Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #9
In the latest issue of Marvel Comics' MODOK. However, the comics' MODOK has recently evolved from its original iteration as the Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing. Now, he's become MODOC, the Mental Organism Designed Only for Control. Serving the shadow organization known as the Outer Circle as one of their Starpoint agents, it's revealed that Cap and his new allies never stood a chance.
In the new Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #9 from Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, and Carmen Carnero, Steve Rogers is ed by Peggy and Sharon Carter, Nick Fury, Roger Aubrey's Destroyer, and the former Starpoint assassin known as the Redacted. Previously, they had been trying to take down AIM due to their connection to the Outer Circle, only for the new Invaders to wake up five days later with little recollection of what had transpired. However, it was quickly revealed that AIM and the new MODOK had overtaken Manhattan. Worse still, Captain America and the Invaders are horrified to realize that MODOC is still in their heads, having placed them in a looping simulation where each time they're equally horrified to learn the truth before MODOC resets their mission back to the very beginning.
Captain America Has Met His Match Thanks To The New MODOC
Having no memory of the truth each time they're reset, it seems as though Captain America and his allies have no choice but to repeat the same doomed mission over and over as MODOC continues to toy with them. However, perhaps they'll become more resistant each time, eventually gaining the upper hand over this incredibly dangerous foe. Seeing as how this new evolution of the villain is in league with the Outer Circle, perhaps the Winter Soldier will have a hand in saving them now that he's the new Revolution, a part of the organization's operations with the role of trying to take them down according to the rules of their Century Game.
At any rate, MODOC/MODOK becoming such a major villain in the current Marvel Universe isn't all that surprising. After all, the MCU is about to debut its own version of the villain in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, albeit a twisted version of Darren Cross from the first Ant-Man (formerly known as Yellowjacket). That being said, giving MODOC more prominence in the comics is a perfect form of synergy between the page and the screen.
As Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty continues, Steve Rogers' war with the Outer Circle and mission to save Bucky before he goes too dark will undoubtedly continue. As such, MODOC is just an obstacle in the way that he and his allies will have to figure out how to beat in the issues to come, hopefully escaping his sinister time loop. Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #9 is on sale now from Marvel Comics.
