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I enjoyed the idea of Secret Empire, but not the ending. I believe rather there should have been ONE Steve Rogers in the midst of all of this, don't you ?
You are under arrest.
Four words…four words that can change everything…
In the end there wasn't a second Steve Rogers to save the day. No that is not how reality works. In the end, there as just one. One man…one broken man.
In the final battle against the forces of Hydra and after the dust has settled the true Steve Rogers came back only to see the damage he done. He broke down…crying.
The man known as Captain America was shattered. Where there was once hope in us all was now replaced by loss by the damage of the battles. Where there was once determination in the hearts of many, there is now anger for what has done. No one knew what to do in a moment like this after an event like this…
Hydra took over the world and nearly won had it not been for the heroes last push, but for all that victory was for naught given what happen afterwards. Steve Rogers broken down and crying over his actions. The following words that follow told showed just how far back this has gone. What Steve Rogers said was that he manipulated EVERYONE around him since he was turned by Kobaik, the sentient Cosmic Cube, and used their own insecurities about themselves against them.
He was the true cause of why Bruce Banner was dead because of dummy equations that lead to nowhere for Banner. He didn't expect Hawkeye to kill him as he would have thought Banner would be enraged enough to transformed. It was though him and his knowledge of the Sheild that he made Sam during his time as Captain America much difficult than he original envisioned, and he was the one who killed longtime Avengers associate and his former sidekick Rick Jones and Natasha Romanov, the official spy to the Avengers.
His mind was shattered and alone
Carol Danvers wanted to kill him, and Jennifer Walters wanted him destroyed and broken beyond repair. However, those don't compare to the emotions that Sam Wilson was feeling right now.
Sam felt lost and conflicted. Just how much of his time with the shield was true and which was a lie. He finally dropped the Shield and the name as it was now tarnished forever.
Bucky Barnes was also at a crossroads given how he could understand how Steve Roger felt about this. Yet this was much more than the damage he done.
The overall universe was broken and it feels like it will take a long time for it to repair itself.
Miles Morales, the other Spider-man, feels very conflicted on his role in all of this and sees that there's more to the world of Spider-man than just wearing the mask. His family is in pieces and his life is just far beyond what it originally was back in his own homeworld.
Peter Parker, the original Spider-man sympathized with Captain America as he knew what it was a like for someone else to take over your mind and control your life. He knew that Doctor Otto Octavius had the will to understand what it's like to be a true hero, but his enormous ego prevents that revelation from ever occurring in his mind. He knew Parker Industries could be used for good and maybe spread the work that Doctor Octavius wanted, but then again life doesn't get you that chance and neither does the way of how a person can act and change.
No one can ever recall a moment when the world's heroes were justifying defeated and yet can't figure out what to do next…