Anonymous asked: Okay, after the Fox News incident, I have to ask, how do the Avengers do on press interviews?
The Avengers are made up of a sharp-tongued billionaire with a short fuse, an easily insulted God, a traumatized scientist with BREATHTAKING anger management issues, a sullen and smart mouthed sniper, a spy with a cloaked past and the ability to kill with a look and Steve Rogers.
ok a followup from my irony post: one of the things i love most about steve rogers as seen in the mcu is that he doesn’t do the thing that ‘feels right’ or looks most virtuous or american or whatever, he’s not sentimental, he knows what hell is like because he has been there and it’s called the western front. he grew up sick and poor and irish catholic when there was no kindness for those things in the american narrative, he is not the kind of guy who thinks everything will turn out okay if you just believe in yourself.
he doesn’t do what he feels is the right thing, he does what he decides is the right thing. and sometimes it feels terrible, and has terrible consequences. at no point in ‘civil war’, for instance, does he seem to think his decision is The Right Choice and tony’s is Wrong. he knows there was no right answer, only two wrong ones, and he picked the one he could live with. and people bled for it.
i wouldn’t say he’s a ‘logic’ character, he’s not that trope, but he is secretly, subtly, ruthlessly thoughtful.
so when he does something like, say, become a fugitive from the entire world within minutes of hearing there’s a shoot-first order out on bucky, it’s not that blind emotional panic that drives so many heroes. it’s as cold and unstoppable as a glacier.
an emotionally driven hero has, inherently, a sense of entitlement about the outcome of their choices. if you believe in your friends, if you tell the truth when you ought to lie, if you refuse to take the kill shot because heroes don’t kill, things will definitely turn out okay in the end somehow. and of course the narrative always supports this, because that’s the genre, that’s the trope set. there’s no room for a counterpoint in their universe.
and then there’s captain fucking america.
look, i’m sleep-deprived and haven’t planned this post out at all so it’s probably kind of a mess, but what i’m getting at here is that the ‘golden boy’ of superheroes, the star spangled man with a plan, this corny, schmaltzy, old-timey character, isn’t light because the darkness hasn’t touched him. he’s light because he set his jaw and marched into the darkness and he set it the fuck on fire.
That was one of the most horrifying, painful, beautiful parts of the movie. So many of them weren’t prepared, so many were administrators who had no clue that the STRIKE teams had turned, let alone that a killing machine like the Winter Soldier was on the loose.
So many of them died.
And yet none of them hesitated. Despite the propaganda Pierce had unleashed, despite their orders, despite everything, they still responded. Their sacrifice, their heroism - they gave the last full measure of devotion, and I can’t imagine that Steve wouldn’t attend the memorial service, even if he had to use a wheelchair or a cane because his own wounds hadn’t finished healing.
“Captain’s orders” indeed.
without these people, there IS no Captain America.
This part of the movie killed me— ordinary, decent people standing up (and in many cases, dying) on nobody else’s word than the Captain’s. They didn’t know how many were Hydra, they maybe didn’t even really know what Hydra was (aside from some dimly recalled story from their grandparents) but stand up, they did. And without them, without the few seconds of delay, the helicarriers would have launched on schedule.
That’s Steve’s power - inspiring people to try and be what they can be.
I don’t get why people are like “Steve Rogers is so vanilla” because the guy is probably the most hot-blooded person in the MCU and also the one to canonically lie on his enlistment form, steal cars, help steal wings, tell Nick Fury to fuck off and run SHIELD better, and generally be impossible to control
Some Nat/Steve friend fluff for @littlestartopaz, in
that soulmate AU from earlier, reading it probably isn’t necessary but I’m always in search of approbation. This is
probably just a few months after the Avengers were formed, in my bastardized
movies-comics-wishful-thinking-verse where they all live in Avengers Tower.
Steve and Natasha are sparring, because Steve gets nervous about
sparring with fragile normal humans and Natasha is willing to bully him into
it. Tony isn’t generally one to spar,
given the suit, and Clint’s still recovering from the cracked rib he sustained
on their last mission, and Thor, who could take Steve’s full strength punch
without batting an eye, is still off-planet handling his psychopath
brother. (No one asks Bruce to spar,
because they all like being un-splatted.)
So Natasha drags Steve’s protesting ass into the ring and punches him in
the face until he fights back. Unless he
manages to actually grab her, it’s a pretty fair match.
It’s a system, okay, and if Natasha thinks it’s funny that he’s afraid
he’ll hurt her, that’s between her and the inside of her own skull.
