This was supposed to be funny but then I started getting annoyed
I just about had a religious experience over this post like oh my fucking god, how wonderful.
And the fact that the comics showed What Ifs and alternate universes where it DID work out because they talked it out like fucking adults and actually reached compromises that WORKED WITH the government and managed to avoid the fighting altogether (including Earth-3490 where Tony was in fact a woman and did in fact get married to Steve, bless you for that nod, OP) just means that none of this fuckshit ever had to happen but noooooooo Marvel’s all “We gotta have ‘em fight each other, it’s what the people want!” when really, the people want friendship and camaraderie and fierce bonds between this group of ragtag superheroes.
The people want Avengers movie nights and training montages and parties and shit.
The people want them comforting each other when they’re hurt and working out their problems and getting help and they want them celebrating each other when they’re happy.
The people are tired of infighting.
We do like explosions and defeating the bad guys.
We don’t like our good guys turning on each other the moment they meet and progressively getting worse.
We like them all standing side by side- together.
I can’t speak for everybody, I know this, but I damn sure know that I’m not the only fucking person on this planet that feels this way.
I rewatched The Avengers today and I finally realized why Steve is such an ass. I can’t believe I never understood before.
Steve literally crashed a plane into a glacier over the Tesseract. He lost his best friend and the opportunity to be with the love of his life over the Tesseract. Of course he’s pissed off and unwilling to help when Fury comes to bother him about the fucking Tesseract.
This is the same fight he fought in during WWII. It’s the fight they told him he won when they defrosted him. Of course he’s mad. Probably betrayed and frustrated, too.
I was always disappointed in The Avengers for depicting Steve this way and now I’m embarrassed because I never understood the reasoning behind it. I’ve seen the light.
Not only that, but at the time of The Avengers, Steve has been out of the ice for two weeks. He lost his best friend, the love of his life, everyone and everything he’s ever known two weeks ago. He fought Red Skull and saw the Tesseract vaporise him into thin air two weeks ago.
And then Fury interrupts Steve’s PTSD flashback at the gym to tell him S.H.I.E.L.D. found the Tesseract and promptly lost it to yet another villain bent on world destruction, and Steve is all Jesus F. Christ, I JUST did this!
And then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, Steve discovers that S.H.I.E.L.D. was using the Tesseract to build HYDRA weapons of mass destruction (because S.H.I.E.L.D. is HYDRA, shhh!).
It hasn’t been two weeks since Steve saw whole army battalions vaporised and smashed a plane into the Arctic Ocean to prevent the exact same weapons of mass destruction from reaching New York! And here they are again! In New York, in the hands of his supposed “allies,” who lied to him about their purpose for wanting the Tesseract back!
Steve doesn’t like bullies, he doesn’t care where they’re from. In The Avengers, he realises he’s working for the new bullies and doesn’t have a choice if he wants to save humanity.
So yeah, Steve is pissed. He f–ing hates that f–ing Tesseract, and he’s 100000% done with it and with S.H.I.E.L.D. making all the same mistakes again.
iampinbitch 