#I don't hate captain america

[wanderingmind867]

I'll be blunt: Captain America and Batman are both characters I don't like too much. But I still prefer Captain America to Batman. Sure, I've got a lot of hangups with Captain America's backstory (like the super soldier serum, which I cannot ignore), but he's at least a guy who means well. I often feel bad saying I dislike Captain America, because Steve Rogers himself seems like a great guy. It's just his backstory and stuff that give me some hangups.

But Batman. Batman doesn't even have a redeemable personality. Batman is an angry man who beats up the mentally ill, is drier than the sahara desert, and actively dresses in bland, drab colours. I may dislike Captain America, but I hate Batman. One character I can at least feel bad about disliking and appreciate as a concept. One is someone I practically want written out of existence. So even when Marvel's not on the ball, their characters I don't love seem way better than DC and Batman.

[kayvsworld]

his new wings look so good. his new suit looks SO good. i'm so mad oh my god

[hurtcomforted]

I'm a multishipper but Stucky is definitely my favorite, so maybe that’s making me biased but often when i'm reading other ships with Steve or Bucky (though mostly Bucky for some reason), I get frustrated at how their relationship is written.

I fully understand that the fic I'm reading is for a different ship and the author wants to focus on that one, but even platonic, Steve and Bucky mean a lot to each other and they have a deep, lifelong bond, so to write one of them as if they barely care about the other just feels OOC to me

[rainbowsuitcase]

ca:cw - steve not telling tony about his parents was not a right thing to do but it made sense for his character. tony wanting to beat up bucky was not a right thing to do but it made sense for his character.

the reason you cannot make me, personally, take tony's side in this, is that i see his reaction as too agressive and i get that he was mad and he had every right to be, but bucky killed his parents while he was barely bucky, while he was being tortured and brainwashed, and i will never see it as appropriate to try and beat him up for it. (maybe get a punch in and never talk to him again, sure, but not whatever that was)

but again, it makes sense for tony's character. and there was foreshadowing! there was a brilliant piece of foreshadowing! during the airport fight!

when vision blasts rhodey out of the sky, who does tony take it out on? sam, the original target! which shows that when someone tony loves gets hurt, when he feels hurt and angry, he needs to take it out on someone, preferably someone close and available. and he won't really think through how much they deserve it, if at all.

[stuckyfingers]

Imagine how normies in the MCU would react to Stucky... would they not know about it or would Steve and Bucky kiss in front of a Fox news host or would he post a wedding pic out of the blue or would he randomly update the Smithsonian to call bucky his lover

Would people go on tiktok the first thing after the news and make 'History Hates Lovers' edits for them? How would conservatives react because that would be hilarious. Would we have #boycottCap? Or would they try to make Cap out to be one of the gay conservatives?

[a-murmur-of-a-prayer]

mcu rant time yippee

So I was rewatching that scene from Age Of Ultron where Steve and Tony chop logs to inspire my new Supernatural fic (don't ask why lmao) and. Guys. Joss Whedon just writes fucking awful dialogue. I haven't been hardcore into the MCU in a long time, and the stuff I've stayed interested in is mostly Captain America movies and some of the TV shows.

I honestly have no idea why the majority of people like the mainstream Avengers films so much. Like yeah I like the characters a lot, but compared to their solo movies everything is so contrived and stiff. Every other word is an action movie buzzword meant for trailer fodder, the conversations don't really give away anything we don't really know, characters are too one-dimensional - compare this to The Winter Soldier, literally the preceding movie, where yes the dialogue is still Marvel-esque, but the message of the movie is genuinely important (almost more so today), characters actually have deep conversations and seem like real people, and the plot is smaller and more focused. (Not to mention the contrast between the way Natasha is treated in both those movies.)

Sorry for the rant - I just haven't watched any of the core Avengers movies in so long and I forgot how much I hate the way Joss Whedon in particular writes movies.

