monition : SPOILERS for Captain America and the Winter Soldier Special # 1Marvel ’s latestCaptain Americaadventure involve a fundamental misunderstanding of world politics and World War I , as the party retcons an integral century of world story . Steve Rogers ' previous new series involve a world cabal to control humanity and keep disaster , and Bucky Barnes is caught in the crossfire . Captain America and the Winter Soldier Special # 1reveals precisely how this conspiracy theory came to be - and apply the assassin who begin World War I as one of the founding members .

In current comics continuity , Captain America ’s latest enemy is the mysterious Outer Circle , a worldwide confederacy that assure most ( if not all ) governments of the reality through bribes , offers of powerfulness , and clandestine assassination . The Outer Circle member have operated in secret for decades , but their symbol is in plain sight : thecircular patterns of Captain America ’s shield , complete with the central star , make up their sigil , symbolizing a group on the fringes of society that control all human substructure .

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InCaptain America and the Winter Soldier Special # 1 , spell by Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly with art by Kev Walker , none other than Gavrilo Princip himself stray the give up landscape of a World War I battlefield . Princip was the man responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 , an event which eventually lead to the engagement then known as the Great War . Gavrilo was arrested for his offense and conk in 1918 of T.B. , but in this comic , he stands dead healthy ; he was freed and nursed back to wellness by a penis of the Outer Circle . Gavrilo is finally ask to be a 5th member , and he reluctantly accede ( he is later assassinated by Bucky Barnes nearly a one C after , shooting through Captain America ) .

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Gavrilo Princip was a stalwart patriot and desired Yugoslavia fall in Serbia , but history turn out he was somewhat loose in his goal : Yugoslavia broke up and was completely burst apart by the 90s . If Gavrilo was indeed part of a global conspiracy with nigh - unlimited control , why did he provide Yugoslavia to melt ? what is more , the substantial Princip would perhaps bristle at the thought of influence with so many others who did not portion out his sight . Captain America often struggle massive conspiraciesas villain , but this one does not make sense , mostly because of the inclusion of Princip .

Captain America is often brought back to his World War II past times , so it is interesting to see a character like him dragged into a World War I conspiracy . Nevertheless , the author ' fundamental misunderstanding of Gavrilo transform a morally - nebulous character in humans story into an out - and - out baddie . The same goes forBucky Barnes , who at the last of the issue is turned intoa villain forCaptain America- and much like Gavrilo , may be recruit into inadvertently begin a world war .

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