the face- what's not to love?

Not to mention that this superhero's creators were two Jewish men living in the United States where they were safe unlike the Jews of Europe at the time.

Captain America was written to represent the ideals of the United States of America such as freedom, equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A character written by two Jewish men who fought Nazis. There is no denying that Captain America is a propaganda product, but what makes him great is that Steve Rogers fights for what many of us want the United States to be in spite of the country's incredibly problematic state of reality.

Making Captain America a member of Hydra is a slap in the face to the creators, fans, and everything the beloved hero has stood for. I could care less about "edginess" especially when it is so out of character. Speaking as the granddaughter of two Holocaust survivors, the decision to do this to Steve Rogers makes me sick to my stomach, which in itself feels like too much of an understatement.

While I doubt any of you at Marvel will see this piece, in the case that y'all do, I hope your happy with yourselves for alienating so many fans. Especially the fans who had family members living in a time where they didn't know if they would live another day or remain one step ahead of their persecutors. Nazis and yes that includes Hydra are not a plot device to be implemented lightly when it is a subject that still causes a lot of hurt to many people today.

Signed,

An Incredibly Furious Nerd