I don’t know why people expected her to be all happy and nothing but sunshine,but they must’ve forgotten how human emotions work. Especially to see the people you risk everything for working alongside a villain you helped take down it’s understandable to see where Sharon is coming from.

Also why would Sharon still be patriotic? I’ve never really taken the character as a very patriotic person. She’s never done the things she done in the name of “America and freedom hmph!1!”. In this case what reason would she have to be? That ‘meaning’ and ‘importance’ behind the shield has failed her and a lot of others so I’m glad to see her call out the hypocrisy. With that when we finally see Sam as Cap he will reverse and make a new meaning of what the shield represents. I also feel like she should automatically get that pardoned whether the deal was made or not just off the fact of everything she did before.

Being cynical is apart of Sharon’s personality and I think that threw off a ton of people who just resulted to calling her ‘mean’ and what not. Well I’m glad that they showed her liked this being raw and the reality she’s faced since CW and how much it’s changed her. Antis will say anything to justified their hate towards the character (you know you don’t have to have a reason to dislike a character, but that’s not the case with a lot of them they want to hide behind their misogyny). So for now I’m ignoring them haha. Theories being spoken about how she may be Power Broker I also don’t believe. Yeah it’s obvious she’s probably had to get her hands a little dirty living and surviving in Madripoor, but I think her morals stand still and it wouldn’t make any sense for her to still work and team up with Sam and Bucky and help them if she was Power Broker so I’m not too worried about that theory??