#I REALLY hope their logic isn't 'captain carter was a girl so hank pym thought it was okay for girls to be superheroes'

[bedlamsbard]

one of the reasons this bothers me so much is because a main point of the MCU's attraction for me is the puzzle piece aspect. It brings me a lot of delight to see how inter-connected the MCU is and how much of it is based on cause and effect, particularly in Phases 1-3. I have a great time tracing plot, character, and worldbuilding elements through multiple films, and in this particularly instance, CATFA is foundational in a way that most of the other Phase 1 films aren't. So for me, seeing it just thrown out the window without any understanding of the place it plays in the saga is like nails on chalkboard, and it means that the CCverse's divergent worldbuilding raises questions that aren't answered simply by the original divergence.

(like, Natasha's backstory with Melina actually ties back to CATFA -- the Widow family is in Ohio to steal the Hydra-infiltrated SHIELD North Institute's work on the human brain that comes from the Winter Soldier project. CCverse got rid of the Hydra infiltration and the Winter Soldier. CCverse confirms that Natasha has familial relationships with both Melina (2.05) and Alexei (1.09), but they can't come from the same source as they do in canon because those elements no longer exist in that universe. However, they haven't been replaced with anything, and they exist only under extremely specific circumstances in canon.)

my enduring hatred for the Captain Carter universe is partially based on the fact that it's really, really clear that when constructing it no one actually thought about how much of the mainline MCU is based on events that happened in CATFA (or are otherwise connected to elements of CATFA) and would not occur if literally anything in CATFA changed.