[steakrogers]

blood stains my hands so,

i won't forget you

[aloneonceagainaspredicted]

something very STUPID about Captain America: Civil War is that while Steve sees Wanda as a 'child', at the beginning of the movie he was quite obviously TRAINING HER for operations, he also fights Peter although he does take it easy on him.

meanwhile Tony claims to want to protect Wanda but he's treating not only her but Peter too as collaterals/pawns, because that's what they are for him when he's so laser focused on redeeming himself that he's just making more and more mistakes, creating more and more issues.

the only thing this movie does is show us that while it COULD BE much more interesting in the sense of debating how much control over superpowers nations should have(as the superheros are still human beings), none of that matters as much as Steve and Tony being two self-serving hypocrites in the movie.

and yeah, obvious thing is obvious but i felt like putting it in my own words.

[all-that-jazz-93]

Holy shit dude, Peggy haters on this webbed site have the weirdest fucking takes

I mean honestly, talk about willfully ignoring canon to form your own (wrong) opinions about a character...

[leandrafalconwing]

Tonight my roommate referred to Captain America: Civil War as Iron Man: Civil War, and I had to laugh because boy, if that doesn't neatly illustrate one of my complaints about that movie.

[enby-soup-computer]

You know what? I love Captain America. He's one of my childhood favorite superheroes, and he remains one of my favorites to this day. He's one of those paragon heroes, one of those heroes who makes every other person around them better, essentially Marvel's equivalent of Superman. And guess what? Cap and Supes have another thing in common; they're both American superheroes fought in WWII before the USA did. I love Cap because he's not representative of the USA, but what his creators believed the country to be capable of. Now I don't think they were right exactly, there's only so much good to be wrought from a country founded on imperialism and puritanicalism and genocide, but I like the ideals. Cap represents the principles of Truth and Justice and Freedom and Humanity and Kindness in the Face of Adversity. He was written by a couple Jewish men to be the hero they needed, and he keeps being the hero we need, just like my favorite Boyscout in Blue. I love Cap and heroes like him for the same reason Death must stand in for the Hogfather in discworld; we need to believe in such ideals, because they makes us all better.

[wanderingmind867]

Of Marvel's three biggest original black heroes (Black Panther, The Falcon and Luke Cage), here's my ranking of them (from best to worst): Luke Cage, the Black Panther, and The Falcon is the worst. Let me be blunt. Luke Cage is a cool guy. No real secret identity, he helps those in his community (I believe), and considering he's inspired (I think) by the blaxploitation film trend, he's probably not going to be pretty progressive and left-wing. Black Panther is a king of his nation and he's just an all around good guy. I don't know about his politics, but it doesn't matter. He's just a cool guy with cool skills and powers.

The Falcon, though. I know way too much about The Falcon's politics. He hates the Black Power movement. Explicitly. In old Captain America stories, they make it clear he doesn't like the Black Power movement, despite dating a woman involved with it! In fact, he's friends with Steve Rogers/Captain America, who's a cop and a representation of everything wrong with America! Mr. Super Soldier Serum (AKA Eugenics) himself! My god, do I hold a lot of spite for Captain America and the Falcon! So much hatred there! Give me an opportunity and I could keep going like this for a while longer!

[kayvsworld]

everything i learn abt infinity war and engame makes me feel like i am actively hallucinating

[hurtcomforted]

peggy. my girl. talk to me. you were there when steve was gearing up to save bucky. you were with him on the plane. and you let him jump out with only a plastic shield and a show helmet?

[rainbowsuitcase]

You know what? I've decided. I don't see Steve's ending as canon.

And no, I'm not just being stubborn and in denial about my favorite character acting in a way I don't like.

Until someone gives me an explanation of Steve's ending that doesn't break Endgame's time travel rules, I refuse to see it as anything but the creators being stupid and lazy and not knowing what to do with Steve's character and wanting to separate him from Bucky.

[illdothehotvoice]

Idk I miss older movies so fucking much. We were watching older Marvel movies last night (Spiderman 3 and Captain America) and like damn I miss that! I miss that! I miss when it was obvious it was a movie!! We need to stop oversaturating our movies with special effects I miss practical effects and obvious green screens and real costumes and makeup so so so much ouuugh