昨天,全世界的漫威粉都炸了。

在最新发行的《美国队长-史蒂夫·罗杰斯》第1期漫画(Captain America: Steve Rogers #1)中,美国队长这位洁白无瑕的人间天使爱的化身,竟然变成了九头蛇的卧底!

在漫画结尾,美国队长说出了漫威反派组织九头蛇(Hydra)的标志性口号Hail Hydra(九头蛇万岁)。

The Daily Beast的报道中说:

The provocative first issue of Captain America run outs Steve Rogers as a deep-cover Hydra agent—a jaw-droppingly audacious twist that’s incensed certain comic fans and earned the writer accusations of everything from anti-Semitism to soft homophobia (for giving Steve a dual identity rather than a boyfriend).
极富争议的美国队长第一期漫画,揭露美队其实是潜伏得很深的九头蛇特工。这个让人大跌眼镜的大胆情节转折激怒了不少漫画粉,对作者群起而攻之,从反犹太主义,到轻微恐同(因为他没给美队一个男朋友却给了他一个双重身份),骂什么的都有。

a jaw-droppingly(掉下巴的) audacious twist,说的是a plot twist,也就是剧情的转变、反转。你还可以说the plot takes a grotesque turn,剧情发生了荒诞的转折。

如果你还不知道九头蛇是啥:

Hydra is a terrorist organization in the Marvel Universe that’s been a major villainous presence in the comics since 1965.
九头蛇是漫威宇宙的恐怖组织,从1965年的漫威漫画中开始就是个流毒无穷的大反派。

注:戏剧中形容大boss,大反派,用的都是villain这个词。

In Steve Rogers #1, it’s revealed that Steve was recruited by Hydra when he was a kid. And that he’s still working with them. It’s a controversial decision, to say the least – especially given that Hydra is an organization with strong Nazi ties.
在刚出的漫画里,史蒂夫还是个孩子的时候,就被九头蛇招募,现在仍和他们有联系。最保守地说,这也是个充满争议的决定,尤其考虑到九头蛇是一个有着强烈纳粹色彩的组织。

路人的反应基本上都是这样的:

但粉丝圈都集体气炸了。

Twitter上发起了#SayNoToHYDRACap(#对九头蛇美队说不#)的话题,网友群而骂之……

一个简单的漫画人物竟然让我这么难过。真的太恶心,太廉价了 #SayNoToHYDRACap

#SayNoToHYDRACap 孩子们和我一起念:震惊人的情节不等于好的故事。

“哦,如果美队又变好了咋办”,可是这完全不相干。你不知道这种事给人造成的打击。他们把美队给毁了。#SayNoToHYDRACap

还有义愤填膺发表抗议的:

把美队变成九头蛇太恶心了,我拒绝相信这件事,拒绝接受这个作为官方设定。我建议你,或者任何看漫画、关心美国队长这一角色的人,和我一起这么做。太可怕了。他们所做的事不仅冷漠而且可耻、不尊重人,完全、彻底地不正确。简直恶心到极致。

连美队本人也懵逼了……

九头蛇?!?!?#告诉我这不是真的

然而作者Nick Spencer在接受The Daily Beast的采访时似乎还很得意,他哈哈笑说:

“I’m the most hated man in America today and Donald Trump is running for president!”
特朗普还在竞选总统,而今天我成为美国人民最憎恨的人了。

还表示,“outrage is exactly what he wanted”,网友的愤怒正是他想看到的。

The Daily Beast的这篇采访标题是“我为什么要把美队变成超级大反派”。

所以,Turn somebody into a villain也就是我们常说的黑化啦。

另外,副标题里写的why Captain America broke bad。其中break bad也可以用来表达黑化

Break bad可有两个解释:

1. (of an event or of one's fortunes) To go wrong; to go downhill.

(一件事或一个人的运气)变糟糕;急转直下

2. (of a person) To go bad; to turn toward immorality or crime.

(一个人)变坏;变得不道德,犯罪

Nick Spencer说这是预谋已久的事情:

Yeah, we’ve been holding onto this for about 16 months now, so it’s been well over a year that we’ve been keeping this under wraps.

没错,我们计划这个情节已经有16个月了,所以差不多一年多,我们一直把这件事藏着没透露出来。

under wraps:保密,不公开

那漫威官方对美队黑化这事儿没意见吗?Nick说:

Everybody seemed really into the idea and really supportive.

每个人都很喜欢这个想法,而且特别支持。

into something:喜欢、有兴趣

作者到底是怎么突然开了这个脑洞呢?原来是他和上一任作者Rick Remender交接时,Rick给了他一些线索:

Hydra had infiltrated all the various teams and organizations in the Marvel universe and we were gonna be weeding out the various Hydra clans.

九头蛇渗入了漫威宇宙中所有的团队和组织中,我们要慢慢铲除不同的九头蛇团伙。

weed out:清除、连根拔去

So I started to kind of drill it down a bit and I started wondering, what if there’s just one Hydra plant? What if they think they’re looking for a hundred people and it turns out there’s just one really good one? And if there’s just one really good Hydra plant, who would that be? Within a second, I realized that Steve was by far the person who could do the most damage.
然后我就开始琢磨这个事儿,我就想,如果只有一个九头蛇卧底呢?如果他们以为在找的是一百多个人,结果却只有一个真正厉害的呢?如果只有一个最厉害的九头蛇卧底的话,那会是谁呢?不到一秒钟,我就想到了美队,如果他是卧底的话,会带来最大的杀伤力。

drill down:深入探讨、钻研

网友都在谴责作者黑化美队,是对最早创作出美队这个形象的犹太作者的侮辱。(There’s a lot of uproar online about how this storyline insults the legacies of Captain America’s Jewish creators.)Nick是这样争辩的:

Look, everybody who’s working on this story loves Captain America.
哎,写这个故事的每个人都是爱美队的。

从他的说法上来看,似乎还会把剧情扳回来……

But what I think I can say with confidence is that with this story, our intention and our hope is that in its own unique way, it reinforces what everybody already knows about Captain America, which is his power as a symbol and what that means. We are approaching it from a different angle, but I think it illuminates the character in a way that we’ve never seen before.
我可以自信地说,在这个故事里,我们的目的和愿望是,用一种独特的方式,强化人们对美队已有的认知,也就是他具有象征意义和内涵的强大力量。我们是从另一个角度将其展现出来,而且能以前所未见的方式来阐释这个角色。

无论如何,粉丝遭到欺骗和背叛的心一时半会儿是转不回来了……

用网友的话说,“溜粉一时爽,全家XXX”,默默给漫威点个蜡……

声明:本文系中国日报授权沪江英语转载。原标题《美队黑化,粉丝气炸,想不到你个浓眉大眼的也叛变革命》。文本仅代表作者个人观点,仅供参考。如有不妥之处,欢迎指正。