it makes me sick w how badly they ruined steve rogers. baby girl was a chronically ill severely BULLIED child raised by a single mom in brooklyn. he spent his entire young adult hood getting into fights he wouldn’t win bc he would never let anyone not have someone in their corner. he always stood up for what he believed in. captain america was just going to be used as war propaganda until he defied direct orders at a chance to save his best friend. he became a fugitive because he wouldn’t let people control him or his friends and use them as pawns in political games, esp when he’d already spent years working for hydra without knowing it. he chose to drop the american flag bc it didn’t align with his values. he was a GOOD and PROGRESSIVE man who they sent back to the 50s (a decade that was the epitome of traditional values) moved the city boy into rural farmland and forced him into a conservative poster boy. literally the antithesis of who he was. I’m SICK I tell you SICK

"oh its just a comic book character its just one movie anyways" MILLIONS of people watch and are influenced by the mcu. he's an ANTI FASCIST anti racist anti (insert oppressive system) character. and now its normalized for me to see comments like "POV steve rogers sees a black person for the first time" and make jokes about him being conservative. endgame bastardized a character w decades of precedence as a borderline radical to "wrap up" an actors contract just to bring him back less than ten years later. anything would have been better, and for me as a fan since I was eleven, that includes death.