Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-112155-20160301233224/@comment-25521424-20160705141416

SonOfAres1 wrote:

Elledy92 wrote: BTW this thread is huuuuuuuuuuge. And 4 months old. And should be dead.

I think they wanted to avoid a HYDRA connection because if it was uncovered by the SSR, then there would be a big loophole: How did HYDRA continue to survive after the war despite being discovered by their greatest rivals?

I could maybe see the Secret Empire as the American branch of the old HYDRA who grew disillusioned with sacrificing good men to a rock, so they decided to focus more on political/economic domination rather than domination with a god. That's my point: the Secret Empire borned as a branch of HYDRA in the comics. Council of Nine's history in AC is literally perfect to be introduced as another branch of the "old Hydra" (opposing the Nazi HYDRA), and maybe merging with it in the Modern Day Hydra after WWII.