musicalninja:

that-sokovian-bastard:

sian22redux:

wintercyan:

iainkillsrobots:

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. 

100000% done.

Steve Rogers
Done with that sh*t

Holy shit

AND he probably knows Peggy & Howard had something to do with creating SHIELD, so watching something your loved ones created for good become twisted with evil must feel like a knife twisting in his gut.

AND the son of a friend of his is coming across as an arrogant irrational shit

AND ***STEVE*** was the one who “died.” Imagine, realizing he “died” for nothing. he couldn’t prevent the thing he “died” for, so he could’ve probably found a way to get back to peggy since this shit all happened anyway. Not to mention, he survived the crash and has no idea if anyone even bothered looking for him, and how long it took for them to give up. Had he crashed in a more visible place and survived, he would’ve gone home to Peggy. Instead, he’s in a world where his bff/brother-in-arms “died” in front of him (and later is a ‘villian’ who can’t remember him), his girl has lived a whole life without him, had kids and grand babies, and also doesn’t remember him, and all of his other friends lived and died and he didn’t get to experience any of it. So, it’s not just a matter of “he lost everyone 2 weeks ago” it’s a matter of he lost BUCKY  a couple weeks ago, and everyone else lost HIM. Lived and died without him. watched the world change without him. forgot about him.