Okay, I’ll fully admit I have trouble reconciling Yon-Rogg’s actions once Carol breaks out of the simulation with everything that preceded it. So what is your take on his actions when he gets into the drop ship and basically launches into space with her attached? I keep telling myself ‘well he’s in the heat of combat so instincts just take over and he’s not viewing her as Vers, he’s viewing her as the enemy.’ What’s your take on this?
I don't have to reconcile anything, at no point does he actually try to harm her, he never used deadly force on her and all of his actions after she breaks out of the simulation are focused on getting his hands on the Tesseract, he tries to deter her or hold her back long enough to take the box, once he finds out she has been distracting him he stops fighting her altogether and goes in pursuit of people who actually have the Tesseract, when she wouldn't let him go he simply uses magnetic force to swat her away before she does irreparable damage to his escape pod and while he didn't know she can breathe in space she's literally wearing Starforce issue Kree armour that not only lets her breathe in space but, apparently, absorbs so much impact that allows her to walk away without a scratch after falling from space through the Earth's atmosphere, so Yon knows what she can and can't take.
The only two from her former crew who are prepared to use lethal force are Minn-erva (would have shot her point blank) and Korath (tries to saw her in half with a sword), Att-Lass and Bron-Char fighting resembles a bar brawl of people with super strength more than anything while Yon's strategy is just temporary containment. Not even capture, he stops trying to recapture her the moment she breaks free from the Supremor. Even tho his orders were to bring in 'the core and the girl', he lets her go and focuses all his energy on the Tesseract thinking that maybe it could buy him some goodwill from SI after this catastrophic failure.
I can't blame him for not immediately switching to Carol's side when from his perspective the Skrulls are the bad guys (and that's all he's even known) and it just seems like Carol took the side of dangerous terrorists over his which is a huge shock so he just reverts to his original mission which was to get the core in the first place, but even with that being his only salvation he was still not prepared to shoot Carol point blank. He never could. He would rather die by her hand then. It would be a fitting end.
But again Carol did what she does best which is throw the wrench into his plans (and he can't help but admire her for it anyway ♥️)
