It's enjoyable, but I have few problems with it.

First, having the opening chapter with the MC apparently defeated and explaining things to Captain America was a mistake in my opinion. This kind of setup works for a short adventure where you will discover quite quickly what happened, but for a longer fic it is just annoying. You're waiting for the main character to either fail or to discover what kind of trick the author will use to explain that it totally wasn't what it appeared to be.

Second, while I like the whole Hydra's point of view, I dislike how the main character got involved. For a supposedly very competent person, they got him ridiculously easily and it would be better if it was his plan from the beginning or there should be more steps involved in how they managed to recruit him.

Third, a time travel completely breaks the setting if you're a villain. The explanation of creating new universes works only for someone who has morals and the main characters did a lot to prove that he doesn't.

Even with these, it's one of better SI MCU fics and I especially wait how the politics will be handled in it because it's something I always wanted to write myself.

I would give it 3/5 at the moment.

The paragon timeline with Jane getting Thor powers is fun too.

 

This is poor quality fiction. To get the score out of the way it is a 1/5 for me. Total trash.

Hail Hydra had a few aspects I enjoyed as plot devices. However, these few glimmers of hope were buried by the wish-fulfilment power fantasy that surrounded them.

To start with what I enjoyed -
I appreciate the concept of a person entering a world they are familiar with via media consumption and having life derail them from their ideals as love, relationships, and sheer danger forces you towards what might be considered less than stellar circumstances.

How he met his wife and therefore joined Hydra ie. the misunderstanding, was an enjoyable plot device. As a rule, I love to see arrogant characters, especially Gary Stus such as this one, get slightly fucked over by their own mistakes. Pride before the Fall and all that.

However, that is literally the only thing I enjoyed about this FF.

The characters are bland, our MC is a rich, hyper-intelligent sociopath with no redeeming qualities. There are no true secondary characters to speak of, and if something isn't straight given to the MC you can be damn sure some sort of plot armour will make sure he gets it.

There are no real obstacles the whole thing is a look at how amazing I am until I become all-powerful!

Wait you mean that things might not be going perfectly after all?!?! Time travel it is!!! Vision from the future/alt-timeline. <-I dropped it here for the record, I was no longer able to enjoy the low-quality power trip any longer.

Just total garbage. Don't read it let it sink into the trash bin where it belongs.

 

This story just ended, so I thought I'd give it a review. Spoilers below.

This story had its ups and downs for me. On its face, the story is a morality tale about how even people with the best intentions can be corrupted by their desires for power. Mike is a good character. His descent from a man who wants to do the right thing to a man who believes that the right thing is a convenient lie is extraordinarily well done. All the characterizations are excellent in this story, including the OCs who seamlessly blend in with the rest of the characters. I don't normally like SIs, but Mike is extremely well-developed.

I have several issues with this story. The first is that things are too easy for the protagonist. He doesn't really have any setbacks until the end. His opponents are easily beaten, like

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Thanos, who didn't even manage to get a single infinity stone (like really?). I also thought that Nick Fury went out like a chump and people were way too ready to believe Mike's crazy stories.

While I did enjoy Mike's slow descent into villainy, once he reached rock bottom I lost a lot of interest in him as a character. He stagnated once he became

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God-Emperor of Hydra.

The ending felt both rushed and unearned.

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I didn't buy that everything could have come undone for Mike so easily, or that he would have given up so fast. I especially can't see him betraying Hydra like he did. The ending pretty much killed my enjoyment of this story.

Very disappointing story. This could have easily been a 5/5, but I can't overlook its flaws. 3/5