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Captain America and Iron Man’s newest enemy is fueled by her beliefs. They also show how she thinks Mutants are superior to other superheroes.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Captain America/Iron Man #3, now on sale
For decades, the Mutant community in the Marvel Universe suffered heavy scrutiny and prejudice from people who feared and misunderstood them. However, once they became their own country, the world found a newfound respect for them as they showed just how powerful they were on and off the battlefield. Now, as they continue to make a new mark on humankind, new generations of heroes and villains are beginning to understand them and respect them more than any other super person, including the villainous newcomer Veronica Eden.
Veronica was first introduced in Falcon & Winter Soldier #1 by Derek Landy and Federico Vincentini as a young woman working for Hydra. However, as the issue progressed, it was revealed that she was playing multiple angles in a scheme to become the new Hydra Supreme. This plan has continued even into Captain America/Iron Man #3 (by Derek Landy, Angel Unzueta, Rachelle Rosenberg, and VC’s Joe Caramagna), where Steve and Tony try to stop her ultimate plan to seize control over Hydra. However, her ideals begin to come to light as more of Veronica’s scheme gets uncovered.
Throughout the issue and the series, Eden makes it blatantly clear that she has no love or trust for the world’s superheroes. To her, she feels their very presence welcomes catastrophe and has been proven right time and again, like the Stamford Incident from Civil War by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven. She feels that these types of people are inherently unsafe to be surrounded by and furthers her reasoning to think that anyone who studies or tries to be like them also needs their heads checked. That said, she has unique and different thoughts regarding the Mutant community.
To her, Mutants get the ultimate pass because they were born with power. In a way, they are deserving of their gifts and to try and take them away is as unnatural as people looking for power. Unlike the rest of the world, she shows that Mutants deserve their gifts and their status because they are inherently better than most other heroes and if they aren’t there, at least not obsessed with obtaining power like these other people who may have tried to get abilities. But what makes Eden an intimidating and groundbreaking villain is that her beliefs are very logical for all intents and purposes.
To try to seek power and become anything more than normal indicates a feeling of inadequacy or a lack of confidence. It’s an issue that powers will likely never fix and often risk turning a person into a villain above all else. It also disrespects the heroes that men like Captain America praise, like first responders. But while not all heroes look for power and have power thrust upon them, it’s the characterization of Eden that makes her argument make sense. Eden has no identifiable costume or symbol. She has no codename or elaborate ability. She’s just a woman working her angles to get a promotion, and she could be anyone. Essentially she represents her ideology as a person who has no power and is working hard to gain influence rather than abilities.
Most of the old generation of Marvel heroes don’t fall into the category that Eden is talking about as these heroes often served a higher calling, like Steve or needed to survive, like Tony. But the next generation, teams like the Young Avengers, show that power isn’t always a great thing to hunt for and can change a person, like Patriot taking a Mutant Growth Hormone to gain powers. So there’s logic to Eden’s beliefs, and the respect she has for Mutants only furthers the idea that heroes may be slowly obsessing over the need to feel special above all else. That said, being that her methods are villainous to start with, she also has her own vices that put her in the same category as she strives for her own definition of power.
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