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A website about Captain America villains now redirects to WhiteHouse.gov
The Week ^ | May 12, 2017 | Bonnie Kristian

Posted on 05/12/2017 2:50:22 PM PDT by Bratch

If you've watched many of the approximately 8.6 million movies in Marvel Comics' Avengers franchise, you may recall Hydra, a Nazi-linked terrorist organization often battled by Captain America. Hydra is named after a mythological, multi-headed snake monster that grows more heads every time you cut one off, and members of the villainous group identify each other by whispering, "Hail Hydra!"

But if you visit hail-hydra.com, perhaps hoping to read up on some Marvel lore before the next 4 million movies premiere, you will instead be redirected to the WhiteHouse.gov page for President Donald J. Trump. Really — try it.

It isn't clear who set up the redirect, but it has been in place since at least mid-April. As The Hollywood Reporter notes, one Hydra offshoot in the comics, an organization called the Secret Empire, was headed by an American president. The unnamed president killed himself after his secret was leaked in a 1974 storyline commenting on the Watergate scandal of former President Richard Nixon. 

 


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: comicbooks; culture; politics

1 posted on 05/12/2017 2:50:23 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch

Libs are really desperate.


2 posted on 05/12/2017 2:55:46 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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To: Bratch

How could Disney let this slip? answer: they did not. They let it ride.

Iger will sacrifice anything to run for office he is burning espn.


3 posted on 05/12/2017 2:56:03 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Bratch

of course there are all the captain America pictures using trump.


4 posted on 05/12/2017 2:59:15 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Bratch

In the comics Captain America defended illegal aliens against racist redneck stereotypes.


5 posted on 05/12/2017 3:09:25 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Bratch

Children will do things like that.


6 posted on 05/12/2017 3:19:46 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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7 posted on 05/12/2017 3:23:23 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Sasparilla

Yes but i bet The Dark Knight still likes him...


8 posted on 05/12/2017 3:24:47 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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To: epluribus_2

SwampDrainer! Powers not seen in DC since the Jackson Administration!


9 posted on 05/12/2017 3:26:46 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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10 posted on 05/12/2017 3:30:41 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Bratch

I’m glad that I don’t care about comic books any more.

There were a few good ones in the 80s.


11 posted on 05/12/2017 3:57:08 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: gaijin

Did anybody actually buy that sh!t?


12 posted on 05/12/2017 4:33:44 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
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