Man Out of Time but Always in Fashion

Steve would die with experiencing no growth. Not only that, it sets a rather bad precedence.

I’ll explain:

Steve grew up sickly during the Great Depression. This led him to believe, as Ta-Nehisi Coates so beautifully put in Steve’s recent comics, that Steve didn’t feel like ‘a man’. He felt lesser. As a result, he never learned to value himself. Everyone else’s life was more valuable than his own.

Proof of that is this, scene, here:

Steve, in the MCU, has never had a problem with sacrificing himself. It’s been his life’s motto. Because his childhood bullying and the time period in which he was raised taught him to believe that he was lacking and less deserving of a place in society. That he fit better as a sacrificial lamb.

The sad thing in all of this that by first being sickly, and then later being largely only seen by others in the context of Captain America - The Symbol™ and not Steve Rogers - The Man™ (reinforcing the belief that Steve, by himself, wasn’t enough), is that Steve has never learned how to live.

In the comics Steve has been in and out of love. He’s worked as a commercial artist and a comic artist. He’s been to Wakanda, he’s been to Atlantis. He’s had the ears of kings and gods. He’s been to space, he’s met aliens of all kinds. He’s been engaged, he’s had his heart broken, only to have it be mended again with a different partner. He’s been on a couple of road trips around America. He’s lived a full life.

MCU!Steve has not. And if he dies by sacrificing himself in Avengers 4 he would have never learned to value himself nor learn to live life to its fullest. 

Bullied children can grow up and thrive. Sick children can grow up and thrive. Soldiers can come home and adjust and find their groove again - it can get better! Killing Steve without him having learned any of that would be exactly the wrong message to send.

Because, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, one’s value is not determined by whether they are engaged or not.

No way are they going to have Steve Rogers, an immensely popular character, offer himself up on an alter because he’s not one half of a couple and isn’t expecting children (currently - he does have an adopted son in the comics). No way.

Honestly, this idea that someone who is part of a couple makes them more valuable is rather disturbing, and I say this as someone who is married! I mean, maybe I feel this way because I was raised by a divorcee who had a hard time buying her first house because she didn’t have a husband (but damn well did it anyway despite all the judgement she received, go mom!!!) but seriously, this idea that Tony’s life is more valuable because he’s one half of a couple and wants kids is not... good. We should be over this by now, guys. It’s 2018. There is nothing wrong with being single.

And honestly, why do people feel that if Steve doesn’t die Tony must, or that if Tony lives, Steve must die? My prediction: neither are going to die. They killed Loki and are now giving him his own streaming show! Lets be real here: Neither character would ever permanently be taken off the roster (unless, like Harrison Ford with Han Solo, the actor specifically asks to be killed off... and they didn’t even let the character rest, even then, and immediately started planning a movie centered around a younger version!!!). And I’ll give you the reason why: because they are Iron Man and Captain America and they are billion dollar intellectual properties, and because... merchandising.

Atlanteans board a whaling ship to stop it (one ship out of a fleet of whaling ships, apparently), are immediately machine gunned down by the whalers and their bodies hung up like a trophy along the side of the ship. 

Hi! I’m going to go pick it up at lunch and am super excited!

Sorry for the delay in response and for being no-show lately. I dislocated my arm (long story involving relay competitiveness and the annual company picnic lol). And unfortunately it is my dominate arm (my right arm and I’m right-handed) which makes texting or posting on Tumblr kinda painful until it fully heals. I mean I can type with my left (which I’m doing now), but it takes five hours versus the usual five seconds so I’ve just been lazy and haven’t bothered. I will try to post screen shots and a review of today’s annual either today or tomorrow though! :)

…candy corn.

Ewww. Gross. 

Here is a small doodle of 1941 Steve, because I´m really lazy today. 

Undercover Steve Rogers

Captain America Comics #14 (1942)

The Swordsman has big dreams, obviously

Steve Rogers WIP 3

Now it looks a little bit like our Captain