Last night I watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which is still the peak example of MCU brilliance to this day. This movie is legendarily good, taking a simple plot and elevating it to oh-my-goodness-that-was-so-good status. And yet, as I was watching the movie, I noticed something quite surprising.

When Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff have their audience with computerized Zemo and he delivers his evil villain speech he says these words: “The war taught us much. After the war, S.H.I.E.L.D was founded and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew. A beautiful parasite inside S.H.I.E.L.D. For 70 years HYDRA has been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war, and when history did not cooperate, history was changed. Accidents will happen. HYDRA created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security. Once a purification process is complete, Hydra’s NEW WORLD ORDER will arise.”