Warning: SPOILERS for Hanna Season 2.

Hanna season 2 sends the titular super soldier played by Esme Creed-Miles on a new mission but it might seem a little familiar to anyone who saw Hydra's plot from Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Hanna season 2 blazes a new direction for the series and centers the action at Utrax, the covert CIA program that created Hanna but has transformed into a school for enhanced teenage female super-soldiers in Northern England called the Meadows. Hanna reluctantly joins her 'sisters' at the Meadows but finds she can't willingly submit to being turned into a U.S. Government-sponsored killer.

One of the very best Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier saw Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Sam Wilson, and Nick Fury discover that SHIELD had been infiltrated by Hydra since its inception. The heroes set out to stop Hydra's master plan, Project Insight, which involved the villainous organization launching three Helicarriers which would eliminate thousands of targets deemed a threat to Hydra's world domination, which included people like Doctor Stephen Strange. Captain America successfully defeated Project Insight despite having to fight his best friend Bucky Barnes, who had been brainwashed by Hydra into the feared assassin known as the Winter Soldier.

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Just like Hydra's plot, Hanna season 2's Utrax also has a list targeted for assassination. Utrax is run by John Carmichael (Dermot Mulroney) and overseen by a shadowy cabal taking over the CIA called the Pioneer Group. Utrax's target list is comprised of people who are all under 30 years of age. As Carmichael explained to his friend Robert Gelder when he showed him the list, the Pioneer Group's master plan is "controlling the future" because "the youth are beautiful but so very dangerous for what they might become." Instead of Helicarriers, the Pioneer Group will use Utrax as their weapons to control the future; essentially, they're sending teenage assassins into the world to take out the young people the Pioneer Group feels endangers their secret new world order.

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Along with Utrax's mission's similarity to Project Insight, Hanna herself has a personal mission that resembles Steve Rogers' quest to save his best friend Bucky. Hanna and her 'sister' Clara Mahan (Yasmin Monet Prince) were both indoctrinated into Utrax against their will. Clara finally accepted her role in Utrax but when Hanna couldn't bring herself to kill for the government, she rebelled against Utrax and set out to turn Clara to her side. Ultimately, Hanna got through to Clara just like Captain America did with Bucky, although Hanna saved Clara because she understood what really drove Mahan was her desire to be reunited with her mother, which Hanna made happen.

Amusingly, despite their newfound freedoms to learn about the world so they can blend in as normal teenagers in the field, the girls of Utrax are so isolated and carefully controlled at the Meadows that it's possible none of them have even seen a Marvel movie (although they did watch Wanted starring Angelina Jolie). Hanna herself has no time or interest in such frivolities. Therefore, Utrax's top trainees like Sandy Phillips (Aine Rose Daly) and Jules Allen (Gianna Kiehl) probably have no idea that their overseers sent them out on a mission that resembles Hydra's failed world domination plot. But to Utrax's credit, even though Hanna ultimately acquired the target list, Sandy and Jules did kill their targets so at least part of Hanna season 2's scheme was more successful than Hydra's Project Insight.

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