I rewatched The Avengers today and I finally realized why Steve is such an ass. I canāt believe I never understood before.Ā
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 heās pissed off and unwilling to help when Fury comes to bother him about the fucking Tesseract. Ā
This is the same fight he fought in during WWII. Itās the fight they told him he won when they defrosted him. Of course heās mad. Probably betrayed and frustrated, too. Ā
I was always disappointed in The Avengers for depicting Steve this way and now Iām embarrassed because I never understood the reasoning behind it. Iāve 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 heās 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 Steveās 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 wasnāt 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 hasnāt 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 āallies,ā who lied to him about their purpose for wanting the Tesseract back!
Steve doesnāt like bullies, he doesnāt care where theyāre from. In The Avengers, he realises heās working for the new bullies and doesnāt have a choice if he wants to save humanity.Ā
So yeah, Steve is pissed. He fāing hates that fāing Tesseract, and heās 100000% done with it and with S.H.I.E.L.D. making all the same mistakes again.Ā
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 whoĀ ādied.ā Imagine, realizing heĀ ādiedā for nothing. he couldnāt prevent the thing heĀ ādiedā for, so he couldāve 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 wouldāve gone home to Peggy. Instead, heās in a world where his bff/brother-in-armsĀ ādiedā in front of him (and later is aĀ āvillianā who canāt remember him), his girl has lived a whole life without him, had kids and grand babies, and also doesnāt remember him, and all of his other friends lived and died and he didnāt get to experience any of it. So, itās not just a matter ofĀ āhe lost everyone 2 weeks agoā itās a matter of he lost BUCKY Ā a couple weeks ago, and everyone else lost HIM. Lived and died without him. watched the world change without him. forgotĀ about him.